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Queen-sized sheet set, made of the same ultra-soft Fine Jersey that we use to make our classic tees. Comfortable on your back and in your bed. Includes one flat sheet and one fitted sheet.
100% Fine Jersey cotton construction Flat sheet dimensions: 102" x 89" (259.1cm x 226.1cm)
World Cup Soccer is the most popular sport in the world. It’s mega-super-insanely popular everywhere but the United States. In the US it’s called soccer, everywhere else it’s football. Coincidence? Maybe. These really cute little World Cup soccer players are also USB flash drives. Using the ever-popular removable head format, just pop off the head and insert the body into your computer. Available in one of five countries: Italy, Portugal, Germany, The Netherlands, Croatia. Seems like a random selection of countries to me. Are these the likenesses of famous players? I have no idea. They definitely look like they’d be fun to mess around with, making one kick the disembodied head of the other. Each 1GB drive costs around $30 and is available via Rinkya
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The classic Michael Jackson's moonwalk in Lego. Ciamoslaw Ciamek captures Michael doing the moonwalk in "Smooth Criminal".
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How smart can a shower get? The Hansgrohe RainBrain Smart Shower lets you enter your settings on its touchpad, giving you a choice of water temperature, the type of stream you'd like to stand under, and even lighting and music. It gets especially interesting when you have multiple showerheads.
Want to try it? Hansgrohe's website has an interactive version of the RainBrain, showing you all of its watery magic tricks. So what if you'll need two 80-gallon water heaters to use it? You might use 10 times the water of average person when you take your shower, but hey, you're special.
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It is believed that birth month flowers originated in the Roman Empire. A range of fold-out paper jewellery in a sheet consists of twelve ring designs for the owner to assemble each month, for all year long.
TT:NT has for us a simply cute little concept here that involves a little paper, a little cutting and folding, and a lot of giggles. These rings come in one full set (”All Year Rings”) or in singles, packaged as a birthday card (”Birthday Rings.”) These rings follow the following follow-able list of pretty pretty flowers:
[source]January - Carnation
February - Violet
March - Jonquil
April - Daisy
May - Hawthorn
June - Rose
July - Tulip
August - Poppy
September - Morning Glory
October - Cosmos
November - Chrysanthemum
December - Orchid
With the future of portable electronics and portable gaming getting smaller, Wilson Song came up with the Samsung WM wristwatch style portable gaming system.
The Samsung WM is a conceptual design aimed at pushing the portable gaming market over the edge. Thin enough to be slapped on the wrist circa 1990 slap-bracelets, the WM is portable enough for any gamer.
Coming equipped with a touch-pen, earbuds, motion sensors, a camera and a larger than life screen for its portability. The Samsung WM will be sure to please any one lucky enough to wear it. Taking full advantage of the design of the WM's flexibility, sensors can be triggered by bending the device and manipulating it into game play. The combined use of the camera and sensors on the WM users may be able to play games developed that require the use of both hands and feet.
Although just a design, the Samsung WM is a promising advancement in the world of compact portability. For both portable on demand gaming and future portable technology, the WM has many promising features and advancements to please any consumer.
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This is Stylish Hangers by Iota Designs. They look pretty and compliment those expensive suits that you own. USP is the expandable orange rubber ring, which is designed to create stability and the use of superior quality raw material.
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What good is an empty discarded glass bottle? It only deserves to go back to the recycle bin! NOOO! Wait, don’t give up as yet, invert it over the “Re:fill Chime Bell And Lights” and see it dazzle on your restaurant table! The concept is this: you’re in the restaurant waiting for the waiter to show up to take your order, frantic waving and subtle gestures aren’t working. Use this ingenious gadget to attract the guy’s attention: order = pink light; water = blue light and bill = green light.
Designer: Doyeop Kim
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Le Whif (www.lewhif.com) is a revolutionary new way of eating chocolate - by breathing it! Imagine, chocolate without the calories. Be the first to try inhaled chocolate when Le Whif goes on sale later this month in four luscious flavors: mint chocolate, raspberry chocolate, mango chocolate, and plain chocolate.
Harvard professor David Edwards, lead inventor of Le Whif, says: "Over the centuries we've been eating smaller and smaller quantities at shorter and shorter intervals. It seemed to us that eating was tending toward breathing, so, with a mix of culinary art and aerosol science, we've helped move eating habits to their logical conclusion. We call it whiffing."
Le Whif is a terrific way to curb your appetite or to accompany a coffee, and Edwards says inhaled chocolate is just the beginning. New culinary innovations that involve eating by breathing are being developed by the Foodlab at Le Laboratoire, Edwards' art and science innovation center in central Paris.
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The fish tank is a microcosm that reflects human concerns: within the finite space of its architecture the main issue that conditions the well-being of its inhabitants is waste management. ‘Floating Garden’ by Benjamin Graindorge and Duende Studio brings an innovative solution to the daily maintenance constraints of freshwater aquariums with a filtering system that is 100% natural: a cushion of sand + plants that adapts to each and every model. Its recycling principle based on hydroponics does away with the chore of regular water changes and proposes a new domestic- scale typology, between the decorative glass vase and the water purifying plant.
Floating Garden uses two techniques for eliminating nitrate wastes voided by fish:
1/ Gravel-bed filtration: tank water moves over a tray where it seeps thru a 5cm layer of river-sand. The sand bed traps suspended waste particles and forms a host environment for the aerobic and anaerobic bacteria that transform azote into nitrates.
2/ Aquaponics : nitrate-enriched water pours over a layer of plant-life. The substratum of roots extracts the nitrates to sustain plant growth, which means that water returning to the tank is pure. Needless to say, the vegetation is adapted to wet environments: e.g. Amazon-basin plants or tomatoes rather than cacti.
The combination of these two techniques in a simple easy-to-use product marketed for the general public as of spring 2010 is a significant innovation. It is a little known fact that aquarium fish are up front in the domestic pets market.
Aquarium water remains stable: it is clean and the tank needs only minimal upkeep: a sponge wipe over glass faces to remove algae deposits, an occasional top-up to compensate surface evaporation, and of course food for the fish.
The prototype on show for sale at Forum Diffusion as of 25 June was developed thanks to an Audi Talents Award that Benjamin Graindorge won early this year. It gives concrete form to a ‘passion for waterworks’ shared by Benjamin Graindorge and Duende Studio. What with Graindorge’s ‘Domestic landscapes’ and the ’Local River’ project developed with Mathieu Lehanneur by Anthony van den Bossche, it only needed one step more (and a lot of experiments) for the principle to be turned into a commercially-viable product, realistic but full of poetic potential. Elegant design associated to extended function make ‘Floating Garden’ an object rich in paradox – thoughtful and forward-looking.
“Floating Garden”
Design : Benjamin Graindorge
Concept input : Anthony van den Bossche / Duende Studio
Prototype available in a limited series of 10, each made to order by rapid prototyping process (3D print models). Every product is thus unique in its design. Comes with tinted aquarium glass. Prices on demand.
Marketed in general public version in plastic and ceramic as of spring 2010.
Production: Duende Studio
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