No one understands your needs like Diamond Select Toys understands your needs - which is why the sci-fi toy and replica company has started making some of these. For you. For you to sit on and dream. For us all to sit on and dream. A realistic Star Trek Command Chair.

Based on the original Kirk-housing 1960s Trek captain's chair, the new model makes sounds. The correct sounds. It even has lights and sampled dialogue. All you need to provide for 100% Trek authenticity is a ruffled quiff, slightly torn uniform and your girlfriend covered in green paint.

The realistically-proportioned Command Chair will go on sale in 2009. You might want to email the MD of Diamond Select personally to ensure you're on the pre-order list.

(Via C-blog)

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Sony has announced its new "Home theatre in a stand" system designed to be used with 32-40 inch BRAVIA TVs, though unlikely to self-destruct if you deign to put a different brand of flat screen telly on it.

It's a 3:1 system, featuring centre, left, and right speakers and a subwoofer built in to the stand, and it used S-Force PRO Front Surround technology to offer virtual surround sound without the need for rear speakers and the near-obligatory trailing wires.

Maybe I'm a heathen, or I've been hanging around Apple gear for too long, but I wouldn't necessarily say that Sharp's new AN-PR1500H is a "revolutionary design" in audio furniture. Then again, it's not ugly, and it certainly saves on space.

This 2:1 system boasts 300W of output power, andcomes ready-fitted with an upscaling DVD player, which is fine if you don't already have one, and features HDMI output and DivX compatibility, USB port for multimedia files, and FM digital tuner.

IKEA has just bought, lugged home and assembled itself a piece of the UK phone market, thanks to a tie-up with T-Mobile.

IKEA Family Mobile, as the service will be known, will be available to members of the IKEA Family loyalty scheme. Once you've bought £10 of IKEA pre-paid airtime you get fixed-price calls and texts - 9p per minute for calls and 6p per text, regardless of time of day or if it's the weekend or not. Plus there's no expiring minimum top-up required. That's IKEA simplicity for you.

IKEA Family Mobile will launch this Friday, August 8 - or on August 5 if you're an IKEA employee, as all the 9,500 hard-working box-luggers that work for IKEA UK are getting a free SIM card loaded with £5 of credit. That's instead of a pay rise this year.

(Via T-Mobile)

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Japan's 25togo has designed a LEGO-inspired desk lamp which also doubles as a stationery holder. Not only does it bear an uncanny resemblance to the iconic plastic blocks, but it can also be stacked and stuck together like LEGO bricks can.

The must-have Christmas gift of 2008 for the 3-11-year-old demographic, it is, and we can hardly believe such an amazing item exists, a TARDIS wardrobe. It is such a great idea. One of the world's best ideas, alongside automatically slicing bread with a machine and trainers with air in the soles for extra bounciness.

Fashioned out of the finest canvas and non-sustainable pine, the TARDIS wardrobe boasts a "single rail" and "zippable doors." But it's not about features. It's about shape and colour, and it saying "POLICE BOX" in the correct font.

It is also the ideal Christmas gift for those in the 33-49-year-old sci-fi fan demographic, along with some Babylon 5 slippers and a Star Trek pipe. The TARDIS wardrobe is yours on Amazon for £30.

Imagine cutting feet holes in it and wearing it to a cosplay convention. Guaranteed sex.

(Via Toyology)

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I'd normally say that chandeliers are among the heights of tackiness. If gold mobile phones are Mount Everest then they have to be at least K2. However, these custom made works of art from Rock and Royal are just genius and I simply must own one.

It's going to be tough convincing my girlfriend that a giant luminous handgun is going to fit well hanging virtually to the floor of our half-decorated shoe box in Hackney but I'm going to give it a try. It's surely the highest form of gangster bling and perfect for life in the hood. But if a revolver isn't your style...

There's no chance you'll ever get laid with a Star Trek bead mosaic adorning your pad but if resistance really is that futile, then you'll be please to see the stunning array of Spockio-Kirkery as designed by artist and full on Trekkie Devorah Sperber.

You'll find a further image or two after the jump but head to her site for the full experience.

I was lucky enough to spend a night in the brand new CitizenM hotel, Holland, designed in conjunction with Philips for the modern day business traveller. Prices start from £55 per night and make sure you take a closer look at the room after the jump.

I'm not sure if you could comfortably cook anything other than Chinese food in a kitchen shaped like a giant Yin Yang symbol but it'd look pretty damn swish when you're throwing your veg about your wok like Ken Hom.

