Category: Furnishings & Furniture
The Time Table – a clock so big you can eat your dinner off it
I can’t quite make up my mind whether a giant tabletop clock is the best idea ever or just a terrible way to ensure you can never relax? A lull in conversation around the Time Table would last forever and you could measure just how long as both you and your awkward companion watch the uncomfortable minutes tick by. Thank God it doesn’t do seconds…
Star Trek Command Chair – Get your little clipboard and come sit on my lap, Uhura
No one understands your needs like Diamond Select Toys understands your needs – which is why the sci-fi toy and replica company has started making some of these. For you. For you to sit on and dream. For us all to sit on and dream. A realistic Star Trek Command Chair.
Based on the original Kirk-housing 1960s Trek captain’s chair, the new model makes sounds. The correct sounds. It even has lights and sampled dialogue. All you need to provide for 100% Trek authenticity is a ruffled quiff, slightly torn uniform and your girlfriend covered in green paint.
The realistically-proportioned Command Chair will go on sale in 2009. You might want to email the…
Sony intros BRAVIA Theatre integrated TV stand: RHT-G500
Sony has announced its new “Home theatre in a stand” system designed to be used with 32-40 inch BRAVIA TVs, though unlikely to self-destruct if you deign to put a different brand of flat screen telly on it.
It’s a 3:1 system, featuring centre, left, and right speakers and a subwoofer built in to the stand, and it used S-Force PRO Front Surround technology to offer virtual surround sound without the need for rear speakers and the near-obligatory trailing wires…
Sharp touts "revolutionary design" of AN-PR1500H home cinema rack
Maybe I’m a heathen, or I’ve been hanging around Apple gear for too long, but I wouldn’t necessarily say that Sharp’s new AN-PR1500H is a “revolutionary design” in audio furniture. Then again, it’s not ugly, and it certainly saves on space.
This 2:1 system boasts 300W of output power, andcomes ready-fitted with an upscaling DVD player, which is fine if you don’t already have one, and features HDMI output and DivX compatibility, USB port for multimedia files, and FM digital tuner…
IKEA Family Mobile – the new phone service from the Swedish furniture flogger
Yes. Yes, it has. It really has. IKEA has just assembled itself a piece of the UK mobile phone market, thanks to a newly-announced tie-up with T-Mobile.
IKEA Family Mobile, as the service will be known, will be available to members of the IKEA Family loyalty scheme. Once you’ve bought £10 of IKEA pre-paid airtime you get fixed-price calls and texts – 9p per minute for calls and 6p per text…
The… brace yourselves… TARDIS wardrobe
The must-have Christmas gift of 2008 for the 3-11-year-old demographic, it is, and we can hardly believe such an amazing item exists, a TARDIS wardrobe! It is such a great idea. One of the world’s best ideas, alongside automatically slicing bread with a machine and trainers with air in the soles for extra bounciness.
Fashioned out of the finest canvas and non-sustainable pine, the TARDIS wardrobe boasts a “single rail” and “zippable doors.” But it’s not about features. It’s about shape and colour, and saying “POLICE BOX” in the correct font.
It is also the ideal Christmas gift for those in the 33-49-year-old sci-fi fan demographic, along with some Babylon 5 slippers…
Custom made chandeliers – bling bling, you're dead
I’d normally say that chandeliers are among the heights of tackiness. If gold mobile phones are Mount Everest then they have to be at least K2. However, these custom made works of art from Rock and Royal are just genius…
Star Trek thread mosaics – bead me up Scotty
There’s no chance you’ll ever get laid with a Star Trek bead mosaic adorning your pad…
Video Review: CitizenM hotels decked out with Philips gadgetry
I was lucky enough to spend a night in the brand new CitizenM hotel in Holland, designed in conjunction with Philips for the modern day business traveler…
A taste of the Orient in your very own Yin Yang kitchen
I’m not sure if you could comfortably cook anything other than Chinese food in a kitchen shaped like a giant Yin Yang symbol but it’d look pretty damn swish when you’re throwing your veg about your wok like Ken Hom.
The principle behind this central, freestanding unit is that all the cool, water-based and calm parts of your kitchen – fridge and sink – are stored within the Yin…
