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smoon ombrella lamp looks like a flying saucer overhead

design | strange and wonderful

Smoon Ombrella LED Lamp by Beau et Bien

This funky modern lighting fixture might be named for its umbrella-like shape, but to me it looks like some sort of alien jellyfish is about land its spacecraft in your living room.

Created by French furniture designers Beau & Bien, the Smoon Ombrella lamp gets its sculptural potato chip-like shape from custom cut Plexiglas…

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August 10th, 2008 1 comment stumble it! author: technabob

giant led clock big enough to hold your cd collection

design | timepieces

Now, most of us have moved on from compact discs to digital media players these days, but that doesn’t mean that we don’t still have to find a place to store our old CD collection, right?

This ingenious storage system doubles as a giant LED clock, so you’ll actually be getting some utility out of an otherwise single-purpose bookshelf…

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July 31st, 2008 3 comments stumble it! author: technabob

led alarm blocks deconstruct the time

design | timepieces

LED Cube Alarm Clock by Seiji

Looking for something a little different to set on your bedside table? This new alarm clock tears apart the hours, minutes and seconds and places them on individual time-telling blocks.

Seiji’s LED block alarm clock are interconnected using ribbon cables with enough slack in them to let you stack them pretty much any way you like…

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July 8th, 2008 3 comments stumble it! author: technabob

karlsson station hologram: the clock has two faces

design | timepieces

Karlsson Hologram Clock

Here’s a nifty clock that’s a bit more dynamic than what you’d typically see hanging on your wall. Depending on the angle you view it from, the face either shows simple hash marks or numerals around the dial…

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July 7th, 2008 post a comment stumble it! author: technabob

eino ipod dock is perfectly portable

media players | mobile tech

eino iPod Speaker Dock

I just love the industrial design of this compact portable sound dock for the iPod. The einö Portable Speaker System is small enough to fit in your purse or backpack, so it’s the perfect companion for traveling with your media player…

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June 13th, 2008 2 comments stumble it! author: technabob

diesel scrolling led watch: it’s done with mirrors

design | timepieces

Diesel Mirror LED Watches DZ7091 DZ7092

Check out these dramatic new watches, courtesy of the house of Diesel. When not displaying the current time, the mirrored surface of the display makes the time disappear into thin air.

Each watch tells time using a scrolling red LED dot-matrix display which floats behind a curvy, shiny electroplated exterior…

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June 11th, 2008 1 comment stumble it! author: technabob

firestix led drum sticks: the ultimate rock band add-on

just plain fun | video games

Firestix LED Lexon Drumsticks

After you decked out your Rock Band rig with a light show and smoke machine, I bet you thought you added all the cheap theatrics you’d ever want. But when I saw these light-up drumsticks, I knew there was just a little more you could do to crank your performances up to 11…

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June 7th, 2008 1 comment stumble it! author: technabob

egg speaker wobbles but won’t fall down

technology

Egg Speaker

These tipsy egg-shaped speakers let you wobble them like a Weeble while you listen to your tunes.

Unlike real eggs (and those colorful Weebles), these only come in black and red, and they don’t crack open to produce omelets. They do, however, twist open to produce enhanced bass output. I wonder if they can only play The Egg Song?..

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May 31st, 2008 3 comments stumble it! author: technabob

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