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It's the nifty NOD bedside table (which can also function as a wall-mounted light) - complete with sleek spaces for your cell phone/TV remote, glasses, and a book. Perfect! I want one. :) But argh, why does it have to be over $200?



Get NOD!

Cuteness alert. Yup, that adorable little German bear is back - with his very own website!



Check out the photo section. I mean, really - how can you resist? :)

So perhaps you're at work right now reading this... looking to waste a little time online... but be forewarned - I thought I'd just check it out and play a round or two, and before I knew it, 20 minutes had gone by!



It's TypeRacer! The new, sneakily-fun way to improve your typing skills.
How fast can you type?

Truly good, catchy, creative commercials are few and far between - so when I find one, I like to share it with the DailyCrush crew! :) This one's for the Discovery Channel - it's a remake, I believe, of a summer camp song, retooled for Discovery shows and to make room for the likes of Mike Rowe, the Mythbusters, and Stephen Hawking, among others. As the tribesman says: Boom-dee-YAAAAAA-DAHHHHHH indeed!

These keyboards are a little more girly than the usual tech stuff, but there's a nifty gold one, too, for you King Midas-type men. :) There are five different models so far, and in case you're wondering why they're so pricey, it's because they're hand-decorated!



See the rest at GeekStuff4U

Beanbags in the meeting rooms, a metal slide downstairs into the groovy lunchroom, inflatable chairs, taxis and ski lifts and fishing campers as work pods, fake snow, an aquarium "think" room, games everywhere... all at Google's Swiss offices.

I kid you not. Go look, go look now. If I still worked in an office, I'd be pestering my bosses to start doing stuff like this ASAP! (Do you like my use of official office-y terminology there? ;) )



Google's offices rock!

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Q: What do you get when you put cake batter into this?



A: Garden Cakes! Could there be a more appropriate cakelet for spring? I think not. :)
Get this nifty cake pan here

This had so much the same feel of the floating community in the previous DailyCrush entry, I just had to post it (plus it's really cool!)

A design firm called Atkins is going to be designing this unique five-star resort hotel set within a 100-metre deep quarry near Shanghai in China. Set to be completed a year from now (May 2009), the environmentally-sustainable design will include plenty of water and landscape features, cafes, restaurants, and nifty guestrooms that will face a giant 10-metre deep aquarium.





To get the full scoop, just visit the Atkins Design Projects site!

This is called the AZ Island project, as designed by French architect Jean-Phillipe Zoppini. Over 1,300 feet long and 990 feet wide, the giant vessel is said to host 4,000 cabins plus its own "port" and other facilities, making it like a mini-city on the sea. Take that, Carnival Cruises!



Just imagine taking a vacation and visiting a variety of cities, going back to your own little floating city at night! This is only one of several similar concepts, which you can see on the not-so-greatly-designed but nonetheless interesting Megaships page.

Which one would you want to (at least temporarily) live on?

It's kind of like the Boston Tea Party, but for the environment -
A "Big Statement" to draw attention to the cause of fighting climate change.



It's Earth Hour!

On this Saturday, March 29th, from 8 to 9 pm your local time, you can join millions of people around the world in making a statement about climate change by turning off your lights for one hour. It's an event created by the World Wildlife Fund, with big cities participating, from Bangkok and Chicago to Dublin, Toronto, Sydney, and Santa Cruz!

And here's a handy tip from DailyCrusher wosmo - if you check Google, you might just find that many of the country-specific Googles are also "turning the lights off!" ;)

Spring has sprung...
which means a new seasonal design update for
your main DailyCrush page!
Stop by and see what you think!

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Enjoy! :)

Two of my favourite things combined for Easter.
Star Wars, and Peeps. Have a great weekend! :)

Nope, this is not a Photoshopped photo! Meet the German Giant - it's a rabbit breed that doesn't exist in the wild (it's been developed by breeders.) They come in particularly useful this time of year! ;)

This one's named Ella, and she weighs 26 pounds (10 kg) - the equivalent of a cocker spaniel!



If you want to find out more about these remarkably rotund rabbits, meet Rudi (23 pounds/8.7 kg) and Herman (20 pounds/7.7 kg)!

What's this?



It's an Eggling!



The perfect gift for a slow-arriving spring (or for those of you in the Southern Hemisphere, a great way to make summer last a little longer!), an Eggling looks and feels like a regular egg, but just crack its top, and you'll find soil ready for planting with the enclosed seeds (you choose herbs or flowers.)

Yes, DailyCrushers...
It's that time again...
Time for yet another Geek Holiday...
It's Pi Day!

March 14 = 3.14

And exactly what is Pi? Well..

Pi is one of the most important mathematical constants, approximately equal to 3.14159. It represents the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter in Euclidean geometry, which is the same as the ratio of a circle's area to the square of its radius. It is an irrational number; therefore, its decimal representation never ends or repeats. When a circle's diameter is 1, its circumference is Pi, as diagrammed here:



And how to celebrate Pi Day?
How about with a Pi Digits Mug...


Or maybe a Pi Plate? Hee. ;)

Here's one for our guy DailyCrushers (and the girls who gift them) - this little item (and I say little because this is unfortunately the biggest image I could find) is called a Mantern...



...otherwise known as Candles for Men! Most good-natured guys will tolerate their girl's affinity for pretty-smelling candles, but chances are they'd prefer these more manly versions, which come in scents like Ballpark (above), Bacon Cheeseburger, Baseball Glove, 4th of July, Sawdust, and The Woods. Heh. :)

The clever people at MIT have created a new vehicle that they're calling The City Car - it's half the size of a normal compact car, has two seats, is electric, and is more maneuverable than regular cars - all that's pretty neat. But the really cool part is that the cars are foldable to roughly half their size, so that they can be stacked and recharged at various locations through a city - you simply use your credit card to check one out and drive away!



What do you think? Would you drive a City Car? I would! :)

I was looking for a cool clock today for DailyCrush, in the spirit of Daylight Savings Time and all (for Americans, anyway) - and I thought this one was perfect, since it's a nature-y kind of clock, and spring is (hoorah!) right around the corner...



It merely looks like a nicely polished block of wood until you plug it in - and then once you do, the time glows from the inside. :)

The Enlightenment is actually a "book" light made out of white Plexiglass and outfitted with a 9-watt energy-saving lamp - I love the way it looks on a bookshelf!



Here's the lamp on its own - it's still cool, but I like it better when it's hanging out with it's Real Book pals. What do you think?