Usually it’s the Olympics that cities strive to impress with amazing architecture (China with their Bird’s Nest Stadium). Clearly someone forgot to tell the Koreans when they started planning this piece of art of a stadium that is scheduled to be the architectural highlight of the 2014 Asian Games scheduled to be hold 70,000 people during the games, and then be converted into a park and stadium of 30,000 people afterward. Just gorgeous. (Found on Gizmodo)

Meet the Dyson Air Multiplier. It is a fan. Without any blades. That costs US$300. No really…. $300 for a 10″ fan. But that kind of money is buying you one of the most eye-catching fans out there. Sucking air in from the base, the air is then sped up 15-times through that loop by squeezing it through a tiny aperture . The air is down blown in your direction from the outside edge of the front of the ring. So you may have to be a baller to be blowing that much cash on a fan, but it’s going to be one hell of a talking piece when you have someone over. (Found on Gizmodo)

HotPrints is standing on top of the value hill for photobooks. Typical services run for about $20-30 depending on the number of pages, hardcover or softcover, and so forth. HotPrints produces your photobook for a measily $2.95 and ships them for just $0.75 in the United States, which is astoundingly low. In the short time they have been up, they’ve already produced tens of thousands of books. Now they’ve gone one better. Once a month, each user is allowed to receive a photobook completely free (shipping is free as well!). True the book is ad-supported, but the ads are printed on removable pages of the book, and not next to your pictures. HotPrints is able to use your photos on Facebook for their books (which is also where they get information to know what kind of ads to place in the book), and you can use the Facebook application to produce a 8 glossy sheet book, with each sheet displaying multiple color photos. Not bad at all. (Found on TechCrunch)

There is a bit of pyro in all of us (ok some of us… some more than others). You can keep your Zippo or you can collect matchboxes from restaurants, or you just burning candles and fireworks. So for those of us out there, this is a special creation. Using vintage lighters that were sold in the 50s in gumball machines. These are working lighters with fluid (not included), flint, and a wick (the guy even includes a spare set of flint and wick). How cool would you be if you had a pair of lighters on your sleeves? (Found on Uncrate)

Being a bit of a watch fan, I’ve seen plenty of Black on Black watches – Bell & Ross being one of a few companies. But for some reason or another, I really think that the black TX 600-Series Pilot Watch is the darkest watch I have ever seen. Retailing at Nordstorm for US$575, this gorgeous watch has a black stainless steel case, adorned with a sapphire crystal, behind which is a sculpted black dial featuring a date, fly-back chronograph and tachymeter. The watch has a black leather band with a buckle enclosure, and the entire thing is waterproof to 100m (10 ATM). Quite impressive. (Found on Uncrate)

and black leather band.

Black on black is in and on display with the TX Pilot Watch ($575). This striking timepiece features a unique modern black dial with calendar, tachymeter, and dual time zone functions, a matte black stainless steel case, a plain black leather strap with buckle closure, and water-resistance down to 100 meters.

I absolutely love vinyl prints. They are a great, elegant, but striking way to decorate your home and even showcase your work. Back in my old apartment I had a giant vinyl print of New York adorning my living room wall that I got from IKEA (54″x75″), and it was a true eye-catcher. While that was a mass-production print, and hence cheaper, I would love to take some of my own photos and blow them up to full size vinyl prints. CanvasPop is a new online service that allows me to take any photo of mine, and turn it into a unframed or framed vinyl print of a nearly any size (although none go as large as the IKEA one mentioned above). This is awesome. And it’s fairly reasonably priced! It has an easy way to upload your photos, and apply filters to make your photos even more unique. You can even split a single photo into multiple vinyl prints to create a more interesting look to your room. Can’t wait to try it out. (Found on Uncrate)

I really think this is an awesome implementation of a gyroscope. By creating a super-steady wheel for a bicycle, it makes it really easy for kids and novices to learn how to balance on a bike, and then gradually reduce it’s assistance (read speed of the gyroscope) until you are balancing on your own. My only concern would be how easy it is to correct a bike’s balance once it starts to fall over? Does it just slow down the fall so you don’t get hurt, or is it still possible to counter the effects of the gyroscope and recover from it easily? Nevertheless, a hell of a lot better than training wheels. (Found on Gizmodo)