Ooooh ooooh ~ wifi blackberry coming! Research In Motion announces the performance-driven BlackBerry 8820, the first dual-mode BlackBerry smartphone featuring cellular and Wi-Fi communications as well as built-in GPS.

A planetary blog specializing in the very best imagery from 50 years of planetary exploration. Has the best collection of desktop images featuring the Solar System (landscape 1440x900).

fruit bowl by -jenny pokryvailo [Editor's Note: check out how it collapses down to pieces of wood on a metal ring!]

If you add an "erd" to "design" you become a "designerd". Are you one? You are here aren't you? [Editor's note: or you can think of it as just designer+d?]

the strangely beautiful sea ranch chapel in california, designed by james t. hubbell.

An interesting analysis of the colors used in the top grossing movies of all time, broken down by rating

Vaja announces their iPhone cases....

Hoesch Sensamare Komplettbad - the Complete Luxury Modern Bathroom.... dreaming and wishing i had this right about now.

Sputnikk did this piece in Bolzano, Italy. EXIT THE SYSTEM!

Studio 8 Design's gorgeous BREATHE poster with trees as lungs...

CoolHunting points out BLACKLE today ~ the white on black version of google that SAVES ENERGY. yes, by not wasting brightness

Presenting the General Carbuncle: one old Ford covered in 4500 toy cars

Skull-a-Day: Designer Noah Scalin promises to design and blogs a skull every day for a year.

The "Emir" lounge chair is a versatile "sofa for one" in natural materials. It hosts two good friends, or one person alone. Design Lars Urheim T16

Travel without moving. Using the ear s can move heart ~ Sound Transit: SoundTransit is a collaborative, online community dedicated to field recording and phonography.

Giant Grand Pianos washed up on the beach. The ulitmate piece of driftwood! Paal 5 by Florentijn Hofman

Andrew English's wedding bands are delicately hand-engraved with the fingerprint of your partner and therefore completely unique to each couple.

FEATUREDMimoco is announcing Core Series 2 ~ with nine new mimobots... and you can discover them through their scavenger hunt this week... and the first one is announced at NOTCOT! (click to learn how to win)

FEATUREDPaul Smith and Triumph team up for an extremely gorgeous and characteristically colorfully patterned line of motorcycles.

Wow. Sam Flores takes a sharpie to a fan who already has an INCREDIBLE tattoo of his work, and adds some gorgeous birds to it... while at an opening!

it's the most creative way of playing the lottery. spontaneous art on lottery ticket by samowel

warm and substantial floating cabinetry by philipp mainzer for e15 is offered in solid oak or walnut, and has no footprint.

People Like U' new project - iPod Styles.
Pimp your iPod with designs from Chuck Anderson, Hejz, ElectricHeat, RA909 and more!

Minneapolis-based artist Gregory Euclide's solo show, "I Have Been Remembering: Half-Lives & Half-Truths," is up in Seattle at OKOK Gallery - incredible use of BUBBLE WRAP!

Smoosh your contacts into your iPhone.

On silly monday videos to help the work day go by... Attus Apparel has gone and shot up more polos for sale - this time with mullet wigs - Check out round two of "Shot up shirts"

Awesome retro transformers watch ~ where he really pops off the watch!

Gaggenau's Lift Oven is coming soon and will truly change the way you cook!

FabricPots from HOVA Design are the first plant containers made of waterproof breathable fabric. Available in two styles, Frusto (conical) and Silo, with patterns by Angela Adams.

Xel is a bookcase designed by Luca Nichetto.
I love this irregular texture made by aluminium and glass.

Quadrics Prototypes From Maxim Zhestkov (Russian industrial designer)

limited edition collaboration to celebrate the 41st anniversary of arktip magazine and 1st anniversary of original fake store in tokyo, the magazine's embossed incase padded sleeve can be used for laptops after your done w the mag

The new addition to the Akron Museum of Art by Vienna-based Coop Himmelb(l)au.

Photographer Erwin Olaf and Marcel Wanders created this amazing photography for mooi's products. And that's only some of Erwin Olaf's amazing photography.

Kick your shoes off and relax in a Pac-Man chair.

Work by New Zealand artist Joe Sheehan. A fair share of his work consists of exquisitely carved greenstone (jade). Like this functional tape containing a recording of river sounds.

Beautiful work by Andreas Shabelnikov - young digital artist and photographer from the Baltic States.

This tiny wooden camera pendant from Korea is actually an mp3 player.

For those that do not have the 98 Mio. USD available for the sculpture, there is now the Diamond Skull t-shirt series by Damien Hirst!!!

For designers and other type addicts, Typografica.org just released a list of their 23 favorite fonts of 2006

Tejo Remy and Rene VeenHuizen's tennis ball benches for the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.

The Ab Ovo Collection by William Emmerson. Ab Ovo, meaning 'from the egg' or 'from the beginning' is an evolution of style.

Tanya Moller Jensen's ceramic boxes are fabulous. Not to be missed; her wall pockets and votives.
Check them all out!

Sheep stool - designer: - Hanns-Peter Krafft, 1982 - materials: Real sheep-skin over a body of jute skin filled with wood shavings, with head and legs in solid wood. Ears are made of leather.

Take a look at this incredible set of pins... layered and laser cut looking scenes and stories in animals

Gorgeous work by Christian Ward

Great piece over at Pingmag on Transformable Architecture... and the brilliance that is Hoberman

Ceramic is the answare - "handled with care"
contemporary ceramic works - designersblock, shoreditch high street - september 19 - 23, 2007