By the time you're reading this, I'm gallivanting across the Mediterranean in a sick little cruise ship, stuffing my face and breaking the shopping embargo secretly since no one is there to monitor me. The Euro is useful in that you don't have to use a billion different currencies out here anymore... but in case you wanted to keep track of the rest of the world's major dollar signs, Design Glut has got a currency necklace that's kind of fun. There's also, for the less financially inclined, a world map. I don't think I'd wear these, personally, but they do look kind of cool, and I have great respect for laser-cut acrylic, for whatever reason (maybe because it reminds me of Alex and Chloe)... and besides, I'm scraping the barrel, I need to write and schedule nine posts to go up for when I'm in net-free land. AND, I still need to pack.

Did you ever see Dark Water? Okay, neither did I, but I think it was that movie starring Jennifer Connelly in which she moves to a haunted house and dark water stains keep appearing everywhere due to some mysterious, ghostly power. These images are hardly in the same vein, seeing as Godiva isn't so much a mysterious, ghostly power as a bright and shiny purveyor of very tasty chocolates, but the concept of their new shop in Harajuku kind of reminded me of the film concept. I'm not sure how I feel about that ceiling, but it certainly is a concept, and the walls painted in dripping chocolate are definitely cute, the wood panelling even resembles a chocolate bar.

Images: Vidafine

There are so many conceptual designs out there that I just wish would be put into production. Check out recent graduate Kyle Bean’s design, Mobile Evolution. Demonstrating the evolution of the mobile phone from the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X to the Apple iPhone, he cleverly utilizes the Russian doll concept. .I think the only phone that I haven’t seen in real life it the very first one. What about you?

(Via Design Milk)