Desk phones are cool agian.

Last year I gave up my landline. No more traditional phone, just an iPhone. I've never looked back. Never regretted it, not once. If I ever want that desk phone feeling I can.

(Via Swiss Miss.)

Polaroid, back from the dead.

I'm loving Polaroid all over again. Fantastic package design for such an iconic product. Anything less would not have worked.

Via Daring Fireball.

Tea-Shirts

Not for every day but great to have in the cupboard. Hanger Tea. Love em.

Via the one and only Swiss Miss.

TV Posters

Fantastic TV posters. All my favourite TV's show's in stylised poster form by Albert Exergian. I might get the Magnum one!

Via Exergian.

Adobe (punching) pillow's

Get yourself a nice Adobe pillow at MySuiteStuff so you can have nightmares of bloated UI's

Via Hilton Harbour

Stuff for the apartment

I must say I really like the design of these. Very simple and yet the details make it work.
RW 107-2 Rollwagen

Stealth MacBook Pro

This is what I want for x-mas, a ColorWare Limited Edition Stealth MacBook Pro.

Mat black finish (smudge resistant material), solid state drive and best of all a mat screen! It's only $6000, so... well... maybe not. The stealth bit is that they're selling only ten of them so you'll never ever see one.

Via Cool Hunting

Is one fridge enough?

Something tells me that I'll need more than just the one.

Naim Audio wonder

I'm a bit of a minor HiFi head. I don't gaga and spend tens of thousands of euros on the latest and greatest. However, I do have a very nice Naim integrated amplifier. Which I'm still very very happy with. Well, until I came across Naim Audio's NaimUniti.
So what's do you get for about 2.300 euro?

• Amp based on NAIT 5i
• CD transport based on CD5i
• DAC that was originally built for the CD5x
• DAB/FM tuner
• WiFi file streaming (UPnP)
• USB
• Digital Inputs: 5 SPDIF (2*optical, 2*coaxial, 1*3.5mm jack)
• Ethernet and iPod connectors
• 2x50WPC into 8Ω
• Sub output (2 Mono outputs via RCA)
• Red Book CD audio
• Internet radio (WMA, MP3 Streams, MMS)
• MP3, AAC (up to 320 kbps, CBR/VBR)
• WAV, FLAC, OGG Vorbis

Sign me up on the waiting list. This can't possibly be a bad buy!

Lazy, but cool.

Now, I'm not one for bikes. But they do represent some cool shit on the design front. As does this Ultra Motor A2B Electric Bicycle. I just love those fat tires!

Via Cool Hunting.

Blue tea?

Pantone Storage Jars, for that designer/chef in your house. But why not pick a more relavant colour for tea? It's not called Pantone colour Matching System for nothing!

(Via NOTCOT.ORG.)

The Elements of Islay

Anybody need a drink? One should always start with the elements, The Elements of Islay that is.

(Via NOTCOT.)

Bondage game

It's not what you think it is... perverts. It is a game everybody should play, just to calm down a little. How much rope do you need to wrap a brick?

Wondering if I could wrap a Barbie Doll, or is that my inner pervert talking?

Via Daring Fireball.

Very 80's

I'm getting bored with my iPhone. This looks like a nice replacement. oh, wait... it doesn't have shazam!

(Via Core77.)

I'll lose this one as well

USB memory sticks these days are lost just as easily as a Bic ballpoint pen. Furthermore they're likely to be 'nicked' more often than your pen. The problem with this USB stick is that it will be trown away more than anything else because it looks like something you should throw away. Leave it on your desk after working late and the cleaning lady will toss it in the bin. I suppose it's some kind of security.

HD-DVD killed by the web

Toshiba's HD-DVD has thrown in the towel, or rather, kicked the bucket. As soon as Warner jumped off the bandwagon after seeing the Blu-Ray light HD-DVD found itself in a very tough spot.
Although some equate this with the Betamax-VHS war we have to remember that the Blu-Ray HD-DVD conflict was fought out in the open. Consumers could read in almost realtime that HD-DVD was doomed. No marketing strategy could combat this one. Toshiba may still look for some niche market to park HD-DVD, like BetaMax once did. But instead of being pushed out of the market slowly the web killed it, in an instant, stone dead. Instant news, instant opinion on such a massive scale is basically a bullet in the head.

It's evident that Sony's Play Station 3 played a large part in hogging a huge chunk of the retail movie market without actually being in the retail movie market primarily. Toshiba played nice with Microsoft but just that sent all the wrong signals. The XBox isn't exactly the killer consumer appliance it was hyped up to be. Nitendo's Wii waved it's magic wand and made all that go away.
Marketshare slipped through Toshiba's fingers. Everybody could see, there was no hiding, no spinning this one. Dead, game over for player two.

Working at home

Whoohoo! I'd never leave my bed with this tray for laptop and food. Make's me wish I was sick in bed! Cough, cough, sniffle.

Hanging Harry

I've seen some strange things in my life. Selling stuff without a pulse is one of them. Fur coats, stuffed animals, Céline Dion etc. etc.
But selling something that represents something dead is just a little bit stranger. Poor Harry.

Stuffed

I'm not a big fan of stuffed toys but weird stuffed toys are kinda cool. Maybe I'll get one. Just to give my own weirdness some company.

The Boring Store

This store really is boring. No flash, no frills and their products are as mundane as you would expect. They go to great lengths letting you know that the whole store really isn't worth your valuable time, or even your spare time, rainy days and nothing to do time. ... I wish there was one around the corner. I'd spend my every boring moment in there!