This emotive robot has the most expressive eyes ever
The eyes can speak louder than words can. You can look into someone’s eyes and learn things about their personality. Whether they’re shy or confident,…
Concept Cars That Never Made It: Vol. 1
Concept Cars That Never Made It is a five-part series that documents production concept automobiles from years and eras ago. Some are bewildering, while others…
Motorola’s new phone looks depressingly unoriginal
Known for pushing out some stellar phones in the past couple of decades, it’s sad to see Motorola descend into a phase where it looks…
The Plux is the wireless charger Apple promised us a year ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTBWk4loSwk Looking suspiciously like the AirPower charging mat Apple showcased at their keynote last year, the Plux fulfills the promise Apple couldn’t keep. The capsule-shaped…
Rustic Cooking Gets a Modern Redesign!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stranddesign/ironwood-cookware The cast iron skillet is probably one of cooking’s most essential tools. It imparts a certain flavor to the food, often enriching it with…
You can make your own low-poly sith lord!
Studio66Design’s Darth Vader and Stormtrooper busts aren’t just a treat to look at, they’re life-size too! Standing at a whopping two feet, these busts are…
Robot baristas will never get your name or your order wrong
They say that preparing food requires love and a human touch, but honestly, something as mechanical as making you a cup of coffee could surely…
Radical outside, rustic inside
The size of a bedroom, the Nolla cabin is perfect for the idyllic holiday. Its design, aside from being highly characteristic, is also comfortable, and…
This Inception-inspired Top Can Spin For An Entire Day!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/475566890/limbo-the-magical-top-that-spins-for-hours One of cinema’s greatest moments was the last second of Christopher Nolan’s Inception. I remember the camera slow-zooming into DiCaprio’s totem, the spinning top….
The Nintendo Switch Gets Its Own Voguish Carrying Case
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sefu/the-sefu-switch-bag-the-best-bag-for-the-nintendo? In a lot of ways I see the Nintendo Switch mirroring the success of the iPhone. The release of the iPhone spawned a lot…
Portable furniture with a major style upgrade
Portability can often be a design constraint, causing one of two things to happen. Either the product is extremely portable but looks too utilitarian when…
Samsung’s Galaxy Home Speaker is too little too late
https://youtu.be/HLwUZ7Tg9EE In a world with Hey Siris, Hey Googles, and Hey Alexas, a Hey Cortana would throw you off… but what about a Hey Bixby?…
Hey Hollywood, the Aquada can drive on land and sail on water…
It’s 2018, and while the original promise was to have flying cars by now, I guess we could just settle for the next best thing….
IKEA subtly redesigns its products for each country/culture
With its first Indian store launching only a day ago, IKEA proved that it understands its consumers and environment better than any other company in…
A device that provides augmented reality for your ears
Vincent Van Gogh’s vision was much more receptive of yellows than most. A wine taster’s tongue can distinguish flavor profiles others cant. Similarly, everyone has…
Rolls-Royce made miniature robot minions to perform jet-engine inspection
An innovation you’d completely expect from a Hollywood spy flick, Rolls-Royce has designed tiny robots called SWARM that get deployed within their jet engines to…