The IceOrb is one of the finest ice-related inventions on the planet. Fill up the outer mold with water then put the inner mold in and freeze it. Remove and presto: 21 oddly-shaped ice cubes. At $16, it’s totally not worth it but don’t let me hold you back. You can pick up one of those Lamborgini lighters while you’re at it.
Designed by DjoDjo, the ORB (Time Orbit Watch) concept watch looks to deliver time in a fashion that would please anyone from Blade Runner. Rotating color lines display seconds, minutes and hours of the day and supposedly, you can touch the lines and drag them to adjust your watch. Sounds intense.
Only two colors were designed, black and white, due to the rotating color lines. While I wouldn’t expect to see this wristwatch hit the market anytime soon, it sure is a beautiful-looking watch that I’d wear any day of the week.
Today must be the day of oddities. The Air Genie is a flying orb shaped screen which has video cameras built in to reflect it’s surroundings. We think that its some sort of ploy for advertising, kind of like the Goodyear Blimp, but extremely high tech.
The diameter of the sphere is 115 feet with a massive volume of 792,764 cubic feet. The Air Genie flies using a series of electrical prop rings and can reach speeds of 36 km/hr.
From the Air Genie website:
Digital video cameras arrayed over its surface enable Air Genie to instantly display it’s surroundings. Air Genie is an art and music ball, a fountain of motion pictures. Piloted and operated by visual and musicial artists. Air Genie interacts consciously with it’s environment, presenting the best new sounds and visions. When Air Genie lands in a park; instant dance party theater-in-the-round , brilliant imagery and crystal clear sound.
It’s going to look really spectacular at night. That’s for sure. Will it ever be a commerical success though? (more…)
