If you put enough sharp knives in the Swissarmius Cutlery Holder, you’ll have yourself one hell of a large multi-tool. While it’s not exactly pocket sized, you can cause some real damage with this thing.
No longer just for survival, this kitchen gadget will keep you fully equipped to handle any emergency which might arise in the preparation of an omelette.
There’s no rule that says your house has to use some standard font when it comes to the numbers that hang on your door to identify your address. So spurge a little and plunk down $6 a number for these pixelated, gamer numbers from Art Lebedev. Great coloring completes the look and even from afar your house will already look different. Is that a high score or are you just happy to see me?
How do you like your sausage cooked? Do you mind if I place it in the A1-D1 region and just let it smoke to medium-rare goodness? Or do you like your meat to be black and charred? Don’t you worry, we’ll find the right equation to make sure the Spreadsheet Barbecue Grill cooks your meat exactly how you like it.
And you thought you’d be escaping the office completely during your weekend barbecue. No such luck, chef.
Traffic lights are an annoying but needed accessory to our daily life. When I used to drive, I’d get incredibly irritated with those new traffic lights that don’t show you what color it is until the last possible second. Now Art Lebedev is hoping to switch things up with these colorful, LED-powered square traffic lights. While red, green and yellow lights will be familiar, the shape of them gives them a new look that most drivers would welcome in a heartbeat. Let’s see if Audi can detect these.
What about you? Would you like to see some new traffic lights on your street corner that resemble these?
Lots of Sidekick action, as promised. We’re going to have some giveaways soon. Stay tuned and keep reading to find out how to win big.
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Can’t afford an Optimus Maximus? Don’t feel bad, I can’t either. And anyone who can afford it didn’t get rich buying $1600 keyboards. Art Lebedev has announced a numpad-like keypad called the Optimus Pultius.
The keyboard comes packed with 15 OLED keys, an SD card slot and a USB hub. It’ll look great alongside the Maximus you don’t own or with any other keyboard. Come to think of it, if you try putting this keyboard next to any keyboard that isn’t a top dollar Maximus, it’ll just make that keyboard look even shittier. No price announcements as of yet, but look for it at the end of 2008 or early 2009.
Check out this keyboard. No physical keys required, here folks. It’s got a customizable face, the entire keyboard becomes a touchscreen, as if it had sex with an iPhone. The idea is to utilize the keyboard as a screen, providing a limitless amount of personalization to its look and layout.
It’s a concept called the Optimus Tactus keyboard from the Russian design company Art. Lebedev. It allows any part of the keyboard surface programmed to perform any function or to display any image. Think of it this way: if God came down from the heavens and became a keyboard incarnate, this would be that keyboard.
The TaskWatch is an glorified dry erase board with an analog clock. While the home-based TaskWatch has a complete round dial, the TaskWatch designed for office use is of the 9-to-6 variety. It’s a helpful tool for leaving coworkers messages like, “Where’d the last donut go?” or “Who shit in the water cooler?”
The combination of a clock and dry erase board brings a whole new element of time-management and communication in the work environment. One can only hope they aren’t actually charging $202.70 as the link suggests. Included are marker racks, marker, magnets, and cleaner, which couldn’t be more than $100 in materials. On a budget? Try going with the perpetual calender instead. It’s cheaper and looks way cooler.
Those of you who run Linux might still experience falling asleep at the monitor with your command terminal running. The steady blinking of the cursor can be hypnotic, but sleeping at the desk is about as ergonomic as sleeping on a pile of stones. Art Lebedev Studio has whipped up an ode to the days of DOS commands with the DOS pillow.
Relive the days where you would wake up to the DOS screen, still giving you command syntax errors, despite the fact that you pressed the same command 400 time, hoping for a different result. Get your own for $36. — Andrew Dobrow
Mr. Willy Wonka was the king of being secretive. For years, no one went into his factory and no one came out. The Wonka factory was the proverbial elephant in the room. Although his factory was gated off by iron bound bars, it couldn’t hurt to have a little extra security.
The 100% titanium alloy Defendius from the Art Lebedev Studio assures that nobody gets in, and probably never gets out, thanks to the maze you need to solve just to open the damn door. And what do you get for opening the door? Maybe nothing, maybe a lifetime supply of chocolate. — Andrew Dobrow
