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This swirling orb of ice helps make your drinks look amazing and cool faster too!
This could be the mildly delusional me speaking but oh, what I’d give to be in a crowded bar, not being able to hear myself think while sipping on an Old Fashioned and admiring the swirling orb of ice in it. As perfect as that orb does tend to look with the orange peel above it and the alcohol around it, it seems like it could be perfected, be engineered to look better, and perform better.
It isn’t often that something as mundane as an ice-mold wins a design award, but it seems like the Icy Galaxy deserves recognition. Designed to look like a beautiful wavy orb of ice, the Icy Galaxy sphere does two things – It creates an interesting interaction with the liquid it’s immersed in, especially when the liquid slides into the orb’s multiple crevasses, but at the same time, it also helps rapidly cool drinks down by increasing the icy orb’s surface area (similar to how motorcycle engines come with fins that increase their surface area allowing wind to cool them more effectively). The orbs are crafted using silicone+plastic molds that create two spheres at a time, and the resulting ice spheres look absolutely mesmerizing when suspended in colorful liquids… sort of like galaxies within your glass!
The Icy Galaxy Ice Mold is a winner of the A’ Design Award for the year 2020.
Designers: Ladan Zadfar and Mohammad Farshad
Delicious by design: This silicone bundt cake mold combines geometry and confectionery!
So much of the act of eating food happens with your eyes, that there are sciences regarding how food can be presented to help them taste delicious because they look appealing. Food can be designed to take you on a gastronomical journey, and simply placing food on something as basic as a white plate can help accentuate flavors because the colors look more vibrant. The T&T Cake Mold for WMF sort of builds on the same principle by making confectionery look incredible. Designed in the bundt-cake format, the T&T’s mold is almost like a work of design and architecture (and highly reminiscent of Dinara Kasko‘s work), using geometric shapes and patterns to make each of the cake’s 8 ‘pillars’ look absolutely unique and exquisite. The cake’s silicone mold is perfect for casting intricate textures, and allows you to eject the confectionery post-baking with incredible detail. The cakes look rather awe-striking on their own, but coat them with some mirror glaze and they should look absolutely ready for Instagram!
Designer: Rudolf Schelling Webermann for WMF
Imperfection-inspired Lighting
Inspired by the imperfections created in the production process, the Mold pendant lamp’s name describes the very heart of the product! It’s a reference to its construction molding method which retains the complete form with no chipping away at the offcuts. In grey or chocolate-colored concrete, it’s a warm addition to the ceiling area in any space.
Designer: Kateryna Sokolova for Ligne Roset
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iPhone 8 Mold And Dimension Sketch Leaked
People who really want to experience the true In-touch Touch ID feature, good news for you guys. The molds used to produce iPhone 8’s body frame and its diagram with all the dimensions surfaced...
Chocolate Spoon Molds Let You Eat Your Utensils
I’m coocoo for cocoa-puffs. I mean, I love chocolate. Can’t get enough. You are that way too, don’t deny it. We all love chocolate. If we could we would eat chocolate all day with chocolate utensils, we would. Well, I got the spoon covered for you at least.
You can buy these chocolate spoon molds on Amazon for just $7 (USD) each. Just fill them up with melted chocolate and stick them in the freezer to harden them up. Once they’re done, pop them out of the mold and you have edible chocolate spoons.
These are perfect for stirring coffee, eating cereal and about a million other things. When you’re done, eat the spoon. Now if we can just get some chocolate knives and forks.
[via Incredible Things]
FormBox Desktop Vacuum Former: Suck Mold, Then Make Molds
You can find guides online for building small vacuum formers, and you can also get cheap ones that need both an oven and a vacuum cleaner to work. But if you’re willing to pay a bit more for convenience, Mayku’s FormBox may fit your needs.
The FormBox has built-in heating elements so you won’t need an oven, just a vacuum cleaner for the molding process. It will also come with 30 thermoplastic sheets so you can experiment with the machine right away. Mayku also has bundles that come with some concrete and casting resin.
Aside from its heftier price, perhaps FormBox’s only other downside is its small build volume, which is 7.9″cu.in.
Pledge at least $349 (USD) on Kickstarter to receive a FormBox as a reward.
[via 3D Print]
For Deadly Frozen Treats: Samurai Sword Ice Pop Molds
You won’t be able to cut anyone with these samurai swords, but you can give them an icy shot to the face and groin for good measure. That is, before you sit back yourself and cram the rest in your mouth. That’s because these aren’t actual swords (as you can obviously see), but ice pops make from the Samurai sword molds.
Make one for yourself, a pair so you can share with a friend, or half a dozen to spread that icy Samurai love all around. The molds are available online for $12.
[ Product Page ] VIA [ Holy Cool ]
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Thousands of Mysterious Purple Spheres Discovered in the Desert
In Tucson, Arizona, locals have discovered a strange collection of purple spheres in the middle of the desert. It’s not yet certain what these spheres are, but analyses are being made to ascertain their exact nature.
Geraldine Vargas and her husband were taking a walk when they came upon the spheres. Some of the spheres were watery while others were translucent. When poked, they let out a watery substance. Some scientists have speculated that the spheres could be a slime mold or jelly fungus. It’s also possible that it’s a man-made product for plant hydration.
One thing is for sure, these spheres aren’t from outer space as some have theorized. They were localized and seemed to ooze out of the ground.
[via Daily Mail]
LEGO Mold Retires After Making 120 Million Bricks, is Very Tired
If you have ever wondered how LEGO bricks are made, they are made using injection molds like this one seen here. This one produced one hundred and twenty million bricks before it was retired.
Think about it. This LEGO mold probably made some of the bricks that you played with as a kid(Or an adult), which gave you hours of joy. I think it has earned a nice retirement that has nothing to do with making bricks. I say let it relax in a LEGO hut on an island somewhere. A hut that is made by bricks made by other molds.
I’m sure geeks would pay a lot of money for this piece of LEGO history.
[via Nerd Approved]