I'm a special one

Here's a collection of everyday objects with a creative twist - from lacy sunglasses to Titanic ice cubes to the wedding cake figurine that I just must have for my wedding.

Enjoy

I was sitting under a tree and suddenly, an apple fell on my head

I never really understood what the Apple iPad was for. I didn't see a market for it. I have done many projects as a part of my college work and university course where I need to draw a visual representation of the target market - the user. Up until this morning, I failed to get beyond someone with more money than brains and an inherent need to buy gadgets he doesn't need.

But then I saw these:

I stumbled on the guided tours by accident doing my environmental analysis on Apple as a part of a project and all of a sudden, everything became clear to me. I do my share of flying and I find a laptop very annoying to use, whether it's blogging, watching a film, writing a review or catching up with some late work. Sitting down, moving a bit, sitting down again, having to pack up my macbook, take it out again and repeat these two actions about a gadzillion times en route to finally sitting down in the plane isn't exactly handy. So a working man on the move is exactly the person who needs this. I was especially fond of the idea of attaching a keyboard to the iPad for longer typing. We want the iPad to do more things that our macs or macbooks do. Don't try to give us too much at a time, Steve. In the old days, the nobility gave the peasantry an inch to prevent them from taking a mile. Don't force a mile down our throats, let us have our technological brilliance one inch at a time.

In the meantime, check out some of the apps that we most want to see on the iPad:

We as the apple community have spoken! Now give us our apps!

I found creativity in a bush

We can make ordinary objects absolutely awesome

I might go have a cup of tea now

Am I a pop-up ad? No, I don't think I am...

These two videos made me think. Not a lot of things can do that, but these succeeded. I started thinking about the speed of life. Being a 70-year old grumpy man at heart I am sad to see some of the things disappear as we turn our faces towards the high-speed society of tomorrow. Don't get me wrong, I am very much pro-innovation, but some of the things we leave behind do make me wish I lived in the '30s-'40s-'50s.

Don't you just agree that some of these things (check out other here) have so much more character and persona than a stupid email of a FedEx delivery? I do and the craving for these exquisite things changes the situation so that I might just have to buy a pocket watch now. I'd love to have one. I wish we could enforce laws on what we can design and not. I love futurism but what really floats my boat is when it is combined with tradition. The way it used to be in the "good 'ol days." Let me bring an example:

Isn't this just so much better than a plastic Casio, fair enough it can do all of the world's calculations in a matter of milliseconds. Someone please invent a time machine and take me back to a time when a lady with a pleasant voice asked you who you wanted to call and your chair was the heart and sweat of a bloke with a mustache and his chisels.