Ice Culture specializes in building enormous and elaborate ice installations in some of the hottest places on the planet. With restaurants and lounges made of ice in Thailand, Miami, Dubai, and now Las Vegas, there’s nowhere these builders won’t go…wired.com

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Yes, we geeks feel meek compared to Iron Man, but now we can gain a modicum of superhuman strength from Robot Suit HAL, Cyberdyne’s answer to the plethora of exoskeleton-style strength suits under development…dvice.com

Individualists demand excellence, exclusivity and choice, and for the very same reason, luxury watchmaking firms are always busy creating some unusual, out of the world wrist watches for the elite individuals. A luxury watch usually says a lot about the monetary and social status of its owner. If you love to spend your hard earned money on an unusual luxury wrist watch, we present to you some of the most extraordinary watches of all time (more)…bornrich.org

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Honda is celebrating its 50th anniversary of doing business in the U.S. and the automaker is doing it in a major way:with a 49-foot-tall replica of its famous Asimo robot. The bipedal giant will serve as the company’s float during the Rose Parade in Pasadena, California on Jan. 1, complete with a jolly top hat and pimp-bot cane…feedly.com

Yeah,  pretty cool until the invaders pop out and take over the Rose Parade.

Blackbird was developed on the simple proposition that we, as the African American community, can make the Internet experience better for ourselves and, in doing so, make it better for everyone. Primarily we believe that the Blackbird application can make it easier to find African American related content on the Internet and to interact with other members of the African American community online by sharing stories, news, comments and videos via Blackbird…blackbirdhome.com

Blackbird singing in the dead of night…          

Sledding is not just a welcome change for the smallest, the silver design-sled by Porsche may now also pull the most style conscious person to have fun on a simple way. The noble aluminum sportster offers also functionality, thanks to its practical folding mechanism, and it is prepared for even the heaviest holiday dinner with a maximum capacity of 100kg….gentlemansgadgets.com

All yours for the paltry sum of $495. And just to think, as a kid we used a flattened  cardboard box and we were happy.

Pierre Cardin’s S/S and Autumn 2009 collections defy the boundaries of weirdness if such a thing is possible. The iconic 86-year-old designer showed his intergalactic and nondescript collection at his gorgeous southern France home… trendhunter.com

You may not be able to pilot a flying car like George Jetson , but you can rock the runway like his wife Jane.l

“The first image that comes to mind when we attempt to describe Dale
Chihuly‘s work and his trajectory through life is one of fluid movement
with elusively inflected highlights. His life, largely spent on the
road, is dictated by his prime obsessions, the making of glass and the
conditions of exhibiting it…Henry Geldzahler‘s Forward to “Chihuly: Color, Glass and Form“

Now the issue of what I am—am I a craftsman? A designer?
An artist? Or just what am I?—This issue is much less important
to me today. Being real honest, I don’t care what they call me
or my work as long as they look at it.

For next years 70th anniversary of ‘The Wizard of Oz’, Hong Kong shoe boutique On Pedder has partnered with Warner Bros to commission the most trendy fashion designers to create their own interpretation of the famous red shoes for a modern Dorothy. Including Bruno Frisoni, Alexander McQueen, Erickson Beamon, Giuseppe Zanotti, Pierre Hardy, Marni’s hi-tech heels (that play ‘Somewhere over the Rainbow’ when plugged in) and Stella McCartney’s strapped sandals or even Azzedine Alaia’s sparkly ballet pumps, the creations are a true homage to the legendary film…cyanatrendland.com