The principle behind this central, freestanding unit is that all the cool, water-based and calm parts of your kitchen - fridge and sink - are stored within the Yin and the hot more aggressive elements - hob and oven - are in the Yang. Yes, it's a little pretentious but could work given the right kind of house. Those in low-beamed English country cottages need not apply.

This is probably one of those frightening corporate tools designed to enhance worker productivity but the SkyCeiling is still a good way to pretty up the office.

The panels will fit any ceiling size or shape you desire and the nice touch they've just added is that you can even program them to fit with the rising and setting of the sun to provide your drones with a comforting and natural experience in match with their circadian rhythms.

Recycling old car and motorbike parts to make furniture is one thing but trying to eat soup while an Alien is staring up at you is another altogether.

H.R.Giger's creation and Ripley's nemesis aren't usually known for their servile attitudes but somehow the bods at Yes I Can have convinced the concentrated HCL-filled killing machines to do some work for the benefit of mankind by carrying large pieces of glass and allowing us to sit in their laps.

Brooklyn based designer Karl Zahn has come up with a very small town American solution to unsightly cables running all round your pad. Now you can feel all fresh and wholesome in the city too and put up your own little white picket fence around your property and use it to hide the wires. Very neat indeed.

This shit is unbelievable! That's what you'll be hearing from behind your bathroom door when your friends come to visit, should you install the Souped Up John, aka the world's geekiest toilet.

Flabbergasted is the only word I've got in my vocabular armory; a TV, DVD, TiVo, Xbox, laptop, iPod dock - that's more than I've got in my lounge. The Souped Up John also includes a fridge, as denoted by the large grey object and beer, because of course there's nothing quite like the feeling of drinking a smooth pint while you're chopping off a log.

You don't need me to tell you what this is, do you? Really? What, you didn't hear about the leak before Apple's announcement at WWDC? Oh, well, this is the new iPod coffee table, the, er, iCoffee.

Yes, apparently big is the new small or black or whatever and now everyone's going to be making larger versions of those so passe tiny gadgets. It's a new movement in art tech called giantism and naturally Apple is at the cutting edge.

Could this be the world's best table? Sod the after dinner conversation or dull old board games, bag yourself this LED Pong table and try to keep your eyes on the puck as it disappears under the lazy suzy.

London-based designer Moritz Waldemeyer has made a stylish looking Corian table with a complete surface of 2,400 buried LEDs and embedded tracker paddles at each end, so that when the game is switched off, you simply wouldn't know what a bad ass little gaming monster it is. Spooky, huh?

If you're odd, frightening and rich enough that you absolutely MUST have the world's most technologically advanced desk, here's the world's most technologically advanced desk.

It has an actual built-in PC, so at least ugly trailing wires, the scourge of modern times, will be a non-existent problem. That drive bay on the side houses a CDRW/DVD combo, plus there are a few USB sockets and hot keys for summoning your servants. The lid flips open so you can put more RAM in it when Microsoft releases a new operating system.

Frankly, I'd rather not have a desk that's going to be obsolete in four years time or will require an engineer to come round if it breaks. If it can't be bodged together with nails, I'm not interested.

(Via BornRich)

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I'm not sure how Visual Reference Studio has done it but somehow they've convinced the world that Global Hypercolour is a good idea again.

To be fair it looks a lot more swish this time around with more than just the two colours of "normal" and "sweaty" and they've the good sense to take the technology off clothes and onto less embarrassing items but only just.

Ladies and gentlemen, a huge round of applause to Kyle Downes of Essendon, Australia. Kyle has created the finest NES controller mod I've ever seen in my life, and I've seen a few.

Not only is this an excellent looking piece of furniture, the caliber of which any gamer would beam to boast in their lodgings, but it actually works. Yes, you heard me. It works. You can play games with it. Admittedly, it'll take two of you to manage Mario but for me that adds an element of party play fun. Take a look at the video...

Bored of your coffee table? Is its stained exterior and pitted surface embarrassing to you when friends or the social services come round? Then you should UPGRADE. You should GO DIGITAL with this, the quite astonishingly insane One & Co digital jukebox coffee table!

Here's a picture of it. It's clearly modelled on the Star Trek: The Next Generation bridge design, with its sleek curves and sturdy central column. "Play that awesome Johnny Cash album again, Ensign Crusher..."

And that's it. It is, when you think about it, a rather awesome idea. You spend your time in the lounge, so why not have a coffee table that stores and plays music files? Or why not have an iPod dock that does the same thing for a fraction of the amount of money this concept piece will inevitably cost if/when it gets made? So not such an awesome idea, then, really, when you think about it for a bit longer.

At least making it look like the Star Trek bridge is an awesome idea.

(Via Born Rich)

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