The French Press’s funky cousin
Take the classic French Press and replace the glass cylinder and piston with a silicone bellow and you’ve got yourself the Palmpress. Designed to be…
YD Spotlight: Nicholas Baker’s Chair Sketch Challenge Pt.2
Every week (although the timing isn’t particularly fixed), I see a chair sketch on my Instagram feed, and after having seen and liked dozens of…
YD Handpicks: Winning Architectural Designs from A’ Design 2018
In keeping with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s description of architecture as frozen music, this post is quite literally a playlist of the best architectural designs…
The Echo Sub brings serious bass to your current Amazon home speaker
The Echo and Echo Dot have never been truly hi-fi audio devices. Their primary (in fact their only) aim has been to facilitate voice-based interaction…
The Bloomengine is AI that Grows your Plants for You
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1937546694/bloomengine-record-your-plants-journey-in-real-tim? The Bloomengine is what you’d get if you combined the green thumb with the concept of the Tamagotchi. A completely self-contained, self-sustaining planter, the…
AEG’s Salt Block cooks and seasons your food at the same time
Imagine never having to worry whether you seasoned your food. Imagine having a cooking surface that conveniently did that for you, and in doing so,…
Jaguar is putting animated eyes on their autonomous cars to make them safer
The car evolved from the horse-carriage, and for the longest time, looked like a carriage with an engine, until it began developing facial features. The…
Perfectly Hot Coffee Till the Very Last Drop!
Believe it or not, coffee has an ideal drinking temperature. It isn’t a fixed unit, but for most people, just a 5° deviation in their…
Allocacoc’s Flashlight is More Than It Suggests. It’s a Lighting Solution.
You’ve got a torch on you. Take your phone out, and the flash under the camera is capable of lighting the way when the power’s…
Volvo’s Vera makes trucking autonomous and safe
Autonomous trucking makes sense for a whole lot of reasons. While it will reduce the jobs held by human truck-drivers, it automates a profession that’s…
One designer made his own Nintendo Labo kits out of Lego!
Both LEGO and Nintendo’s Labo have something in common. The joy of creation and the infinite possibilities associated with it. Industrial Designer Vimal Patel decided…
The Charger You Want and the Charger You Need, All In One
https://youtu.be/YhumNcP4jtI Almost all phones today have wireless charging built into them, but not many of us own wireless chargers. The reason would probably be that…
BMW’s Vision iNext Concept is a palpable, realistic concept automobile
Well, it turns out that even BMW isn’t impervious to leaks, because these images of the iNext concept made their way around as early as…
This MacBook Charger is from the year 3018!
With the way Apple’s developed an entire ecosystem around its products, making sure you buy all their offerings, instead of just one gadget out of…
Demystifying QR Codes: What are they and how do they work
You’ve surely seen these codes around either in print or digital format. Chris Sacca may call QR Codes the ‘herpes of technology’, but they’re quite…
The watch that combines time-telling and mystery
Taking inspiration from the twelve-sided polygon, the Dodecagon Watch uses the geometric shape and a commonly found density/opacity trick to create a watch that’s literally…