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While the little things, such as ice cubes rubbing against my lips and under my nose, aren’t too much of an annoyance to me, there are times, on the hottest of days, when the sweat is just pouring from every pour in my body, those dog days of August, where everything is an earth shattering pain in the asshole. It’s the reason I occasionally opt-out of ice if the drink as been in the fridge for a bit. That, and that weird icy taste caused after the ice melts. IceBlok ends all of that jazz. The ice will stay exactly where it’s supposed to be.

No more chapped mustache for me.

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Don’t ask me why they did it, but they did it. Design group “I Never Kissed A Dog” spent hours, meticulously covering a room in white Post-It notes, as to recreate the wintery whiteness of the coldest season of the year. The project, called “Winter 1972,” does a bang up job of recreating the sharpness of winter’s chill, and it just looks awesome no matter how you spin it.

I don’t image it would be too comfortable sitting on a couch covered in Post-It notes, but it’s certainly more comfortable than sleeping in a real winter landscape? Having snow down your pants is not an experience I recommend to anyone. Can you say shrinkage? I’m a Jew. I can’t afford shrinkage. (more…)

Richer than Richie Rich? Only one vacation locale comes to mind this year and it’s the refrigerated sands of the Palazzo Versace fashion hotel in Dubai. When walking on hot sand is too much for you and you’re more spoiled than Paris Hilton, why shouldn’t you spend money on the luxury of cool sand?

How does one even cool sand? For starters, you’ve got to be rich. Then, you lay a network of pipes beneath the sand containing a coolant that will absorb heat from the surface. That’s just one absurd feature among many that you’ll find at the Palazzo Versace hotel. This 10-story building contains 213 rooms and an additional 169 apartments. Some rooms even have their own internal swimming pools. Good golly. There is rich, then there is Dubai.

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Zippo is most famous for strong, dependable lighters that get shit lit when you need it most. They’re windproof and are built to last. That’s why when temperatures start to dip into the teens outside, you’re going to want a hand warmer. Zippo offers this striking hand warmer that runs on lighter fluid. It has a fine polished chrome finish and can go for 24 hours without a refill. Not too bad. Only $22 at a local headshop or Spencer’s Gifts near you. I hear gloves still work as well.

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In the days of the Cold War, espionage was a big deal. This was back when spy bots didn’t exist and spies relied on obtaining information personally. If you weren’t a spy, you might as well have swallowed cyanide because during the Cold War everyone was a spy. That’s why Brian Dereu wants to cash in on spy-wannabes everywhere. He’s started a new business selling hollow spy coins for 20 bucks a pop.

It’s a coin that’s been hollowed out so you can covertly transport secret messages, suicide poisons, microfilms and maybe even drugs. Hell, if you’re dropping a twenty dollar bill on nothing more than a coin, you’ll have to do some smuggling with it to make up for your loss.

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We’re digging this eco-friendly goodness from the folks at Windation Energy Systems. If you couldn’t guess by the name, they deal with organic means of producing wind energy. The developer of Windation’s latest wind turbine, Mark Sheikhrezai, was inspired by wind catchers used by the Persians to keep their interiors cool.

The concept is simple: wind blows into the top, then it’s directed downward where the wind turns a turbine that generates up to five kilowatts of electricity. That’s almost as good as saving the environment while working out, but even better because you can sit on your ass all day. We approve.

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Ice cube trays don’t get more bizarre than ones shaped like a AK-47 magazine. That’s what forged these bullet-shaped ice cubes shown above which, for some reason or another, are now chilling our favorite drinks.

No, not even Titanic or Tetris-shaped ice cubes can match what these puppies are packin’. That’s a whole lot of heat for such a chilling product. They aren’t available as of yet, but you can pre-order ‘em for $13.25. That’s sure to give you the head start on everyone else who is still using those Swedish rocks found in the mountains to chill their drinks. How grimy!

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A genius design that is based on the basics of temperature. The Hot Mug is your standard coffee-carrier with a sleek black finish and the words “COLD” printed on the side. Pour a cup of brew and next thing you know, the words “HOT” have appeared and your mug is whiter than an NYU Law party.

Simple design, big bold words for added safety. We like. Score one for $32 and stand out at the office. Good luck buying it on this abortion of a website, though.

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Ford’s 2009 Flex has a $760 option to equip your car with a fridge and/or freezer in the backseat. This makes those long hauls upstate more luxurious as you’ll be making less pit-stops for food with one of these equipped in your ride. The compartment isn’t large but it is capable of holding seven 12-ounce cans or even four half-liter bottles. That’s more than enough for a car pooling trip to Mexico. Just don’t neglect to declare what you have in your backseat fridge to the Federales, otherwise you’ll be spending the next few decades behind steel bars.

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Concept designs are what make us all wish that the artists would keep to themselves until the products were ready to be launched. This is exactly the case with the concept phone for KDDI by Nao Tamura. With a completely transparent shell, this phone lets you see innards, all of ‘em. In addition, because the hardware is completely silver, the phone looks inherintly cold and icy. Can’t you just see Tom Cruise in Minority Report 2 grabbing his “ice phone” to call the FBI (or whatever it’s called in the movie) to report a thought crime? So moving away from strict design, that screen is huge for a phone that size! Just from this perspective, it looks to be about half of the length. So while this phone is amazing and beutiful, it is also unavailable and just a thought in someone’s head. — Nik Gomez

au kddi design project [via UberPhones]