Arts & Design

Don’t like thinking about how many times your dad’s hairy balls have thrust up against the coffee table as your mom reached climax? Sorry for the image, but that’s the price you have to pay. No toll-free roads here. This Interactive Ripple Table features 480 super-bright white LEDs and 24 active and passive near-infrared optical sensors that react to both ...

Try to do an ollie on this bad boy without breaking any keys. Now that sounds like an interesting new challenge for the X-Games. The Skatekeyboard combines the art of skating with the geekery of keyboarding. Can you skateboard and type a complete sentence with your feet at the same time? Tony Hawk has a new art to perfect now. ...

There are literally hundreds of Hello Kitty doodads flooding the market. I can’t even think of an object that hasn’t in someway been kittified in the past. Well, maybe a particle collider. No Hello Kitty branches in physics quite yet. This Hello Kitty collage of sorts was created using nothing but Hello Kitty-branded crap. You’ll notice lots of pink and ...

Two things everyone loves: music and playing around with nesting dolls, combined into one ultimate gadget. These awesome Matryoshka dolls are inspired by your favorite rock bands including Korn, The Beatles, Blink-182, KISS and more. The set of nine nesting dolls was designed by Russian artist Pavel Kulinsky. Rock on with yo’ bad self.

Alright, so maybe living in a house made of LEGOs was only a pipe dream, but here’s something much more practical. This customized IKEA kitchen island was made using over 20,000 LEGO bricks. Designers Philippe Simon and Pillard Rosetti are my new heroes.

The CoffinPet concept provides the environmentally-conscious pet with a 100% biodegradable to rest in piece. When it’s time for a pet to lay down their will and power of attorney, they’ll thank you generously for providing such a thoughtful place for their bodies to be dumped and quickly replaced. Of course, if you keep your pet in shape, you won’t ...

Only furries could create something so ridiculously mundane that it completely circles around lameness and cycles back to being totally awesome again. This RFID-enabled Arduino-driven tail apparently reacts to different mood chips, wagging if your happy or excited, so on and so forth. The tail is also controllable with the Wii Nunchuk remote. If your dressing up as a possum ...

You can play chess on any surface (other than water). Looking for a quick pick-up game? Just draw your own board with one of the chalk chess pieces and you’re good to go. The pieces might not be as ornate or as cool as some other boards we’ve seen, but it makes up for it with pure utility. The only ...

Who needs genetic manipulation? A giant rope can have equally deadly effects. The Shelephant is on the prowl and searching for blood. This sort of reminds me of the greatest and weirdest high-five ever. Link [via]

I’m not sure why you would lug around an entire bookshelf when you could just throw all of the books on an e-reader and carry around an entire library in your pocket. Maybe that’s the “conceptual” point. Fighting the power! Or something like that. The transportable bookshelf is made using crates originally used to haul fruit. I love, love, love ...