Obsolete Technology Candles
Big Dipper Wax Works, in collaboration with the Seattle-based design firm urbancase, has created some fun, lovingly rendered beeswax candles, based on adored but outdated technology.
Big Dipper Wax Works, in collaboration with the Seattle-based design firm urbancase, has created some fun, lovingly rendered beeswax candles, based on adored but outdated technology.
You know the drill: new Nintendo system, new Mario game. The king of video games will run, jump and don the Tanooki suit in 3D in what could be one of the best reasons to own a Nintendo 3DS.
Alcohol is never the solution (although technically it is a solution), but we could all use a shot or two sometimes. Good grief glasses tell you how much booze you need for each step of grieving.
(NSFW:Language) A customer kicked out of the Alamo Drafthouse cinema after she kept on texting despite being warned twice left this hostile voicemail. It’s now the cinema’s anti-texting PSA.
Designed for playing Star Wars: The Old Republic, it offers a full-color LCD multitouch trackpad and 10 programmable LCD keys above it. A glowing LED border also offers color control. Video here.
Looking for something online? Google, Bing and Yahoo! too complicated for you? E-Z-Fynd offers a fast, easy, secure way to search the whole of the Internet faster than you can say “HotBot.”
In the next Bioshock, we leave the cozy confines of Rapture, and head skyward to the mysterious floating city of Columbia, as you grapple your way around town with your trusty Sky-Hook.
By combining six slightly shifted 50 megapixel images, Hasselblad’s pro-grade digital camera can capture images at an astounding 200 megapixels. Demo an example multi-shot image here.
Oh, come on people. Planking is so yesterday. Everyone who’s anyone knows that cone-ing is the next big internet craze, brought to us compliments of Alki “The Clown Prince†Stevens.
Designed for the travel bug who’s always in a hurry, the SOLO is a portable hanger that collapses so you can easily pack it or insert it into clothes. We wish it had some kind of lock though.
Fusion is the new version of the practical and designy YikeBike electric folding bike; it’s made of alloy and strengthened polymer composite, which makes it more affordable. (Thanks Adrian!)
The next-gen Wii hits sometime in 2012, and it’ll play with a wireless motion controller with 6.2″ touchscreen, offer 1080p HD graphics. Plus, it’s backwards compatible with the original Wii.
So, we’re scratching our heads over here at TA while being entertained, wondering how Wax Audio’s Lady Gaga-Judas Priest mashup works. No, really, it’s all wrong. So why does this work?
The cinematic teaser for Assassin’s Creed Revelations. Ezio’s ultimate journey is looking just a tad too bleak, lonely and dangerous for an old man, like a medieval Metal Gear Solid 4.
Scottie Pippen recently said that LeBron James may become the greatest player ever. YouTuber lcmj23 makes a case for His Airness, juxtaposing pundits’ opinions with classic MJ moments.
(NSFW) John Michael McDonagh’s comedic tale of two cops – an unorthodox Irish policeman and a straitlaced FBI agent – who must join forces to take on an international drug-smuggling gang.
With two huge watches – one a dedicated stopwatch – the Wristmaster looks more like a Forearmmaster to us. First released in 2008, you can snag this rare timepiece(s) on James List.
Inspired by the Korean diver Meoguri and his single oxygen tank string, AbelPartners Design Studio’s fun silicone tea diver holds a belly full of loose tea while floating in your cup, infusing your beverage.
Built in just 17 days and costing nearly $500,000, this skate park in West Auckland, New Zealand looks like a huge pinball machine, complete with a scoreboard and a plunger launcher for skaters.
Paper sculptor Kris Trappeniers creates pristinely twisty and complex portrait stencils – truly gorgeous art in and of itself – then completes each piece on canvas with spray paint or acrylics.
(Spoilers, NSFW:Language) Newcomer Corporal Miller and his squad fight fire with fire in this play through of the Thunder Run single player mission of the highly anticipated FPS Battlefield 3.
For better or for worse, the iPhone is fast becoming one of the most popular cameras of all time, yet it doesn’t have a dedicated camera button. Beep Industries aims to change that.
Tokyo’s h220430 designed this ingenious bench, inspired by the 1953 French film The Red Balloon. While it looks like it’s floating in mid air, it’s actually anchored to the ceiling by the light-up balloons.
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