Here’s International, a foldable (well, deconstructable in a really clever way) bicycle that won “Best Ride” in the 2010 Wallpaper Design Award, and man, does it look good or what? These one-off bikes are designed and hand-built by US/Japanese Kinfolk (actually by 71-year old master frame builder Shuichi Kusaka), painted by Coat and the custom bag is designed by Nivaldo de Lima. They don’t come cheap though, expect a price tag of about $3,800 to $3,900 depending on if you want the bag with it or not.
Read more at Wallpaper.com
SwissBike has updated their line of foldable bikes, here’s the 2009 versions of the XO Competition, LX Mountain and TX Commuter. All three models switches from folded to unfolded in 30 seconds and are all available with 18" to 20" wheels.
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You haven’t forgotten to get a calendar for 2008 yet, have you? Here’s Masami Takahashi’s excellent Calendar Cube to help you keep track of the upcoming 365 days.
The first six months are printed on the white side and when July 1st comes up you unfold the cube, turn it inside out and fold it again to have July to December shown in reversed colors. Magic, I tell you.
It’s made in clear plastic (paper probably wouldn’t endure the full year) and besides the regular print there’s transparent Braille writing on it too.
The Calendar Cube’s costs 2,940 Yen, that’s about $26.00
MasamiDesign.co.jp: Calendar Cube (Japanese, here’s the Google translation)
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While being cordless, light and foldable the Monster iFreeplay headphones sports an integrated iPod Shuffle dock. Perhaps not as street-fashionable as the WESC headphones, but an interesting alternative for gym / morning run headphones.
iPodWorld.co.uk: Monster iFreeplay Cordless Headphones (£29.99, about US $60)
The Gloo Man/Woman is pretty cool. Head over to the website, configure him/her with different hair styles, shirt prints and speech bubbles and just download your very own, customized PDF ready to fold and glue.
Gloo.co.za: Gloo Man
More foldable toys:
ReadyMech: Foldable Monsters, ToyPaper: Foldable Monsters, Fold your own TIE-fighter, How to fold your own alien-proof tin foil hat
(Via Notcot)
Sennheiser PXC 450 features an updated version of the NoiseGard technology (2.0) which actively removes up to 90% of unwanted background noise. If someone speaks to you while you’re wearing these you can push the talk-through button and the headphones will let the speech get through and still filter out unwanted noise.
The NoiseGard technology is powered by two AAA-batteries (no batteries = no NoiseGard, you’ll still have functional headphones), there’s control buttons on the side for volume adjusting and yes, they’re foldable.
“NoiseGard™ is an active noise compensation system which Sennheiser originally developed for use by pilots, who have to rely on good sound quality and efficient protection against ambient noise even in high-noise environments. NoiseGard™ actively compensates the noise, based on the physics principle of sound and counter-sound.
Sennheiser.com: PXC 450 Product Page
Amazon.com: Sennheiser PXC 450 ($449.99)
(Via OhGizmo)
Bone conducting headphones (yeah, that’s your skull vibrating) has been around for a while but TEAC HP-F100 Filltune is the first pair to reproduce hi-fi audio. One of the benefits from having the audio conducted through your bone is that you can listen to extremely loud music without worrying about deteriorating hearing.
Besides being foldable and light the headphones ships with a portable amplifier sporting a 10-hour battery life and .76-watts to each channel.
AudioCubes.com: TEAC HP-F100 Filltune ($499.00)
(Via AcquireMag)
Oh well, while I’m on the print-and-fold-your-own-monsters-roll I can just as well write about Readymech, a large collection of free paper monsters ranging from cute to eerie and weird for you to download, print and fold. All you need is double-sided tape, paper and about 10-15 minutes of folding time per monster.
More foldables:
Toypaper Monsters, TIE-Fighters and other movie spacecrafts, Speaker dogs and last (but not least) weird tin foil hats.
(Thanks CB)
