Butterflies Night Lamp that Softly Illuminate Your Room

Whether its your children’s room or your own, nothing can be prettier as a decoration than the GloWings from Soner Ozenc. Unlike the butterfly iPod dock, these butterflies emit soft blue light that is perfect as a book night lamp, or just as decoration. Maybe you could even use it at parties.The Butterflies aren’t very big (30×18x12 cms) but they definitely stand out in the darkness.

Here is a view of them glowing

Granted, it looks a little like the butterfly got caught in a freak “nuclear” experiment, but trust me, when there are a few of them together, the effect is stunning. Have a look

While this is how they look in the dark, during the day, these butterflies appear a little different, and you can make out the whole butterfly, along with the faint glow that is emitted by the lamp

These wonderful butterflies are perfect to set the mood in any room and work by using a electro-luminescent phosphor printing technology. This technology helps creates the thin, lightweight, flexible lamps that illuminate the butterflies wings. The use of the electro-luminescent phosphor lamps also makes the lamps extremely safe for use virtually anywhere around the house. The whole device can either be powered by battery (4xAAA batteries) or by plugging it in to an outlet (the pack comes with a UK adaptor and an inverter).

Transformers Costume of Bumblebee

The Transformers movie was great, and with Transformers 2 coming up…fans are going crazy. There is a previous Geeky Transformers Costume, which is great and then there is this amazing fan made Bumblebee costume that shines with greatness.

Made out of Hobby foam, board, some duct tape, and a lot of hot glue, this beautiful Bumblebee Transformers Costume was seen at the 2008 San Diego Comic Con. The creator, Lionel Lum, didn’t complain about having to wear it for over 8 hours each session, for supposedly it take only a few minutes to put on and take off.

Unlike many cheesy Transformers Costume, this one will instill pride when wearing it. Just look at it! It looks amazing, brightly colored, and really gives Bumblebee a place among the humans.

New Intelligence Toilet II targets women

Toto (the toilet maker) and Daiwa Housing are teaming up once more to offer a sequel to their infamous 2005 “Intelligence Toilet.” The new “II” is equipped with all of the original health monitoring features (urine sugar analysis, blood pressure check, BMI and body weight measurement), plus an additional function designed to appeal to women: urine temperature measurement and analysis.

According to the press release, this data can be used to determine one’s basal body temperature and hormone balance—information which can help women keep track of their menstruation cycles, in addition to increasing physical awareness with the aim of “smarter” dieting and skin care. Like the original, all of this information collected by the toilet is beamed through your home network to your PC where it can be monitored in the form of charts and graphs.

While an innovation like the Intelligence Toilet is quick to make headlines both in Japan and overseas, the question remains: how many people are actually shelling out the ¥350,000($3,500) plus (and upwards of ¥610,000 or $6,100) to have one of these systems installed in their homes? On that note, it was interesting to learn that Daiwa has reportedly sold 10,000 Intelligence Toilets since the April 2005 debut (Toto makes them, Daiwa sells them). Not exactly a revolutionary number, but not a mere pittance either. Their sales projection for the II is more modest: 4,800 in three years.

For a more in-depth look at the world of Toto toilets, see the recent PingMag interview with Mariko Shimasaki from Toto. For those of you in Tokyo, Toto also runs the excellent Gallery Ma, an architecture and design gallery (with a noteworthy book shop) in Nogizaka near Tokyo Midtown.