mental_floss Blog & Gifts for the Geek Home A home should be an expression of who you are. Sure, when you're young and broke, your room or apartment might be an expression of who your parents or the people who donate to Goodwill are, but gradually you collect items that express your personality, whether you receive them as gifts or purchase them yourself. If you are a technologically oriented geek, there are plenty of manufacturers and vendors catering to your tastes in home decor. Interactive LED Dining Table Windell Oksay of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories built a dining room table with 448 LEDs inside. The lights respond to movement on and above the table surface! Motherboard Picture Frame Recycling is not only environmentally-friendly, it can make a statement. Geek Clock This geeky clock was posted all over as "the clock only geeks can read." A Clock that Spells Here's a clock that is easy for anyone to read, but the mechanism that displays it is something else. Watch how the clock face changes here. Galactic Hitchhiker's Towel
John F. Kennedy Berliner Quote Claim: President John F. Kennedy called himself a jelly donut in his famous 1963 speech in Berlin, Germany. Origins: On 26 June 1963, President John F. So where did the jelly donut claims originate? The grammatical debate hinges on the article ein. What remains is the question, did Germans really think Kennedy called himself a jelly donut, and, well, did he? Claims of laughter during the speech itself are actually heard in response to Kennedy's joking remark, "I appreciate my interpreter translating my German," made after the applause died down from the first time he uttered the famous line, which he had scrawled out phonetically in his notes. Kennedy's famous line was penned by someone who was raised within Berlin itself and was an accomplished and highly regarded translator in his own right.
Barn Cars - Now to find someone to perform the highest quality workmanship. We will need Auto Restoration for our hundreds ofSports Cars, Muscle Cars, Classic Cars, Custom Street Rods, Hot Rods and everything in between! Barn Cars A New York man retired. He wanted to use his retirement money wisely, and decided to buy a home and a few acres in Portugal. The New York guy bought it at just half of the property's worth, moved in and set about to tear in to the barn. What was in the barn? Classic cars, specialty cars, Mercedes, Lotus, Astin Martin, Porsche, Volvo, Austin Healy, Alfa Giulietta, BMW, Formula Racers, Chryslers, Mercedes, Austin A30, Alfa Romeo Fiat Cabriolet (1200 or 1500), Ford Cortina MKII, Mercedes Benz 180/190 Astin Martin? Opel GT, Lotus Elan FHC, Lotus Super Seven Series IV, Lotus Elan DHC Porsche 356, Austin Healy Sprite MKII, Volvo PV 544, Ford Y ? Giulietta Sprint, Giulia Sprint Speciale (SS), Nash Metropolitan Alfa Giulietta, Lotus Europa, another Lotus Elan FHC, Matra Djet? Lancia Flaminia Coupé Abarth 1300 Scorpione Lancia Flaminia Coupé, Peugeot 504 and 404 Cabriolet Mini, Alfa 1900 Super Sprint, Balilla Fiat Topolino II Triumph TR4, Peugeot 202 American (inspired) Design Interior of Alfa Romeo
An Ingenious Clock Gently Motivates Serial Procrastinators | Co.Design We would've gotten to this post earlier but we just kinda' put it off. So... Sorry, sidetracked again! Should, Coulda, Woulda, by Swedish design student Maria Bergström, is a blank-face wall clock that comes with a set of colorful leather-covered magnets. The photos do a good job of showing how this thing works. Whoops, looks like he fluffed it on a couple of them: And another... We think this is an awesome idea, not least of all because you can totally ignore it if you're not feeling motivated. [Images courtesy of Maria Bergström; hat tip to Design Sponge]