Nixta Rolls

Oh, this is something special. Not only great design, not merely also practical, and not just additionally also very very clever with the multiplug concept later in the video, but also a wonderfully endearing foreign accent with very slight grammatical problems - anyone who grew up with The Muppets and Björk will appreciate that.

Buy shares in this right now.

(via Gizmodo)

Interesting. I apologise that it’s blatantly a commercial for something, but when it’s this fun and frankly unobtrusive, I don’t care too much (if you just see a green block, it’s still loading - it can take a while - and there’s music at the bottom right of the moving pictures).

And their logo is basically the same as the Design Within Reach one. Blatantly, basically the same.

Click here for a bigger version.

(ThxB2 Kathleen)

Hodgman questions the presidents credentials as an earthling and ribs him on bridging the gap between Jocks and Nerds.

Full 14 minute speech here.

Thanks be to Phronk & Hodgman.

The Amazing Treat Machine (via AmazingTreatMachine via Lloyd)

[Apologies that this is strictly dog related, but this is as much a test for the facebook Tumblr app setting to see if it stops insisting you install the app in your facebook account as anything… Oh, sod it, ok, let’s make some commentary about this video…]

Ah-hem-hem… This is an interesting product for a couple of reasons, but at least one of them is outside the realm of dog ownership and that is the open-source nature of the thing. Despite advertising it through video and the website (amazingtreatmachine.com, which I’ve just realised is ATM, which is brilliantly appropriate for this - dog puts in card… er… tennis ball, gets money… er… treats out), the site also includes instructions for making this at home and recognises the temporary, destructible and so recyclable nature of the thing.

I like this. Buy it if you want to support the developer, but hey, it’s shareware…

Thanks be to Giles.

Read more about this (with a curiously small video embed) here.