Artist Rodrigo Alonso has found a new use for old tech by turning it into some awesome looking stools. The process involves dumping the obsolete technology into square molds, filling them with resin, and creating a stool that will provide a unique look to your home or office while serving as a not so subtle reminder of where your current gadgets will eventually wind up.
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It’s a pity to waste action figure cards. I tend to throw them away after I remove the toy (I’m not a figure on card kind of girl), but Kevin Gawthrope has found a genius use for them. You can get a notebook with a variety of Kenner action figure backs, and you can choose for the paper to be lined or blank. I need all of them.
If you can’t get enough of Star Wars notebooks, don’t forget about these moleskines.
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The University of Sciences in Philadelphia takes the cake for Christmas trees built by computer geeks. This tree looks to made of old RAM sticks and is sitting atop a Beowulf cluster. You couldn’t make this holiday tree more IT if you tried.
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It may not be as ambitious as the 33-foot Optimus Prime junk-bot, but this sculpture takes the green prize in the Gundam category.
The RX-78-2 Gundam stands 10-feet tall and is made almost entirely from the plastic part trees leftover from smaller Gundam models. When all was said and done, it took over 350 man-hours to build.
Building giant robots in Japan and China seems to be all the rage these days, and an earlier Optimus Prime sculpture built by college students has been easily trumped by this 33-foot behemoth that resides just ouside of the iconic Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing. Like its predecessor, this Optimus is made entirely out of junk. Lots and lots of junk.
The Blow Couch is a super simple concept that utilizes old dunnage bags (inflatable bags used for shipping) and supports them with a metal rack and some rubber straps. It probably doesn’t have a high weight limit, but it would be really easy to transport. It’s the kind of thing I can picture taking on a camping trip but, alas, it is only in the prototype phase at the moment.
Cardboard, recycling and gravity got together to make the Slinky green for the 21st century. The result is the Flexy, which is made entirely from recycled and biodegradable materials, I.E. cardboard. However, moisture is pissed off that it was left out of the mix, and is on a mission to render your Flexy useless should they ever meet.
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If you ever wanted to keep a journal entitled “What The Hell Was I Thinking?” These hand-sewn beer books are perfect for logging your uninhibited musings so you can find out how you tick in moments of drunken inspiration. You’ll probably discover that your writings are less like Hemingway and more like those of a dude who can be liquored up enough to be attracted to his own Mom.
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the green family is a series of kitchen tools and meal-preparation made of a recycled plastic and wood blend, attractive and functional design, each piece has been given a first name green, of course is the family name, and personality that matches its appearance, and at the end of a green’s life-cycle, it can be recycled too!
At long last, you can finally grate cheese with a princess, peel veggies with a nuclear warhead, and scrub your dishes with Guy Fieri’s head. We recommend taking advantage of that overnight delivery ASAP. Additional photos are available after the break.
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