http://www.iconbuzz.org Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:59:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Ten Thousand Things blog has a fun rant up, admonishing some fellow designers for being cocky divas who need to take it down a peg. Though we're certainly all not arrogant asses (at least not 100% of the time), I suspect that everyone knows at least ... http://www.iconbuzz.org/dear-colleagues/ Geoff McFetridge has designed Pottok: a new wallpaper collection featuring cool graphic treatments of trees, apples, flowers, whales (shown above), and more. Hint: click on designs once you hit the site. http://www.iconbuzz.org/pottok-geoff-mcfetridge-wallpaper/ Don't miss the video preview of French designer Marion Bataille's alphabet pop-up book ABC3D, in which letterforms literally leap off the page. Starting with the lenticular cover, letters morph into one another and spring into states of depth, all within a crisp black, white and red palette. ... http://www.iconbuzz.org/abc3d-by-marion-bataille/ Our interest was piqued last fall when we first saw the “world’s smallest” Klipsch Image X10 headphones at a trade show in Denver, but we were decidedly less enthusiastic when we saw their $350 price. Now Klipsch announces the Image X5, a silver version of the great-sounding and ... http://www.iconbuzz.org/klipsch-builds-upon-image-headphone-popularity-with-new-model/ What do you do when your species unsettles the balance of nature? Create artificial nature to make up the difference, of course. Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Mitsubishi Corp. and Tokki Corp. have developed a prototype solar cell module that realistically ... http://www.iconbuzz.org/aist-makes-tree-with-solar-cell-leaves/ Silence that keyboard! That clickety-clacking all day long gets annoying, so that’s why these absolutely silent keyboards exist. Not only is the full-sized ReallyCool Keyboard quiet, it’s waterproof, so you can scrub it with soap and water if you’re in an environment where things get too funky ... http://www.iconbuzz.org/really-cool-keyboard/ To tide you over until next week, when Apple is rumored to release the new iPhone, we give you the iCooly for the iPod Touch. The iPod holder is designed to look like a mini-iMac for your desktop and the effect, while simple, is a Mac fan's dream ... http://www.iconbuzz.org/icooly-delivers-virtual-imac-touchscreen-experience/ Bamboo is showing up in all kinds of new products, and why not? It's eco-friendly (bamboo grows much faster than typical trees and uses less energy to harvest) and looks damn hot. Claiming to be the world's first bamboo sink, this round basin takes the trend ... http://www.iconbuzz.org/bamboo-sink-gives-washing-up-that-earthy-quality/ The Long Chair, created by Schemata Architecture in Tokyo, is devilishly simple: take a single tube of stainless steel and bend it into a chair profile over and over. Stack enough of these chair outlines side by side, and you have an actual chair. Stack even more, ... http://www.iconbuzz.org/long-chair-a-bench-made-out-of-one-steel-tube/ Put on this outfit, and your whole body turns into a musical instrument. That’s the promise of the Pacer Suit, a design concept that measures electrical impulses of your muscles and turns them into music or sound effects. Akin to motion capture suits that have lately become commonplace in ... http://www.iconbuzz.org/with-pacer-suit/