For me the bed I sleep in is very important. I don’t need it soft because I get back pains so I’m always picky when I choose to buy one. A few days ago I noticed that Freshome has a very interesting list of 16 most extreme and modern beds, and at least a four of them got my attention.

1st. The “private cloud”. I liked it because it’s simple but modern at a time and has a nice tough mattress from what I see in the picture.

2nd. The “high fidelity canopy” by Italian designer Edoardo Carlino. It seems very intimate and if your girlfriend allows you it has web surfing, watch movies, play games and listen to music. How fun is this, if you’re a lazy geek?

3rd. The Scoop! This is something that’s not really intended for geek-use but would get you a “lady” for sure. It combines the sofa functions with bed functions to surprise your guests.

4th. The home cinema rack. To be honest it’s fighting for the 3rd place with The Scoop! to get you a “lady” in bed and has a few interesting features. It has (obviously) a big screen for you to watch DVDs or connect your favorite console. It would be hard to play Nintendo Sports from the bed, but it’s still interesting.

Which one do you like the best?

See the full list on Freshome.

I don’t know if the latex brain hat will get your parents and grandparents a heart attack but I’m sure your geek fellows will be thrilled and will have infinite respect for you and for your hat. It has a 24-inch circumference and costs only $13.99 . Too bad we don’t have a geek girl model to use it, I’m sure it looks better on them.

If your house has no pool, Devicepedia brings you the solution. A mobile bathing unit by ceramist and designer Ole Jensen. Dubbed Moby it is made of white EPDM rubber and cork, has a cord that you plug to a water source and water climbs vertically.

It was designed for the MINDCRAFT exhibition that takes place in Milan and Ole said that it’s “A soft tub for the body. For children and adults. For play and healing. In the garden or the stylish bathroom.”

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April 1st, the best time for pranks. If you’re at the office and you need a quick solution for a dangerous but funny confetti bomb all you need is some confetti, a 35mm film canister and a can of compressed air. Apparently the white canisters are better because of a much tighter lid that will make more noise. Here is how you set it up.

via Instructables

I don’t know about you but for me the Koziol Clark Superman Stapler is weird because I can’t find the similarities between Superman and the design. I mean, all right it probably does the job right but is Clark that ugly? Don’t think these guys have been ingenious choosing the name but they promise to “staple your papers faster than a speeding bullet!”. Beware with kryptonite paper though.

And this is how it begins… the robots supremacy! This robot has been created by Toshiba. It can’t make you dinner, but it has the functions of an universal remote control. ApriPoko features a voice-operated system and detects IR beams.

After a chit-chat, ApriPoko will learn how to operate various remote controls. It stores your commands and then it just does the job for you. ApriPoko would be a perfect addition for elders or for handicapped persons. No price details were revealed.

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Today we have the iPod, but 150 years ago they had the phonautograph. What’s that?! The phonautograph is the first recording device in the world. Invented by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, a Parisian typesetter and tinkerer, the phonautograph had been a mystery. It recorded sounds, but it couldn’t play them.

A team of researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, have decoded the first song ever recorded on April 9, 1860. It is called ‘Au Clair de la Lune’. The discovery is historic, as everybody knew that Thomas Edison was the inventor of recorded sounds. However, Scott’s phonautograph had been invented 17 years before Edison patented its phonograph.

Listen here the first recorded sound that can be played. David Giovannoni, an American audio historian, has also presented recordings made in 1853 and 1854, but those attempts of capturing sounds have a poor quality, because Scott’s machine wasn’t calibrated at that time. How would look gadgets in 150 years from now?

via NY Times

For anyone looking to buy a new clock at home or at the office, seek no more because I have something almost perfect for you. These are the new LEXON Jet series of clocks that tell the time, date and the temperature in a bold electroluminescent backlit dot matrix display, making it easy to read. Designer Theo Williams did a great with putting black info on the green background.
The clocks also have an alarm function with snooze, run on 4 AAA batteries and should be available in anodized brushed aluminum or gold. The French from Singulier are selling the LEXON Jet wall clock for €45 ($70).

via Technabob

This must be the ultimate gadget for those operating underwaters. We’re looking at the UT-1 Ultra Trencher, the biggest subsea robot that is being used to install oil/gas pipes and probably telecommunication cables. Built by Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD) for £10 million and with the dimensions of a medium condo (7.8 x 7.8 x 5.6 meters) the robot is able to move with a 2 to 3 knots speed and can trench pipelines with 1 meter in diameter.

“Weighting 50 tonnes and the size of a small house, it is designed to bury largediameter oil and gas pipelines laid on the ocean floor. It does this by ‘flying’ down up to a mile deep below the surface using powerful propellers. It then lands over the pipeline and deploys a pair of ‘jet swords’ either side of the pipe which inject high pressure water to ‘fluidise’ the surface. Burying the pipelines protects them from fishing, shipwrecks and natural currents. This enables oil and gas to be safely transported from the offshore fields to land to provide secure energy supplies.”

For more detailed specs here’s the PDF file.

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The “Volumen”, a giant graphic equalizer has been built by Sergio Avello and measures the noise in front of Redgaleria in Buenos Aires. The great idea seems very promising as it is a nice way of illustrating the noisy streets big cities. The Volume Meter features colored LEDs that show the higher levels of noise from green to red like an equalizer.

Perhaps this volume meter is not so practical, but it could increase citizens awareness about the constant buzz from the city, in this way creating a calm environment.

Source via Makezine