Arts & Design

Custom Segway: Pimpin’ Your Personal Ride

The Segway has been used in many ways, even as a mobile baby carriage pusher (or as I like to call it, the lazy bitch mobile), but we’ve yet to see some real custom Segway rides. SegwayJunkyard has put together some impressive custom Segway devices, including the Night Rider (pictured left) and a special Segway made for LG (pictured right). ...

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Aussie’s Working On Device Charging Jacket

Most jackets these days are just here for style purposes and protecting from cold or wet weather. Australia’s CSIRO (the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) is working on a new jacket design that can charge your iPod or cellphone. While we’ve seen clothes that charge devices before, such as Solar Powered Bikini’s, never before have we seen one that ...

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Eclipse Office Partition Keeps You Isolated

Sometimes we wish we had a cubicle at home, just so we could keep ourselves separated from some of the annoyances of everyday life. The Eclipse Office Partition designed by Marcus Curran is a complete desk solution to ignoring daily annoyances. And while it doesn’t have the cool factor of the Battle Rig, it has a few helpful uses of ...

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Riding On Quarter Shaped Dubs

Shown on display at SEMA 2007, these spinning rims are designed to look like you’re riding on a set of quarters. Behind the spinning blades is the image of George Washington as portrayed on the U.S. coin. Not only are they unique in design, but these rims are absolutely gigantic. The rims pictured are a massive 30 inches. Wouldn’t have ...

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OMG! Awesome Party Guy Vid! YouTube Halloween Costume

We’ve seen some really cool Halloween costume ideas the last few days, including the iPhone costume and the iPod Ad costume. And look at this! We’ve actually found one not centered around an Apple product. The “OMG! Awesome Party Guy Vid!” YouTube Costume is very clearly homemade, but isn’t a half-bad copy of the video stats section of YouTube. Though ...

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Next-Gen Credit Card With Keypad and Display

The “Credit Card Embedded Authentication Device” is a concept creation by Innovative Card Technologies and eMue Technologies, and uses a screen and keypad for extra security (so you can spare your poor Elvis ginger-haired baby the trauma), not to mention a kick-ass new design for the credit card, though perhaps not as sleek as Jacob Palmborg’s future credit card design. ...

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Russian CD Fanatics Add Discs To Their Wardrobe

These guys really love their CDs. So much so, that they have made a wardrobe out of them. What looks to be CD armor, these guys have put together some gear out of recycled compact discs (might spark flames if you sit too fast on the CD chair). I strongly suggest not wearing this out in public unless you want ...

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In Case Urban Warfare Were To Break Out: Urban Combat Umbrella

Who knows when the commies will start spying on us again. If he were still around, Joe McCarthy might recommend every man, woman, and child to own an Urban Combat Umbrella, an Umbrella with an attached target scope. While it’s by no stretch the first umbrella we’ve discussed, it might be the most useful. Sick of people barging into you ...

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Pacman-Shaped Quicksilver Cellphone Concept

Surfing gear company Quicksilver has released some info about their design of a concept phone. While this phone probably isn’t supposed to be used while surfing, the Pacman-like two tone design is pretty cool indeed. Though that display looks pretty worrisome. Only half of the screen shows when the phone is closed, and if you shut the phone too hard ...

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Wall Cleats: Cable Clean Up Made Easy

Looking for a slightly less masochistic way to take control of your wires than the One Man Tied hook? This Wall Cleat is an innovative design that allows for your loose, unplugged cables to be wrapped around two projected tabs that extend from the outlet. A simple gadget like Wall Cleats means you don’t have to buy an outlet, plus ...

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