“It’s the dead of night; everyone is tucked up in bed and the owls are-a-hooting. So it’s time to break out the Glow Graffiti! Powered with UV light you can write, stencil and draw rude pictures to create your very own glowing light show. It’s like very complicated vandalism except much prettier and you won’t get nicked by the police doing it. This really is a gadget of mind-boggling genius, perfect for parties (or if your nocturnal) and will have your friends intrigued for hours to how it all works. If we did tell you the super-top secret information to how it works we’d have to kill you.”

Link: Suck UK

Source: Flickr

It’s entirely possible that Mike Brown overdosed on ADD meds: These brass goggles scream “attention to detail.
Some numbers: The leather is actually bolted to the eyepieces, using 48 tiny bolts plus another four for the nosepiece. The leather was chosen for the tanning process which should give it a klife of a few thousand years.

Ditto the eyepieces, which are machines from titanium and coated with Titanium Nitride. Predicted lifespan: 500 years plus. There are even brass eyelets in the leather eyecups to stop the lenses steaming up.

Mike put in a few nice extras, too. The sliders in each eyepiece close the leaf-apertures inside, which will cut out light and also sharpen your eyesight, just like a pinhole camera. The lenses themselves react to light and get darker the brighter it is.

 source: Wired Magazine Blog

 The craziest Steampunk Raygun every designed. Limited edition, created by New Zealand’s Weta Workshop. Definitely an interesting (and expensive) collectors item. Priced from $7900 to $4500.

 Source: Weta New Zealand

“Inspired by science fiction, toys, and Brandywine artists and illustrators of the 1900’s, Eric’s second solo with the gallery reveals the grittier side of robot life: mysterious donut factories, runaway steam trains and vintage motorcycles.”

Source: http://web.me.com/jancorey1/ERIC_JOYNER/Photos.html

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My sculptures were originally inspired by the form and function of the sea urchin. The spines of the urchin, so dangerous yet beautiful, serve as an explicit warning against contact. The alluring texture of the spines draws the touch in spite of the possible consequences. The tension unveiled, we feel push and pull, desire and repulsion. The sections of pencils present aspects of sharp and smooth for two very different textural and aesthetic experiences. Paradox and surprise are integral in my choice of materials. Quantities of industrially manufactured objects are used to create flexible forms reminiscent of the organic shapes of animals and nature. Pencils are common objects, here, these anonymous objects become the structure. There is true a fragility to the sometimes brutal aspect of the sculptures, vulnerability that is belied by the fearsome texture.”

 Source: Jennifer Maestre

Artist Michael A. Salter’s Styrobots are created from reclaimed styrofoam packaging. The bots range in size from a couple feet tall to the giant 22 foot bot on display at San Jose Museum of Art.

 Source: Michael A. Salter