While borrowing a friend’s car for the day, I decided to have it washed to show my gratitude. I pulled into an automated carwash, and while inside, I couldn’t help but notice how the carwash brushes completely alter their shape from flimsy drooping hair covered rods to massive powerful beams. Could this quality of transformation be applied to the home sector? Where would a transforming apparatus find use in the home?

The carwash brushes go from limp, to cones, to beams. A lamp could use this whimsical feature to direct light, from a tube of light to a cone, to an open light source. The contraption, with its spinning, would produce a rather considerable amount of wind. Ceiling fans have not changed in the slightest ever since their introduction. Apart from finishes and rotation speed, they have always remained rather dull.

I have to agree with that last point — anyone who has shopped for a ceiling fan probably knows that it takes a lot of searching to find something that’s stylish and unique. However, I have to wonder whether or not Dervish would really be functional as a fan. [Phillipe Malouin via dornob]

Naturally, crazy Chinese products like this need to be approached with caution—because it could very well kill Fido with extreme prejudice. I’ll bet this thing will be repackaged in a few years as a way to stimulate hair growth in humans. Just wait and see. [Alibaba via BaxterBoo via CNET]

Kardos created this and other pieces in the Brushes iPhone app and has since posted them to his Flickr account.

But not to be outdone, there’s an equally impressive demonstration clip of Brushes by David Onze. While I know better than to try my own hand at the program, it’s pretty remarkable how deftly some artists can handle the often finicky medium of the iPhone’s touch display. For the rest of us, I guess we’ll always have iFart. [Flickr via Trendland and Notcot]