16 Abandoned And Decaying Hotels From Around The World

Around the world stand empty hotels that symbolise the loss of prosperity and the death of dreams. Lavish resorts and small hotels which were once filled with life and activity are now abandoned and filled only with decay. Abandoned hotels range from decrepit to like-new and exist everywhere from remote parts of the globe to modern urban cities. These abandoned hotels serve as reminders that even the best laid plans don't always work out over time.

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Ticketime

Ticketime by Designers Jacky Wu, Neo Chen & Eric Liu is a boarding card and a wristwatch all in one. Before your departure, the airline company would preset the watch to the time zone of your destination. It is returned to the airline counter during your check-in upon your return flight, whilst still serving the purpose of a flight ticket.

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Nike - take it to the next level

The Price Of A Pint

Pint Price is a database of World Beer Prices. Use this site to find the best watering nation. It seems beer is cheapest in Congo. You'll get a pint for only 20 cents. Most expensive is Monaco where you'll pay $ 15 for a pint.

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Mmk Kabayashi's Photostream

Mmk Kobayashi's Photostream. A series of beautiful, funny and weird photos on Flickr.

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Street fighter comes to life

This is a comical video by Mega64 depicting Street Fighter characters Ryu, Saga and Blanka in real life. Apparently, they wanted to relay a message about being careful where you park your car.

Banana juice

Naoto Fukasawa designed this awesome banana juice pack.

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Interactive Art Gallery For International Train Travellers

Land Design Studio has worked with Studio Simple to create Station Masters – a new interactive digital art gallery experience in the Eurostar departure lounge at St Pancras International in London. The project, which launched earlier today, is a collaboration between Eurostar and the National Gallery which offers travellers the chance to explore a database of 100 highlights from the National Gallery’s collection of Western European painting – including masterpieces by Caravaggio, Constable, Leonardo da Vinci, Money, Rubens, Titian and Van Gogh.

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Got Wine? Let It Flow

Real elegance exists in simplicity, and the simply elegant design in this photo is a perfect example. It's called the Flow™ and its sensuous path was inspired by the flow of liquid. Add function to the Flow, and mysteriously, it becomes a rather elegant wine rack for the wall!

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Splash art

If you are in New York, don't hesitate to go on the 9th street between 2th and 3th aveny, you could see this nice piece of art!

Cool pictures from Adrian Samson

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Pornopoly!

Gain popularity! Make money! Pass Go and Collect $200! or Go Your Ass Directly To The Health Department! All the fun and excitement of being a real-life porn star is here in this amazing board game. Buy strip clubs, start “toy” companies and star in movies of all types - including the valuable mainstream movie role and licensed merchandise. Increase the value of your body by getting on more computers and television screens. Amass the greatest fortune in money and popularity and you’re the winner!

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The 50 Hottest Women of Sports

Hours of training. Dedication. Toned bodies. Tanned skins...

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What would you do if you win the Lottery?

Celebration Of Vintage and Retro Design

Retro and vintage designs are often considered as being outdated, looking old, unattractive and dull. That’s not true. Although compared to modern design, retro is mostly a completely different realm, it has a large variety of benefits modern graphic designers often tend to overlook. And that’s a pity.

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LG Secret

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Porn For The Blind

Pornofortheblind.org bills itself as a not-for-profit organization dedicated to producing audio descriptions of sample movie clips from adult web sites.

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Glo Pillow

The glo Pillow is an alternative to the traditional alarm clock. It was designed with teammate Eoin McNally in response to a brief to create a product which helps to combat the pressures of a “24 hour” lifestyle.The pillow uses an LED fabric substrate below the surface to wake the user using light. This substrate also functions as a display, showing the time on the pillows surface using the grid of LEDs below

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Searchme incorporates Cover Flow in search results

Online search engine Searchme has a very cool search result interface that mimics Apple’s Cover Flow seen in iTunes and iPod-related products. The search function is intuitive to an extent because it brings up categories based on relevance to your search query. All of this happens as you type out your search request. Pretty neat.

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The 10 Most Comfortable Airline Economy Seats

Any jetsetter can tell you a comfortable airline seat is worth its weight on gold. The folks at Geek About have taken it upon themselves to evaluate the comfort of 10 different air carrier's chairs, complete with a comparison chart.

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Cool condom packaging

Proposed new range of condom packaging that will increase appeal to the target market.

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Virtual Wall

The Virtual Wall provides a barrier made up of plasma laser beams depicting pedestrians doing what they do best and any car that crosses that barrier suffers the consequences. Okay so maybe those lasers aren’t powerful enough to do any harm but the effect is enough to make drivers and pedestrians alike follow crosswalk rules to the tee.

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