Awesome photographer, Thomas Allen, created art for magazine piece on memoirs.

The Umbuster is a combination compact umbrella with brass knuckles as the handle. Designed by Sruli Recht of Iceland, you need an actual weapons license to carry it in some countries!

cute, sexy, weird - the artwork of SAYAKA. [Editor's Note: Also seen as #3519, but so fun, felt like sharing it again]

Created by Lina Meier, Ollo Eatingware reinvent fooding in front of the TV !

ChargerFrame transforms your electronic landscape into wall art. This active interplay between cables, gadgets and indicator lights is neatly framed and finished off by an energy-efficient master green switch.

"La Ruche" created by young designer Mostapha El Ouhlani inspired by the bees.

Ad campaign where clothing detergent samples were sent in a bot wrapped in a white tshirt, so when arrived it was perfectly dirty to test the sample on!

Cash Money Clips ~ made with duct tape and magnets, or epoxy... or DIY "kits" ~ hehe.

Jeans + Helium + Duct Tape... the latest in the genius Levi's viral vids ~ and i've also linked Guys Backflipping in Jeans, and the Monkey doing Hollywood to catch you up.

Trevor Paglen has done some amazing work/art "exploring and documenting hidden military landscapes". The "Black World" of the military and secret agencies; from the 'Rendition flights' (above), to secret bases around the world.

Future Architecture : Floating Ecopolis for Climate Refugees

Toys have come full circle ~ from toys being for kids ~ to toys being for grown ups ~ vinyl toys and characters are being transformed back into plushes for the kids! Here's a fun list of baby friendly stuffed toys for gifting!

Italy's Nacsound produces dramatic modern speakers which look like something that belongs in a museum, not your living room.

Callaway Golf gets modular with their new I-MIX (ugh, terrible name) system where you can mix shafts and driver heads on the go with their special wrench... i wonder how they feel on the course.

A high rise residential building in Groningen, Netherlands. It´s part of a municipal project to keep the city compact. By Arons en Gelauff Architecten.

Brand new poster print by Supermandolini™. "Shooting Target" more than just a fun design carries under the surface a more serious message open to interpretation.

Spear Collective Artist Jefrey Lacson takes playing with toys to some other dimension.

King Abdulaziz Center for Knowledge and Culture by Snøhetta

This multi-blade knife makes short work out of turning veggies into noodles.

Tiji TV: Children ~ advert from DDB, Paris, France. Imagination is a powerful thing...

The Indigo Patagonia Hotel, situated in Puerto Natales, Chilean Patagonia, is made with timber and corrugated steel, materials already present in the town. By Sebastian Irarrazaval.

Arcamita's "feed" is an adorable woody bird feeder for small songbirds

Thank You motion graphics, out of Copenhagen, did a great "in flight video for Iceland Air

An interview with Second Line Frames - creators of gorgeous frames made out of recycled siding from damaged Hurricane Katrina houses.

beautiful modern architecture by Stuart Narofsky

Fascinating NYtimes article on the depiction of nature in Disney movies inspired by the passing of Bambi animator Ollie Johnston.

David Trubridge's 'Spiral Islands' evoke the natural forms of New Zealand in light fixtures and seating - presented in Milan last week.

Porn for the blind is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to producing audio descriptions of sample movie clips from adult web sites.

Pan Dan has some incredible images of the Droog Design hot glass on a wood table from the salone

nuzilla - a "new" New Zealand product design company have launched their sliceform kiwi's and moa's on endemicworld.com. I love laser-cut construction like this, my favourite is their life size Moa (large extinct bird)

MacMod : Powerbook to Desktop!

Iris by Michaël Bihain is a coffee table that you can pile. It is made from a single sheet of steel and comes in black or white. [Editor's Note: looks like a lesser version of Ross Lovegrove's in #9166]

Stephanie Posavec takes on books and turns them into incredible infographics ~ see what happens to kerouac's "on the road" in the "On The Map" exhibition...

Stunning campaign for International Red Cross - posted on Behance by art directors Pier Madonia and Stuart Macmillan.

It is not often that an architecture master reinvents himself, but that is precisely what Pritzker Prize winning architect Frank Gehry has done. Gehry has revealed the first post post-modern architectural work, the New Gehry Residence.

What has the body of the iPhone, the glossy ui of the PSP, and the brain of a Blackberry? Apparently the Blackberry 9000 is quite the chimera.

Ultimate Derby Car 2007 competition - great video of designers and engineers competing in a derby car competition.

The zoom/street view on Google Maps is crazy, here's another great find - in chicago. Yes, this is real.

Beautiful industrial , architectural, and landscape work from Canadian photgrapher Kristopher Grunert.

HOT TOYS' STAR WARS CHUBBY SERIES 2 - I can't figure out if they are cute, or just so bizarre i can't stop looking... and they have magnetic feet!

Fun multi-timezone watches from Diesel ~ The silver one has engravings for JFK, LAX, LHR, CDG, and NAA airport codes...

Play + (Play Piu) - Super fun children's furniture/play structures from Italy.

I could watch this animation for hours... maybe just minutes.

This geeky canvas Binary Code Tote Bag comes with the message F*ck You (in Binary) on the front. Great for geeks who are perpetually having a bad day!

Ceramic delft blue dildo with cork. Designers: Guido Ooms & Davy Grosemans. The Milkmaid by Studio Oooms is not your typical Dutch Souvenir inspired by Johannes Vermeer’s innocent painting ‘Het Melkmeisje’

Music made from all the crazy apple system noises! And full garage band file available for you to have your way with as well. From 'The Cleverest'