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Photo Shower Curtain)
Here's a new way to exhibit your photos, if not yourself in the buff. Photo Shower Curtain has a service that prints pictures onto shower curtains that you can hang in your bathroom. If you're wondering whether the ink will fade after a hot bath, the company says it uses a sublimation process that fuses the ink into the fabric itself and is so lasting you can even throw the curtain into the washing machine for a spin.
If you're interested, you'll need to send Photo Shower Curtain a high-resolution picture of at least 2,000 pixels on the long end and at least 2MB to 7MB for best results. However, it will set you back $149 to $199 to get a customized shower curtain (excluding shipping), and that's pretty pricey for something that's just going to hang in the bathroom.
(Source: Crave Asia via Boing Boing Gadgets)
Remind me not to use this one when I remodel the bathroom.
(Credit: Spinning Hat)Imagine your guests' surprise when they go to the use the restroom and encounter a blood-stained shower curtain. Good times! Or so reason the U.K.-based designers of the Blood Bath Shower Curtain. When scrunched closed, it looks like your standard shower accoutrement. But fan it open and you get an image straight out of "Psycho"--a curtain with bloody handprints. Eek, eek, eek...
But that's not all, horror movie fans. For $16, you also get a realistic blood-stained bath mat to complete the Hitchcockian scene. Bloody knife not included.
Now, we're not trying to tell you how to lead your life, but might we suggest letting your guests in on the joke before they start exhibiting signs of acute shock?
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Studiomeiboom)
Now you can put a big, impressive-looking tome about the Age of Enlightenment on your bookshelf without having to wade through any Descartes or Voltaire.
Dutch design studio Studiomeiboom has come up with The Enlightenment, a lamp that poses as a book on the 18th century intellectual movement, but really just enlightens your room and not your brain.
The $130 lamp is made of white Plexiglas, with "The Enlightenment" etched onto its spine and cover. It's about 9 inches tall, 6 inches wide, and 3 inches deep, and comes with a 9-watt energy-saving light.
Studiomeiboom says 10 percent of the proceeds from the product go to support the Edukans Foundation, which funds educational efforts in the developing world. Sharing the wealth with charity--definitely an enlightened way to do business.
(Via Uncrate)
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Spring Design & Art)
Want a conversation starter? Just toss a pillow that lists off terms like "Orlando Bloom," "podcasting," and "bankruptcy" onto your couch, and your guests du jour will likely be so curious that they won't even notice you forgot to dust the top of your TiVo box.
This is, for the record, the Google News Cushion from Spring Design & Art. Those seemingly mismatched list items are, in fact, the top ten Google News searches of 2006. The company also sells a few other years' worth, too. (What do you want to bet the '07 version will include Ron Paul?)
It will, unfortunately, cost you $120, but consider it a premium for a cure to all awkward silences.
(Via Notcot.org)
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LumiGram)
As you may recall, Mike didn't really like the LED handbag that he blogged a few weeks ago, comparing it to The Blob. I think it bears more of a resemblance to a jellyfish, but that's beside the point.
Yes, the LED handbag was pretty ugly, but illuminated cloth objects don't have to be. I just found out about LumiGram, a French site that sells fabric commodities like bags, tank tops, and yes, tablecloths that are equipped with plastic optical fibers woven alongside the regular threads. They're powered by (allegedly) discreet batteries and are hand-washable.
The clothing and bags (photos on the product page) are a bit overkill, but I think the tablecloth is very classy and gives a rather spooky-chic aura. It'd be great for everything from Halloween parties to late-night backyard fiestas. Alternately, I'm sure it could be transformed into some kind of cosplay garb, too.
(Via Core77)
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Morpheus)
If you have a mean landlord who doesn't let you paint anything in your house or apartment, this could be a solution to your lack-of-color woes. The Morpheus Ambient Lighting Modules use really, really, really, really high-end LEDs to mix a combination of red, green, and blue light. Then it projects it on white walls--sorry, I'm not sure how it would be distorted by that lovely eggshell or alabaster color you've got in your living room.
It'll cost you the Brit equivalent of $167.
Basically, it's the ultimate haute end of color-changey gadgets. Because here's the best part: not only can you select from literally millions of potential color combinations (way more choices than the selection of Benjamin Moore paint swatches at your local Ace Hardware), you can program the uber-sleek Morpheus to cycle through colors as well.
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Actually, that's not the best part. The best part is that these LEDs will last you 40 years before you have to change a bulb.
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A few months ago, I had the privilege of playing a five-story-tall version of classic video game Space Invaders at Manhattan's Come Out and Play Festival. In the time since then, it appears that the trend has taken hold. Blik is selling a line of wall decals in the shapes of Space Invaders good guys and bad guys, in an array of Atari-worthy hues, which you can stick and unstick on the walls of your kitchen, living room, bedroom, or whatever-room at will.
They were featured as kiddie room decorations on Babygadget, but this grown-up (ha, ha) would totally go for the black-and-white versions to complement the tiles on my kitchen floor. And at $45 for a set of 8 decals, it's cheaper than repainting.
Also worth craving: the Space Invaders wrapping paper that Uncrate reported on back in September. You know, if both Babygadget and Uncrate are featuring Space Invaders-inspired items, it really must be a far-reaching trend.
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