Royal Caribbean goes to 11
Royal Caribbean’s record-setting $1.5 billion, 1200-foot-long, 16-deck-high, 220,000-ton, luxury cruiser left last month on its way from Finland to Miami. The ship, christened “Oasis of the Seas,” will begin offering cruises in December of 2009. The Oasis of the Seas has a maximum capacity of around 6,000 people. You can visit the site set up by [...]

New Your City Cut Up
Charlotte, North Carolina based artist Karen O’Leary’s Studio K has created this New York City map, in which the cut-outs reveal the “paths, nodes, circles, boulevards, parks and streets” the city that never sleeps. There are  four 3? x 4? paper panels, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx, that fit together like panes of window. This piece [...]

Glass Rubik’s Cube
While this isn’t a real product, yet, designer IceBone has created a rendering of  what many are calling the best Rubik’s Cube ever. He said it took approximately 20 hours to render, using 3DStudio Max 6.0 and Mental Ray 3.2.6. Lets hope that some toy engineer somewhere can figure out how to make one in the [...]

Lightsaber chopsticks
The force runs strong with these chopsticks! While these have been available at the Panda Express in Mos Eisley for “a long time” now, they are now coming to earth. Available in Jedi Blue and Green as well as Sith Red. You can find them for approximately 10,000 credits [$10 US-Earth]. If you can read [...]

Disneyland Time-Lapse (1954-55)
“Archival footage of the Disneyland’s birth. Using time-lapse and traditional eye-in-the-sky photography, this is a dazzling piece of history, presenting how the fearless construction crews had Disneyland up and running in just under a year. Again: just under a year. commentary by Tony Baxter, Ed Hobleman, and Walter Magnuson, who discuss the frantic construction of [...]