Arts & Design

Smoking bans across the U.S. have taken hold, many places banning smoking in any private area, or even public areas. If you wanna cause a stir, but don’t actually want to be thrown out of the place you’re located, whip out one of these. Tankbook is actually a full length classic novel, miniaturized to fit inside of a vintage cigarette ...

Only so many men are manly enough to put in this much time into a baked good. The Optimus Prime Transformers cake was painstakingly detailed over a period of 26 hours, 4 for the planning, and 22 for the baking and icing. With a total cost of supplies equaling about $85, if you don’t include the mental anguish, the Optimus ...

You and your chicken shit sky diving just got a new competitor as most extreme of the extreme sports. By 2009, we might see Space Diving added to the X-Games line of competitive extremities. It is currently in the works for a huge 120,000 ft free fall from the outer limits of the Earth’s atmosphere. Eventually researchers hope to reach ...

As of late, Japan has been looking at how robots can solve some social problems, in addition to the labor that they are currently being developed for. “Life/Machine – Scenes From A Roboted Life” is a project to explore the interaction between humans and robots in a domestic living space, and how they might coexist in an efficient symbiosis. The ...

When was the last time you played with one hole that could be used in so many ways? OK, on second thought don’t answer that. These interesting images show unique ways to use the center hole of a CD as a design helper. Featured here are a few of our favorites, but you should check out the rest. They are ...

Using custom circuits and a whole bunch of LED bulbs, here is a totally custom product built from scratch, including self-etched boards. The LED Bonsai tree spins a series of bulbs to create the appearance of a, yup, you guessed it, Bonsai tree. The fast speed of the spinning LEDs creates a 3D image, which either looks like a Bonsai ...

How could you be a true gamer and not know what Peach’s Castle looks like from Super Mario Bros? It happens to be one of the most prominent landmarks of Mushroomland, thank you very much. Here it is immortalized through the wonders of playing card architecture. And to our knowledge, Goomba free. This build happens to be a rendition of ...

Vroom, vroom. Gentleman, start your search engines! This V8-inspired (and no, it’s not the healthy yet delectable vegetable juice) Case Mod is one fast looking machine. Packed with eight valved madness, the Engine PC is a true original. Complete with neon blue LEDs and racing flags, the V8 Case Mod is chromed out in phantasmal geekery. It looks as though ...

Would you mind living in a house that more resembles a black hole than a place of residence? This Tunnel House looks like you’ll be sucked in at any second into a dark void. Sculptors Dan Havel and Dean Ruck present these two tunnel houses in a Montrose suburb in Texas. It would be a pain in the ass we ...

Hey, it’s a miracle. For once a phone design that isn’t a cellphone! The Quartz Tele concept uses large quartz crystals instead of the traditional button pad. Each quartz stands as its own number key with embedded LEDs, and illuminates when pressed. All of the quartz stand on a base with a central screen displaying all of the caller ID ...