This $399 Device Can Kill Your Joint Pain Using Infrared Lasers (And Zero Side Effects)
The first Move+ made a bold promise: what if your “painkiller” was a band of light instead of a bottle of pills? By wrapping medical-grade…
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These No-Drill Window Blinds Install in 30 Seconds Without Damaging Your Walls
There is a moment of hesitation familiar to anyone who has ever wanted to personalize their living space: the moment before drilling a hole into…
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Wacky Cuckoo!
As you may already be aware, Little Thoughts Group is holding an exhibition by the name of Imprints: Designing for Memories at the National Museum…
Wooden Earbuds
Headphones with a small eco-footprint? Well that’s just crazy! Wait though, looks like there’s something like that right here: “thinksound ts02+mic” – and they say…
Shadows and Light, Walls Delight
Now, I know we’ve posted about some 3D wall panels before, but I don’t think any of them were made by a group that specializes…
Get Yourself An Icon Battery at 10% Off
The Icon Battery mania won’t die down! After a successful launch, an awesome giveaway; the Essential TPE team is back offering our readers 10% off. Although…
ICONICSTAND, This is Not Shop Class
In Seoul Korea a small studio called O’LIVEFACTORY is carving out a niche in the market. The brain child, one Kenny Cho, who nearly gave…
Domino Clock
Award-winning product development consultancy Carbon Design Group repurposes an icon with the introduction of the Domino Clock™. The Domino Clock™ takes a simple, iconic object…
It’s Time for a Braille Smartphone
Voim (seeing in Korean) is a smartphone concept for the blind that includes functions to make communication easier. It features route navigation, word recognition and…
Once Upon an UnTime
Telling time requires a very basic and ubiquitous skill but what if the whole concept were completely redesigned? UnTime explores hours and minutes as two…
No Fruit Allowed
Welcome to a portable cooking experience like you’ve, perhaps maybe, never seen before. This is “Roll-Up”, an induction cooktop which separates induction coils and electronic…
House by House, Piece by Piece
Welcome to SmartHouse! This is a completely modular system for putting together your brand new house, all of it made with pure, sweet, German craftsmanship…
Brightness in Woodness
Made in an effort to resurrect the essence of the night markets designer Lee Leong Chye knew as a child. Specifically Chye hoped to find…
A Fair Warning
Signal Lock is an LED warning light that fits within the frame of a bicycle and comes in real handy when you’re stuck in the…
Grasp and Water, Your New ZEN Players
We are so fixated with the “i” prefix that we rarely see anything beyond the Apple realm. Its designers like Li Qing who dares us…
Stealthy Faucets
It’s not every day you see bathroom fittings inspired by stealth aircraft but hey, why not? The sharp angles compliment the fluidity of water. The…
Play Inside the Sun to Learn About Fusion
SOL – an interactive spatial installation staging the origin of solar energy. In an immersive environment the principles of nuclear fusion can be experienced in a…
Big Sweater, Small Sweater
Let me be the one to let you in on this magically amazing idea for clothing tags. What Yong Jin Kim’s idea consists of is…