That other Grandfather Clock

Check out this fabulous Clock by Irish designer Ryan McElhinney… sold to a customer in Dubai. There’s still money there after all…

Each piece is one of a kind and made to my clients requirements. This allows me to place toys that my clients may have played with in their childhood and tell a story. Clients often tell me that even a year after receiving their sculpture they discover new toys that they had missed or press a button and find toys that light up and make noise. Ryan McElhinney

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It’s called reading

Mag+

While all the hype is going on at CES about digital reading devices, tablet pc’s, islate and the likes… The smart people at Bonnier R&D published this video on their research focused on the future of magazine reading through handheld digital devices.

Pretty amazing stuff… which we’ll probably look back at in a few years with a “duuuhhh”

via designtherapy…

Back to Square one?

A while back we heard that Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey was working on a new start-up payment service that would let users make payments from credit card accounts using their iPhones. The result is Square, and it is now open to trial users. It has a solid feature set, and works with a hardware add-on that can swipe cards. Payments are even verified using email or viewed online in real time.

Besides convenience and the obvious shiny toy factor, Square’s payment method has it’s perks for users. With Square, businesses can do things like give you a free something after a set number of repeat purchases of their products, much like punchcards. It can even …

The good, the bad and the evil

The Il Buono and Il Cattivo moneybank have a¬†bit of a¬†60′s craft vibe about them and hark back to iconic Spaghetti Western characters The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

Since you can find them at Swedish “Our Children’s Gorilla“… it makes you want to be a kid and start saving coins again……

Cheapest Bentley ever

Zai gets in the mix with Bentley for a limited line of designer skis. Priced at 6’500 ‚Ǩ, this might be the cheapest Bentley you’ll ever own…

“Supersport is a limited edition ski constructed out of a combination of carbon fiber refinforced thermoplastic, natural rubber, and chrome steel, which are all being used for the first time in a pair of skis.”

Zai for Bentley…