Awesome Car Hood Ornaments

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Car mascots (or hood ornaments) used to be installed on the exposed radiator caps of cars and even when radiator caps disappeared, hood ornaments were still used. These objects were often intricate works of art and today are highly prized by collectors. We still see company logos on all models of cars today of course, but here's a look at just a small selection of hood ornaments from days gone by.

Star Trek Captain's Chair Replica

For only $5,499.99 you can own a Star Trek Original Series Captain's Chair Replica.

Here's your chance to own the most iconic and well-known piece of furniture in television history! This authentic recreation of Captain Kirk's command chair will turn any room of your home or office into the bridge of the USS Enterprise.

Just sitting in this handcrafted and set-accurate replica will make you want to give an order to fire phasers or raise shields. It's sure to be the most talked about piece of furniture in your home or office for many years to come!

(via Everlasting Blort)

The World's Only Turbine Powered Batmobile

This is the only Batmobile created that makes fiction reality. It is powered by a Boeing turboshaft engine from a naval drone helicopter driving the rear wheels through a semi automatic gearbox. It runs on kerosene, diesel, or Jet fuel and has a power to weight ratio comparable to a Dodge Viper. The car was built by Casey Putsch of Putsch Racing.



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Intricate Ship Sterns: Art On The Ocean

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The stern is the rear of a ship or boat, being positioned opposite the front or bow, where the figurehead would normally be located. More elaborate than Barocco palace facades, these monumental sterns were built to impress.

The Bruce Lee Stamp

The Bruce Lee website has launched a campaign to honor Bruce Lee on a US postage stamp in 2012, the Year of the Dragon.

Bruce Lee's contributions to history as a prominent Chinese American person are both unique and unforgettable, a lasting and positive legacy worthy of national commemoration. Even before he became an American icon in the 1970s, his ideals were the same principles on which our great country is based.

We believe a Bruce Lee United States postage stamp would be an excellent way to support these ideals and to honor his lasting legacy and contributions. The process, however, is a difficult one that cannot be accomplished without your help. In order to get Bruce Lee's candidacy on the Selection Committee's radar, we need as much public support as is possible.

(via Laughing Squid)

Lazy Housekeeper Mop Slippers

Lazy Housekeeper Mop Slippers.

Lazy housekeepers rejoice! Instead of wasting your time with the dust broom, you can just wear these Mop Slippers every day and they'll sweep up dust bunnies while you shuffle back and forth from the couch to the fridge. Great for bachelors, college students and obsessive multitaskers.

(thanks Cora)

The Colour Clock

The Colour Clock. Representing time as a hexadecimal colour value.

BadgEm

Presurfer readers Tim and Joel Sanders founded BadgEm, a little Facebook application that lets people send vintage-inspired merit badges to reward their friends for the cool things they do.

Reward friends and family for all the wonderful things they do for us, for others and for the world! Instead of e-cards, send free online merit badge greeting cards to your friends on Facebook for their wonderful acts of social good like volunteering, donating and mentoring - their special occasions like birthdays, weddings and graduation - and recognize their amazing talents like humor, cooking, singing and dancing! Pick a badge and send it to your loved ones now. They'll be happy to get one from you!

All Kinds Of Stickers

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A collection of stickers. Bumper stickers, Hallmark stickers, promo stickers of all kinds. Mostly vintage stuff from the 70's and 80's.

(thanks Cora)

Creatively Decorated Cars For Fun

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Everyone loves their car and some people want to show it to everyone. But why would someone look at their cars? Because they turn their cars into something eye-catching.

The State Mottos Project

Fifty and Fifty is a curated project which attempts to construct a hansome new way of looking at America. Fifty designers, one from every state, have illustrated their state motto, creating something steeped in history but completely modern and unique: a kind of designer's atlas.

Fifty and Fifty was created by Dan Cassaro, a designer and animator living and working in Brooklyn, New York.

Eole

French designer Julien Moise created a watch he called 'Eole', named after the Greek God of Wind Aeolus. The watch runs on batteries but the screen works on wind energy. You have to blow into the red-colored rotor blades to see the time. The blades generate just enough electricity to activate the screen for a short time.



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Ctrl-Alt-Delete Cup Set

This set of three coffee cups shaped like your favorite 3 keyboard keys is the perfect metaphor for taking a mental break from your computer.

(via Laughing Squid)

Website Made Entirely Of Chocolate

Sagres, a Portugese brewery is promoting its new beer Sagres Preta Chocolate, a chocolate flavoured stout beer. Sagres decided the perfect way to launch it was also to create a website made of chocolate.

(thanks Cora)

The Basics Of Typography

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Typography is the art of selecting and spacing typefaces appropriate to the content of the material to be printed and to the ink and paper used, in order to produce a legible, aesthetically appealing printed piece. But there is so much more to it than that. It can mean different things depending on whom you ask.

Typography used in a design is deeply rooted in its overall theme, tone and message. It works with your layout, grid and color choice to create a well-rounded design. Your choice of typefaces and your technique of setting type give your composition its character, pace and style. Not only does it give the copy legibility, it also helps the reader gain a greater insight into the subject of the design.

FishEyes: Watch Fish While You Catch'em

FishEyes features a waterproof video camera that transmits live footage of your fishing experience below the surface to a rod mounted monitor. The full color LCD screen allows for a vivid display of the underwater scenery so you can see if there are any fish waiting to take the bait!



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(thanks Cora)

21 Unique Chandeliers

A chandelier is a branched decorative ceiling-mounted light fixture with two or more arms bearing lights. Chandeliers are often ornate, containing dozens of lamps and complex arrays of glass or crystal prisms to illuminate a room with refracted light. But chandeliers are sometimes made from eating utensils, liquor bottles, paper clips, and yes, even humas bones.

21 Unique Chandeliers.

(thanks Nick)

EDWARD, An Electric Dicycle

EDWARD (Electric Diwheel With Active Rotation Damping) is a human operated diwheel designed and built by students at the University of Adelaide, Australia. The dicycle can transport a single passenger at up to 24.8 miles per hour (40 km/h).

Bicycle Camper

American artist and designer created the 'Golden Gate', an electric camper pod. It's a light weight camper home on wheels made with a fiberglass shell. Inside is a toilet, stove, a table, a convertible bed and a water tank.

(via Waslijn)

A House Made Of Bookcases

Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio designed this bookshelf-lined house - called Shelf-Pod - located in the Osaka prefecture in Japan. All the of the architectural elements in the house (stairs, windows, desks, chairs, etc) have been designed as a bookshelf.

This innovative structural system affords not only a large amount of book storage, but the possibility of a flexible floor level which can be delivered from every height of the bookshelf.

(via Boing Boing)