Here are some photos that were provided by
San Diego Air & Space Museum up on Flickr. I only put up a few but there is many more to be discovered.
Fun Fact: Did you know that early space suits were manufactured by
ILC Dover, also known to most as Playtex, you know that company that makes women's undergarments. Enjoy!
Source: iso50
Designer Basten Leijh created the custom build bike dubbed
"Sandwich Bike". A Dutch Design original that was inspired by the concept of flat packing, home assembly and our never-ending drive to create exceptional products. Now it is time to share it with the world, so that you can get involved too.
The Sandwichbike fits in a small, flat package, so we can send it to you by post. The fun will begin the moment the postman rings your doorbell. Everything you need is in the box including the tools, so you can start assembling right away. In total, there are less than 50 parts. If you can make a sandwich, you can surely build a Sandwichbike.
Sandwichbike Ready to Ride from
Sandwichbikes on
Vimeo.
Source: Sandwichbike
The
Zeit Eco electric scooter takes a new look at individual urban transport and entertainment. With Zeit Eco scooter freedom of mobility becomes accessible to everyone. The scooter has a spacious glove compartment that can fit your personal items such as tablet, purse, breakfast, lunch or dinner. The Zeit Eco also allows you to keep all your gadgets and devices charged with a built in USB port. A single charge can provide up to one hour or 15 miles at full throttle. With the fold down handlebars and footrests you can also take it on the go.
If you're a serious chess player then your going to need the
World Chess Championship Set ($450). It was designed by Daniel Weil of Pentagram, this board is currently in service at the 2013 World Chess Championships in London, and as such is approved by the World Chess Federation (FIDE). It features a 3.75" King, and it comes boxed for presentation, with each piece individually hand packed, and a 50cm Rosewood and Maple board featuring the World Chess Hexagon.
Source:
uncrate.com
Irina Blok took on a challenge of redesigning condom packaging to get out the message of protecting your junk. Here was the challenge:
"We are looking for a Next Generation Condom that significantly preserves or enhances pleasure, in order to improve uptake and regular use. Additional concepts that might increase uptake include attributes that increase ease-of-use for male and female condoms, for example better packaging or designs that are easier to properly apply."
She wanted to answer the challenge of reinventing condoms from a graphic design perspective. Perhaps the biggest problem with condoms is the boring packaging, and not the actual product. Creating compelling artwork could encourage people around the world to actually use these." This is how Irina Blok announced to take Bill Gates up on his challenge to design the 'next generation condoms' by redesigning packaging. What do you think?
Welcome to Playlist-48. Spring should be here but it's hiding a little bit but in the meantime enjoy some great springs songs to get you running in the fields of flowers. In this months installments we have some new tracks by
Foals,
Frightened Rabbit,
Black Light Dinner Party and more...
If you want to check out any of the other Playlist then click on
Archived Playlist in this post or on the right hand side of this blog or in the menu.
Tracklist
1. Afterglow by The Crookes
2. First Days of Something by Young Dreams
3. World on Fire by The Royal Concept
4. We Are Golden by Black Light Dinner Party
5. My Number by Foals
6. Recover by Chvrches
7. Illusions by Shout Out Louds
8. Going Away From Me by Dead Young Friends
9. The Love Club by Lorde
10. The Woodpile by Frighten Rabbits
11. We Should Go To France by Urban Cone
12. Needle by Born Ruffians
13. Complicated Creation by Cloud Cult
14. Get Free feat. Amber by Major Lazer
The
Carma Project is a really neat project, sponsored by ad firm
Leo Burnett Lisbon. They created a bike with as many reclaimed car parts as possible, watch the video below! They built the bicycle out of scraps from a retired Mercedes hoping that the heavy karma of the car could be re-balanced by riding the same number of kilometers in a greener way: just by cycling.
Source: blog.makezine.com
Google just made an announcement introducing
Keep, it's a new and simple note-taking service. Google Keep (accessible
here) is supposed to solve the issue of placing stickies, writing down thoughts and checklists for sorting out priorities. The new note-taking service includes the ability to add photos and a color stripe to the header of each task grouping. It also automatically keep everything synced up by storing them on
Google Drive, so you can access your notes from anywhere. Give it a try today.
Source: techradar.com