Things

Japanese Kangaroo mug

In Design, Things on 5 November 2008 tagged Design, kangaroo, mug, wants with Comments Off

Should any­one who reads this be able to read or speak Japan­ese or be in Japan, I need this mug:

Kangaroo mug avail­able from sunny-style.com So far, my attempts to cir­cum­vent the Japan­ese­ness of the check­out pro­cess have failed miser­ably, but I can’t even begin to tell you how much I want this. There must be a way!

WaldFlöte

In Things, Websites on 22 October 2008 with Comments Off

Every second Tues­day, Al deserts me and goes of to play with wires and things — or some­thing. I sort of glaze over when the only way things can be explained involves dia­grams — at Dork­bot Alba. For what seems like the last hun­dred years, they’ve been work­ing on a pro­ject that, to be hon­est, made the tooth­brush robot things (no, really) seem sane. Still, against all odds, it actu­ally seems to be fin­ished, and is turn­ing them into inter­net super­stars (Make: blog, Hacked Gad­gets). You can’t impress me by show­ing me 100 solen­oids and try­ing to explain how they work, but you can totally impress me by hav­ing the same solen­oids ref­er­enced by Make!

Of course, much of the inter­net super­star­dom is just because they’re piggy­back­ing on the suc­cess of another Edinburgh-based inter­net super­star and doing duets with him.

The peti­tion for the cre­ation of a Christ­mas mega­mix began, ooh, at least five minutes ago.

(Should you be inter­est­ing in play­ing about with wires and mul­ti­meters, would like to desert your girlfriend/boyfriend/flatmate/mundane exist­ence every second Tues­day, and live within trav­el­ling dis­tance of Edin­burgh, you too could join Dork­bot Alba! More inform­a­tion is avail­able here.)

Vitra Uten.Silo stores the awesome

In Design, Things on 20 October 2008 tagged covet, Design, objects with Comments Off

This Vitra Uten.Silo organ­iser is so supremely cov­etable that the small shelf in our hall that’s covered in pretty much everything we don’t have a place to store — receipts, keys, cam­era tri­pods, old crumpled bus tick­ets — is weep­ing as I write this. Luck­ily for it, I don’t have £200 to spend on an organ­iser board, and it’s ages until Christmas.

Avail­able at Nest.

Bedside Table

In Design, Things on 19 October 2008 tagged Design, wants with Comments Off

Abso­lutely fant­astic, con­sidered design, and exactly what I need — my cur­rent set up can best be described by the words “col­lapsed pile” (via swiss­miss)