Weekly Roundup From My Web Travels I

Sleep, beautiful sleep:

From DVICE, an inflatable office cozy. Since sleep is my second ( or is that third) favorite pastime, I'm particularly drawn to this. Read it here

Home away from homes:

From Geekologie:
An underwater dome could be yours for the low low price of 80K

Get yo' exoskeleton on:
Geekologie strikes again with the technological solution to creating romantically dashing suitors out of the everyman ( should be especially useful in the every widening population of North America)




Outsource your design:

In case you missed it in the wires, Ponoko is a service in New Zealand and San Francisco that will use a laser cutter to etch or cut your designs out of a range of materials, and even ship them to a destination for you. This means no set up, no hiring and firing, no inventory, and few hassles. All you need to do is upload your design templates which can be created with basic drawing tools, get them to cut and ship. They even have a showroom!

Currently the biggest drawbacks are limited materials types ( wood, acrylic , mdf, ...) , lack of guaranteed straight cuts ( the laser is centrally positioned over the material sheet, so it cuts at an angle) and lack of sizes ( max 79 x 38.4 cm, so no 8' x 4' sheets of plywood).