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Analogue Camera Hero from Japan: The Blackbird,fly

In the current world of photography, the old analogue guard are really being crushed by the way of digital. Polaroid ceased production this year, lomo is gettin a little old – it’s not looking great for analogue lovers. Well everywhere, except of course, Japan. Where the awesomely named company called Superheadz – released the blackbird,fly. [...]

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Customisable Mini Graphics

Customisable Mini Graphics

3M have teamed up with Mini Cooper to offer “Original Wraps” a series of customisable graphics for the Mini. Printed on 3M vinyl and laminate they start as low as $10 and top out at $350. There’s a range of options, from simple badges and A panel wraps through to roof tops, stripes, interiors and [...]

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New Nano

New Nano

So for those of you who aren’t massive apple slaves fanboys addicts evangelists. Steve Jobs held this big event in San Francisco which they labelled ‘Let’s Rock’. They announced a whole bunch of new stuff, which you can read all about at places like engadget and iphoneuserguide. None of it is particularly mindblowing. The only thing that really [...]

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Light Emitting Wallpaper, very pretty

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 [...]

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No it’s not a Lego Clock – but a Lego Calendar

No it’s not a Lego Clock – but a Lego Calendar

At DEGOURGET we love Lego things, we love modular things and we love flippy things. This calendar is all of those things. Awesome. And look, the arrangement possibilities are endless. This is obviously not officially licensed Lego merchandise, but it’s damn cool anyway. Costs £14.99 from CuteGadgets. And yes they ship internationally. via Unplgged

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Ion Block Rocker

For serious block partying: The Block Rocker.

Yep, thats a pretty serious looking iPod amplifier. And the reason it looks like a guitar amp, is because you can actually plug in your electric guitar. You can plug pretty much anything into it. This beast is known as the Ion Audio Block Rocker. While you can plug it in to the wall socket, [...]

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Danish design cool comes to earphones

AIAIAI are an interesting yet slightly mysterious Danish collective. They seem to have been pretty quiet on the design front since releasing the very cool Kilo designed swirl earphones you see below, but our man on the ground in Copenhagen, Darkness, says they’ve been putting on some decent parties with peeps like WHO MADE WHO, [...]

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The Olympic (Daft Punk style) Fencing Helmets are pretty cool

The Olympic (Daft Punk style) Fencing Helmets are pretty cool

Okay so it’s Olympic fever, and as apathetic as one can attempt to be, its hard not to get caught up in the Olympics one way or the other. There’s two things in the world I like more than alcohol. One is technology. The other is sword fighting. Olympic fencing, is a bit of both [...]

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If a KORG Synth and Nintendo DS got together…

This is a bit of a niche product, but nevertheless cool. If you like fiddling with knobs on a synth or drum machines – and you wished you could take them around with you – the KORG DS-10 is for you. The first professional drum-machine / synthesizer for Nintendo DS, AQ Interactive releases the KORG [...]

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Things We Want: The BabyGrandMaster

Things We Want: The BabyGrandMaster

We’re not DJs, but I would kill to have this gear setup in our office. It’s basically a gargantuan setup of audio visual glory, with some seriously powerful sound gear built in. It’s video gear includes Dual Pioneer DVJ-X1 DVD Players, Edirol V-4 Video Mixer, 3 Marshal LCD Monitors. The audio is made up of [...]

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Lenovo ThinkPad with Wacom Tablet

Lenovo builds a super ThinkPad with a Wacom Tablet

This is actually a realistic alternative for creatives, to the usual MacBook Pro. I often here whinges from fellow designers, who for some strange reason prefer using Windows, who say that there aren’t any good alternatives to the MacBook Pro – as most Windows based laptops seem address the needs of business people and gamers [...]

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Dapper felt

Dapper felt

These Austrian’s call themselves Hard Graft and pride themselves with a simple design approach using 100% wool felt and feature leather. Made in Europe – These products are not only beautiful in design, but happen to be water repellant and bump proof. The pouches featured on all the designs are all iphone friendly and make [...]

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Vita Audio R4: Boring Name, Cute Gadget

Vita Audio R4: Boring Name, Cute Gadget

There are hundred, no, thousands of ipod-docking-alarm-clock-cd-player-speaker-systems out there. Most of them are freaking ugly. This one from Vita Audio a nice clean design. We especially like the one with the walnut finish. And the circular removable rotodial remote control? Awesome, sexy AND functional. Currently only available in the UK, and it will set you [...]

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Im not sure if this is furniture or a gadget

Im not sure if this is furniture or a gadget

We love clocks. We especially love digital clocks. We also like things that neatly stores all those wonderful and useless things we own. Especially when they look nice. And this… this is a giant LED clock AND a storage unit. Just when I thought they are running out of ideas of things they can put [...]

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BMX’s with serious Audio – Film: Made in Queens

BMX’s with serious Audio – Film: Made in Queens

You may have seen these before, this was first covered on a New York Times photo feature last year. Made in Queens is a shorto doco about the those crazy kids in Queens, NY who turn their BMX’s into these crazy machines of aural assault. The doco is made by the director/writer duo, Nicolas Randall [...]

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