Your government designed car.

Ok. So, now that the government will run the car companies... do you expect them to come up with great aesthetic solutions? I don't.
I'm not sure that the CEO's of the car companies have all the blame in the fact that car sales are down 40-50%. People just aren't buying because they have been scared out of their minds! If anything, government-ran agencies have a great blame (Fannie Mae, etc) for allowing the creation of the mortgage mess.
The media has been pushing on the panic button for sometime now and have freaked people out. Stop pushing it! We're tired of hearing the noise!
The United States is a great country people! Have some faith in it and the residents of it. Let's turn things areound, tt can be done. Why have we become so wussified?
Anyway...
Here is a link that gives you an idea of what cars will be looking like pretty soon: http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/23/car-by-congress-the-2012-pelosi-gtxi-ss-rt-sport-edition/

bookshelf

here's a funky bookshelf. I like it. I like it a lot.

http://freshome.com/2008/12/29/graffititek-bookshelf-by-charles-kalpakian/

let a wall do 1/2 the work

here's a chair with only two legs - you lean it against a wall and it's good to go.

http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/02/25/design-digest-7/

unicycle?

it's a motorcycle version of the unicycle

http://www.goodcleantech.com/2008/04/uno_crazy_electric_unicycle_mo.php

sweetest chess set . . . ever

found this over here - http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=77149&page=3
there's a forum for people to design crazy things every week. lots of pros do it was a break from the stuff they're working on. other people join in for practice and fun. it's worth a look-see.
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=85

sweet furniture thing

I found this at
http://www.existingvisual.com/tag/urban-design/