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Rapper-Curated Subscriptions
Rapper-Curated Subscriptions
Snoop Dogg Picks Out Cool 'Fancy' Gear for You Every Month
Fancy is allowing its shoppers to buy a box of products every month curated by the one and only Snoop Dogg. We’ve seen Fancy team up with Kelly Rowland to pick products mainly directed... MORE
Bath-Transforming Jets
Bath-Transforming Jets
The Dual Jet Bath Spa Transforms Your Bathtub Into a Spa-Like Hot Tub
You’re now able to turn your own bath into a spa-like tub with the Dual Jet Bath Spa. Taking a bath is nice, but there’s nothing like relaxing in a jet powered hot tub for an hour to... MORE
Visually Impaired Aid Adapters
Visually Impaired Aid Adapters
The Blind Adapter Makes Connecting Appliances to Power Easier
The Blind Adapter is an adapter made for people who are visually impaired. The concept behind Blind Adapter’s is to make it easier and safer to connect electrical appliances to power sources.... MORE
Foam-Filled Toy Nukes
Foam-Filled Toy Nukes
The Nerf Nuke is the Endall of Fun Foam Warfare
Look no further for the ultimate Nerf battle ending weapon, the Nerf Nuke is here. Nerf gun battles are a ton of fun, and a wide range of Nerf weapons from pistols to bows are available. It’s... MORE
3D Printed Wooden Recliners
3D Printed Wooden Recliners
This Chaise Was Made Using 44 3D-Printed Composite Materials
Architect, designer and MIT professor Neri Oxman designed this new 3D-printed wooden recliner called the Gemini Alpha. The multi-colored recliner uses 44 different composite materials encased by a... MORE
Massive Concave Mazes
Massive Concave Mazes
Danish Firm BIG Will Build a Massive Maze in the National Building Museum
Danish firm BIG has unveiled its plans for a massive maze to go inside the National Building Museum in Washing DC. The firm will use Baltic birch plywood to build the huge structure. The maze will... MORE
Carbon Fiber Toilet Seats
Carbon Fiber Toilet Seats
Carbon Fiber Gear Created a Durable Carbon Fiber Toilet Seat
Carbon Fiber Gear is a company that creates lifestyle products with or out of carbon fiber. Carbon fiber has a ton of practical uses; it makes cars lighter, hockey sticks stronger, laptop cases... MORE
Emotive Eye Illustrations
Emotive Eye Illustrations
These Illustrations Show How Eyes Alone Can Portray Emotions
This series of eye illustrations is a personal project form the portfolio of the Spanish design studio Cranio. Cranio is an illustrator and graphic designer who’s worked for several different... MORE
Ciffside Water Slides
Ciffside Water Slides
Citta Del Mare Hotel's Water Slide Flows Down a Cliff into the Ocean
There are plenty of hotels that have a pool with a water slide, but how many hotels have a water slide that takes you straight into the Mediterranean Sea? The hotel Citta Del Mare is located in... MORE
Community-Connecting Eco Skyscrapers
Community-Connecting Eco Skyscrapers
The Skyvillage Connects Communities and Cleans Up Pollution
The Skyvillage eco skyscraper concept is designed to bridge communities that are separated by busy freeways and to help clean up pollution caused by the traffic underneath. The building itself isn&#... MORE
Lightweight Wearable Airbags
Lightweight Wearable Airbags
Motorcycle Safety and Style is Combined in the Inflatable Airbag Vest
Spidi is the world leader in motorcycle apparel and accessories; it is also renowned for its innovative motorcycle safety ideas such as its wearable airbags. Spidi’s latest product is a... MORE
Translucent Plant Partitions
Translucent Plant Partitions
The Green Partition Cleans Air and Separates Living Spaces
The Green Partition makes your home look great and purifies the air. The project is designed to help create functional areas in any living space that, at the same time, give you cleaner air and... MORE
Old Age Simulation Suits
Old Age Simulation Suits
This Suit is Designed to Simulate Physical Limitations That Come with Age
