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• For The Love Of Steampunk
• Not A Speck Of Dust In Sight
• Lawnmower Scooter
• Now These Are Some Shears!
• Keep Ya Nuts A Crackin
• Shadow Walls and Sunshine
• None More Fierce A Bow

For The Love Of Steampunk Posted: 18 Mar 2010 02:37 AM PDT It's tough keeping a track on futuristic iterations of computers, so backtracking into the forgotten era sometimes spring up surprises. This retro-steampunk gem is a customized work of art which uses lots of wood and a good measure of brass to get in the right effects. As the designers put it "These custom-made keyboards, framed monitors and computers are completely functional, but with a 19th century/ steampunk aesthetic." Designer: Old Time Computer

Not A Speck Of Dust In Sight Posted: 18 Mar 2010 02:25 AM PDT Remember the scene in FRIENDS when Monica finishes vacuuming the room and then removes a small handy vacuum to clean up the big one? The Dustpan Vacuum continues the saga…. Shaped as a dustpan to efficiently gather in all the grime; the vacuum system nestled inside the handle, then sucks up the dirt. Accompanied with its special brush, it gets the job done faster. I'm no Monica, but my desk could sure use this! Designer: IlGu Cha

Lawnmower Scooter Posted: 18 Mar 2010 01:58 AM PDT The title and images say it all. Mowing lawns suck. It’s a back breaking and boring task unless you have a riding mower. But for those of us with small yards, the Lawnmower Scooter is aces. The electric motor drives the blades and scooter. All the cuttings are stored in a transparent bin in the front. I’m already imagining weekend lawnmower races with my neighbors. Designer: Vicky Petihovski

Now These Are Some Shears! Posted: 18 Mar 2010 01:24 AM PDT I have a secret obsession with scissors. There’s a room in my home where I do all my clothing work and in a box are scissors from Germany and Japan since they seem to make the best steel. I would love to add one more to my collection from designer Michael Antrobus called Ground Tools. A stunning pair of shears made from carefully bent flat steel bars using homemade jigs and presses. The result is minimal, raw, even primal.. Designer: Michael Antrobus

Keep Ya Nuts A Crackin Posted: 18 Mar 2010 12:10 AM PDT Or a cracklin. How cracked do you want your nuts? Very cracked, or just opened up a little bit? You need those nuts cracked. Walnuts. And if it’s not the winter holiday season, you’re going to look too weird using a traditional nutcracking agent. So what are you gonna do, then, hey? You need this wild thing right here. It’s a walnut yo-yo. Yo! It’s not just for fun. It’s for cracking your nuts. All you need to do is put the nut in there, yo, re-yo, and bang! Actually you’ve gotta hit something with the yo. You fasten the nut inside the yo, then you yo the yo right into a wall, the floor, or your grandmother, and bang! You’ve got a cracked nut. And if you don’t have a cracked nut after hitting your grandmother with the Walnut Yo-Yo, you’ll probably be feeling some pain pretty soon. In the nuts. Designers: Xiaofei Wang and Beibei Wu

Shadow Walls and Sunshine Posted: 18 Mar 2010 12:05 AM PDT If you’re heavy into design, like you’re an addict, you basically can’t stand to see much in your environment that ISN’T put in place by a human being, you’re basically guaranteed to be at least generally alright at both interior and exterior design, the arranging of elements in your environment. And if you are, and you’re a generally make-your-own-profit sort of person in our modern world, you also like to find ways to conserve energy and make things less expensive for yourself. How about harnessing the sun for all of this? Woo yes! Sunlight! It’s up there shooting out energy and we’ve not even really begun to delve very deeply into the ways we aught to be able to use it. Well let me tell you something. Drzach and Suchy are sticking their fingers into it, and they ain’t getting burnt! Nay! Let’s look at this! What they’ve created here is called “Piksol,” and it is made to both collect solar energy and create arbitrary patterns and images on a building’s facade. Win? Yes. Then, in combination with Shadow Casting Panels, these Piksols can be used to create fabulously lovely images that can change dynamically throughout the day as the sun changes positions. Quite simple, quite smart. Designers: Drzach & Suchy

None More Fierce A Bow Posted: 18 Mar 2010 12:02 AM PDT Hello there archerists. I know that word is wrong. But you wouldn’t be telling me it was wrong if I had a BOW and ARROWS would you? No way! Having a bow and arrows is totally intense. Completely fierce, and not just Beyonce fierce. Like really wolflike and cougarlike. Comin at ya! And you know this bow is wild if we’re featuring it here on Yanko. We only feature the most fierce! This bow is a Recurve Bow, the kind they use in the Olympics. And you know they only let wolves in that. This bow is called the “INNO CTX”, designed by a couple of intense designers by the names Won-Jae Lee and Won Jung Shin. Made of X carbon, aka the of the aviation sort, with according to these statistics I read before me in the information provided by the designer, is an 40% increase in intensity over the strength of any other carbon, while at the same time is thinner than any that’s come before it. That, and the elasticity’s increased over 190% compared to the general carbon used today. What’s this do? It raises the intensity of the handle. It strengthens the role of the bow as a shock absorber. And it totally gives you like 100+ points to your archery skills. Designers: Won-Jae Lee and Won Jung Shin for Win Archery

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