pop up public bathrooms

I overheard French people talking about it on the street of NY, and I found it on likecool.com. The urilift unit (pictured here) can be found in several cities in Europe, it stays underground all day, and comes up at 10pm to go back down at 3pm... They seem to have noticed that this is when the drinking -therefore the toilet need- happens.
But these are for men only as they're actually a set of 3 urinals. The one we could import to the US would be the urigienic, which has a door, and also has the advantage of being unisex thanks to its "revolutionary suspended toilet seat".

get a character

I love these salvaged characters from this brilliant company in Finland: characters. They were once part of a store front, and were re-cycled with led lights.
I want one!! (between 120 and 400 euros, all one of a kind)

discovered on Toxel.com.

the future of magazines

This is the very near future of books and magazines (for real).
This one is still B&W but soon we'll have many versions to pick from ($359 on amazon.com)
I'm not sure about not turning pages, but that will definitely save some trees!

more wood at work !

I love the contrast Low tech-High tech of having wood where we'd expect it the least... More wood in our lives!

1- maple cell phone - seen on cameraphoneplaza.com
2- ASUS bamboo laptop - $1999.00 at amazon.com
3- HACOA Wood keyboard (email them for prices)
4- HACOA Wood usb flashdrive (email them for prices)
more flashdrives on my post:USB drives with personality
5- VERS handcrafted ipod speaker $139.99
6- MOMA STORE mp3 mini speakers $36
7- MINIOT wood iphone case 80 euros
8- CONTAINER STORE wood verneer magnet board $24.99
9- AREAWARE magno small radio $200
10- CD labels could only find them on ebay, but really easy to do it yourself!
11- Last minute item - Flexible love already millions have discovered it. I think it's brilliant. See the videos below. Yes, not 100% wood, sorry!
I found the mini version on ebay for 27 BP

USB drive with personality

When you're in the design business, and you go to a meeting present a project, or show your work to potential clients, you can't just get a boring plain old USB drive out of your pocket: because it's our job to present the client's product right, we should be able to do the same with our own work!
I love to carefully pick my "tools" anyway, so finding the right USB drive was a cool challenge for me.
I've been casualy looking for one for a few weeks, but I haven't found anything at all in stores that I liked... I started to look online yesterday, and of course, I found absolutely everything I was hoping for... and more. Here are my best finds in 4 different categories: 007, toys, nature and hungry. Not all work-appropriate!!!
What's your favorite??

............007............

1 hacked, 2 diy eraser, 3 nail, 4 bling necklace,
5 swaroski necklace, 6 gun, 7 bomb, 8 finger, 9 glasses

............TOYS............

1 caterpillar USB, 2 linkable, 3 lego,4 humping rabbits,

5 penguins,6 domo & bw smiling guy, 7 star wars characters,
8 chicken foot, 9 hands

...........nature...........

1 wood sticks, 2 wood sculpted animal claws/teeth, 3 recycled,
4 wood farm animals, 5 cloth pin, 6 bamboo, 7 farm animals

...........hungry...........
1 sushi, 2 fortune cookie, 3 biscuit, 4 bacon, 5 banana, 6 pill, 7 burger

Of course as I was hunting for the last broken links of my selection, I came across a few more excellent ones: audio tape, teddy bear, eraser, zippo lighter, light bulb, wine cork, mini cooper, floppy disk...

A few very useful websites in my search:
wired blog, ubergizmo, techblog, geekstuuf4you.com, technobob,
the office master, geek alerts, the daily dairy

thank you!