An aging population means it’s more important than ever to be mindful of the needs of senior citizens, including their physical limitations. The South Bank University in London acquired a suit... MORE
Grainy Underwater Portraits
Grainy Underwater Portraits
Photographer Maria Stromvik Captures Daunting Submerged Portraits
Maria Stromvik is an amateur photographer who only started doing photography in 2009. Stromvik grew up near the sea in southern Sweden and water has been a reoccurring theme in many of her projects.... MORE
Romantic Mile High Airlines
Romantic Mile High Airlines
The Love Cloud Airline Promotes Joining the Mile High Club
Love Cloud is an airline service that promotes joining the mile high club to its passengers. Andy Johnson founded the Las Vegas-based airline service that allows people to book sight-seeing tours... MORE
Aerial Evolutionary Landscapes
Aerial Evolutionary Landscapes
Klaus Leidorf Captured These Images of Landscapes From a Plane
Photographer Klaus Leidorf gets high in the sky to take aerial view pictures of a range of landscapes in Germany. Leidorf uses a Cessna 172, a small propeller plane, to cross the sky above the... MORE
Self-Exposing T-Shirts
Self-Exposing T-Shirts
These Flesh Printed T-Shirts Expose Your Nude Body in a Clever Way
Social Print Studio is giving you the opportunity to showcase your nude self on an exposing t-shirt. All you need to do is go by the studio where photographers will take a tasteful nude picture of... MORE
Iconic Cartoon LEGO Collections
Iconic Cartoon LEGO Collections
The Official LEGO Simpsons Minifigures are Finally Here
The official LEGO Simpsons minifigures are finally here and they are awesome. The characters sell for about $4 a piece and come with one prop each. It’s about time the classic TV series got a LEGO... MORE
Disney Character-Shaped Foods
Disney Character-Shaped Foods
Oh My Disney Offers a Variety of Mickey-Shaped Food Items
The immense popularity of one website’s Mickey-shaped ice cream bars made fans wish for more Mickey-shaped food items. The Oh My Disney blog compiled some of the best examples of Mickey-shaped... MORE
Luxury Drop-Top Yachts
Luxury Drop-Top Yachts
This Hardcover Luxurious Yacht Has Three Different Roof Configurations
Retractable hardtops are all the rage in the automotive industry, so why not incorporate them into yachts? The Reverseys Boat incorporates that feature and more into this luxurious yacht. The yacht&#... MORE
Versatile Leather Phone Stands
Versatile Leather Phone Stands
Carry Your Phone and Prop it Up with the Draw iPhone Case and Stand
The company called ‘hard graft’ is known for its premium leather goods, and hard graft’s latest release is the Draw iPhone Case and Stand. The new accessory is a practical protective phone... MORE
Long Range Radar Detectors
Long Range Radar Detectors
The Fuzzbuster II Can Detect Radars Up to Three Miles Away
The Fuzzbuster II is the latest and greatest radar detector on the market. For those of you who don’t know what a radar detector is, it basically notifies you when you’re in the presence... MORE
Coin-Digesting Doggy Banks
Coin-Digesting Doggy Banks
This Doggy Bank Eats Your Coins and Poops Them Out
The new Happinet Unchoken Lucky Dog Bank saves your coins in a fun way. On the top of the piggy bank, the dog is facing a toilet. If you feed the dog its favorite treat—being a coin—it... MORE
Denim Leather Organizers
Denim Leather Organizers
These Organizers are Made of Red Wing Leather and Printed Canvas
Keeping everything in your pocket somewhat accessible usually results in a messy table in your foyer, but these Red Wing leather valets are a stylish solution to that problem. Red Wing boots can... MORE
Billionaire Moon Hotel Pranks
Billionaire Moon Hotel Pranks
Richard Branson and Virgin Buildings Moon Hotel is a Hoax
Billionaire Richard Branson revealed new architectural designs from Virgin Buildings. The new designs include a New York skyscraper shaped like bundle of balloons, a tower in Sydney shaped like a... MORE
Musically Patterned Textiles
Musically Patterned Textiles
