cans
Design
Trash Cans Get Pimped Out For Charity
3:20PM Rosa Golijan | My trashcan is a metal, woven-looking thing filled with crumpled up ideas and 48 gum wrappers. Makes me wish I had one of theses 35 customised, artist-designed trashcans being put into auction for charity instead. (Particularly the cactus one.) More »
Gadgets
12:30PM Rosa Golijan | It looks like a modded Roomba, but this prototype Automatic aluminium Can Crusher will save you many forehead aches. It’s BYOC (bring your own cans) with a long-lasting rechargeable battery and lotsa crunching sounds included every time you recycle. More »
Auto Aluminium Can Crusher Is Eco-, Battery-Friendly
12:30PM Rosa Golijan | It looks like a modded Roomba, but this prototype Automatic aluminium Can Crusher will save you many forehead aches. It’s BYOC (bring your own cans) with a long-lasting rechargeable battery and lotsa crunching sounds included every time you recycle. More »
Design
2:40AM Adam Frucci | This concept Coke can design uses a manufacturing process called impact extrusion to form geometric shapes into the can rather than making it round. I’m not sure how practical it is, but I like it. [The Dieline via PSFK]
Redesigned Coke Can Won’t Roll Off The Table
2:40AM Adam Frucci | This concept Coke can design uses a manufacturing process called impact extrusion to form geometric shapes into the can rather than making it round. I’m not sure how practical it is, but I like it. [The Dieline via PSFK]
Random Stuff
Oh God, It’s a Whole Chicken in a Can
3:00AM Matt Buchanan | Until this moment, I did not know you could fit a whole chicken in a can. The directions on the back use the word “delicious” three times. Let’s see what’s inside (warning, NSFL): More »
Toys
Mugen Beer Can Opens Again and Again and Again
11:54PM Mark Wilson | Usually to meet my top popping OCD, I plow through a 24-pack or two in a single night. But it’s an addiction. More »
Design
Cole Cleaner Disinfects Your Disgusting Pop-Top Cans
8:40AM Sean Fallon | I’ve never given it much thought, but looking at this Cole Cleaner UV pop-top disinfectant while I drink my un-sanitized Diet Dr. Pepper is giving me something of a hypochondriac panic attack. More »
Random Stuff
The Beer Can Celebrates 50 Years of Metallic Aftertaste
8:40AM Mark Wilson | Today is the 50th anniversary of the aluminium beer can, released by Coors in 1959. And while I was prepared to make fun of cans for a few hundred words, they’re actually sort of interesting. More »
Design
Tri3 Trash Can Recycles Your Waste Stylishly
6:00PM Elaine Chow | The Tri3 trashcan stacks three cans together to make recycling even easier than normal. It’s also much neater, and more stylish, than my solution of throwing recyclables into a heap in the kitchen corner. More »
Peripherals
Psyko Audio Labs 5.1 Gaming Headphones Pound Your Entire Skull With Sound
12:00PM Jack Loftus | The folks behind these Psyko 5.1 surround sound gaming headphones went an unorthodox route when deciding how best to deliver sound to your ears—through your skull. More »
Peripherals
