We all love our cars. We’d go to extreme measures to protect our automobiles even during a hurricane as extreme as Ike because let’s face it: no one wants to drive through flooding waters when they can just tie their car to a tree and hope for the best.

C’mon, what’s the worst that could happen? The tree could fall on top of the car but the car would at least be in the same place you left it. At worst, both the car and the tree float away during intense flooding. That’s why that tether is bright green, it’ll be much easier to spot later, regardless of the outcome. What a nifty DIY!

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For those of you who truly feel in touch with nature and happen to be extremely wealthy, you may want to shell out the $15,000 for this Tree Bed. Designed by Shawn Lovell and constructed from heavy metal, you’ll really feel as if you’re really falling asleep inside a creepy-as-fuck forest. No joke. All you need now is a floor full of dead leaves and centipedes.

On the bright side, at least it doesn’t stink.

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Five pieces of wood stuck together yet divided by a fissure and you call it the “stink tree?” This outlandish hippie coffee table was designed by Dylan Gold who says, “Don’t spill your drink.” My response? Don’t construct a table with a fucking crack in it. It would be like a chalkboard with a gap in the center which can’t be written on.

In other words, it’s useless. Unless of course you’re so in love with trees that you would buy a coffee table with a tree-shaped hole right in the center. The ’60s are over, alright? Jerry died and it’s time for your bath.
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Coming to a European street near you, these Solar Trees illuminate the night using stored power generated from the sun. Each “tree” contains 10 solar powered lights, each one containing 36 solar power cells.

The Solar Tree was demoed outside of the Vienna Design Week festivities and actually looks very cool. And while these aren’t the type of trees you can climb and not be sent to jail for, the beauty of the solar trees are worth the self-control it would take not to climb them. (more…)