Gone fishing to spice up your dinner table

One of those cool design ideas I like so much: aach piece in this stainless steel cutlery set is whimsically fish-shaped, right down to tail, fins, mouth, and eyes.
The playfulness of this pattern will reel you in hook, line, and sinker. Not surprisingly, Gone Fishin' claims a place in Yamazaki's Museum Collection... and there's everything: Teaspoon, Salad Fork, Soup Spoon, Dinner Fork, Dinner Knife, Appetizer fork, Teaspoon, Salad Serving Set..and so on

Here you can buy them
and if you like this kind of thingd there's a nice collection of Creative and Unusual Cutlery Designs on Toxel.

Sharky, the tea-infuser

This is a great design idea that recalls another one that I've spoken about one year ago in a post entitled There's shark in your mojito!
This time I should say "there's a shark in your tea" because we're speaking about a really well designed infuser.
Sharky, that's its name, won the 3th prize in the "Beyond Silver" competition by designboom.com.




This floating tea-infuser looks just like a shark fin swimming in circles in the waters of your tea mug! and the streamers of steeped tea could become blood for the most imaginative kids...




Pablo Matteoda is the designer and you can see his website here

Oh no.. I'm stuck!

This is indeed the cutest bath plug I've ever seen in my life!
The little red fish stuck in the plughole is really nice and makes pulling out the plug easier. You can buy it for 7.95£ here

Fake Shark Attack Wetsuit

Have you ever thought that all the wetsuit looks the same?
Well Diddo, a dutch artist and designer has definitely put the word end to this lack of originality...
With custom inks and unique printing techniques, he has been able to map textures onto the suits to create original designs. Lookin his masterpiece, the "chewed-looking wetsuit", that simulate you've been attacked by an angry shark I must admit he has been really imaginative....
Try to imagine the panic spreading over a beach if a surfer with a wetsuit like this would rise slowly from the water walking toward the people...




There are other great designs, a rusted iron diving suit, the anatomic musculature suit and finally a whale shark patterned suit, my favourite one.



Visit Diddo's site for any further info

Yuck!

This is indeed a funny concept... but, come on, the idea of drinking the dentures rinse water is not so enticing...! Not to mention what the kid and the dog are doing...
However it's for sure a nice idea for a laugh with your friends.
If you're interested this is a product by Donkey Products

There's a shark in your mojito!

If you have a good memory you may remember the post Would you like a gin and TITONIC? in which I presented a really cool and weird (and a little black humorous..) idea: Ice-trays shaped like Titanic and Icebergs!
Today is the time of a perfect companion to enlarge your collection of odd ice-trays:
The Shark Fin! the only ice cube that give you the illusion of having a shark in your Daiquiri...
The bite marks on the tray, I have to say, are a nice touch.



If this is not too odd for you, this is the product page, you can have it for £5.99 (about $8.25)

Paper Bottles. The best place you could ever put water in

This is a clever and cool idea but most of all it is a necessary idea. It could seems incredible but our society is currently selling billions of gallons of water in everlasting plastic bottles to people who already have access to clean water sources. As crazy as that sounds. And this absurd idea is turning our planet into a gigantic garbage heap. At the end of this post you'll see the perfect graphic explanation of this concept.

In a rare attempt to do something for this problem BRANDIMAGE has created the 360 Paper Bottles which as the name states are bottles made of 100% renewable paper. This idea has granted them an IDEA (International Design Excellence Award). Let's read the explanation of the concept in their own words:

CHALLENGE
Each day, Americans throw out 60 million plastic bottles. Only 14% actually get recycled—
meaning 86% become garbage or litter. We looked at this as a radical problem requiring an
equally radical solution. Could we design a container that would leverage sustainability, be
easy to transport, and enhance the consumer’s drinking experience?

SOLUTION
The 360 Paper Bottle is a sustainable vision of the future. It is the first totally recyclable
paper container made from 100% renewable resources. Versatile in its range of consumer
applications and made from food-safe and fully recyclable materials, it decreases energy
consumed throughout the product life cycle without sacrificing functionality. It is paper
packaging that stands up to all liquid categories.

