So sleek, so small – whatever can it be?
The Mesiro Home Entertainment PC is a digital all-in-one that fits tidily into the context of the living room. The Merium allows Internet access and lets you to enjoy on your TV anything for which you would usually use your monitor. The Merium PC can be personalized by way of different covers and is powered by a Core2Duo running Windows Vista Home Premium.
If Facebook’s Scrabulous gets scrapped, at least there’s still Chocolate Scrabble! The dark chocolate, spell-worthy snack is available through the designers, Mary & Matt.
Wooden toys don’t seem so appealing–until you take a look at Take-G’s insanely-complicated-to-produce line of handmade characters and vehicles. Artist Takeji Nakagawa takes the Japanese craft process of Yosegi-Mokuzougan (joined wooden block construction) and cranks out some uniquely weird little robo-guys. As he says on his website:
I often get asked “Why do you make robots with wood?” I don’t really have an exact answer for it but I often relate my robots with [the] ‘future’.
What do you relate [the] future with? Cities full of metal, glass and plastic [like] in a SF movie? What we really want is not that kind of future but one full of trees and something more natural. I don’t think humans can live without trees no matter what advanced technology makes.
When I think of ‘future’, I cannot help thinking of ‘past’ at the same time. Trees take long time (tens and hundreds of years) to grow and show us their beauty (the product of their past). I think that I have responsibilities as a craftsman and an artist of breathing new life into these trees. I have a job to link 100 years in the past and 100 years in the future through my work.
