From the category archives:
MIMOBOT and Infectious are both DYH favorites, so when the two team up for a design contest (featured previously on DYH) you know the results are going to be impressive.
In the end, 666 entries were submitted (seriously!) but it was Hila Rosenberg Arazi and her GiddyUp design that took home the grand prize of an Infectious Prize Pack and $1000 cash.
Look for her design to show up in MIMOBOT form in early 2010.
[MIMOBOT X Infectious Design Challenge]
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Joey Roth’s Sorapot defined how stylish a teapot could be, and now he’s hoping to bring that style to the speaker world as well, with a set of ceramic speakers that are “designed to leave music untouched”.
These warm, dry and detailed speakers feature 4: full-range drivers and a T-class amplifier, encased in acoustically dead porcelain and cork, creating a remarkably simple path from source to ear.
If you like the looks and want a set of your own, then keep an eye on Joey’s site for the pre-order, or follow him on Twitter for more constant updates.
[Joey Roth - Ceramic Speakers]
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Frankie Flood makes pizza cutters that are unlike anything you’ve ever seen.
As Frankie says,
My work investigates one of a kind objects and their role in a world based on mechanical reproduction. Industry has removed the aura from objects and stripped them of their individuality. My pizza cutters seek to demolish the sterile conformity of mass produced objects and represent the stylistic and flamboyant embellishment of groups who live on the fringe of popular culture. The outlaw biker image is a break from the conformity that has taken over America since industrialization. My machined pizza cutters draw inspiration from chopper motorcycles and attempt to reclaim the mythology and economic usefulness of the American worker as patriarch; translating machine or functional object into flesh and blood. The outlaw as defiant nonconformist, as well as social outcast, parallels being an artist who makes functional objects and being an individual who takes pride in the power of invention and skill.
Be sure to check out Frankie’s site for other objects that he has given his special touch to.
[Via: Book Of Joe]
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SureFire is a company that’s known for making blindingly bright flashlights, but they also make a line of equally tough pens to survive even the most destructive of disasters.
The SureFire Pen II features a rugged hard-annodized aerospace-grade aluminum body, easyFLOW ink cartridges and a ‘virtually indestructible’ pocket clip.
Plus, you can kill a bear with it if you really need to.
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