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Design
These Piano Stairs Will Motivate Even The Laziest Of You
4:30PM Rosa Golijan | I’m a stair-taker because elevators and escalators give me nightmares, but for all those lazy folks who don’t have fear motivating them to take the steps, there are these piano stairs. How could you not want musical accompaniment like that? More »
Design
Alternating Tread Stair Looks Painful If You Slip
8:20AM Jason Chen | Not only can you possibly slip off the side and cut a gash in your face on these crazy tread stairs, you could slip and fall crotch first onto the middle bar. More »
Design
Staircase Slide Combo Built By The Coolest Parents Ever
1:20AM Sean Fallon | At the request of his children, London architect Alex Michaelis installed a slide next to the staircase in their new eco-friendly dream home. More »
Home
Door in the Floor Leads to Amazing Spiral Wine Dungeon
1:10AM Adam Frucci | Rich wine nerds have a wine cellar. Very, very rich wine nerds install a door in their kitchen floor leading to a spiral staircase surrounded by wine, which is the coolest wine cellar ever. More »
Random Stuff
Rogue Escalator Takes Out 20 People At a Tokyo Convention Centre
8:00AM Sean Fallon | Beware the next time your ride an escalator at the mall folks. It appears that they are beginning to stage an organised revolt against their passengers. First an escalator chewed up this poor bastard, then one dished out some payback after some tool disrespected it with a joyride. But that was just a warm up because the escalators appear to be getting bolder. Most recently, a rogue escalator took out 20 passengers in a Tokyo convention centre when it inexplicably started going in reverse. More »
Gadgets
StairSteady Helps the Elderly Climb Stairs on Shaky Legs
2:10AM Adam Frucci | Ruth Amos, an 18-year-old student from the UK, has come up with a simple and ingenious device for helping the elderly hobble their way up stairs with as little chance of hip-breakage as possible. Dubbed the StairSteady, it’s essentially a bar that one can hold onto as they walk up the stairs, moving up or down with them while they move and keeping them steady. It’s a bit pricey at US$642 due to the absolutely worthless US dollar, but that’s a lot cheaper than a hip replacement. Kudos, Ruth. [BBC via Popgadget] More »
Gadgets
Frack-Me Shoes Come With a Stair Counter, but No Stabilisers
10:50PM Addy Dugdale | Costume National, purveyors of sleek, minimal-yet-glam clothes for people like me, has the perfect argument for not mixing clothes and technology, if you get my drift. A pair of the fuckiest fuck-me booties does not need to come with a stair counter screwed onto the ankle—a smaller (obviously) version of those machines that, I believe, exist in the gym. You do not do stairs in these shoes. You do your man in these shoes—maybe on the stairs, but believe me, no climbing is involved. They’ll be out in September. [Fashion and Runway and WWD] More »
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