Ektopia

Rubik’s Mirror is a new shiny non-concentric unballanced take on the old classic puzzle cube.

This see saw bench is strictly a design item rather than an intervention as such but I still love the idea. [via]

These anti-theft lunch bags are supposed to prevent people from stealing your sarny. If I used them where I would work they would just be thrown in the bin within minutes! [via]

Charlie Brooker’s column in the Guardian is pure genius. The column used to be mostly about TV but it’s taken a dark twist of late as his hatred for almost everything has come to the surface. I feel a lot like him actually! For instance -

Know what I’ve decided to hate this week? Hats. Yes, hats. Who do hats think they are? [...] All hats are wankers.

Anyways, recent highlights include These days, I assume that everything I do is probed and examined by omnipotent corporations and The sinister conspiracy of silence that masks the awful truth about the horrors of tonsillitis and not forgetting his Guardian comment record breaking entry So, you believe in conspiracy theories, do you? You probably also think you’re the Emperor of Pluto .

For those that need to know more about him, here’s his wiki entry but apart from that you should do yourself a favour and start reading his column. [Photo credit]

Not just photos of any old banana skins as these are London Bananas! [via]

A Rube Goldberg cocktail-mixing machine.

Oliver Bishop-Young has a brilliant project called SkipWaste where common skips are converted into something all the more interesting. [via]

The creators of iMilk bring you iBeer for your iPhone! [via]

I was trawling through the cartoons over at The Rut last night and was crying with laughter…literally. This morning, they aren’t quite as funny as they were but they are still among the funniest cartoons that I’ve ever seen. [via]

What do you get when you mix cornstarch, water and a subwoofer together? Some crazy organic white life-form that looks like it’s writhing in pain and trying to escape the petri-dish!