Arts & Design

No-touch toilet paper dispenser

If you go to most public bathrooms nowadays, most everything is done using no hands. You can flush the toilet without hands, wash your hands without hands, dry your hands without hands. Until now, the only thing that remained typically for hand grabbing only was the toilet paper dispenser. Kimberly-Clark Professional presents their design for a no-hands approach to butt ...

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The Duofone concept cell: It takes two to tango

Couples these days spend more time on the phone than together, thanks to the ultra portability of mobile devices. But wouldn’t it be nice if we cut out the middle man, and placed two cellphones together? We’d probably see a lot more of each other. The Duofone concept design places two seperate cellphones on the same device, each sharing the ...

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Wall of Pong uses fricken laser beams

It doesn’t get much more classic than Pong. We’ve seen the game immortalized in the form of a watch, and of course the game that inspired it, Ping Pong, is one of the most popular home played games, but this is just so damn cool. This self-made “Wall Of Pong” was made by a senior at Cornell University for an ...

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Is this a lamp or the remnants of a full body cavity search?

Urologists will be happy to see a lamp that reminds them of their days at work. Filled with latex gloves, they can almost smell the KY. And me? I can feel the pressure building on my prostate already and I still have a good 15 years before I need to get annual probe-age. Penetration aside, this lamp made out of ...

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Flexible polymer wallet saves money

You wanna do the right thing by your money? Keep it safe. Don’t go swimming with your wallet, or feed it to any amphibious mammals, or accidentally leave it in some random taxi cab. For the latter problem, you might be stuck, but the Dosh polymer wallet is made to last in a fight with the elements. Made of waterproof ...

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E-Lighter: USB powered cigarette lighter

Let us warn you by saying that we have absolutely no idea how this thing is supposed to work. And considering it is very much a design concept, the designer might not even know how it’s going to work yet. The E-Lighter is a USB powered lighter for sparking some cancer forming fun in the form of a lit cigarette. ...

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The Treasure Chest PC Case: X marks the motherboard

Supposedly the above Treasure Chest case mod is an actual working modification, but any search on Google results in a lack of real source material. While it would be pretty cool playing around with the captains booty, provided that the captain was a captain-ness, and the booty was actually a round ass, we are hesitant to get our hopes up ...

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Behind the curtain: Transformer toy prototype

An interview with Alex Kubalsky, the Austrailian designer behind this new line of Transformer action figures, reveals the new line of toys with the “Classic Mirage” prototype. The action figure project, which is a joint venture between Japan’s Takarotomy and America’s Hasbro, led to the creation of the Mirage, Bumblebee line of Transformer toys. The Bumblebee figures come sporting a ...

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Swarovski Crystal iPhone: It was bound to happen eventually

Almost every conceivable gadget has been decked out and covered in Swarovski crystals at one point or another. It was only a matter of time before Swarovski appeared on the iPhone, adding a glitter of stylistic jewelry to an already beyond stylish piece of gadgetry. The website Crystal Icing is offering a service to cover your iPhone with 1500-3000 crystals, ...

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Your credit card of the future

Some people still prefer carrying cash around. We have sort of phased paper money out of our lives, keeping a spare $20 around in case of emergencies. The one dangerous thing about only using a bank card is that you can lose track of your spending really quick. A futuristic design concept might change how we budget ourselves. Using RFID ...

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