Another claim for the glossy black plastic iPhone 2, apparently with chrome volume buttons now. Beyond 3G data, it supposedly will have real GPS too.

Cool sunlight poem projector by Jiyeon Song shows different parts of a poem as the day progresses.

Cute screech owl stowed away on an aircraft carrier and nursed back to health by Zachary Gorman, an aviation mechanic who happens to be a licensed falconer. "Fod" - foreign object debris

Strange clear acrylic chair by Ralph Nauta and Lonneke Gordijn of design drift - with what looks like white liquid injected during moulding.

Kinda scary video of the spread of Walmart locations around the United States over the years.

The Darvaza Gas Crater is a burning crater formed from a failed gas drilling attempt that has been burning for the last 35 years in the Karakum Desert in Central Asia.

Before iPod and Nike was Apple II and Puma. These Pumas had a built in "electronic pedometer" that used a serial interface to plug into your Apple II for reporting. Full gallery of fun pics of the old worn out shoes.

Where does “Blue” end and “Red” begin? A project that used the Amazon Mechanical Turk to have random people name the color presented to them.

The Big Dog walking robot got another spooky update. Make sure to check out the part where it tries desperately to stay balanced when walking on ice.

Worth 1000 vintage ad competition. Also check out the 'Girls Gone Wild' one.

Pretty new HTC Advantage X7510 smartphone looks very laptop like. I don't think I'd want to be seen talking into it, but its magnetic keyboard looks spacious.

Mathematical Society of Traffic Flow in Japan replicated traffic jams that occur for no reason on a circular test track. Fun video of the jam propagating backwards like a shock wave.

The Newton Virus by Troika is a Mac 'virus' that turns on gravity on your desktop. Fun video of it in action.

Morpho Towers -- Two Standing Spirals by Sachiko Kodama. A new ferrofluid video using magnetic spiral structures and a chill soundtrack.

Old Banksy's painted in the parking garage of the Swiss embassy, apparently unveiled for the first time on Friday. They were painted in exchange for the right to throw a rave in the garage.

The ebb and flow of movies from 1987 to 2007. A beautiful graph of movie theater box office revenue over the years.

Improv Everywhere just took their desktops to Starbucks, in their classic straight faced comedy style. Check out the great video.

It will never be the same. Another single purpose site, but with a hypnotizing interactive road to keep you passively engaged.

Fun underwater photography by Martin Strmiska. This is a pregnant pigmy sea horse at Bunaken island.

Great ad showing henna painted hands with tourist destinations in Hawaii written all over them. Done for Travel Corporation India by agency Grey Worldwide India.

The kindle's been reverse engineered, only to reveal some cool google maps tricks, like faux gps and fun stuff like a picture viewer and minesweeper. All on the free CDMA cellular data service. Sprint wont be happy.

Interesting bluetooth vibrating bracelet. 100 hours on a 3 hour charge. Not so pretty, but best they can do with all those electronics perhaps?

Impressive ad by BETC euroRSCG for a Canal+ tribute to Gainsbourg. Pretty risqué from an American's perspective. Reminds me how much I miss France.

Massivly multiplayer online word association game called The Human Brain Cloud. Well designed with really pretty views of the current games as fun bubbly animated networks.

The Furminator. They call it "first person shooter pinball", it's a virtual reality capsule built around a mechanical pinball machine. Be sure to watch the videos under the 'media" link.

Incase does their best attempt at outdoing Mr. Ives with the cleverly named "Protective Cover for iPhone".

Red Interactive Agency's sweet interactive victorian avitar-based chat/browsing interface is pretty slick and fun to explore. Make sure to try fun keyboard combinations.

Crazy $800 titanium iPod nano case by Kiwami Studios.

Sweet new image editor for the mac called Pixelmator. First serious image manipulation app written entirely in Core Image for OS X. Plus its gorgeous. Photoshop could use the competition.

Giant designer cats by Lifestyle Pets. I love the spots. Starting at $22,000.

Blood puddle pillows. By Keetra Dean Dixon. Lots and lots of other fun projects on her site.

More interactive paper furniture, but this time with a fun video.

Playboy in braile. I personally think it ads a classy touch to a magazine that from a design perspective is generally tasteless.

Mr. Eiffel's original book promoting his tower has been reprinted beyond the 500 originally printed for his friends. The original is also available in full here: http://gallica.bnf.fr/anthologie/notices/01206.htm

Crazy new Hummer design called the O2. They are apparently going super environmentally friendly, and just to illustrate the point for those of use who are slow, they made it green.

LG's new concept laptop using edge to edge OLED displays for both the keyboard and display, and blue methanol liquid fuel in a transparent cylindrical hinge.

The new cd burning app for OS X called "Disco" has a really pretty icon. The app itself looks pretty sweet too.

The Optimus Upravlator is out... its cool but just one more tempting tidbit until the true Optimus keyboard arrives.

New Freitag store in Zurich made from shipping containers.

I'm loving this set of short films by Eric Lerner called Mr. CityMen. This guy: Mr. Fortune, reminds me vividly that I miss Spain.

This $3500, eight-foot-high Anglepoise lamp was released to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the original 1227 Anglepoise Lamp.

Terranaut: enabling exploration of land by those normally confined to water. This robot is controlled by the swimming of the fish in the attached bowl.

A giant iceberg pool toy. I see fun + dead kids. Wish I had a pool.

The fluid dynamics of artificially intelligent race cars. Mmm Pretty.

Skeletons of famous cartoon characters by Hyungkoo Lee. Arario Gallery also has a few other nice shows coming up, if you are going to be in Korea soon.

Amazing matte paintings of Star Wars landscapes. So pretty you almost can't tell it's geeky.

Crazy pictures of a caterpillar invasion.