New York-based Nooka Inc. just announced the Zub Zirc ($130), a neat little digital time piece you read like an analog watch: the 12 dots represent hours and the horizontal bar below indicates minutes. Besides regular time it sports both alarm and chronograph mode and the 20mm polyurethane band is available in six colors.
Amazon.com: Nooka Zub Zirc (From $105.00)
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Bertelli Bicycles are custom track and fixed gear bikes hand-built by Francesco in New York City. Every bike is assembled and fine-tuned using combinations of new and vintage parts, rendering each unique. So, if you’re a fan of of logo and sticker-less bikes, lugged steel, skinny tubes, quill stems, vintage cranksets, leather and wood, unusual handlebars and chrome forks you better check these out.
Continue reading for more pictures of these stunning bikes!
Here’s 4th Dimension, a new wall clock by Taiwan-based 22designstudio to be presented at London Design Festival 2010. Impressive.
(via medesignmag)
To celebrate the fact that a 100 years have passed since Denon produced Japan’s first gramophone they’ve launched the stunning Denon DP-A100, a 100th anniversary turntable using the same high-torque AC motor direct-drive technology they’ve refined for 40 years now. The DP-A100 comes with a 5 year guarantee, a Denon brand book, a 100th anniversary badge as well as a signed certificate from the chief production engineer who hand-crafted it.
It’ll cost you though, expect to pay up around $2,500 for it.
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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.
Looking for something exclusive to protect your iPad with? How about these leather sleeves by Makr? They’re inspired by Makr’s flap wallets but sports a hidden cordovan closure instead of a horizontal keeper.
The cases are available in Chromexcel Bark ($240.00), Black ($240.00) as well as Mahogany ($230.00) and although they’re made to contain iPads you can use them to hold just about anything with a fitting size, of course.
(via acquire)
Here’s Vestal Decibel, the latest addition to their impressive line-up of timepieces. This watch sports goodies like a case of hardened stainless steel, perforated leather strap, solid mineral crystal and a detachable crown guard – just take it off if you want to slim down the 57mm waist a little. Sure looks like it can handle a bit of rough handling!
The Decibel will be available in both brushed black and silver and is expected to hit the stores by August 1st.
Link: vestalwatch.com
Okay. There’s big speakers and there’s huge speakers, but I think Arcadian Audio’s Pnoe Horn deserves its own category (I had to publish this under “furniture” as well as “audio”, hah). After 10 years of development they’ve created a horn speaker designed to create “the smoothest, roundest path for the sound wave front, without any obstructions, so that there are no sources of standing waves and spurious reflections”. How about that now. It’s made out of shiny fibreglass (both in- and outside) with special damping materials and it uses the AER MD3B driver for “ultra detailed presentation and warm sound”.
There’s no word on pricing, but I think it’s safe to assume they’re crazy expensive.
(via technabob)
Dell has teamed up with Threadless and will offer 11 of their t-shirt designs as laptop covers through Dell Design Studio. The Threadless picks are available on Dell Studio laptops and Inspiron Mini netbooks and will be changed several times a year to offer fresh, new crowd-sourced designs.
Link: Dell.com: Design Studio
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It’s been 25 years since the launch of the first Lexus and they celebrate that with the limited edition 2012 LFA. This beauty starts at $375,000 but then you get a 4.8L V10 engine with 552 horsepower and a top speed of 202 mph which will take you from 0-60mph in 3.6 seconds. Oh, and the chassi and bodywork features advanced Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic to help it become lightweight, powerful and balanced. Man, just look at the lines of this thing.
Beginning December 2010 Lexus will begin building these beauties by hand in Toyota City, Japan and they’ll build 20 cars each month until they reach a maximum of 500 vehicles.
Check out the video below:
Link: lexus-lfa.com
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