Most awesome bike lock yet

This is a very geeky, smart and funny way to lock your bike. The remote controlled lock hoists your bike up a lamp post until it's unreachable for anyone without the remote control.

This video shows the making of the lock, jump to 1:20 if you just want to see it in action.



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Statue of Liberty as seen by TSA

"Land of the Free", a clever photo by David Vincent Wolf.

Awesome medley on PVC instrument

Kent (snubbyj) made his own PVC instrument and plays a medley of great songs on it.

Be prepared. This is gonna be the best 6 minutes of your day:



Apparently this dude did go on America's Got Talent without making it to the final and he also auditioned for The Blue Man Group without getting in!!! In my opinion he definitely outshines The Blue Man Group on his own.

3D chess

There's no reason why a chessboard should have to be flat. Still all are, except for this one:



View more cool chess sets on coolmateral.com

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Hand-knit Super Mario Cardigan

Super awesome, super cute and super expensive, hand-knit and officially licensed Super Mario cardigan.













It's yours for just $435.

Buy it from 1101.com

(via buzzfeed)

US dollar redesigned

Dowling Duncan has made a sweet redesign of the US bank notes for a design contest.





I love the fact that you can sort them by length in your wallet.

View more pictures and info at dowlingduncan.com

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Racing game combined with R/C car

Malte Jehmlich has built an arcade game where you control a car. But the car is a real R/C car equipped with a camera running on a cardboard track.



Read more about the project here

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Floppy Legs - Harddrive that is afraid of liquid

This 3.5" harddrive stands up as soon as it comes in contact with water. The way it moves reminds me of a dog or something, it looks really cute and it's a smart way to protect the harddrive. Designed by Chambers Judd.



Visit chambersjudd.com for more info

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Pixels

A short documentary about pixel art. Interesting that our memory of old games have been altered by playing them in emulators on a big computer screen.

Houses built like gaming consoles

Unfortunately these houses doesn't exist but it's a cool thought.







View high-res images on amusement.fr

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Artists Soapbox Rally 1975

In internet-time this documentary is pretty long (24 minutes) but it's time well spent. In 1975 there was a Soapbox Rally in San Francisco where all cars were built by artists.



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Getting a Job with Google AdWords

Alec Brownstein bought sponsored links on google for the names of some of the top advertising creative directors so that when they googled themselves, they got a message from Alec. It got him two offers for a total cost of $6.

New teaser video for the LIMBO game

I'm not much of a gamer but one game that i've been waiting for since 2006 is called LIMBO. It's an extreamly beautiful black-and-white platform game.



Can't wait until this game is released.

Visit the new LIMBO website

Tips for Ideas

This video gives you tips on how to enhance and realize your ideas.

Micropreneurship

Swedish internet entrepreneur Ted Valentin gives a good speach about micropreneurship and how you can and should start your own business without any venture capital to get a good mix of freedom, creativity and money.

Sweet toy design from Maxim Zhestkov

24 years old Maxim Zhestkov from Russia has designed these awesome toys.







He also have a lot of other interesting animations and other artwork.

Visit Maxim Zhestkov's homepage

Fashion models eating cake

Interesting performance where five beautifull and skinny fashion models eat a whole cake each. Double-click on the white space below to start the video.



Visit Fly16x9 for better resolution.

There is also a different cut of the same footage available here featuring only one of the models.

Falling objects create a beat

Renaud Hallée created this video called "Gravité" that plays a beat with falling objects like balls, knives and an old tv.

"Horizont" - video art installation

Russion artist Stas Chepurnov made this inspiring video art installation that sort of breaks the frames for video art.



More info at chepurnov.com

Scan book while you flip through it

Masatoshi Ishikawa has invented a scanner that scans the pages while you are flipping the pages of a book. The pages are scanned curved and then processed by the computer to make them flat.

This scanner makes it possible to scan a book with 200 pages in less than a minute.



More information

(via boingboing)

OK Go's Rube Goldberg video

OK Go made a new video for their song "This too shall pass". This one features one of the biggest Rube Goldberg machines I've ever seen.

Chat Roulette

Chat Roulette is the latest chat-with-a-stranger-site. What separates it from the thousands of chat-with-a-stranger-sites already out there is that it has webcam support so you can see who you talk to.

Casey Neistat has made a both funny and informative video about the site and what kind of people who use it. Turns out that 71% of the users are guys, 15% girls and 14% perverts.

The twitter code

This video visualize the developement of twitter.com. One icon for each developer and a particle for each commited or changed file.

Zooming into Mandelbrot fractal for 10 minutes

This video zooms into the Mandelbrot fractal for 10 minutes. At the end of the video the image in the beginning would be billions of times larger than the whole universe.



Visit vimeo for more info and HD-version

Flattr - new way to pay and get paid online

Peter Sunde (the co-founder of The Pirate Bay) and Linus Olsson just created a new micro-payment service called Flattr. The word is a combination of "flatter" and "flat-rate" and the idea is that creators can place flattr-buttons along their content and the viewers can click them if they like the content. The users pay a monthly fee and in the end of the month their money will be divided among the creators they've flattr'ed.

This video explains it pretty good:


The project is still in beta but you can request an invite.

Visit flattr

Hello Kitty Chainsaw

Awesome chainsaw design. Buy this and you'll be the coolest lumberjack out there.

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What we are

This video gives some good perspective on humanity. We're all just apes.



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Giant Doll Heads on the Runway

Craftster user gorgaus and her boyfriend created some beautiful giant doll heads that were used in a hair fashion show.








Visit Craftster thread for more pics and info

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Cipher Glasses

Those drinking glasses are designed by serbian designer Damjan Stankovic. When empty they show a mosaic that seems to be random. But when you fill it with a drink the name of that drink will appear.

Differently colored shapes are scattered across the glass surface in a seemingly random pattern, however their position is hardly accidental. The true purpose of the glass mosaic is revealed when colored liquid is poured into it (orange juice, milk, Nescafe or coke) The pattern of shapes and empty spaces on the glass combined with the color of the liquid inside the glass end up forming a textual sign, revealing what exact drink or refreshment you are having, with each side of the glass reserved for a specific drink.

Damjan Stankovic is a genius! Unfortunately this is just a concept at the moment but I will buy them as soon as they're out.

Visit Damjan Stankovic's site

Market on the railway

As soon as the train has passed this becomes a marketplace. Watch this incredible video:

Stay up and make something

This truly inspiring poster was designed by Keith Davis Young. The window is painted with glow-in-the-dark ink and the rest is painted with a mix of ink and coffee grind to give it an extra smell of late nights and creativity.



You can order it for $35 by sending a mail to keithdavisyoung@gmail.com

More info on Keith's flickr-page

Socks for your chair

Put socks on your chair to give them a personality (and to avoid scratching your floor).



Buy them at designspray for €15 + shipping