Pretty Cool Things

The built-in Beer Dispenser from British appliance distributer CDA is the ultimate kitchen add-on.  With its 60cm in height, sleek stainless steel finish, and attractive blue LED lighting, it’s easily mountable in any cabinet, and is ready to dispense ice cold beer within 5 minutes of installation.  The kit comes with a CO² cylinder, a keg adapter, temperature gauge, and variable pressure gauge allowing for perfect pour.  Now you’ll never have to leave the house for pint.

Source: CDA

If you’re lucky enough to live in Europe, most countries will allow you to drink your beer in public without hassle.  For those of us who aren’t so lucky, there’s Canouflage.  Now you can hide your beer in reusable vinyl wrappers that make your Heineken look like a soda beverage.  $6 will get you 4 labels (almost as much as the sixpack you’re buying them for).  The only thing that would make them more convincing was if they actually used legitimate names, instead of Peski for Pepsi, or Skunkpiss for Sunkist.  I guess the would have been a trademark violation.  Hopefully the cops checking you out aren’t that observant.  You can buy them at Prankplace.

In celebration of the 120th birthday of the Eiffel Tower, The Société d’Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel has decided to temporarily restructure the publicly accessible observation areas of the famous landmark.

Serero Architects have submitted a proposal to create a temporary horizontal extension of the third floor of the tower, which will not only double the square footage of the observation areas, but will provide a panoramic 360 degree view of Paris.

The proposal is to extend the top floor plate of the tower by grafting a high performance carbon Kevlar structure to it. The structure will be temporarily bolted to the slab without requiring any modification of the existing structure. Good idea or will Gustave Eiffel be rolling in his grave?

(Update: La Societe d’Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel has declared this proposal a hoax.  Read more by following Miss Yuki’s links in the comments section.)

Source: World Architecture News

This is great… never realized the impact of the shock wave would be this dramatic with a simple smack to the face.