Weekends are all about maximising your laziness before you have to return to work. And over on Wired’s Geek Dad blog, Adam Savage, of Mythbusters fame, has an easy to follow tutorial on building a hovering lawn chair so you can be mobile without ever having to actually get up all weekend.
If you’re into unusual accent lighting, you’re not going to find anything more unique than Pēteris Zilbers and Mārtiņš Straupe’s Mood Broom, which illuminates a room with a strip of colour-changing LEDs running down the handle.
It’s hard to choose one item as the perfect kitchen accessory, but the Slice n’ Serve makes a strong case for the crown by incorporating a pizza slicer into a knife that’s wide enough to be used for serving food.
The last time Dick Smith had a clearance sale, it got a lot of attention, but, well, let’s just say there were a number of rather disgruntled customers. This time around, it’s advertising it upfront with some tantalising sounding specials. But will customers bite?
If you’ve ever wished for some more storage space on your bike without resorting to adding a hipster basket on your handlebars, you’ll appreciate this alternative solution from designer Yeongkeun Jeong. It’s a simple strap system that turns the bike’s own frame into extra storage.
Thanks to the relatively compact nature of LED technology, lighting designers have been able to create some truly unique designs now that they don’t have to accomodate a bulb. Like Peter Stathis’ Symtra lamp that turns the fractured shade into the source of illumination.
Fortune has a lengthy profile of Tim Cook on tap in this week’s issue, compiling reports of the CEO’s performance through the first seven months and how that has affected Apple. Mostly there’s nothing new; Cook is an accessible, efficient CEO who is putting his expertise in factory production to good use. But there are a few bits of interest, including murmurs of Apple’s future products.