Design Roundup

Here are a few design items I found on TrendHunter and other sites I thought where worth sharing ...

Those are actual portable lamps made of LEDs (Seems like a new technology coming to us which allows to build really cool light providing items !). You can charge those and they are supposed to work for 10 hours ... Must be really cool for kids to play in the dark ! Or during parties with your friends.




More LED lamps, but his time embedded in ice cubes. Put those in your freezer, and get them out for your next party ... Success guaranteed ! And all that for only a couple of $ !





Russian roulette was big couple hundreds years ago ... For us techies who are sick of the poker mania running out there, here is a new toy. Up to four players put their fingers in the device, then a button is pushed, and after a few long seconds one of the players receives an electric shock ! Is it really as cool as it looks ?



Sick of those mobile phones that have the dumbest ringtone in your openspace ... Or just don't want to be one of those ? Well this mobile phone dock is for you as it will flash when your mobile is supposed to ring ! Nice and silent, at last your workplace will become a nice place to be all day long.


On sundays, when its barbecue time, you always look around for matches ... When you find them they are either wet or every time you try to ignite one, it breaks in two pieces ? Then this little toy is for you ! First it keeps your matches away from humidity, and as a bonus, they automatically ignite !!! So who's gonna look real cool two days from now ?


And to conclude this roundup, a "special dedicace" to the cabiste boy, who's a big fan of Caca, specially when speaking about twitter ... So why should we not be talking about iMac, iPod, iPhone, and other iToys as iCaca ?

Flip Flop Freeride

With the summer (well, at least its july) comes its share of flip flops ! As indecently trendy, as the joy of having a plastic piece in between your toes is, this new kind of shoes are everywhere nowadays. And you can't say that it's not comfortable to feel the breeze of fresh air down there (unless you cubmate is in lack of affection with his soap ;-( ).
But who here really likes having something indecently wanting to separate big toe from his friends ? And who here really wants to look like a german tourist on holidays in the south of France ?
Well, I have the answer for you : topless sandals (no sexy picture involved ;-) )


Those are flip flops you simply stick under your feet. Of course you can get them off any time you want and it seems you can re-use them a couple of times (although I really don't think it will work). From the advertising video, they seem to stick enough to walk around, flirt with Pamela on the beach, and even play some friendly soccer with friends ... And all of that for under 10 bucks !!! So go ahead, look trendy, feel comfortable, and let them believe its the next piercing "a la mode" !

More on skinning !

In a recent post, I presented a company that offered skins for your laptop. Looking at the comments and speaking with some friends, turns out laptops are not the only things that may be skinned !
Of course T-Shirts have long been an apparel that may be customized through various sites like Spreadshirt, lafraise, or others ... Even got some really close friends who are deep into that (Free pub, sorry :-p )
Anyhow, turns out other sites like or are letting you skin pretty much anything ! From iPods to laptops to mobile phones, anything can be customized to make your latest devices as cool as it should be ! You can even choose your own photo as a motif for your skin !
So now you don't have any reason for sticking with the default Dell or Apple shinny but so everyone cover ;-) And who knows you may even get to know this cute blondie afterwards :-)

Lego Forever !

As a young kid I always loved Legos. It is really a cool toy which lets you crank your imagination up and build thing from the ground up. I'm sure all of you fans out there had the same idea to build a gigantic full size statue of your biggest idol, preferred car, or other toy. Well, Mr Sawaya actually went past the dream, did it, and is now exposing he's art in museums ... Isn't that the best proof that some people actually do succeed while keeping the child in them ;-).

Here are two nice realisations. On the left is a tribute to the city of New Orleans following Katrina. On the right is of course Mr Solo !

Museum Link here

Laptop Skins

So you like your laptop PC so much you would not change it for anything in the world ... Specially for this brand new iMac that your colleagues have been bragging about for the past few weeks : "isn't that the nicest laptop you've ever seen ?" ... So what ?
Now you can make all of them jealous thanks to these laptopskins !
LaptopSkins sells some covers like this :


If you are a little bit of a geek, you might go for for these :

The website basically allows you to enter the size of your laptop (nice thing seeing all the different sizes available out there), select the skin you'd like, and for a mere 25$/19.95€ you can get your skin. If you are not even sure of you're laptop size (specially with all the inches/cm conversion), you can always give your laptop model and they'll figure the perfect size out for you !

And after that, I'm almost sure you'll be the new guy with the cool computer everyone will be bragging about ... Or at least you can try ;-)