Now you can dock with the Space Station without even leaving your desk. This one’s even cleaner-looking than that hodgepodge of glorified tin cans floating in low Earth orbit, and it actually has a purpose. Imagine that spaghetti bowl of wires on your desk suddenly gone, hidden underneath the blueLounge Space Station, an extended desk [...]

Regular light bulbs, your days are numbered. That’s because cheaper, more efficient LEDs are here to make lighting a much more attractive affair. Just take a look at these LED spotlights.They stick on whatever surface you want and run on batteries. Due to the efficiency of LEDs, they very rarely need to be changed, and [...]

Here we have an octopus-shaped juicer, an elephant doubling as a dustpan and a squidy scrub brush. Depending on who you are, you may look at these cute animal-themed household tools in different ways. Trendy youngsters may want to pick them up to add some darling flair to the house, while conniving parents could buy [...]

The Paramount Parabolic Multi-Monitor Display by Humanscale gives you an easy way to attach anywhere from two to eight screens onto its unfolding monitor arm, no tools required. Everything snaps into place, including the displays. The screens are curved toward you for your comfort, and the rack is adjustable to accommodate a wide range of [...]

The day you’ve been waiting so very, very, very long for has finally arrived: Optimus Maximus keyboards have begun shipping out to their new homes. In addition to the pricey, OLED-studded ‘boards, the Optimus Configurator software utility is also available, allowing you to customize your new purchase to your heart’s content. In other news, Art [...]

What’s the matter with these chairs and that table? Designer Benjamin Hopf has somehow frozen them in time, falling apart before your very eyes. Not to worry — their construction is still sturdy enough to hold you up either before or after even the most serious chow-down session.
While the cost of these arty accoutrements isn’t [...]

There are two reasons why I should never get a Hi-Can bed: they are bound to be obscenely expensive and I would never leave my bed and I do mean never. Bliss is the word that comes to mind, but it is not quite strong enough for the pleasure that I would be bound to [...]

The Edge phone is designed for the style conscious fashionistas. The name has nothing to do with data speed. In fact we don’t even know what this phone is capable of because as with all fashion phones, looks rein supreme and the Edge phone makes sure you notice with its glowing glass keyboard.
To answer an [...]

Would attractive design make you go green? Constructed to look like a flower, the Ravi solar generator has photovoltaic arrays attached to petal-like extensions. And, like a flower, it absorbs energy from the sun during the day, storing it in an internal battery — its petals glow once a battery is charged. At night, you [...]

Ross McBride calls his line of watches and clocks “normal,” but we call them minimalist. We mean that in only the best way, because look at this thing! It’s just so clean and simple, and it’s tricky at the same time. That’s because there’s not really an hour hand at all, but a slot through [...]

It’s a good idea to get a case for your iPod to protect it from getting all scratched up in your pocket or bag. But why settle for some generic case that everybody else is buying from the Apple Store or Best Buy when you can have a unique, handmade creation that’ll really give your [...]

Meet Mr. P, a man who usually has no shame. He will go around strutting all of his stuff for the world to see, except in this case. Mr. P is a bit shyer with his lamp. A conveniently placed lamp switch makes Mr. P’s day brighten up in a hurry. Although Mr. P is [...]

So you’ve been together for years now, you talked about everything you can think of, and their opposites, and all you really want to do after a long workday is sitting down quietly and peacefully and browse the internet / read a book / play? There’s nothing wrong with that, but why not make it [...]

Horizontal heaters are so passé. Or at least says the mind behind this aptly named “Wall Ceramic Heater” by Andrey Vostrikov. Andrey claims this heating concept provides better energy efficiency, faster heating times and measurable noise reduction. As if packing some serious heat were not enough, Andrey also added the ability to generate negative ions [...]

USB isn’t up to the high bandwidth needed to throw game polygons around the screen, but for just about anything else, DisplayLink will do the job, letting you plug a monitor into a USB port.
The latest box to support this is the USB-RGB-D from I-O Data. The €95 ($140) add-on lets you hook up any [...]

The transparent slide shown to you here is a mobile encyclopedia. To use it just frame it over an object, such as a building, and subsequently touch on a floor of the building on the slide and it’ll zoom into it and give you the full detail of that building.

Alternative living spaces are all the rage lately, but some of the most interesting solutions continue to come from Japan. This inflatable Japanese teahouse, designed by Kengo Kuma, was created for an exhibit at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt. Inside the tiny structure are a series of LED lights designed to do double duty [...]

It doesn’t matter if you can keep plants alive with this LED color changing planter because it will always look bright and colorful regardless of what is (or isn’t) growing inside. This pot illuminates purple, red, yellow, green or blue. A switch will begin the planter cycling through its color spectrum, but a button does [...]

Now this would certainly get me up in the morning: this PIC-based alarm clock makes you solve arithmetic operations before it will turn off. Source and schematic included.
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