After having to get up early Sunday for the implosion (see yesterday’s post) I was thinking about alarm clocks. And today, surprise… here are a couple that are sure to get your morning started. The Sonic Bomb Alarm clock can be cranked up to a deafening 113 decibels and has an attached SHAKER to put under the mattress to complete the rattling experience. You can see the other products and detail specs on this clock at SONIC ALERT - available online for around $40

The Intel Shell was imploded this morning at 7.30am in Austin

If you follow the real estate development market - you know that Austin TX is the bright spot of the country—so much so it was featured in the NY Times just a week ago… as cranes dot the skyline in about 8 hrs from now this building - known as the Intel Shell will come down… Intel started and left abandoned the building shell and all the city tax incentives in 2001 when tech boom turned to tech bust and they cut their losses. Now the site will become the new federal courthouse. I know, I know why do we need a new courthouse - well the existing one is outdated and overburdened - and our greed obsessed city council couldn’t find a way to stop the courthouse and get another highrise condo development on the site (like the 3 on the surrounding adjacent blocks...) Those condos are much better cranking out the revenue than a few judges, white collar criminals and the suburban lawyers who defend them.

So tomorrow at 7am, I my friends and neighbors and a couple of those judges, a few senators, a bunch (i.e. hundreds) of local who’s who and an army of media will watch from a nearby rooftop as this building implodes… it should make for great video - so give me a little time to get home with the camera to get it posted…

Wallternatives, the makers of totally cool wallcoverings is now.... WALLTERIORS… check out their new website at wallteriors.com.

Danish manufacturer The Pet Project has joined the collection on puremodern.com - available online now

This is definitely taking the idea of “liquid” display to an extreme. The Canna wall clock is a series of glass tubes filled with over five gallons of colored water (naturally - you pick the color). The tubes fill and mark the passing of time in 10 minute increments...then at midnight the water drains away and the process starts over. You can watch your money drain away as you pay the $12,000 to get this addition to your living room

After yesterday’s post about the recycled watch component and subway token cuff links for men - we don’t want to neglect the women’s collection - the sterling silver bracelets are accessorized with scrabble tiles set on sterling backings with a clasp allowing you to connect as many as you need to make your statement!

Designed by Jonas Damon for Areaware. The Open Edition LED Clock is available in Blue, Red or White LED numbers or in a translucent red case with red LED numbers. Stack or arrange as you like - just make sure the digits are in the right order!

Add a little glow to your evening wear with the SMOON Bijou necklace - its made from a silicon coated capsule that is connected to a silver cord and replaceable battery. The one inch diameter orb softly glows as long as the necklace is connect to its battery/latch. Available online for $99.

The watch part cufflinks are making the rounds this week - and they are an AWESOME gift for men this season. But the overlooked collection from this designer include the recycling of subway tokens from major cities as well as scrabble tiles. The full collection of mens items are coming available this spring so keep an eye out for them.

While surfing some of my favorite sources for ceiling fans for a client I’ve come across an awesome floor light option. For an ultra-contemporary space the Camp Floor lamp from Marset adds a bit of War of World-esque look to your living room. The fully articulated “head” can be pointed up for ambient lighting or focused downward into a seating arrangement. Amazingly functional AND aggressively styled the Camp Floor makes its presence known in any room. Available online for $989

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Found this one on Gizmodo this morning - just in case you were wondering how to fit this in as part of a contemporary home… stop wondering just follow the rule - TRULY TRAGIC TIKI’s should be avoided; particularly in the form of an aquarium. So sacrifice the $429 cost on something more interesting at DWR or other home furnishings locations.

via Gizmodo: Tiki Aquarium: Heavy Juju, Watery Yet Potent:

I saw this last night and couldn’t help but add it to the blog - it’s and interactive Mood Alert system using the common Emoticon symbols to tell your spouse, partner or coworkers just what you’re feeling. It’s attached to an ethernet network jack and reachable via a dedicated IP address from a webpage or cellphone… So if you’re having a bad day at work or on the drive home just log in and telegraph you’re own little personal terror alert to the family before you get there! How’s that for preparedness. Check out other concepts from the designer at his homepage

OK, I’m not lazy… I’m just obsessed!  Obsessed

with Vitamin Living!  I cruised around their website, and they have so many more cool objects since we saw them a few months ago.  Usually when I write about a company two times in a row - I’m just lazy and don’t want to research… But this is an obsession.  Check out this I.V. Planter.  Strange? Yes.  Sort of sick? Absolutely!

The self watering pot representative of a drip feed in a hospital keeps the plant watered.  The device is approximately 10.5” tall and 17.5” in diameter.  This weird little gadget will put you out nearly $300.

I’ve never been a fan of the garden gnome.  They creep me out and remind me of the WalMart garden center.  UNTIL TODAY, that is!

While digging through vendor catalogs from our last trade show, I came across Vitamin Living , a really obscure British company that creates things that make you go “WTF!”.  Just my kind of company!  Among their cool accoutrements are the little gnomes made of bone china with VERY cool patterns… from faces to skulls and my personal favorite, angel wings.  Suitable for indoors or outdoors—each gnome is about 8 1/4” tall.