Posthuman

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Rescue Pod

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Also more sketches by Evgeny Buryat Onutchin for the Core77 sketch contest.

Tangible Holograms

A little something for the deckers and Virtual Adepts out there:

Holograms with physical interaction made possible through motion capture technology combined with precisely focused ultrasonic sound waves to stimulate the sense of touch.


More via Core 77.

Premium Coffin Hotel

I'd only read about coffin hotels (ie. "capsule hotels") in fiction, but apparently they're a real phenomena sweeping the globe since the late 1970s. Pictured above a model with swank amenities recently designed by Masaaki Hiromura and Takaaki Nakamura as part of the 9h building.


Via The Design Blog, via Dvice, via Superfuture.

Terrain Adventurer

Futuristic off-road capable truck designed by Patrick Clark of Diseno Art.


Link via The Design Blog.

Bottled Curios

Unknown Specimen

RECOVERED FROM CHEST CAVITY OF DECAYED ANIMATED CORPSE. ANIMATION OF CORPSE CEASED UPON REMOVAL. SPECIMEN BEGAN TO DISSOLVE WITHIN MOMENTS OF REMOVAL FROM HOST. DISSOLUTION CEASED WITH FORMALDEHYDE AND ACETONE. HAITI, 1894

A handy how-to guide on preparing your own spell components, containing unruly familiars, and formalin-preserving other oddities.


Link.

Paradox-free Mouse

Finally a mouse custom-made for the Magi of House Thig.

More steampunk/arcana projects and cephalopod pics at the artist's website.

Giacattoli Ray Guns

Sean Michael Ragan provides an insightful commentary the toy ray gun designs of Edision Giacattoli. Some great pictures of beautifully designed futuristic weaponry here. Check it out:

Link.


Via Boingboing.