Glithero Wove Textiles Using Organ Punch Cards as Pattern Templates
London-based design duo Glithero wove a range of patterned textiles using organ punch cards. Glithero was commissioned by Zuiderzee Museum and the Textiel Museum in the Netherlands to make the... MORE
Individually Designed Retirement Homes
Individually Designed Retirement Homes
This Residence is Designed to Avoid Rows of Identical Rooms
This beautiful retirement home was designed by the Belgian studio Areal Architecten. When we think of retirement homes, often times we imagine row after row of identical rooms. Instead of this cookie-... MORE
Pumped-Up Anniversary Sneakers
Pumped-Up Anniversary Sneakers
The Reebok Instapump Fury Got a Makeover for its 20th Anniversary
Reebok’s classic silhouette the Instapump Fury got a fresh makeover for its 20th anniversary. The Instapump Fury OG doesn’t use laces, instead the Instapump Fury relies on CO2-charged... MORE
Tinted Glass Furniture Collections
Tinted Glass Furniture Collections
The New Diapositive Collection Uses Colored Glass Panels
French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec’s new collection is a series of colored glass furniture for Italian brand Glas Italia. The objects in the collection called Diapositive include a... MORE
Streetwear Cartoon Collaborations
Streetwear Cartoon Collaborations
BAPE x Peanuts Bring Schultz's Characters into Fashion
Clothing company A Bathing Ape released a Snoopy Tee and Tote Set a few weeks ago, but now the BAPE x Peanuts collaboration is a full-fledged collection. The Peanuts x A Bathing Ape 2014... MORE
Hamster-Powered Toys
Hamster-Powered Toys
This Hamster-Powered Toy Gives Your Critter the Capability to Explore
Give your hamsters the mobility they deserve with this hamster-powered toy. If you’ve never heard of a strandbeest, they’re massive skeletons made of PVC that can move on their own because of... MORE
Inspirational Typographic Illustrations
Inspirational Typographic Illustrations
Sean Wes Shared Things He's Learned Through Illustrations
An artist named Sean Wes shared 25 things he learned when he turned 25 through a series of typographic illustrations. Sean is the oldest of 12 siblings and acquired responsibilities the quickest.... MORE
Bicycle Evolution Videos
Bicycle Evolution Videos
Thallis Vestergaard's Video Shows Us 200 Years of the Bicycle's Evolution
Danish animator Thallis Vestergaard put together a short animated movie outlining the bicycle’s evolution. ‘Visual Artwork,’ a studio based in Denmark, produced the video. The... MORE
Chemical-Free Sustainable Mugs
Chemical-Free Sustainable Mugs
These Sustainable Coffee Mugs are Stylish and Eco-Friendly
The majority of people are making the switch to sustainable coffee mugs rather than the single-use cups that coffee shops are handing out. Sustainable mugs have plenty of benefits, the biggest one... MORE
Skeleton-Revealing Candles
Skeleton-Revealing Candles
These Cute Cat Candles Melt Away to Reveal a Devilish Metallic Skeleton
Candles get boring, no matter what color they are or what smell they emit. PyroPet is a family of animal shaped candles that melt away to reveal a scary metallic skeletal structure. The Devil’... MORE
Lost Island Photography
Lost Island Photography
Tobias Wüstefeld Imagines What Phantom Islands Might Look Like
Phantom Islands is a series of photographs of model cities that may have never existed. The models show places that can be found in historical maps or ancient documents but are otherwise non-existent.... MORE

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Iconic Shiny Leather Sneakers
Iconic Shiny Leather Sneakers
Jordan Has Just Released The First Look At The Jordan Shine Sneakers
The newest release from Nike’s Air Jordan, the Jordan Shine, is Nike’s attempt to break into the high-fashion sneaker realm. The Jordan Shine uses the silhouette from one of the most... MORE
Elaborate Human Skull Art
Elaborate Human Skull Art
Artist Zane Wylie Uses Real Human Skulls to Make Jaw Dropping Artwork
