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The Motorola Sparrow was conceived to provide retail stores with a mobile point of sale device to solve increased service demands from consumers while decentralizing…
August, 2008
A Fountain Pen For The Modern
Fountain pens may lend an air of sophistication but damn can they get anymore dated? I mean all I need is a monocle, a bowler…
Electric Slide Mobile Get Bent!
Why bother with one screen when you can have two for probably double the price? Designer Andy Kurovets presents his “Bend Mobile” concept. He thinks…
FOLLO Me
Free flowing functionality is what you get with FOLLO a design by Will MacCormac for WMD. An elegant washbasin that can be used both commercially…
Kitchens Go All Multi-Touchscreen
Wow there’s a word we haven’t written here in awhile; multi-touch. Say it with me class. The Miele concept is the kitchen of the future,…
Grape Vines Goes Green
That green bandwagon is speeding down the global highway at break neck speeds and corporations are rushing to hop on. That’s the good news… the…
Nissan Mori Scooter. My First “Car”
Our own little Shane Crozier may be a YD writer but he spends most of his time toiling away with ideas and concepts meant to…
Fine China Chandelier
Designer Julia Coffart wants to bring back the idea of uniqueness and specificity to luxury goods. Luxe items once meant hard to find items, often…
Silky Snappy Snake
We are always in need of a USB cable to charge up a phone, an i-pod or load up digital photos from our camera, yet…
Man Stuff
There seems to be a few Swiss designers (these guys: Valentin Engler, Marius Morger, Daniel Grolimund) that believe that single men are pretty much too…
An oval pod to eat your leftovers…aka, Rosie O’Donell
I don’t know why I thought of “Mr. Fusion”, the garbage eating energy source from the Back To The Future movies when I first saw…
Timbercalls
It is probably the single most touched item in your daily arsenal. Our mobile phones are our lifelines and the closest thing to an adult…
Feeling hot hot hot
We all remember that little home invader/burglar Goldilocks and her serious issues with gauging temperature. “Too hot, too cold….” blah blah blah, shut it you…
Want To Write For Yanko Design?
Thanks to readers like you Yanko Design is growing fast. If you’ve ever wanted to write for us now is the time because YD is…
Air Purifier For Any Size Space
Air purifiers have experienced a massive revival in the last 5 years but one thing they all have in common is the inability to dynamically…
Decked out decks
I remember when I was just a young lad, my skateboard was practically fused to my feet. It was seriously a part of my body…