Awesome Metal

Drawing design inspiration from WWII fighter planes, this unique desk is built from patches of aluminum layered over hardwood, attached with exposed steel screws to simulate rivets.

When departing in the ’90s, the Soviet army burned the explosives out of the mines stored in Mädasadam, leaving multitudes of cases as scrap iron. Mati Karmin repurposes these relics as art.

John Beck Paper & Steel produces dramatic, industrial styled furniture and lighting using (sometimes shotgun-blasted) steel, with a sprinkle of reclaimed wood and eco concrete.

If you can believe, there’s a 45 caliber muzzle-loading pistol in this picture. Once GarE Maxton’s 135-piece metal puzzle is disassembled and the right parts reassembled, it fires bullets.

Nikola Nikolov’s 6′ tall, 198 lb welded and sculpted Transformer sculpture is the embodiment of the relationship between man and machine, being crafted from his first car, a Lada Samara Diva.

Iron Man indeed: contemporary British artist Antony Gormley uses casts of his own body as the basis for his expressive sculptures of the human body, using materials like lead and steel.

How many times have you been at a party only to find that nobody can find the bottle opener? While you’ve always got your teeth, these stainless cuff links seem like a much better idea.

Building on their substantive Envy 13 and 15, HP just took wraps off a new 17-inch-er, maxing out with a quad-core i7 CPU, 8GB RAM and a 1TB hard drive. We also love the 1920×1080 display option.

Some guy in Japan has taken it upon himself to make the most badass rubber band guns you’ve ever seen. One even has a laser sight. You do not want to be on the business-end of one of these.

Limited to just 29 pieces, and built to specs produced by the Italian military in the 1940s, the U-Boat U-1942 watch is water-resistant and can handle undersea pressures up to 1200-feet deep.

Abu Dhabi’s Emirates Palace has redefined luxury by adding a gold-dispensing machine. The ATM-style kiosk monitors the daily gold price and offers small 10g bars or customized coins.

Encourage your friends to avoid eating with their fingers at your next get-together by using this rather demented lifesize thumb knife holder, made of tin, from our French friends over at Atypyk.

The Tokyoflash Kisai Broke watch features a fragmented LED display that mimics a stained glass pattern, making it a… very interesting timepiece. The quirky watch can be recharged via USB.

New York artist Christopher Conte, a former prosthetic limb maker, creates futuristic sculptures from cast components, found parts and exotic materials from the aerospace and medical fields.

Sick of leather wallets? How about one made from metal? That’s what you get with this stainless steel wallet from STEWART/STAND. As an added bonus, they block RFID theives from stealing your data.