Girl in the middle: Germaine's alluring decor

Would you like dining in a restaurant with ginormous girl’s rear in the middle? That sure sounds freaky but every word of it is true. Germaine, a Parisian restaurant, has a colossal girl sculpture wearing a yellow overcoat and high heels, in the midst of it to tempt (??) the customers. In fact the whole girl, Sophie, is painted yellow, maybe it’s due to the restaurants color code, who knows. Xavier Veilhan, a renowned Paris based artist, thought up this ‘modern-day’ plan of alluring customers and wedging her in there, when Thierry Costes (Germaine’s owner) asked him to throw in something for his eatery. Nevertheless, this is a very innovative and flamboyant technique of attracting the customers (i guess serving delicious food would help more).

DIY Gear Clock: Drive time your way

“Time flies by” we have heard that idiom zillions of times. But have you ever heard “time drives by”? Well, if not, then get used to saying that ‘coz after you see this marvelous DIY Gear clock, this is how your time will pass by you. So, behold this awe-inspiring piece of art, courtesy Alan Parekh, “The Gear Clock.” You may have overlooked many alike DIYs, but you can count on it to leave you breathless. This clock is constructed out of fiber board gears, which is the only conspicuous and most splendid feature and all the electronics lurk beneath it snugly. Each gear is meticulously stacked over the other with interlocking cogs, so the gear rotates and shows accurate time concomitantly. The Gear clock has a PIC 16f628A microcontroller as its brain, which is coupled with a bipolar Step motor, few gears (with dissimilar teeth i.e. 9,18 and 24 and 72 in number), one 20MHz Crystal oscillator and some other electronic stuff to give birth to this “timeless beauty.”

Skatekeyboard – The power of words rolling on wheels

Artist: Tobi Leingruber

Another surprise-laden day provokes my thoughts to ramble in search for that perfect junction where thought process leads to words, with justice being the core. That flight of imagination where words are hard to come by is understandably the route to that silent junction where creativity never dies. So, when a keyboard with words can’t express the power of a pen, run it on wheels because even silence speaks in the creative den.

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Implanting LEDs into a pocket watch

It took Paul over 2 years and about $1000 plus heirloom to hand solder 133 surface mounted LEDs (60 for the minutes, 60 for the seconds and 12 for the hours) to a pocket watch left to him by his grandfather. Check out more pictures and the video after the jump.

Splitterbot – Headphone sharing mini robot

Check out the ‘Splitterbot Headphone Sharing Robot’ that loses his head over sharing music. Well, this mini robot hangs from your keychain and allows you to share music from one audio device with two people. Just remove the head off, plug the splitter into any headphone jack and you have the eyes for sharing music. It’s available for just under $8.

Via: BotJunkie

World’s first LED Chess and Checker set

Meet the world’s first LED Chess and Checker set. Available for just under $80, it’s powered by a plug in adapter or a car adapter (included). King stands 3 in tall, with all the pieces illuminating from the inside using their own LED.

Dave’s custom built Nintendo guitar

Featured above is Dave playing his custom-built Nintendo guitar. That’s right, the design incorporates a real NES cartridge. Check out the video after the jump.

Log radio – Music at the cost of nature

Designers: Solène le Goff and Christophe Gouache

Is it justified to use the word ‘green’ for a radio that is made up of 80% wood? Well, just because it has a solar panel to it doesn’t mean one can bring down trees, implant a solar panel, and add the word ‘green’ to the final outlook. Undoubtedly, wood is a carbon-neutral product, but does chopping down trees for a product that can easily be made from better green materials makes it green? Wood can be ‘green’ in only two cases; either it is recycled, or it comes from a sustainably managed source (FSC- certified). Anyway, the top left button turns the radio ‘on’ and controls the volume, while the top right button changes the radio frequencies. I’m not too sure about the one beneath.

Stimuli 3.0 – Intelligent lighting by Chris Natt

Just how plants respond to the change in their environment, the Stimuli 3.0 light communicates changes in its immediate surroundings using semantics associated with changes in color, movement and shape. Designed by Chris Natt, the differing effects of this intelligent light creates an atmosphere reflective of the subtle changes happening around it.

Switch it – Flexible headphones of the future

The “Switch it” flexible headphones are making the news today because they give flexibility to their square counterparts available in the market. Designed by Jessica Nebel and Agnes Zuber, the detachable nature of these conceptual headphones means that you can wear them by a neckpiece, over the ears or the common way. One can personalize these headphones by separating the earpiece from the wearing module.