Adam Wallacavage’s Octopus-inspired chandeliers

Denimu Contributor

By Denimu in New Art on Monday 29 April 2013

Living in the home country of IKEA, it is always nice to see something original, hand crafted, and AWESOME. Adam Wallacavage’s chandeliers are just that. Creating the chandelier from epoxy clay, spray paint and ‘secret sauce to give it that classy glassy look,’ Wallacavage creates extravagant ornamental sculptures crafted in a myriad of colours and [...]

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This macro photo of octopus eggs may put you off fish for life

Rebekah Rhoden Contributor

By Rebekah Rhoden in New Photography on Wednesday 6 February 2013

If you needed proof for the existence of aliens, well, here you go. Actually, these are octopus eggs. Maybe they’re not as cool as aliens, but they are still pretty incredible. Yes, isn’t nature amazing?

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World’s first entirely soft robot is an octopus

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in Video on Friday 9 November 2012

Yeah, yeah, we’re huge fans of octopi. We’re also huge fans of robots. Which makes the octopus robot just that much more magical. This isn’t just any robo-octo either, it’s the world’s first entirely soft robot too. Primarily developed for search and rescue missions at sea, the robot moves with six silicone tentacles and uses [...]

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Wherever you go, the octopus bolster will follow you

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Thursday 8 November 2012

We love octopi. They’re masters of disguise and have three hearts and nine brains because they’re so badass. We’d love to have an octopus as a pet too if they weren’t so good at escaping either. Such is life. Here’s the next best thing: a surrogate octopus companion in the form of a 130cm-long octopus bolster. It will — as these hilarious product shots show — wrap its eight long tentacles around you everywhere you go whether you’re sleeping, reading or driving. The Chinese are the ones behind this, of course.

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From the LAEM Store: Creature Cups

Alison Shepard Contributor

By Alison Shepard in New Products on Wednesday 19 September 2012

Sometimes coffee isn’t enough to wake you up. Sometimes you need an octopus hanging out in the bottom of the cup to really make it a morning. Thanks to Creature Cups, this is easily achieved. Irreverent spins on the classic coffee cup, now featured in assorted styles in the Lost At E Minor store.

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The WTF image of today

Nini Baseema Contributor

By Nini Baseema in New Illustration on Tuesday 6 March 2012

If there is such a thing as a collective unconscious world, then the octopus is spooking around in there for quite a while now. The amount of weird squid photos and drawings I have seen in the past twelve months surely is amazing.

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