Since Zane Wylie is an artist who uses real human skulls as his canvas. He carves designs ranging from Celtic warriors to Asian dragons. The skulls that Wylie carves were mostly from India and China.... MORE
Plant-Growing Coffee Tables
Plant-Growing Coffee Tables
You Can Fill the Pot Section of this Coffee Table with Living Plants
The Volcane Feet Coffee Table is much more than your average living room surface. The structure is made out of solid oak from sustainably managed French forests. The two surfaces are made from... MORE
Multi-Direction Sun Shades
Multi-Direction Sun Shades
Tyler Short’s Penumbra Sun Shades Adapt to Changing Conditions
University of Oregon architecture student Tyler Short developed the Penumbra sun shade system that adapts to sunlight at different times of the day. The shades would hang in front of windows and... MORE
Visual Projection Lights
Visual Projection Lights
The Panasonic Space Player Merges Ambient Lighting with Projected Visuals
The Panasonic Space Player is a new type of lighting equipment that allows you to give a room ambient lighting and project a visual of your choice. Imagine sitting beside Lebron James while you... MORE
Device Sharing Poker Apps
Device Sharing Poker Apps
The Card Table App Lets You Use Your Phone and Tablet to Play Card Games
Having your friends over for a little get together is always fun until all of them decide to burry their heads in their phones; the Card Table app can help you keep everyone engaged by using your... MORE
Politically Active Object Exhibitions
Politically Active Object Exhibitions
V & A Museum Celebrates Objects Supporting Political Activis
The V & A Museum in London will be showcasing objects designed to support political activism. The exhibition is called Disobedient Objects and will present examples of art and design that... MORE
Lost Island Photography
Lost Island Photography
Tobias Wüstefeld Imagines What Phantom Islands Might Look Like
Phantom Islands is a series of photographs of model cities that may have never existed. The models show places that can be found in historical maps or ancient documents but are otherwise non-existent.... MORE
Converted War Site Flats
Converted War Site Flats
Guérin & Pedroza Architects Designed This Unique Residential Distric
Guérin & Pedroza Architects designed a seven-story block of flats to help transform a nineteenth century fort outside Paris into a residential district. The Issy-les-Moulineaux fort was one of... MORE
Door Stopper Alarms
Door Stopper Alarms
The Door Stop Alarm Sounds a 120 Decibel Alarm When its Sensor is Activated
Keeping people from entering certain spaces in a house or elsewhere provides a challenge, but The Door Stop Alarm from GE helps you keep those places private. Whether you’re trying to keep a pet,... MORE
Coin-Digesting Doggy Banks
Coin-Digesting Doggy Banks
This Doggy Bank Eats Your Coins and Poops Them Out
The new Happinet Unchoken Lucky Dog Bank saves your coins in a fun way. On the top of the piggy bank, the dog is facing a toilet. If you feed the dog its favorite treat—being a coin—it... MORE
Hamster-Powered Toys
Hamster-Powered Toys
This Hamster-Powered Toy Gives Your Critter the Capability to Explore
Give your hamsters the mobility they deserve with this hamster-powered toy. If you’ve never heard of a strandbeest, they’re massive skeletons made of PVC that can move on their own because of... MORE
Neon Winged Sneakers
Neon Winged Sneakers
The JS Wings 2.0 Get Decked Out with Neon Yellow Mesh and Reflective Stripes
Jeremy Scott and adidas released the newest version of the JS Wings 2.0 sneaker. This time, the sneaker comes in a bright tennis-ball-neon-yellow. The mesh styling that surfaced earlier this year... MORE
Hand-Power Espresso Machines
Hand-Power Espresso Machines
The ROK Espresso Machine Lets You Customize Your Coffee
ROK espresso machine brings you high quality espresso at home with this beautiful and intelligent design. The ROK espresso machine allows you to choose your own coffee, grind and shot size, so your... MORE