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The unfortunately named ‘Yakuza’ is a digitally tattooed wooden table by Reddish Studio. It looks like it’s part of a collection. We have no idea what the ‘digital tattoo’ process involves, but it definitely looks pretty cool. It’s made out of veneered MDF with some kind of digital printing technology.

Get your animated infographics on! Graphic artist Jonathan Jarvis has produced a great little short animated film explaining in plain english -the causes of the current economic crisis.  There’s been a whole load of cartoons and youtube vids attempting this – but this is definately one of the best. If you are feeling like a [...]

Everyone knows the Eames shell chairs, right? Well if you don’t know it by name, you will definitely recognise the shape. This video shows the making of the Charles and Ray Eames Shell Chair. It was originally designed in 1948 as part of a competition to produce low cost furniture, but has since gone on [...]

He’s back. The Muscles from Brussels. Jean-Claude Van Damme. In a movie that actually looks good. I’m serious, it actually looks good, check out the trailer above and decide for yourself. I like the willingness to take the piss out of himself coupled with some rather nice soul as the backing track. That and the [...]

I hate it when people think of really simple cool stuff that I don’t think of. I’ve been trying to think of a clever original USB drive enclosure for ages. Wood is cool, so is a plush toy and so is a humping dog. There’s a whole bunch of USB thingies we’ve come accross, after [...]

Being offensive in public is a favourite past time of our team thus this was an instant hit. If not for my propensity to lose umbrellas more readily than the Knicks do basketball games, I’d buy one. Buy yourself one here via Core77

A few friends of mine attempted some of this light painting photography just last weekend. Our result was nowhere near as cute and awesome. Still, it was a lot of fun mucking around with LED lights and slow exposures. This one was done by Ryan Cashman from San Diego. In his words: Animated light paintings [...]

SouthCentral (PART 3 of 4) from ABOVE on Vimeo. Those of you who’ve been paying attention would remember our last post on Above (catch up here). Well the South Central Tour continues and so do the pieces. Check out his latest vid above, complete with funky bossa nova/samba/Latin sounding tunes. Some pretty cool tidbits, look [...]

With the tagline “Ideas to live by” this self styled “Cultural enterprise” offers an interesting range of services including: evening and weekend courses, holidays to unexpected locations, stigma-free psychotherapy, secular sermons, conversation meals, a floating faculty of experts and a new kind of literary consultancy service called bibliotherapy. The school operates out of what looks [...]

AirBed&Breakfast is a new site that gets all Web2.0 on the Hostel and Hotel trade. Basically its a paid version of couch-surfing – people offer a spare room/mattress on the floor/kennel all over the world for a nominal or astronomical fee, depending on their commitment to capitalism. Essentially the idea is to provide a viable [...]

And that would be Booze and Data. It’s true. Don’t argue. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs should be updated to reflect the these in the top tier of needs for modern individual. Now Trekstor’s USB stick CO combines two things already attached to my keyring and encases it in a nice brushed aluminium. It will come in varieties [...]

Lest anyone accuse DEGOURGET of Obama favouritism* given the recent run of Obama gadgets and designs we’ve run here in the past, here’s a little bit of gadget action for the born again, book banning, foetus protectors amongst you. You can own your very own Sarah Palin Action Figure today thanks to the good folks [...]

This whole 80′s fabulous thing is getting out of hand. I can see it’s place in fashion and music, but invading our home theatre setups? Granted, this subwoofer by ELAC is a novel way of bringing the 80′s aesthetic to your living room. But it does look pretty ridiculous. I don’t want it but I [...]

So this industrial designer named Jonas Samson, who hails from the Netherlands – has developed some pretty neat looking light emitting wallpaper. With Jonas Samson’s high-tech light-emitting wallpaper it’s possible to use a two-dimensional flat surface as light source instead of a 3D object. As long as the wallpaper is turned ‘off’, it is indistinguishable [...]

I’ve always been somewhat obsessed with the Kowloon Walled City, it’s so Bladerunner and Ghost in the Shell – it’s pretty crazy that it actually existed. While it’s probably much better for its inhabitants, its a pity it no longer exists as it would be an amazing (albeit dangerous) experience to visit and explore. Hak [...]