Awesome Living

These bullet-shaped whiskey chillers are the only way we recommend mixing guns and booze. They’ll keep your drinks cool without watering them down, and you’ll look like a badass drinking from a glass full of bullets.

Josh Carmody’s clever stool does have legs. It’s just that there’s only three of them. The diagonal cross brace and the stool’s proportions make it seem like it has four legs when viewed from certain angles. Contact Josh to order.

Pretend to be a doting dad while you’re really getting your drink on, thanks to this whacked out insulated drink flask disguised as a baby. We’re going to guess this was one of those Brilliant Ideas Had While Stoned.

My Cupcake Addiction shows us how to make a giant Twix-like chocolate bar. It takes just 30 min., involves no baking or cooking whatsoever and uses just three ingredients: shortbread biscuits, caramel chews and lots of milk chocolate.

An affordable and portable laptop desk. Made of recycled material, this corrugated cardboard desk weighs just 12oz. but can withstand 25lb. loads. It’s wide enough to fit 18″ laptops and is good for a year of normal use.

While it wouldn’t be the first Nixie tube clock we’ve seen, there is something nifty about the minimal design of the Blub Uno, which displays digits one at a time on its single numeric tube. It also has date, temperature and alarm functions.

Poet Audio’s eyecatching speaker features a 170-watt amp and an array of seven drivers and to push sound in all directions. Wirelessly streams via aptX lossless Bluetooth or AirPlay tech. Available with or without the wooden stand.

Etsy shop Plane Pieces makes lamps, sculptures, tables and other furniture and accessories out of pistons, propellers and other parts from World War II-era aircraft. Items are limited and can be customized with different colors.

The candy artists of Montreal’s La Confiserie Candy Labs demonstrate how they make their amazing hand-rolled hard candies. The arduous 3-hour process has been condensed to 9-minutes by Sterokroma. Order the finished candies here.

Paint Handy has a microfiber cloth that holds up to a pint of paint without spilling, even if you hold it upside down. The paint transfers easily to a brush or roller, and you can put excess paint back to its container.

These extravagant bean bags (a phrase we never thought we’d utter) are made from soft, natural sheepskin, adding a casual but luxurious feel to any space, dressing up casual spaces, and making fancy spaces comfy. Choose from 3′ or 6′ sizes.

A single-use grill or campfire with a firestarter, charcoal and a wooden body. All you need is a single match to get a fire going. It can sustain a fire for up to 2.5h, by which time it will have burned itself off, leaving only ash.

If you’re going to drink a fine scotch, you might as well drink it in a fine glass. These very special crystal glasses offer a view of the Swiss Alps whenever you take a sip of your precious elixir. Sold as a set of two.

Make meal time tool time with Seletti’s clever cutlery that doubles as a set of box wrenches made from food grade stainless steel. The only thing better is if the fork, knife, spoon and teaspoon were each different wrench sizes.

A rechargeable flashlight and bright, 360° lantern that can share energy from its power pack to a network of portable LED lights. Its 4400 mAh battery can charge gadgets too. Includes one PowerLight and two SiteLights.

This versatile hiking stick allows outdoorsy types to do everything from spear a fish to shoot their dinner with a slingshot. The $320 set includes a hickory wood handle with compass, spear, fishing spear, axe, saw and slingshot heads.

A lightweight, durable clip for holding onto multiple keyrings, the Carboneer is CNC machined from a single sheet of carbon fiber, and can hold a heavy set of keys despite being less than 1/2 the weight of a single key.

A large table with a top made of recycled skateboard decks. Dutch company Focused breaks down worn out or defective decks into sticks then glues them together by hand to create one large work surface. Available in two sizes.

So if you’re like us, you only really like some flavors of Starburst fruit chews. Well thanks to the guys at CandyMafia, you can grab just about any flavor you like in bulk quantities. Note how the best flavors seem to cost more money.

The Whiskey Wedge lets you enjoy your favorite drinks chilled while reducing the watered down taste. It comes with a tumbler and a silicone mold that forms a wedge-shaped ice that melts slower than an ice cube.

Laundry bags to help the clueless dormer: one for whites, one for darks and one to give to mom. The first two are printed with washing machine instructions, while the third one has tips for thanking mom plus contingency plans.

Designed by Yegor Zghun for Art Lebedev Studios, this cheeky kitchen organizer transforms random kitchen tools and utensils into the world’s largest Swiss Army knife. Giant toothpick and useless tweezers not included.

The world’s calendar. Forekast is a crowdsourced list of upcoming events. You can post, upvote and comment on events, subscribe to categories and get reminders. For now, only global events are accepted, but local happenings are in the works.