Glow In The Dark Mosaic Tiles By 5 Companies Make Light of Your Pool and Home.

Here's a neat way to add a little excitement to your nighttime swim, besides skinny-dipping. Spain's Vidrepur is an Eco-friendly glass tile company that makes luminescent tiles that absorb the daytime light and then give off a glow for 6 to 8 hours.





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Made of 100% recycled glass. They can be used on walls, backsplashes, countertops, floors and pools. Just leave in the light a few minutes then turn off the lights and see the glow.



Vidrepur Fire Glass lumiscent tiles


Fosvit by Mosavit is a new patented luminscent vitreous mosaic tile:

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And Mosavit's Fosvit tile around the waterline of a pool:


Fosvit Tiles

Ezzari makes "Fosfo" or "Fading Out" glow in the dark ceramic tiles:




Ezzari Fosvo tiles

Italian company Lucedentro makes photoluminescent tiles as well as many other photoluminescent products:



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Susan Jablon's glow in the dark tiles as bathroom backsplash and shower:



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There are other companies make glow in the dark or photoluminescent tiles, these are just a few of them.

all images courtesy of the individual companies

City On Fire. The Nerone Wall-Mounted Bioethanol Fireplace.

The new Nerone wall-mounted fireplace designed by James Di Marco for Caleido is a bioethanol* fireplace set within a graphic skyline made of epoxy resin coated carbon steel. looking like a city ablaze, it combines warmth with art and is definitely a conversation piece, on or off.

Cute Characters Die An Ugly Death In The Compelling Crochet Sculptures of Patricia Waller.

We often think of knit or crocheted objects made with yarn, cotton and wool as cozy, comforting, even grandma-esque. But the works of artist Patricia Waller will most certainly shift that paradigm.

And You Thought The Clapper Was Cool. The BANG! Lamp by Bitplay.

Ready. Aim. Lights out.

BANG! is a desk lamp with a gun-shaped remote controller. User can fire the “gun” to turn the light off. The light goes out and the lampshade knocks to the side, showing that it’s been hit. To turn it back on, simply shoot it again, and the lampshade will raise up slowly and turn the light back on at the same time.



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Buy it here


Designed by Bitplay

Energy Efficient Natural Vaporizing Tabletop Humidifiers In Three Fun Designs.

DIY Natural Formula Vaporizing Humidifiers in three fun colors and designs. Green Forest with elk and bunnies, Blue Arctic with penguins and Pink Outback with elephant and giraffe.



Just pop out the pre-cut shapes, slide them into the slots on the base and fill it with water and voila! An energy efficient tabletop humidifier.




The unique humidifiers combine super quiet passive action with a Do-it-Yourself edge to make them both cool and functional (not to mention energy-efficient).

Made especially for Gizmine. $49.99 each. Buy them here

New York People, Places and Things Made With Cut Up Metro Cards by Nina Boesch.

As the name suggests, these "Metro Card Collages" are made from cut up pieces of used and expired MetroCards® (MTA cards or New York City subway tickets).


above: A New York Metro Card in use

Artist Nina Boesch uses the front of MetroCards® for color collages (yellow, orange, blue and black), and the back for grayscale collages (black and white). All artworks are one-of-a-kind and vary in size ranging from 5"x7" to 40"x30".




The collages depict anything from landmarks and objects to portraits and typography, and are almost always New York related.










While Nina tries to offer originals for sale on her website, Nina creates a lot of commissioned pieces and has little time to work on her own portfolio of collages. So if you are interested in a collage, please don't hesitate to contact Nina and ask her to create one for you!



About The Artist
Nina Boesch is a New York based interaction designer and artist from Germany. She graduated with honors from Rhode Island School of Design and is now a senior interaction designer at Ralph Appelbaum Associates, an exhibit design firm located in the financial district of Manhattan. Nina's work has been honored by the Art Directors Club, the Type Directors Club, Adobe, AIGA and others and has been featured in various publications such as the NY Times and HOW Magazine.

Nina has been creating collages from MetroCards® for over 10 years. Initially just for friends and family, and recently for a broader audience with exhibits in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Laguna Beach, California. While Nina sells her collages in New York only, some of her pieces have found new homes as far away as Scotland, France and Australia.

Nina Boesch

all images and info courtesy of Nina Boesch.

Introducing Diamond Chocolates From The Man Behind Black Diamond Jewels & Nail Polish.

Last week the blogosphere was buzzing about Couture Jeweler Azature's Black Diamond Nail Polish, now the world's most expensive at $250,000 for the one bottle. But real diamonds are not the only luxury Azature is creating.

Making Beautiful Furniture Is No Illusion For Rockman And Rockman of London.

ROCKMAN & ROCKMAN of London creates traditionally crafted furniture with an op-art look. Side tables, end tables and coffee tables use natural woods and colored acrylic parquetry in geometric patterns that give them the illusion of dimensionality.