With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you.
This week we saw an interesting new take on the simple goldfish bowl, an ingenious solution for housing speakers in a storage cabinet, a powerful new curve-based photo app, how to understand a Picasso painting, the new Radiohead music video and more…
Ready? Let’s go!
This week we look at:
DESIGN
“This series explores the relationship of objects in aquariums.”
The Modern HiFi Stereo Console
“The Hifi-Console is a Bluetooth enabled mid-century inspired stereo console built for this generation’s music listener.”
APPS
“MaxCurve is a professional photo editor, which has the most comprehensive curve editing function and all the editing features you want. MaxCurve achieves great innovation with 23 curves, most of which users have never seen on other apps. Even Photoshop can’t achieve such an exquisite adjustment performance. Furthermore, layer, mask, preset, blend mode, opacity, crop and vignette are available. MaxCurve is able to edit every detail of your photos to its maximum design and also help to perfectly reconstruct your photography works. It’s an indispensable app for photographers, and an essential tool serving as great assistant for artists.”
“INKS updates pinball for a new generation. It combines the joy of pinball with skilful tactical challenges, and allows you to create wondrous works of art as the ball smashes around the canvas. “
DIY
“…or any other piece of art for that matter.”
“More storage space is nice but those plastic bins are gross looking.”
ROCK AWESOMENESS
“The first new Radiohead song ahead of their upcoming release and world tour.”
“When working on this project, I was deeply inspired by the dynamics of motion and philosophy of Kung Fu. The work was commissioned by International Guoshu Association for an Kung Fu exhibition, initiated by Hing Chao. The exhibition focuses on the legacy of Hakka martial arts in Hong Kong and will launch in Hong Kong in September.”
And there you have it!
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