Kota is the life size animatronic baby triceratops that is available for $300. Kids can ride on it and it reacts to your every move through sensors all over it’s body. All of this and it runs on only 6 x D batteries (not included of course).
Toy Dinosaur
Cai Guo-Qiang isn’t your average artist, for starters he uses gunpowder to create his art. His favourite bit being “the pause just before the power ignites”. Watch a video here and read a NY Times interview here.
Gunpowder Artist
Although this astonishing project wont be ready until 2010, this underwater hotel in Instanbul should be worth the wait. A seven floor, seven star hotel which is being built on the site of an old Tobacco factory under the city centre.
Underwater Hotel
An amazing flash interface thingy. 3-D galleries floating in space that a bewitching pleasure to navigate. See what I mean here.
Whitevoid
Like it says in the name, it’s dinner in the sky, 118ft in the sky! The table is suspended from a crate and seat 24, truly the height of fine dining. Watch an NBC video and visit their website to see for yourself.
Dinner in the Sky
NIce bit of ambient for the new Sopranos series in NYC. Not at all cliched or stereotypical and quite funny.
Sopranos Ambient
A beautifully simple idea that works better than I expected. I’m not sure how many pictures you’d want to hang in the corners, but at least now you know that you can.
Photo Corners
I love these striking Vintage Pink Tennis sneakers from Adidas. The colours work really well, despite being so strong. You’d better be quick though as they’re limited edition, so head over to Coolest Shop to pick up a pair.
Adidas Vintage Pink
Commitment? Art project? OCD? Five New Yorkers who wear only one color all day, every day (and it’s not black).
1 Colour Designers
A modern day graffiti version of Jackson Pollock with a hint of graphic design thrown in. Stunningly dynamic and full of energy, These prints by Street Art legend KayOne are some of the best I’ve seen in a while.
KayOne
The Embrace Lounge by Aguiniga Design is pretty much the lovechild of a hammock & sofa one night stand. It’s fits to your body and looks so comfortable, you literally melt into it.
Embrace Lounge
TaskWatch, developed by Art Lebedev Studio is a white write-on/wipe-off panel with a clock in the middle. The panel is mounted on the wall, standard office markers of different colors are used for writing messages beside the relevant hour or time span
Task Watch
Death and humour don’t usually mix, but this beautifully written and Art directed ad for Bert & Bud’s Coffins definitely strikes a good balance. It makes me want to try my coffin out now, now that is powerful advertising.
Think Inside the Box
“Surprise your favourite tree with a gleaming stainless steel necklace. Fitted on indestructible marine line, finished with marine hardware”. Nice idea, not sure we needed the cold and practical information about “indestructible marine line”. though, sort of killed the mood.
Tree Jewelery
I couldn’t fail to notice these intriguing new Coke Zero spots. The one with the brain was my favourite out of the lot which were shot by AgainstAllOdds through Passion Pictures. Watch them at their site here.
Coke Zero
So colourful and chunky, they feel like you are wearing candy on your feet and for only $63 in the DR Jays sale, they are good enough to eat! Also check out the equally fresh Yellow Flips too, only $42.99!
Ice Cream Flips
Take a frog, a brain and a toy. Mix them up, leave them to rest. Then whack the mix into an oven preheated with madness for an hour and hey presto...the Jumping Brain from Emilio Garcia. Find out more from the uber-cool Vinyl Pulse.
Jumping Brain
Directed by Spike Jonze for Lakia's Fully Flared intro, its a pretty amazing intro. This quote sums it up: "the most dangerous part of the introduction was Mike Mo Capaldi's switch flip, which was followed by a staircase being blown up with napalm" Brilliant.
Skate Video
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A design company based in California whose simple expressive drawings and prints are lovely. They really well as posters, wallpaper designs and would definitely make nice t-shirts.
Pottok
Stupid I know, but fun all the same. Last week we had Tetris Ice Cube and now it’s the the turn of the Waffle. There’s a crap video here which made me smile, it’s amazing just how nostalgic that music is.
Waffle Tetris
An amazing store in New York that makes fantastic creations from luscious coloured candy. Watch a video of the fascinating process here and be sure to visit their funky website afterwards.
Palpabubble
This table, designed by Moritz Waldemeyer, has over 2400 LED lights and 2 trackpads built into it, turning it into a modern version of the classic Atari Pong game.
Pong Table
I love this cool Manga inspired music video by The Holograms for band Kap10Kurt. This hectic and relentless film; a cross between Akira and Danger Mouse is compelling viewing.
Kap10Kurt Video
Download 3 free fonts all based around squeezy letterforms made form Ketchup and Toothpaste. Check out photos showing how they were made here.
Free Sauce Fonts
28th Feb ‘08
Despite looking like a super villain hideout, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is now open for business. The vault is planned to hold "backups" of 100 million seeds from of all over the world.
Global Seed Vault
Hi-Can project by Italian designer Edoardo Carlino is a bed that cooly integrates a great sound system and screen to watch movies, play games and surf the internet - all in one place. I don’t think I’d ever leave the Hi-Can if I had one.
Hi-Can
The TAP Project is a very simple idea executed beautifully. Throughout March, restaurants in New York are inviting their customers to donate a minimum of $1 for the tap water they would normally get for free. All proceeds go to charity.
Tap Project
My favourite factory. If only Superted had been made here. Some of the most endearing, creative and fascinating ‘Monster’s’ I’ve ever seen. Take a sneak peak behind the scenes here.
Monster Factory
A stunning portfolio of sensual and emotive work by award winning photographer Marino Parisotto Vay. Beautiful.
Marino Parisotto Vay
Great website, ever better design from the talented R-Design. My particular favourite was this new range of Selfridges products from their prestigious food hall.
R-Design
