Friday 16 March 2012

Art of Food



'US-based company Vapotrim has created an dessert-flavored e-cigarette-like inhaler, for those who want to taste their desserts without gaining weight.'


Available in 14 flavours and costing $9.95 (US) each. This way you can have your cake and eat it, but avoid the calories!


Using the technology of an e-cigarette it couples the taste-smell connection, making you feel full faster, thereby eating less and... ultimately losing weight!






Via: Design Taxi 
(Originally from: Incredible Things)

Thursday 15 March 2012

Child's Play




Robert Bradford a trained visual artist (& psychotherapist on the side), experiments with children's forgotten toys and plastic bric-a-brac. He up-cycles them into life-sized people or animals. Each piece can contain up to 3000 pieces.   Via: The Cool Hunter

Wednesday 14 March 2012

Monday 12 March 2012

Sharp Tongued






This elegant and modern solid stainless steel design knife (Degalon) is a set of 4 in one. Sharp design (s'use the pun)  with clever use of materials.


Found pinned on Pinterest courtesy of the aptly named: This is Why I'm Broke.  And they can be yours for only -  $744.58 !

Sunday 11 March 2012

Leaf Carving



The art of carving an image on to a tree leaf, specifically the leaf of the Chinar tree. The tree is native to India, Pakistan and China aan similar to a maple tree leaf in appearance.

A difficult process with a 60% failure rate, it takes special tools to remove the leaf surface without cutting or removing the veins. According to leaf carver Victor Liu, owner of Longal Crafts: "The veins add detail into the subject matter of the carving," he said on his website.

Friday 9 March 2012

Tarty Pantone


This looks delicious, I'll have 1797 C and a cappuccino to go... 
The idea of French food designer Emilie De Griottes these dessert tarts resemble Pantone color swatches and were created for French culinary magazine Fricote.



Monday 5 March 2012

Emperor Derrière


Although I really love the idea of this computer-workstation chair, the Emperor 200 (Made by Modern Work Environment Lab )  I do feel (as I've said before) that the human race is heading towards a sedentary lifestyle, with potential physical disastrous effects, as described in The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster. 

Already a button-pushing, screen-addicted bunch of lounging lizards surely we don't need to be encouraged to remain seated for longer periods of time? But that said, this is the ultimate sitting experience of the moment. It offers added extras of a THX surround system, seat adjustment, air ventilation and light therapy, which gives the sitter their daily dose of vitamin D, without ever having to venture outside again! All this plus a touch screen control centre with three 24-inch LED screens dangling right in front of your face, from the end of the scorpion-like tail. What more could you want?

Costing an arm and a leg (in more ways that one), this innovative creation has a price tag of  a mere $44,750 (US).