The sweet spot for home turntable enthusiasts on a budget seems to be the $200 mark. This might be the best of the bunch.
One can only imagine the sake-fueled club hopping that led to the development of the Seiko Frequency drum machine watch.
Nutty Automotive Design
By James Grahame
[Giles Perkins, our favorite British design nut, sends this crunchy piece] Smart, the European car company, has a world renowned reputation for their
stylish compact eco-vehicles. As a sideline, and presumably to keep their
designers ticking over, they do a fine line in occasional and very limited
edition accessories.
Produced a few years ago these are the Smart Car
nutcrackers, half a pound of beautiful cast alloy imagineered to crack the
hardest of nuts. Not only are they fully functional, but also feature the cute
little car's outline as its crushing surfaces. So the next time you need some
nuts on the go, these will do handsomely. Presumably they do lots of miles to
the gallon!
[When he's not moonlighting here, Giles runs onSuper8.org, a brilliant Super 8 movie-making site.]
