Dream Design

From the creators of "News of the Weird World" and "Mad, Mad Science" comes a new topic featuring cool design, furniture, appliances, electronic devices... you name it! But it has to be cool looking and kick ass! It has to be the kind of design that makes you want to buy it, even if you can't afford it. Overall: things that makes you drool!

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Ok, first entry, a blender:
http://www.nomadedesign.com/scripts/produc...9&ProductID=558

A square blender! Now this is a must have for a wedding present, but it is 249€ or US$387.96. Seems the features are the same, but looks too damn cool.


Frozen smiles from Fred & Friends:
http://www.worldwidefred.com/frozensmiles.htm

Well, I guess it's perfect for April fools. One thing is for certain, it is without question an icebreaker. ;D


“Maiden” Flight for Iron Maiden


Iron Maiden are going on tour in a custom Boeing 757. The jet holds all the crew and equipment, and is being flown by none other than Maiden’s frontman Bruce Dickinson. Ah, to have all that money, and fly in style!

More pictures of the Iron Bird can be found here:
http://blogto.com/city/2008/03/iron_maiden_land_in_toronto/
Article in "The Sun": http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showb...ticle743697.ece

:lol:

I know, Easter has gone so fast. But here are a few Easter eggs that are just stunning! Completely hand sculptured with a boring tool:

http://momeld.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/happy-easter-eggs/

Space Station USB Flash Drives. The size of a credit card, the super-convenient Ultra Spacestation consists of six individual flash drives, each capable of storing 2GB. Geeky!

http://www.ultraproducts.com/product_detai...1&productID=691

There is one for sale on ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-ULTRA-6GB-Space-St...7QQcmdZViewItem

That's cool! 12 Gig of storage, credit card size, and only $70-$80? Damn... might have to look into getting one of those...

If you go into their website, it is at $89, and they deliver.

Are elephants the new steadycams? Apparently so!

Cameras held by elephants' trunks have been used to provide an intimate view of tigers in the jungle for a three-part BBC One series: Tiger - Spy in the Jungle, to debut on BBC One on Sunday 30 March at 2000 GMT. BUT if you do not have BBC, go check into their website, they have a few footage of the program, and it is so neat to see those big cats, and other animals.

What struck me is how the elephants cooperate, bringing the cameras on site. The cameras are hidden in trunk-like robots, which kinda ressembles R2D2 made of trunks. You should check it how it rolls here and there to capture images. It's so sweet!

Anyhow, without delay:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7312511.stm

MYBrain. The table lamp!
(This would please Doctor Archeville!)

A replica of the designer's brain, originated from an MR scan at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. The image was processed through a 3D-printer, and became this unusual lamp shade design. Yes, it is bright.

http://www.lervik.se/prod/brain.asp

WeRobot T-Shrit

They are all there, 51 different robots from film, television, books, toys and one even from a famous classic rock album. Can you figure out all 51?

I have figure out a few, but I'm glad that there is one representative of our beloved Transformers. Can you guess who?

http://www.chopshopstore.com/product.php?productid=16186

Prime!
I recognize most of them... which scares me.

They even have Crow, the Owl from Clash of the Titans, Voltron, K-9, Vincent, and the robot from Beserk!! *intruder alert... intruder alert...*

oh, and TECHNICALLY, there's a few non-robotic entities in there. (ie, the bad robot guy whose name escapes me from Black Hole, and the Dalek...)

There is:
Astroboy, Marvin (from Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy Movie), Johnny 5 (from Short Circuit 1 & 2), R/C K9 robot (from Doctor Who), Tweaky and waaay below is Dr. Theopolis (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century), Space Invaders robot, Tin Man (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, you can see the little heart), Gort (from The Day the Earth Stood Still), The Iron Giant (from The Iron Giant movie), Maria robot (from Metropolis), Takikomas (from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex), C3PO and R2D2 (from Star Wars), Bender (from futurama), a Sentinel (from The Matrix movies), Manzinger Z, Terminator, Tetsujin-21, Mecha-Godzilla, War of the Worlds Tripod invader, Robby (from Forbidden Planet), Robot B9 (from Lost in Space).

