I’m not really going to talk about the RPM 10 Record Player by Pro-Ject Audio Systems. I’m going to talk about what these record players stand for. The funny thing about the modern audiophile record player is the record player inevitably likes to display every piece and part of the machine as if it were [...]

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Maybe I watch too much crappy television? I don’t know. But, I was watching the Preview Channel - you know, the channel that scrolls the TV guide at the bottom while washed up child actors talk celebrity gossip- the other day when the woman on the show started barking on and on about Louis Vuitton’s [...]

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When I see the Prada Phone it makes me sometimes wish that I had started a gadget blog, and I really knew my stuff and was super popular. Why? Well then I would somehow convince LG to give me one of these awesome phones! At least they look awesome… and they say Prada on it [...]

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I’ve been looking at Hastens beds for the past year or so ever since they started their latest media campaign in the design magazines. In this time frame, I’ve actually experienced one of these beds, and there is no doubt that they are unrivaled. Everything is wonderful about they way they feel. But when an [...]

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OK. Vertu is like an old-school Nokia cell phone from, like, 5 years ago given a nice packaging. Can someone tell me why this is worth over six thousand dollars, please? My first cell phone that has nearly the same technology as the Vertu cost me 20 dollars with a contract. I could have bought [...]

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Recstand is one of those products that is trying to be high design but falls short, in my opinion. What is it? It’s a plastic CD stand that comes in dozens of colors. I first noticed it in a beautiful, full paged ad in Surface Magazine. Their advertising design is beautiful as well as is [...]

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Don’t ask me to pronounce his name is the first thing that came to mind when I first saw the work of Jurgen Oeltjenbruns. Fortunately for me, blogs are a print media, so no pronunciation required. Once you get past the highly unmarketable name you hit the most important men’s fashion designer out there: Jurgen [...]

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I really hope I don’t hear from this designer about this (because I seem to get a lot of ego searches where they find their product here on my site). This will be one product that I can’t fully recommend because its ugly. In fact, all of Gijs’ designs are ugly, but not in a [...]

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Object: Belt Designer: Fasten Seat Belts URL: http://www.fastenseatbelts.com Category: Fashion Price: $100 Lust Factor: Tepid Description: This idea sort of whacks you over the head with its cleverness. The designers have taken the airplane seat belt and repurposed it for fashion. I think this product will be a winner simply because the iconic value of the seat belt is so strong [...]

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Object: The Range Rover Sport Designer: Land Rover URL: http://www.landroverusa.com Category: Automotive Price: $100,000 +/- Lust Factor: Warm Description: OK. This vehicle has been out a whole year. But it is timeless styling, after all. Why do I include the Range Rover sport in a list of design crack objects? Of course, for the most superficial reasons. Somehow, the designers at [...]

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Object: The Tulip Ego Laptop Manufacturer: thecommunicationgroup URL: http://www.barneys.com Category: Personal Technology Price: $5,000 Lust Factor: Tepid Description: The design is perfection, there is no doubt. The innovation on this machine is the computer’s ability to change skins from white to red. Also, it is somewhat of an innovation for the computer to look more like a woman’s handbag than a [...]

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