The great folks over at the Techeblog have posted a great article about a potential new sink that is truly inspiring and amazing. As you can see from the images the design is beautiful but it also takes interactivity and controlling the sink to a whole new world. To control the water flow and temperature you use a metal ball that is tracked by electromagnets. It also has LED lights in both red and blue to light up the sink and water depending on whether you choose cold or hot water.
I would love a sink like this in my house but I know my kids would lose the damn ball within minutes. Plus I think this is just a concept at the moment.
Now this looks very interesting. You spray water on these flowers and within a few minutes you have a simulated bouquet of flowers. It looks as though you could send it as a card or even keep a few handy and when you get close to the person your giving the pseudo-flowers to you just pull them out and give them a spray. Continue reading »
We love our mosaics here at the ispy site. We featured a site before called Mosaickr which makes creating a mosaic from your photos very easy. In fact I even bought a few a I made and had them framed. I love looking at them and so do my my kids.
Lewis Lavoie take the mosaic to a whole new level. Not only are these wonderful mosaics but they are also done as murals. Each one is created by hand and they look just amazing. You’ll have to visit his site to see the full collection but I have a few of my favorites sampled below. You can click on them for a larger image.
These photos by Bobby Neel Adams are amazing. He has a few sets that feature photos of the same person both young and old. He has used no Photoshop and actually rips and tares them by hand and scans them in. It sure makes for some interesting photos that’s for sure.
You should really check out the couples section as well. He take a couple and merges them together and the results are almost disturbing but totally intriguing.
Finding the right color or colour depending on where your from, used to be a daunting task but not anymore. This is probably the 3rd tool I have seen the last few months that was built to help you pick the palette. COPASO is very easy to use and allows you to easily save your palettes for use in the future. One thing I really love about COPASO, aside from it’s ease of use, is the fact that you can share your palette with the world.
If your stuck and need to find palette or perhaps you want to share your own palettes with the world, I suggest you visit COPASO and give it a whirl.
I love photography that has subtle yet significant connections in them. Things you might miss if you didn’t pay attention to the details of each shot. Matt Stuart has captured the true essence of this in all his photography.
I can’t tell if these are totally random or whether he has actually staged them. They are taken in London after all and you can see anything in London if you just walk around enough and keep your eyes open. Either way, I think he does a great job of capturing an intriguing shot each time.
Below are some of my favourites. Please visit his site if you’d like to see more.
I just found this site that has created a new sport that is for designers on the web. It’s very new and really quite interesting. It’s called layer tennis and basically allows two designers to have a show down in real time. They both need to be online for the duration of the match and have access to the file server where they both send their edited files back and forth. They only 15 minutes per round and they have a total of 10 rounds. Here is how the site explains it:
We’ll be playing matches using lots of different applications, from Adobe® Photoshop® to Adobe® Flash®, but the basic idea is the same no matter what tools are in use. Two artists (or two small teams of artists) will swap a file back and forth in real-time, adding to and embellishing the work. Each artist gets fifteen minutes to complete a “volley” and then we post that to the site. A third participant, a writer, provides play-by-play commentary on the action, as it happens. The matches last for ten volleys and when it’s complete, everyone visiting the site votes for a winner.
Visit them online and see for yourself. Who knows, if it were with Fireworks I would give it a go myself. Looks fun.
This is such a great idea. I love both the look of this gadget and the fact that’s it can be used in a power outage as well. It’s functional and great looking.
So it’s a table lamp that you power by turning the over-sized key. It works and looks a lot like a real table lamp but you don’t need to plug it in. Plus when it’s time to go to bed or leave the room you just let the timer run out and it goes out. Brilliant if you ask me. I wish more things were like this.
I don’t have a lot of information about the lamp at the moment such as price or how much time you get each time you twist it but I will report back here as I find more.
I find stuff like this very fun and very cool. Basically you can record yourself drawing a sketch with or without audio and then share it with the rest of the world or only with your friends. It’s very simple and fun to use. I will be letting my kids do a few for their grandparents as well.
I placed a sample of my own below for you to see.
If you’d like to create your own just visit the link below. It’s free and it’s fun.
A Million Little Pictures is offering everyone the chance to contribute to their new project which involves collecting a million little pictures and then showcasing them in a town that has yet to be decided.
Basically, you send them $16 and they send you back a disposable camera. You then take your shots with the camera, anything in the category or theme of “adventures” and then send the camera back to them. The photos will then be included in the exhibit. If that was not enough, they are also going to pick the town to hold the exhibition in based on the number of people who participate from that town or city.
I am really curious how this will work out, not only the photos that will be taken but also which town or city will win.
Check back here for more information or just visit their funky site:
