If you’ve covered your entire house in gold and diamonds and are left with little else to pimp out, you can always move on to the kitchen. The Nespresso Crystal Edition coffee machine is covered with 3100 Swarovski crystals and will only run you about £1,995 (or about $4,000). But does it make coffee? Does [...]

We’ve seen plenty of houses of the future, but none quite like this so-called Bioscleave House by artists Madeline Gins and Arakawa, which promises to force people to “use their bodies in unexpected ways to maintain equilibrium.” Those equilibrium-inducing measures include, as you can see above, a vast undulating floor (somewhat curiously made of concrete), [...]

An idea as simple as the NapTV deserves a similarly simple description, which is exactly what designer Sung-kyu Nam has done. These are the only words accompanying the pictures of his concept:
NapTV has a new concept about TV & Chair. You can sit on NapTV and also watch TV lying on the floor.
The stool hides [...]

What better way to tell Mom how much you care than to give her an alarm clock for Mother’s Day (May 11) that reminds her of all that time she spent waiting on you? Take your pick of a fridge, stove, iron, blender, or our favorite, a washing machine that shakes and shows a sudsy [...]

Now this is just weird. The “How High the Moon” chair, named after that classic Duke Ellington song, is made of expanded nickel-plated steel mesh and covered with epoxy (hopefully to make it more comfy than it looks). The result is a club chair that is there but isn’t. You can see right through the [...]

Is this an extra long coffin? No! It’s a SofaBOX— unlock the metal crate and open its latches to reveal a full-sized comfortable couch. It’s a brand-new invention by Swiss designer John Hofgartner. No word on pricing, but sturdy metal boxes with cushions inside seem like a good way to make your backyard at once [...]

Soon, the small island nation of Bahrain may soon be known for more than having served as a temporary home to Michael Jackson. Its brand new World Trade Center twin towers are connected by three wind turbines that spun for the first time earlier this week. The building is the first in the world to [...]

Sitting like a shuttle to Naboo, this design by Zaha Hadid Architects was picked to be the new Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania. Zaha Hadid’s design flaunts conceptual characteristics like fluidity, velocity and lightness in a way that make the structure appear to be floating just above the urban landscape. The museums glossy, metallic [...]

The Spacearium fishtank is intended to “reinvent your indoor space,” as opposed to just being an accessory with some fish in it off in a corner somewhere. The huge acrylic tanks are shaped like gently curving ellipses, and range in size from 5 to 8 feet across, which is easily large enough to turn them [...]

If you are a fan of the chopper aesthetic and have a big fat stinking pile of cash burning a hole in your pocket, then you just might want to take a look at this. The GothRod chair comes with springer suspension on the foot and backrests, hand-machined billet parts and the leather is hand [...]

Given up on trying to solve the original Rubik’s cube? Try this one instead. It only takes a simple twist to jump between the built-in features.
The display on the 3-inch cube will show you the current time, date and room temperature, and there’s an alarm function as well to go with that.
The Cube Clock is [...]

The Lego-Esque Desktop Calendar will add some geek flare to your office cubicle. The
3 blocks come in 3 colors, yellow, red and white and each display day, month and year. Thanks to the Lego inspired design they can be assembled in a plethora of ways. To change the display on the 3 inch plus brick, [...]

We’ve tested all of Saitek’s backlit keyboards, and laud their excellent touch response and attractive, helpful illumination. Now the company’s outdone itself with the Saitek PK17U Cyborg Gaming Keyboard. This baby reaches to a new level of backlighting coolness, giving you control of not only the intensity of its three colors, but the ability to [...]

If you fancy yourself a sport-loving princess, you’ll need a befitting place to recline, such as the sensational handcrafted limestone Cleopatra Chaise Lounge from Alemanno with natural heat radiation. Designed by an eminent doctor of hot stone therapy, Prof. Dr. Med. Billingham, the chair is primarily for people concerned with their health and wellness. Shaped [...]

I’d say that rugs are some of the last objects around to be updated with modern technology. After all, what upgrades do rugs require? They just need to lie on the ground and be pleasing to the eye. That’s about it.
Well, this Luminoso rug does that, but it does so with the help of tons [...]

Though we’ve seen OLEDs used for interior lighting purposes before, OSRAM and designer Ingo Maurer have churned out what’s possibly the world’s first dedicated OLED lamp. Aptly named Early Future, the creation is being produced as a limited edition and unveiled at the Light&Building Fair in Frankfurt, Germany this week. Each OLED tile measures in [...]

The design isn’t new, legendary designer, Georges Nelson introduced this sofa at 1956. At first only 200 pieces were made and all the pillows were handmade.

Nothing can get any more simple than a light bulb hanging off the ceiling, no wonder there are so many variations. However, I haven’t seen a table lamp with the same concept. But if you are a fan of playing “Hanged Man”, this one is for you!

There’s nothing quite like taking a beautifully simple piece of technology and making it incredibly complicated, and few devices are quite as simple as a sundial. The problem is that sundials only work when it’s sunny out, and their single hour pointer gives you only a pretty rough estimate of the time. That may have [...]

No, this is not some new supersonic aircraft or UFO. It’s a house designed by Jérôme Olivet, who learned his stuff from the great Philippe Starck. Jet House is designed to look like it’s moving fast even though its smooth molded concrete structure is attached to a metallic building pad, tethering its undulating shape to [...]