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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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Lava Object Collections
Lava Object Collections
Lava From Mount Etna Was Used to Create This Range of Household Objects
Design duo Formafantasma created a collection of lava objects using samples from the eruption of Mount Etna in Sicily. The design team experimented with cooled lava from last years eruption and... MORE
Designer Mirror Phone Cases
Designer Mirror Phone Cases
These Marc Jacobs iPhone 5 Cases Look Great and Function as a Mirror
This specially designed Marc Jacobs iPhone 5 case has a fold-out mirror and features the Marc by Marc Jacobs Standard Supply logo. The case comes in a few different color combinations and has an... MORE
Anatomical Animal Models
Anatomical Animal Models
4D Vision Has Created Educational Anatomical Models of Various Animals
4D Vision has introduced a host of animal models based on their anatomical structure. Each model has removable bones and organs and includes an illustrated assembly guide describing each of the... MORE
Iconic Footwear Brand Hybrids
Iconic Footwear Brand Hybrids
The Newest Air Jordan Release is for Jordan Fans and Runners Alike
At the 2014 NBA All-Star Weekend in New Orleans, Air Jordan gave us a preview of its newest release, the Air Jordan Flight Flex. The newest Air Jordans have a similar feel to the Nike Free series... MORE
Slim Smartphone Concepts
Slim Smartphone Concepts
Designer Sam Beckett Unveiled a Concept for an iPhone Air
Designer Sam Beckett unveils his concept for an iPhone Air. The design is one of the most realistic concepts yet for Apple’s next big iPhone launch. The concept design is 8% larger than the... MORE
Light Bulb Speakers
Light Bulb Speakers
The AirBulb is an LED Light Bulb and a Wireless Speaker System
The AirBulb is a light bulb speaker that works just like a normal light bulb but has added benefits. The bulb itself is an energy efficient LED bulb so it will last longer than a traditional light... MORE
Tire Track Art Prints
Tire Track Art Prints
The Cyclist's Empire Made a New York Print with Tire Tracks
100 Copies, a collection of art prints focused on cycling, created a print of the Empire State Building using tire tracks. The print was made using seven different types of bike tires as paint... MORE
Temperature Control Dog Leashes
Temperature Control Dog Leashes
This Dog Leash Sprays One Ounce Squirts of Water to Keep Dogs Cool
With summer around the corner, you and your pooch are in for some good times in the sun; keep your pup cool with this misting dog leash. The Cool Down Doggie by Hyper Dog squirts a cooling must... MORE
Embossed Floral Sneakers
Embossed Floral Sneakers
The Filling Pieces Spring 2014 Shoes are Embossed with a Floral Pattern
The Filling Pieces Spring 2014 floral embossed low top sneakers are a clean, fancy look for spring. The sneakers were just added to the Amsterdam-based footwear brand’s collection. The... 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
Disney-Inspired Waffle Makers
Disney-Inspired Waffle Makers
Make Some Mickey Waffles with This Disney-Inspired Kitchen Appliance
Now you’re able to bring out your inner child every morning by making some classic Mickey Mouse waffles for breakfast, or anytime for that matter. This waffle maker bakes a delicious Mickey... MORE
Punchy Urban Footwear
Punchy Urban Footwear
The Clae Spring/Summer 2014 Collection is Smart and Colorful
The Clae Spring/Summer 2014 footwear collection combines a bright palette of colors with designer silhouettes to create footwear that’s perfect for the upcoming seasons. The Southern... MORE
Underwater Camera Phone Cases
Underwater Camera Phone Cases
The Watershot Pro Lets You Use Your iPhone Camera Under Water
The Watershot Pro Underwater Housing is an underwater phone case that allows you to take pictures with your iPhone 5/5s while you and your phone are fully submerged. The case has an accompanying app... MORE
Video View Donation Campaigns
Video View Donation Campaigns
This Donation-Raising Video Aims to Help 32 Kids in Need
Annemarie Richards is a Jamaican woman who came from a broken home in a struggling community, and this donation-raising video is aiming to help her out. She has made it her life goal to take... MORE