天南地北: 2008

2008年5月14日星期三

限量版手工手錶

這款手錶，全世界只有兩個，因為它是由日本的Haruo Suekichi以手做成的。

拼圖鬧鐘

當設定的時間到了，這個鬧鐘不但會響，而且還會有3塊拼圖跳出來，你必須把這三塊拼圖套回去，鬧鐘才會停止。

連線：http://www.latestbuy.com.au/puzzle_clock_gadget.html

2008年5月13日星期二

2008年5月12日星期一

另類分形抽屜

這個抽屜的設計非常另類，是新新人類的特愛。

連線： http://www.tmiyakawadesign.com/fractal-2.html

2008年5月11日星期日

不滅的電燈泡

從1901年開始，這個電燈泡已經在美國一間消防局里，連續不斷地，照耀了107年了，現在還以正常的操作。

產品網頁:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lightbulb5-2008may05,0,3217216,full.story

boingboing網頁:

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/09/lightbulb-thats-burn.html

超酷的咖啡桌

這是一個超酷的任天堂電玩控制檯NES(Nintendo Entertainment System)，而且還可以當咖啡桌，及儲物箱來應用，真的太酷了。

產品網頁:http://ultra-awesome.blogspot.com/2008/05/nes-coffee-table-final-post-rah.html

boingboing網頁: http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/09/giant-working-nes-co.html

蝙蝠俠

這是1960年代，越南版的蝙蝠俠漫畫，充滿了懷舊的氣息。

產品網頁: http://www.ep.tc/batman-in-vietnam/

boingboing網頁: http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/09/batman-in-vietnamese.html

如何偵查針孔相機的存在？

第一，你需要有一個用完了的廁紙芯

第二，你需要有一把手電筒

第三，把廁紙芯，套在一個眼睛，把手電筒放到，與你的視線平行，然后，掃描你懷疑的地方，如果有看到一些，小小的反光點，就要去查看，很可能就是針孔相機。

產品網頁: http://www.instructables.com/id/SFVLXKNFDLVVJ7Y/

boingboing網頁: http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/09/howto-detect-hidden.html

2008年5月9日星期五

把天空搬進你的屋子里面 Faux skylights and windows

Images Products Luminous 360 Small The Sky Factory deals in fake skylights and windows. Their SkyCeilings and Luminous Virtual Windows are photos of the outside that fit into standard ceiling or window grid systems. Fluorescent and LED backlighting is also available. It's like having a piece of Vegas in your own home! Seen here is a backlit Luminous SkyCeiling installed in a medical procedure room.

把天空裝在你的天花板上，圖中所見是裝在一所手術室里的人造天空。覺得還蠻清涼的。

產品網頁

http://www.theskyfactory.com/

boingboing網頁

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/08/faux-skylights-and-w.html

圓的冰塊球配威士忌更順暢 Seamless ice-spheres for superior whiskey-rocks

Using a sphere of ice (as opposed to a cube) in your whiskey-rocks is nice because the round ice melts more slowly than the square stuff (better surface-area/volume ratio). Now a Japanese company has introduced a mold for making a perfect, seamless ice-sphere:

Taisin has introduced a mold that seamlessly creates a perfect sphere, no chipping and shaving required. Simple place a chunk of ice into the metal press and, as it melts, the device will close around the ice forming a ball, which is then released by the flick of a switch.

The Ice Mold, available in 55, 65, 70, and 80mm mold sizes, can make 30-40 ice balls an hour.

Spheres of ice are preferred by serious on the rocks drinkers because the reduced surface size means that the ice melts at a slower pace, keeping your drink

圓的冰塊球，讓你的威士忌，更涼快，因為圓的冰塊球比方的冰塊溶解的比較慢。

一家如本的公司正在生產制造這種無縫圓冰球的模具。

產品網頁

http://www.kilian-nakamura.com/blog-english/index.php/perfect-ice-for-perfect-drinks-from-taisin/

boingboing網頁

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/08/seamless-icespheres.html

廁紙做的結婚禮服，你相信嗎？ Toilet paper wedding dress

Toilet paper wedding dress

Behold, the prizewinning toilet-paper wedding dress, conceived of, designed, and modelled by Vicky Heir of Christchurch, NZ.

Expo manager Peta-Marie McLeod said the designers were allowed to use two four-packs of the double length Cottonsofts toilet tissue -- about 16 normal rolls -- to make their dresses.

模特兒身上穿的是用廁紙做成的婚紗，你相信嗎？

設計師總共用了16卷的廁紙來完成這件婚紗。

產品網頁：

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4486881a11.html

boingboing網頁：

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/08/toilet-paper-wedding.html

1470 piece Craftsman toolset 1470件的工具箱

This $8600, 1470 piece Craftsman toolset contains more pieces of precision metal than I could possibly use -- but it sure looks purdy all laid out there, doesn't it? Link (via Dvice)

這個工具箱里有1470件的工具，大概一生人之中，也不可能每一件都用上一次吧。

產品網頁：http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_009H0259000B?sid=I0084400010000100600&aff=Y

原作者： Dvice

boingboing網頁： http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/07/craftsmans-8600-ever.html

2008年5月7日星期三

路線指標手表 Plus Four Wristlet Route Indicator

At times, inventors of ages past showed enormous ingenuity in the construction of their charmingly intricate devices. Other times? They just took an existing idea and, bereft of creativity, made it smaller, more fiddly and less functional. Come to think of it, not much has changed: only the aesthetics.

At first glance, this 1927 map watch is pretty nifty: an antediluvian GPS, don't you know. It was called the Plus Four Wristlet Route Indicator, a name so clunky, unmemorable and artless that it even sounds like the name of a modern GPS device. The idea was simple: the Wooster-esque motorist would putter around England, scrolling a tiny paper map loaded in his wrist as he went with two black knobs. If you took a turn, you simple slid out one map and inserted another one and continued on your way.

What ho! Ingenious! Except a complete road map only cost a few pence back in 1927, where as this device would have set you back around 5 quid. And just like modern GPS map providers, the real business model was in selling you additional maps.

Which leaves the design. I quite like it: it's cheap, but whimsical and adventurous, like something you might strap on your wrist to traverse Oz.

乍看之下，這1927年的地圖手表是相當漂亮的：

它的名字是Plus Four Wristlet Route Indicator（路線指標手表）。

你只要轉動兩個黑色的旋鈕，地圖就會轉換。很酷吧？

現代的（GPS）全球定位系统的想法，應該由此而來的吧？

產品網頁

 原作者

 boingboing網頁

神秘的"全面自動麻將檯"

Mysterious "Full-Automatic Mahjong Table"

I admit it: I have no idea what this "Full-Automatic Mahjong Table" actually does, but the name is pretty evocative. I have a vision of a million tiny magnets on servos in the bowels of the table that auto-drag the tiles into place.

Automatic Mahjong table adopts the working principle of electricity, light and magnetism, and it is controlled by microcomputer programs. It can effectively achieve the automatic shuffling and dealing of Poker tiles, and automatic dice tossing in a quick and fair way, with stable performance, long period of non-malfunction, and adding entertainment interests. It used two diffentely colors Mahjong Tiles with magnetic.

神秘的"全面自動麻將檯台"

我承認：我不知道這"全面自動麻將檯"真正作用，但名稱是相當出位的。

自動麻將台所採用的是電力，光學和磁鐵原理操作，由計算機（電腦）程序控制。它可以自動洗牌，和自動拋骰子。