That's it for me, 22. :D

Rosie from the Jetsons is right next to Pime. Mecha-Godzilla is fighting a rockem sockem robot. Both make me laguh :boo:

Also see Rusty from Big Guy and Rusty, Megaman, a Destroyer Droid from Star Wars, and the robot from the first Robocop .

Ehm, out of curiosity, you guys saw my posts about the elephant cams and the MYbrain lamp, right?

Saw the elephent cam, but missed the MyBrain lamp :lol:

Let's make this easier:


1 Astro Boy/Tetsuwan Atomu [Astro Boy/Tetsuwan Atomu]
2 Marvin [Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy]
3 K-9 [Doctor Who]
4 ????
5 Johnny 5 [Short Circuit]
6 Crow T. Robot [Mystery Science Theater 3000]
7 "The Robot"/B-9 [Lost in Space]
8 ???? (Space Invaders maybe?)
9 ????
10 Gigantor! The Space Age Robot! (Get out of my head!) [Gigantor/Tetsujin 28]
11 ????
12 ????
13 Bender Bending Rodríguez [Futurama]
14 ???? (looks familiar though...)
15 Terminator [The Terminator]
16 Enforcement Droid Series 209/ED-209 [Robocop]
17 ????
18 ???? (things just got werid...)
19 Mazinger Z [Mazinger Z]
20 C-3PO [Star Wars]
21 ????
22 ????
23 Tachikoma [Ghost in a Shell]
24 ????
25 Rockem Sockem Robot [Rockem Sockem Robots]
26 Mecha-Godzilla [Godzilla]
27 Sentinel [The Matrix]
28 R2-D2 [Star Wars]
29 Iron Giant [The Iron Giant]
30 Voltron/Golion [Voltron: Defender of the Universe/King of the Beasts Golion]
31 ????
32 Tripod Invader [War of the Worlds]
33 ???? (Sea Lab cleaning bot???? :huh: )
34 ????
35 Megaman/Rockman [Megaman/Rockman]
36 ????
37 Rusty [Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot]
38 Tom Servo [Mystery Science Theater 3000]
39 Twiki [Buck Rogers]
40 Tin Man [Wizard of Oz]
41 ????
42 Robby the Robot [Forbidden Planet]
43 ????
44 Destroyer Droid [Star Wars]
45 Maria [Metropolis]
46 ???? (looks like a male version of #45)
47 ????
48 Gort [The Day the Earth Stood Still]
49 Dalek [Doctor Who]
50 Optimus Prime [Transformers]
51 Rosie [The Jetsons]

19 left off this list. I have no clue what Dr. Theopolis looks like, so I can't ID it. Same with the Space Invaders robot, but I know it's 8 or 41.

8: Beserk Robot (old arcade game)
18: Doctor Theopolis (Buck Rogers)
22: Maxamillian (Black Hole)
24: BooBoo (Clash of the Titans)
33: V.I.N.C.E.N.T. (Vital Information Necessary CENTralized) (Black Hole)
36: Conky the Robot (Pee Wee's Playhouse)
41: Robotron (nother old arcade game)
43: Muffit? (Battlestar Galactica) ((This is only a 'maybe'))

i thought 22 was the 2007 version of blackout

kids today... :hug:

nope






or

#47 is MEGALON From Godzilla vs. Megalon (although he was a cyborg bug NOT a robot...)

Ah, thanks Omega. I thought it was something from Toho, and suspected Godzilla, but did not know which. :D

#34 is WALL-E (the new Pixar movie that comes out this june)

30 is Voltron.
46 is a Cylon (classic Battlestar Galactica/First Cylon War in New Battlestar).
12 is the Original Marvin the Paranoid Android (from the BBC 1980s series).
24 is the robot owl from Jason and the Argonauts by Ray Harryhausen.

43 Really does look like Muffet.

close, but it was actually "Clash of the Titans" that had Bubo the Owl

Also its hard to tell, but #17 might be IQ9/Analyzer from Star Blazers/Yamato

and #31 looks like a smoke detector, but i know that;s not it ;)

Maybe it is... that's why we can't id it :lol:

31 is HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey
11 is a classic Cylon.

