With the release of Nike SB’s Zoom Paul Rodriguez II line, they’ve dedicated an entire section of their website to telling the story of the shoe. It’s an interesting look at some of the design decisions that go into a shoe like this, including:
- The 22 perforations on the vamp identify Paul’s age.
- Deep, anatomically correct horizontal and longitudinal flex grooves for excellent outsole flexibility.
If you’re looking to add a little flashy skateboard style to you shoe collection, the Paul Rodriguez IIs are sure to please.
[Nike SB - Zoom Paul Rodriguez II]
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Americans love the convenience of the vending machine, but would you trust one to crank out a fresh baked pizza for you? Wonder Pizza, and Italian creation, “holds, cooks and serves 9” whole pizza pies in just 2 minutes”. 6 million R&D dollars went into the design and manufacture of this machine, and the end result looks like a pizza ATM, but judging by the popularity of drive through lanes and convenience store food, I’d say it’s going to be a success.
[Wonder Pizza]
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Remember when you thought robots were going to be able to do anything and everything for you in the near future? Well, besides vacuuming and moping, they can’t, but this one at least brings that dream one step closer. The Beer Launching Fridge, created by John W. Cornwell, stores and distributes up to 10 cold ones at the touch of a remote controlled button. Laziness never looked so cool.
[Beer Launching Fridge]
The Aeron chair is synonymous with the rise and fall of the dot com bomb, but a new breed of chairs is taking aim at the unpoped Web2.0 bubble. Examples include Humanscale’s Freedom chair, with “a counterbalance system that adjusts itself like scales to the sitter’s weight as he or she reclines, eliminating the need for recline controls”. Lower back pain, your days are numbered.
[Humanscale]
[Via: Popular Science]
[Via: Gizmodo]
Kii Arens of the “La-La Land” gallery in LA has teamed up with Dark Horse Comics to bring some cool back to the lunch box. 25 artists, including Joe Ledbetter, Shag, Gary Baseman, and Greg “Craola” Simkins contributed designs, and the results are beautifully retro. The PB&J revival has begun.
[Dark Horse Comics]
[La-La Land Gallery]
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The Lumencraft GatLight defines the term over-engineered. Each one of the 79 parts that goes into making one of these is precision machined, and the body is crafted from lightweight titanium. Features include the ability to dim the brightness, and the ability to make the Bat-Signal jealous. “The result is an uncompromising design which is as much superior function as it is functional art”.
[GatLight]
[Wikipedia - Bat-Signal]
[Via: Gizmodo]
I like YouTube. It’s a huge collection of videos about anything and everything that you can watch whenever and however you like. Want to see a guy fall off of a skateboard? Done. Want to see a kid impersonate a light saber fight using a broomstick? Done. Want to just sit and mindlessly watch videos while YouTube does the work for you? Nope.
See, the problem with YouTube is that you have to know what you’re looking for. Sure, they have Channels and Featured Videos, and each video comes with similar video links at the end, but it just doesn’t have the same brain drain ability that your TV has. With a TV, everything is done for you. Just turn it on, pick a channel, and relax. Not so with YouTube.
Enter: StumbleVideo. StumbleVideo is a service from the same people who brought you StumbleUpon, the web discovery tool that lets you roam the Internet and search for similar sites to the ones you’ve told it you like. StumbleVideo takes that concept and applies it to YouTube, Google Video, and MySpace videos. Just pick a topic, and away you go.
StumbleVideo automatically finds and plays videos that match your interests. All you have to do is press Stumble! and rate the videos you watch. Stumble Video recommends great videos based on your ratings, and the ratings from other like-minded users. We’ll find the best videos on the web and play more for you that match your interests.
It’s like channel surfing the Internet, only thousands of other users are channel surfing with you, and you’re all trying to find the best content together.
Another nice feature is the player. StumbleVideo doesn’t use some crazy app or web toolbar to play videos. Instead, it works directly within your browser, presenting you with nothing more than the available channels and the current video (and other users who liked the videos you like if you want). There’s no ads or flashy backgrounds to distract you, and everything but the current video even darkens after a few seconds to give you that true television/movie theater feel.
If you’re a fan of the TV, but feel the pull of the digital revolution, get the best of both worlds with StumbleVideo. It’s what iTV should be.
[StumbleVideo]
Though it’s fun watching rally cars careen around a track, clipping apexes and sliding through the impossible with a grace and a style that few can master, the real fun of watching rally cars, and probably the reason that most people watch, are the crashes. When it all goes so wrong is when watching goes so right. The crashing, the smashing, and sometimes the falling are all just a split second and a missed decision away, and that’s what keeps it interesting. This crash takes the cake though. I’ll bet the driver of the Peugeot wrote one heck of a thank you to the guy who welded in his safety cage.
[Via: Jalopnik]
The Revelation II is a catamaran sailboat that can actually sail directly into the wind courtesy of the 20-foot carbon fiber propeller that sticks straight out of the top of the ship. Apparently, drag be damned, this thing actually works. Green sailors, meet your new best friend.
[Via: TreeHugger]
It could be my soft spot for anything baby, but I’m a huge fan of the Onesie option that’s now available on some of Threadless’ designs. Only in dreams.
[Threadless - Only In Dreams]
