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storm faze led watch: lots and lots of dots

filed under: design | technology | timepieces

storm_faze_led_watch

Here’s a new LED watch that’s sure to draw attention whenever you go to check the time.

The STORM Faze watch features a unique dot-matrix LED display, concealed behind a plastic lens that sort of reminds me of the compound eye of an insect. Or maybe one of those dotty color-blindness tests. Either way, it’s bumpy and cool…

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December 15th, 2008 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

sound/chairs get their shape from audio waves

filed under: design | strange and wonderful

Sound/Chair by Matthew Plummer-Fernandez

This wild piece of modern furniture may look like an abstract shape from the mind of its creator, but it’s actually been precisely engineered from a 3-dimensional waveform plot of a brief audio clip.

To make his Sound/Chair, designer Matthew Plummer-Fernandez started with a 3D plot based on the volume, time and frequency of a short piece of audio…

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October 6th, 2008 3 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

humax tv mixes modern display, retro curves

filed under: design | retro | video

Humax TV by Tej Chauhan

No matter how cool it is to hang a super-skinny flat panel on your wall, virtually every LCD or Plasma television is looking like the same, nondescript rectangular box. So it’s good to finally see that somebody out there is thinking a little outside of that box.

This new design for a Humax LCD television was envisioned by UK industrial designer Tej Chauhan…

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March 27th, 2008 3 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

tetris mirror reflects your puzzled expression

filed under: design | video games

Tetris Mirror by Soner Ozenc

If you thought those wall-size arcade artworks I wrote about the other day were a bit too bold for your taste, you might want to check out these slightly more subtle Tetris-inspired mirrors hanging on your wall instead…

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March 18th, 2008 8 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

storm nirvana analog watch has digital sensibilities

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Storm Nirvana Watch

The latest men’s watch from London’s STORM offers a modern display with a retro spin. The watch reveals the current time using a series of numeric discs which rotate behind wedge-shaped portals around the perimeter of its face…

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December 18th, 2007 2 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

technabob mascot immortalized in rubik’s cubes

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Rubik’s Robot by Artist Space Invader

See that little robot guy in the upper right corner of the Technabob site header? He’s the original mascot of our humble little website, inspired by the classic arcade game Berserk. So I was oh so thrilled when I heard a world-renown urban artist has immortalized the same robo-dude using a bunch of Rubik’s Cubes…

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October 2nd, 2007 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

old guitar gets new life as ipod dock

filed under: design | hacks-mods | media players

iPod Guitar CaseMod

How about this for an innovative use for an old musical instrument? As part of a recycling challenge for this week’s London Design Festival, one design firm took this junked out Torre acoustic guitar and turned it into a stereo with an iPod dock…

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September 17th, 2007 2 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

bioshock big daddy gets real

filed under: video games

Bioshock Big Daddy Life-Size

If you’re an Xbox 360 fan like me, you’re probably looking forward to the upcoming release of Bioshock. For those of you who unfamiliar with the game, the baddest baddie in the atmospheric thriller is known as “Big Daddy.”
It turns out that there’s now a life-sized replica of the scary creature making the rounds over in the UK…

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July 28th, 2007 3 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob