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We have seen the future of coffee cups, and they have built-in computers. Put simply, "the operation of this new PC follows certain behaviours when people use cups." Click here for first picture in gallery

Such as contain, collecting, piling and pouring water into other cups, 'PC' has functions of storing, sharing and organising information.

Aside from Google Zurich, workplaces like Pixar, Red Bull, Pallotta Teamworks, Threadless, and Ilse Media seem interesting as well. Click here to view their offices in that order.

in an ideal world all company directors would invest in their workforce to the point where the office didn’t resemble a huge ice cube filled with back-breaking plastic chairs, mdf tables and computers less powerful than my old commodore plus-4.

Why settle for a standard issue chainsaw or rocket launcher when you could have the LV and Chanel versions? Well, that's why Peter Gronquist deciceded to "jazz" up these weapons. Click here for first picture in gallery.

Dubbed "The Revolution will be Fabulous," Gronquist's show opened last night at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles. The pieces ranged from anywhere from a few hundred bucks to several thousand and several, such as the Louis Vuitton chainsaw, have sold.

The "PrintBall" is basically "an ink-jet printer using a paintball fun as printhead." Though the finished product isn't very pretty, it does however, work quite well for painting letters. Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.

The gun is mounted on a custum made pan & tilt unit which is connected to a Max/Msp based software through an Atmel chip [programmed in Basic]. The software allow the users to load and analyze images.

This nifty automated white board basically takes "text input from the internet and plot[s] it onto a white board for the world to see." Video after the break. Click here for one more picture.

If the pen needs to be 'down', the electromagnet will actuate and gravity will push the tip of the pen down to the surface of the whiteboard again. The electronics aren’t that complex: the main task is to make the stepper motors and the solenoid controllable by a PC

Home Simpson might be the first, but certainly not the only one to be remade with desktop folders, as these amazing examples prove. Click here for first picture in gallery.

Purple Tentacle, Iron Man, the Spaghetti Monster, a super cool MacBook Air, Master Chief, Ren & Stimpy, and even a Blue Screen of Death made entirely of folders? Oh yes.

The LeaveMeAloneBox was specifically designed to "turn itself off after a pestiferous human flips it on -- time, and time, and time again." Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.

We can't say for certain that this is the most pointlessly sophisticated contraption we've ever seen built, but regardless of all that, we dare anyone to deny its greatness

Taking a more (LEGO) Technic-al approach to the mousetrap is Jason Allemann's custom creation -- measuring 30 x 16 x 24 studs. Click here for first picture in gallery.

So as you can see, it's not only a perfect pest killer but also a great way to start a LEGO business (ok, Jason says he released the two captured mice in a "not-so-nearby wooded area.")

There's no shame in playing with paper, especially if it's used to build functional V8/V12 engines, complete with moving parts and gearbox. Continue reading to see them both. Click here for first picture in gallery.

Auto enthusiast Filandri Moreno from Italy spent 4-years building the "Uragano". Aside from the mechanical and electronic parts (engine, etc.), the frame/body were built from scratch. Click here for first picture in gallery.

Rather than figure out how to set up a backyard foundry, Moreno borrowed an 4.2 liter bent eight from an Audi A8 for motivation and hung a large turbocharger off the rear for good measure