As I've said before I'll now show you what I think is the best graphical explanation of the actual size of the plastic bottle problem.
This is the work of Chris Jordan, a famous artist/photographer who has recently deeply affected the public opinion with his artworks that are able to mix the cold numbers of statistics, art and social and environmental protest. This is one work form 2007 which is called "Plastic Bottles"

Two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes.



© Chris Jordan
CLIC ON THE PICTURES TO ENLARGE THEM

Visit ChrisJordan.com to see his other amazing artworks

Have you ever dreamt to be a dolphin? Now you can.

It's not the first time I post about really unconventional mean of transport to explore the waterworld and have fun in the sea, like the following examples:
Waterbird
Transparent Kayak
Squba
nevertheless I'm sure this is the coolest thing I've ever seen in this field. By far.
Innespace is the company that have invented this fantastic sort of moto-dolphin water vessel named SeaBreacher (there is also a single person version named simply Dolphin). This thing uses the same canopy as an F-22 fighter jet, keeping the roomy interior nice and dry inside a watertight seal and it's powered by a little engine in the back that allows you to do all sorts of fun stuff like barrel rolls, jumps, dives and drownings. "Swimming" just under the surface and than jumping outside just like a real dolphin! So Cool!
The best way to understand what SeaBreacher is able to do, however, is looking the following commercial:


SeaBreacher is for sale and if you buy one and you're not just sutisfied jumping alone in the sea there's also a racing league in which you can compete to show the world who's the best Dolphin on the scene!

Jumping on the water

It's been known on the web both as Waterbird and Acquaskipper (and many other names), it reaches 27 km/h, being the fastest human-propelled device on the surface of the water. It weighs just 12 kilos and it's pure fun. An english site is under construction, for the Italian one click here

Would you like a gin and TITONIC?

©2008 FRED
Click the image to enlarge

You already know that Internet is the place where you can find almost everything from the most bizarre to the almost useless and even those cult cool-designed things impossible to find anywhere else. Gin and Titonic applies to all the previous definitions and it's also a little bit "black humorous"...
Eight plastic boxes to create ice cubes, four shaped like icebergs and four like Titanic.... and voilà.. your Gin and Titonic is ready... it misses just Leonardo Di Caprio drowning in the Martini but, probably, without him it tastes better...

Design: Jason Amendolara, Fred Studio
©2008 FRED

An ingenious idea

This is a special keyholder that seems made on porpose for people like me... My job brings me most of the time in the sea and I'm one of those guys that always lose everything they can lose (even if I have to admit that, year after year, I'm improving in this field..).
Water-buoy is the first keyholder created for valuable objects that can fall into the sea. If this happens Water-buoy self-activates:



A balloon hidden inside Water-buoy start auto-inflating converting it in a floating buoy




According to the manufacturers this clever item can sustain up to 1 kilogram. Moreover it is equipped with a flashing light too, in this way you'll be able to find it even in the darkness.

This video explain it all:



If you are interested in it, this is the official site

The best way to paddle in the sea? the transparent kayak!

Cool! This kayak-canoe hybrid has a transparent polymer hull that offers paddlers an underwater vista of aquatic wildlife and waterscapes unavailable in conventional boats. Seating two people, the sturdy canoe hull is made of the same durable material found in the cockpit canopies of supersonic fighter jets. I just don't want to imagine the feeling of spotting a shark right beneath you...

It's a little bit expensive ($1,599.95) but if you want to be the coolest of the beach you can buy it at Hammacher

Seawaymouse

If here at SeaWayBLOG we should choose a computer mouse we certainly would choose this... It's orange and it's related to water... I cannot ask for more.

If you are looking for something different you can find many others in this
strange computer mice gallery.

The sound of the ocean always with you

This is bizarre! Are you wondering what's this strange object which in some way has an "elven" look? Well, it's the chance for you to have the sound of the ocean whenever and wherever you want. Everybody knows that putting a shell close to the ear you can hear a noise very similar to the sound of rolling waves. This object, I don't know how, is able to do the same and it doesn't need any kind of power supply, allowing you to have a moment of relax, hearing the sound of the sea, each time you want. The creator of this so called "Noisy Instrument" is Jun Murakoshi