A few weeks I was given some Earl Grey flavored chocolate from Dolfin Chocolat. I was hooked from bite one. Good chocolate and nice classic packing, lethal combo...

Beautiful wallpaper designs and illustration work by the artist Laura Williams.

Gray water is waste water with no human/organic waste (feces) or toxic chemicals that is suitable for reuse with little to no filtration. Gray water pumps allow you to capture this water and put it to use helping you waste less.

Teak Sling Rocker with a Hammock Style Seat

Scottish designer Johanna Basford is yet another amazing hand printed wallpaper designer. This is the artwork for "glow", but Insectiana, Macbeth and Crazy Botanicals are all equally fabulous.

In "Dumped", awesome NYC-based photographer Meg Wachter captures the weirdness and joy of dumping various foods and liquids on her friends' heads.

Voyages Longitude 131, at Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia, is a resort featuring a cluster of 15 luxurious solar-powered tent cabins overlooking Uluru (Ayers Rock). What a setting!

Tram Stop in Alicante by SubArquitectura - This project was taken as an opportunity to give back to the city a space that had been taken from it; transform a roundabout in a public square. Excelent work.

Mike and Maaike have taken on Charcoal and the old messy bbq process with their new product for Lazzari, where the packaging for the coal becomes a part of the process, and is completely recycled!

Video of famous failures from Abraham Lincoln to The Beatles-- "if you've never failed, you've never lived."

A house with a stone basement on the chilean deep south. Amazing views and blending with the surroundings.

Superfad's two ads for how Sprint have really helped in times of emergency have gorgeous animations, fun infographics, and stuck in your head music. Awesome stuff.

Jellies as art ~ even framed in ornate gold frames as they floated around in the tanks... incredible exhibition at Monterey Bay Aquarium ~ see some of the inspiration we found on my day off yesterday.

These really cool 'hanging box stairs' by Blencowe-Levine are part of a roof studio addition to a home in Battersea.

Dutch designer and font-master Job Routers created "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" - a fascinating video of himself and his 4-year old nephew Gradus drawing the alphabet. The kid is killer!

Extra ID jewelry by Dutch designer Anke Weiss imitates the security tags attached to items of clothing in shops to prevent them from being stolen.

To promote in Russia Gmail, Google along with the agency Saatchi & Saatchi, manually created a giant gmail interface in stop motion.

Unusually designed bottles of mysterious 'Parma' wine made of exotic berries and herbs. Visual style by Raya Ivanovskaya was inspired by folk motives of indigenous peoples of the North.

Josh Jakus' napkincatch placemat,: a holder is cut right out of the mat. Pop the attached ring out of the mat and interlock around the napkin, then tuck safely back in for easy storage.

Frank Chimero's "The States" project "is meant to be a personal exploration in 2D form and also a way to exercise the creative muscles, without necessarily being too concerned with content or concept."

The Sound Of Color. Musicians & Artists were assigned a color, then wrote a song and created an accompanying video. Very Neat, Especially "Black" by the Ravonettes.

toronto artist james fowler creates intricate and colorful aerial views of imagined cities with acrylics. this is san francisco!

Vinyl toys reach a new level... now they truly are "adult toys" thanks to Jeremy Fish's Barry the Beaver: vibrating vinyl friend ~ in collab with Superfishal + Upper Playground, produced by Ningyoushi.

the spice gun -- a handy device which would allow you to gun down your food in cold-blooded flavor

Take two minutes and watch this. And then take a month off and watch TCM. Fresh new paint from Fresh Paint.

The latest and greatest from Dora Drimalas of Hybrid-Home...Limited Edition Bat Cave Print

OurType have some deliciously sexy fonts and some superb navigation and font preview functionality to go with it. Seriously, try out a font, it's fun and random.

Yada ~ you have to check out the pics of their well designed CES booth that draws you right into it with its cool lights and mini. And then i was surprised by the affordable and minimalist bluetooth headsets +accs!

Some scans from the newest House Industries catalog. Absolutely beautiful type and colors.

The painting on this truck depicts San Francisco after a disaster which perfectly align with the San Francisco of today providing a window into an extremely troubling world.

Paul Sandip, Pencil Eater - ATE is a double bladed stainless steel pencil sharpener which effectively sharpens large and small pencils to a comfortable sharp tip every time.

Gift Guide Day 2 ~ this second to last guide is all about gizmos and gadgets to help you have more fun taking pictures during the holidays!

STEVE JOBS AT HOME IN 1982 — “This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that’s what I had.” (creepy.)

Nice handmade USB LED lamp made of apple wood by unckel

Elmo meets M.C. Escher. Set of bizarre photos of life-sized Elmo doing the town by Mark Sebastian.

Virgin America ~ full of goodies from plugs at every seat and seat to seat chatting to live tv and crazy mood lighting... also an adorably cheeky animated safety video you have to watch! (including this tech happy nun)

A prefab house in the middle of a very greenish enviroment, in Ecuador by local architects Jose Maria Sáez and David Barragán.

San Patrignano Community help people to get their identity back. Here two subjects made by Armando Testa, Milan.

The French-Brazilian architecture firm Triptyque based in São Paulo, Brazil, have designed the Columbia Street building for an advertising agency called Loducca.

LOTR's Gimli, Aragorn and Legolas created by the hands of origami artist Eric Joisel, using one uncut square of paper for each model.

This is my laugh for today. This site is full of various Mario related "what if" images and comics from different people. Unfortunately its in Japanese, so i couldn't read a lick of it, but the pictures speak for themselves.

I just found out about Geeks In Love, a geeky web comic in the tradition of XKCD, but with a French twist and a much better drawing style.

Daedalus & Icarus reinterpreted as lighting by Tord Boontje by Artecnica

Visiting London shop Labour and Wait is like stepping back in time. They sell functional timeless pieces that will make you wish for a simplier time.

Francis Ford Coppola invented the Shellphone as the communication system in the rooms at his Central American resorts. The leaders of Shellular Technology.

coolhuting review the onguard locking skewers. they seem like a subtle elegant solution to bike theft, but perhaps that elegance just pisses off would-be theives...