To update... (Just updated by Prisma)

1 Astro Boy/Tetsuwan Atomu [Astro Boy/Tetsuwan Atomu]
2 Marvin [Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy]
3 K-9 [Doctor Who]
4 ????
5 Johnny 5 [Short Circuit]
6 Crow T. Robot [Mystery Science Theater 3000]
7 "The Robot"/B-9 [Lost in Space]
8 Beserk Robot (old arcade game)
9 ????
10 Gigantor! The Space Age Robot! (Get out of my head!) [Gigantor/Tetsujin 28]
11 Cylon (old)
12 Marvin the Paranoid Android (from the BBC 1980s series) ???
13 Bender Bending Rodríguez [Futurama]
14 ???? (looks familiar though...)
15 Terminator [The Terminator]
16 Enforcement Droid Series 209/ED-209 [Robocop]
17 IQ9/Analyzer from Star Blazers/Yamato
18 Dr. Theopoulos [Buck Rodgers in the 25th Century]
19 Mazinger Z [Mazinger Z]
20 C-3PO [Star Wars]
21 ????
22 Maxamillian (Black Hole)
23 Tachikoma [Ghost in a Shell]
24 BooBoo (Clash of the Titans)
25 Rockem Sockem Robot [Rockem Sockem Robots]
26 Mecha-Godzilla [Godzilla]
27 Sentinel [The Matrix]
28 R2-D2 [Star Wars]
29 Iron Giant [The Iron Giant]
30 Voltron/Golion [Voltron: Defender of the Universe/King of the Beasts Golion]
31 HAL (2001)
32 Tripod Invader [War of the Worlds]
33 V.I.N.C.E.N.T. (Vital Information Necessary CENTralized) (Black Hole)
34 WALL-E
35 Megaman/Rockman [Megaman/Rockman]
36 Conky the Robot (Pee Wee's Playhouse)
37 Rusty [Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot]
38 Tom Servo [Mystery Science Theater 3000]
39 Twiki [Buck Rogers]
40 Tin Man [Wizard of Oz]
41 Robotron (nother old arcade game)
42 Robby the Robot [Forbidden Planet]
43 Muffet (BSG)
44 Destroyer Droid [Star Wars]
45 Maria [Metropolis]
46 Cylon (new)
47 MEGALON From Godzilla vs. Megalon
48 Gort [The Day the Earth Stood Still]
49 Dalek [Doctor Who]
50 Optimus Prime [Transformers]
51 Rosie [The Jetsons]

Those yet to be identified: 4, 9, 14, 18, 21

18 reminds me of the rollybots from Gundam, but I can't pin it to any series in particular.

It's true, it does look like HAL.

wait, 21... is that one of the soldiers from Krull?! (I can't find any pictures)

AH, and 4 is one of these:


dammit... I've seen those... what the hell are they from...

Are they from Aliens or something?

21 is not the Krull warriors... I found the trailer for the movie.

I'm not sure, and still doing some research, but 21 can be "Crag" from Captain Future (anime version).

*searches* Yeah, it does look a lot like him, doesn't it?

*back on topic*
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,143977-c...ce/article.html

Taito, creator of “Space Invaders”, is celebrating its 30th Anniversary and collaborating with many brands to revive their brand.

Taito has teamed up with Yahoo Japan on April 1s and created an awesome page, where space invaders destroy the Yahoo homepage. That was a part of Taito’s April fool project to scare the Yahoo visitors, but the Space Invaders Yahoo page is still live. Go to the site before they take it down.

http://event.yahoo.co.jp/invaders/beginning/


Painted hands artwork... not your child's art. You guys really have to see this:

http://www.repubblica.it/2006/08/gallerie/...ura/mani/1.html

I especially like the two pictures of soccer players. Neat-o.

Yeah, that one was pretty cool. It was instantly recognizable.

There were a few that were just 'eh' but most were damned cool!

An Elephant paints a self portrait... no, seriously...

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/...er.shot.wed.cnn

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fsb/08....fsb/index.html

I dunno about the elephant, sounds to amazing to be real... call me a skeptic. :)

As for the glowing globes, it sounds something ripped right of a Dune novel page. I can't find it, but there was something similar, and it also floated. :D