Junk sculptures by Brandon Jan Blommaert.
[Via blommaert79’s flickr page]
Category Archives: Images
The “Spaceball Trampoline”
So yeah, I’m not even going to attempt to explain what “Spaceball Trampoline is. Cue the site that sells it, Uncrate:
Combining volleyball, basketball, and intense jumping, the Spaceball Trampoline is one crazy game. In Spaceball, players jump around in individual areas — both floor and walls — of a trampoline, and try to throw the ball past their opponent through a netted tunnel to the other side, all while bouncing up and down. Lauded by former astronaut Scott Carpenter as “the best conditioning exercise for space travel,” the game’s trampoline features a galvanized steel frame for minimal corrosion, a sturdy, polypropylene treated playing surface, and support for two players of up to 200 lbs. each.
Are you willing to spend a whopping $700 on this new sport? I sure as hell am not.
[Via Uncrate]
Ladies, Acne has upped the ante in the style department
ACNE Spring/Summer 2010 Women’s Lookbook. Check out more styles in the gallery below.
[Via KanyeBlog]
The “Door Hand-le”
This is just plain ol’ awesome. It’s the Door Hand-le by by Naomi Thellier de Poncheville. It was made for the London Design Festival. See it from a different angle in the gallery below.
[Via KanyeBlog]
Sticky notes
…or ‘yummy notes.’ Don’t you just want to take a bite out of it? Too bad it’s actually paper. See more recyclable fruits in the gallery below.
[Via KanyeBlog]
Kid Cudi, Man on the Moon: The End of Day album cover
It’s almost here. Purchase Kid Cudi’s debut album Man on the Moon: The End of Day on September 15. Dig the album artwork in the gallery below. The above image is the standard CD cover. The second image in the gallery is the deluxe DVD edition cover. The special edition DVD will include an additional 45 minutes of “footage.” More details as they come.
[Via DatNewCudi; Kid Cudi’s Blog]
More Zune HD videos; street date & price leaked
Engadget got some hands-on time with the upcoming Zune HD. See the action in the video above.
In related news, it seems like electronics giant Best Buy has outed the release date and price of the Zune HD. A spy shot of a Besy Buy inventory sheet reveals a September 8th release and two price points: $220 for 16GB and $290 for 32GB. A tipster also nabbed further evidence at Amazon; they too have the same price point and release date listed. Look after the break for the two screen shots.
Continue reading More Zune HD videos; street date & price leaked
Gaga looking goodgood
Lady Gaga poses for ‘V Magazine.’ See the gallery below for more pictures from the shoot.
[Via KanyeBlog; V Magazine]
The soda fountain of the future is here
Coca-Cola has unveiled its latest creation with the “Coca-Cola Freestyle” soda fountain. What’s so special about this soda dispenser is that it can provide over 100 different types of soda flavors in one machine (compared to today’s cap of around 6-8 flavor valves). The machine has a user-friendly touch screen interface. A customer simply selects a “parent brand” like Coke, Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Sprite, Diet Sprite, Fanta, or Powerade and chooses a specific flavor within the brand. For example, one can select Sprite and choose to drink peach-flavored Sprite. That’s right–this machine dispenses many unknown or rare flavors of your favorite soda drinks. There’s “strawberry, grape or peach Sprite (which is very tasty), seven kinds of Fanta, seven kinds of Powerade, six flavors of Vault energy drink, and just as many flavors of Dasani water, or its carbonated counterpart Dasani Sensations.” So how does it hold so many different kinds of drinks, you ask? Read on.
Shelley Kench, a Coca-Cola rep: “In traditional machines, the syrups have to be mixed with CO2 and water in a larger scale. The ingredients that are in the cartridges are no longer what we call ’syrups.’ Now the ingredients are based on individual recipe for each drink based on that user’s selection.” Coca-Cola is using its own proprietary technology called “Pure Pour.” SDDN: “[They] Coca-Cola developed the machine by using small, highly-concentrated containers of ingredients. Those ingredients are then mixed with water and sweetener to create each individual drink.”
The Coca-Cola Freestyle is currently in a testing stage. A fully operational unit can be used at a Jack-In-the-Box in Vista, San Diego. Oscar Hurtado, store district manager: “It’s much easier to maintain, and it’s a time saver and it saves storage. It would take about 14 of the old fountain machines to do what one new unit can do.” For now, the machine will be limited to restaurants and other eateries in Southern California. Coca-Cola aims for a nationwide release in 2010. Check out the videos above for (1) a quick preview of the device and (2) a bunch of kids stumbling upon it in a restaurant; and see below for a gallery of product images.
[Via SDNN]
The Microsoft retail store logo
You’ll start seeing this logo in malls all across the country in no time. It is the official logo for Microsoft’s retail store. According to the patent filing, the logo represents “retail store services and online retail services featuring computers, computer hardware, software, computer games, computer peripherals, portable music players and accessories, personal digital assistants, cell phones and accessories, video game consoles and accessories, webcams, books, clothing, back packs, messenger bags, computer bags and novelty items”.
[Via PC World]
Never miss a moment of the game…
…even if you have to use the bathroom. Oh yes, this is real. A pub in Melbourne installed a rear projector in their urinals. Disturbing, true, but you’ll never miss any of the action, right?
[Via Gizmodo]
Mug for the blind
Blind people cannot see. Without the sense of sight, it is particularly difficult to pour a glass of water or a mug coffee. It is even more trying to pour an exactamount of liquid into a container. Enter ‘The “Braun” Bell Mug’ concept by Sang-hoon Lee and Yong-bum Lim. This concept mug “has 3 indicative levels on the handle and liquid-level sensors within the mug” that allow blind people (or those with extremely poor vision) to pour precise amounts of liquid into a mug. The mug handle has three rigid buttons on its surface; all a person has to do is select one of the three levels and pour away. Once you have poured the desired amount, the mug emits a bell sound. Neat, huh? This is surely a product worthy to pass as a final, tangible item to be manufactured. Check out the gallery of images below for some concept product shots and directions.
[Via Gizmodo; YankoDesign]
