Leave it to the Art.Lebedev Studio, maker of expensive keyboard prototypes and whimsical objets d’art, to give you a skewed take on an everyday item, and these camouflage Christmas tree ornaments are no exception. Art calls them the “SHAR-404 portable set for improvement of forest units in the face of the new approaching year.”
Are these the perfect tree decorations for green geeks? Possibly. Made from recycled CDs and circuit boards, they are heinously expensive (around $7 for a circuit-board dangler, $10 for the CD version. Or you can get a set of three for $18 or $23 respectively. Or you can not bother。
What do people who buy stuff like this put on the top of the tree, I wonder? [Nigel's Eco Store via Gadgets News]
Other than the teenage, female demographic, I’m not quite sure who would want a gold-plated phone, or go through the trouble of sticking a bunch of little plastic squares all over it. The idea is that one could customise their phone on a whim, but it seems like doing so would be tedious. It’s a good idea in theory, I guess. But so were MySpace’s customisable pages. And we all know how that turned out. [Yanko Design]
Place some bare framwork festooned with folded paper into the included petri dish, add water, and a few hours later you have these elaborate Christmas decorations bursting forth as if by magic. It reminds us of compressing a straw wrapper, then adding a few drops of water—and voila! It turns into a squirming worm. Looks like a Japan-only decora-toy, but fun enough to make it to these shores eventually. There’s one for Valentine’s Day, too. See the gallery below for before and after pics. [Tokyo Mango]
Sure, there have been Apple/Halloween mashups lately, but these Mac-o-Lanterns steal the show as far as I’m concerned. With the creative use of spray paint, some epoxy paste, and a little photoshop work, the guys over at Bad Banana Blog took an old Mac Classic and gave it new life as holiday decor. I’ll be expecting Old St. Mac to rear his head when December rolls around. Check out more photos here. [Gadget Lab via Tuaw via Bad Banana Blog]
Warping wallpaper may be the brainchild of German surrealist artist Tom Hanke, but it’s a real product nonetheless. Coming in any pattern you wish, the warping wallpaper creates the illusion of bending and bulging to accommodate doors, windows and pictures. The catch? This wallpaper isn’t based upon space age technology, but simple science.
Your walls are first covered in a grid. A computer (along with the artist) determine exactly how much influence your objects have on the grid. Then, this grid distortion is applied to the wallpaper pattern of your choice, which will be scanned into digital form and surrealised to your heart’s content before it’s printed and glued onto you walls. There is no word on pricing on the site since every job is unique, but they will give quotes to interested parties. And even if the service seems pricey, just consider the savings in LSD alone. [product via neatorama]
There’s no better way to trump your neighbour’s Halloween decorations than with a vomiting zombie-thing. CostumeFind knows what you want, and what you want is an animatronic man vomiting into a barrel when you cue the switch or press the foot pad. The decoration also makes a vomit noise, finally giving you the chance to trigger a block-long Trick-or-Treater vomit chain.
The device works on standard A/C power and comes with a tape player, a tape ripe with vomit sounds and an amp with speakers. You’ve got to provide the vomit, which is where you can get really creative and either make your own or stuff the thing with anything from candy to old syringes. A hilarious decoration with the best product picture I’ve ever seen, it’ll set you back a small $US2,880 – which is so worth it. [CostumeFind]
