Hands on: My Beating Heart

My Beating Heart, the pillow with a beat, made it's way around various web sites last week when it was first announced. We got our hands on one to take a closer look… The heart shaped pillow, invented by artist Yury Gitman, has a small motor in it that is programmed to give a life-like pulse when turned on. The pillow itself is about a …

Colette Fisheye

Viennese purveyors of photo-artistry, Lomo, have teamed up with Parisian concept shop pioneers, Colette, to make a black version of Lomo's Fisheye camera featuring Colette's doggy mascots, Caperino and Peperone, on the back. The convex lens means a 170-degree field of view that creates distorted pictures using standard 35mm film. The Colette version, available for $65 exclusively from Colette and Lomo, comes with the latest …

Start Mobile

First there was Start Mobile. What do all these things have in common? Their aim is to bring great art to your mobile phone's background screen. Launched today, Start Mobile was created by the San Francisco art gallery Start SOMA and features downloadable wallpapers ($1.99 each) from over 100 urban artists. By far the most comprehensive collection of street art [for mobile phones], Start promises …