grandparents christmas (o.k. this one is very random)
October 10, 2005 @ 8:55 pmI don’t want to be like Macy’s (yep, they opened the Holiday Lane already), but I have some Christmas ideas for your grandma. No, I wasn’t looking for this — it’s the newest batch of bizzare websites I got from Rascal.
A Russian company seems (this is an assumption, I can’t actually read Russian) to be selling wooden computers and then there are also classic russian-looking painted designs for mice/mouses and keyboards. It’s sort of marvelous. And it might just convince my grandma to finally start doing email.
(more pictures here and here and here)
And then there are Brightfeet slippers.
Now you can easily move handsfree around a darkened house reducing the risk of tripping over objects or running into doors, furniture or anything not easily seen in the dark.
Brightfeet™ Lighted Slippers are ideal for night time trips to the bathroom, kitchen, kid’s room or anywhere in your house! Power outage? Use Brightfeet™ to locate candles, flashlights and other emergency lighting sources.
Hi, wooden comps and painted mice/keyboard are things from different companies
wooden comp is custom work of russian wood workshop -
and painted mice/keyboards are mass production of Russian Mouse company -
I would post links, but your site block my post as spam
Comment by Zoolander — October 11, 2005 @ 10:16 am
Having to live with the shame of my father’s highly eccentric (and alienating) taste and stylings, I can without doubt say that indeed an American company did exist in the early 90s that specialized in the art of utilizing mahogany, teak, and other various woods for the divine purpose of incasing a “bad-ass” computer, sporting a blazing fast 100 Mhz Pentium chip.
Of course, the Americans did not come anywhere close in masterfully creating a synergy between modern appliances with traditional Russian design. Truely a rara avis! A Ne Plus Ultra! A dream come true for any techno-nerd slavophile, to be sure.
Comment by MisterDarcy — October 11, 2005 @ 4:51 pm