The Ultimate Facebook Hideaway
Eat, sleep, and dream about Facebook? Don’t lie… I know of some of you are obsessed like that! Well, Croatian designer Tomislav Zvonarić of DevianTom has created a special bed just for those addicted to Facebook. Shaped in the logo of the most popular social network Facebook, the bed is a conceptual multipractical design that allows you to stay up to date and close to your online friends even when you sleep. The bed serves as a sleeping area and as a desk of sorts so that you may wake and jump onto the Facebook platform the moment you get up in the morning.
It looks like a neat way to combine two essential items for the student or teen, but the desk area doesn’t seem to have much room for the leggy individuals. If you just can’t stay away from social media and have the need to combine your online and offline worlds then this bed might just be the ideal slumber home for you.
Via DevianTom
Lego Yoda Santa Comes To San Francisco
Today November 18th, the public is invited to visit San Francisco’s Union Square and see Lego Yoda being built by Lego’s master model builders. The finished model will be 12-foot-tall, 10-foot-wide Yoda sporting a custom Santa Suit just in time for the Holidays. More than 6,000 oversized LEGO bricks, created from the smaller classic LEGO building blocks, will be used to construct the model. Yoda will only be hanging around for a short time so be sure to get to San Francisco if you can to check it out!
The event promotes the launch of the new LEGO Santa Yoda Web site which will be used to donate a million Lego toys to the U.S. Marine Corps’ Toys for Tots program. The site will also be giving away a series of prizes including a 2-foot-tall Santa Yoda. From Nov. 21 through Dec. 24 Lego said it will donate a toy to the Marines’ program for every e-greeting shared on the Santa Yoda site as well, so go do some good and geek out!
Giant Santa Yoda Lego Build-
Friday, November 18 to Sunday, November 20, 2011
10am-6pm daily (or until completed)
Union Square, San Francisco
image from LEGO
Recycled Eco-Friendly Cannibalistic Table
This Auto Cannibalistic Table by Atema Architecture is Made with Egg Cartons and literally eats itself while growing life!
The Auto Cannibalistic Table is basically a giant decomposing flower pot made out of paper egg cartons. Herbs are planted inside the table and as you water the table the cardboard decomposes and the plants grow. The herbs end up eating the structure of the table as they grow, so you can use the table to provide you food as well as a place to eat it off.
While this recycled table is eco-friendly and unique, it obviously is not meant to last very long, and probably better suited outdoors but the trade off- lots of tasty herbs!
Recycled Computer Keyboard Clutch
I adore unique artwork that is functional and geeky, as well as eco-friendly, and my latest find is just that! The Recycled Keyboard Clutch is made from old computer keyboard keys (not in any particular layout so don’t go looking for hidden messages… but wouldn’t that be awesome!)
The 6″ x 9″ clutch is completely covered in the keys on the outside and offers a standard interior pouch perfect for carrying keys, your phone, money, lipstick, and still offers room to add a few numbers should you choose to collect them ;) The perfect gift for your fashionably geeky friend or relative or just a fun accessory to carry around for conversation sake.
$40 Buy
Remembering the Analog Days
Back when I was a teenager, you used a rotary phone to dial a friend, you used a typewriter to write term papers and prayed you didn’t mess up, you listen to music on cassette tapes until you accidentally caught the ribbon on something pulling it out into yards of mess! The camera.. well, was somewhat similar yet the finished product nowadays is much clearer and more amazing than anything we could have imagined.
People often say… in the simpler days, things were this and that… yet, truth be told none of these items were simpler… simplistic perhaps, but much more hassle for sure. Anyways, these analog postcards will remind of days long ago, give your children a glimpse into your past, and be a familiar and welcome site to those who fantasize about a technology free world back in the ‘simpler’ days.
Retro, clunky cultural artifacts of the past screen printed by hand on 100% post-consumer-waste recycled cover stock make a wonderful gift or offer a really way to decorate your geek chic home with retro analog memories of the past.
From Branch for $12- Sustainable Living for Life