Self-driving catamarans are definitely the future!
Cas Dahmen’s Hydropace definitely makes a case for the future of luxury travel. The concept hydrofoil-catamaran, smoothly glides on the surface of the water, carrying…
NKMOS Wants To Turn All Your Devices Hands-free
It may seem like I’m nitpicking, but the one last hurdle for technology to cross is the fact that it should be hands-free. Holding up…
The Microlino makes ‘adorable’ an automotive trait
As far as automobiles go, cute isn’t a term you see thrown around too often. The VW Beetle, for instance was one of the first…
The easiest, safest way to wash and clean knives
The challenge with washing a knife is cleaning the blade without cutting anything. I’ve spoiled a hundred sponges and scouring pads trying to scrub a…
The fire-stove that can even work in a windstorm
Made for extreme outdoor conditions, the Peakboil stove doesn’t only work in the harshest of winds, it actually is optimized to boil your liquids faster…
If you know how to code, you know how to embroider
Andrea Mayr-Stalder’s TurtleStitch project literally takes lines of code and transforms them into art you can wear. The innovative machine allows you to programme its…
A red devil in white clothes
It isn’t very often that you see cars releasing that look and perform so phenomenally, you need to pinch yourself. Aiming at being one of…
The time-telling vase…
It’s quite poetic that Jaro Kose integrated the vase with a table clock, because both are, in their own ways, indicators of the passing of…
Meet Laer, the sleeve that charges your laptop
The laptop, for the most part, is portable… until you’re out of juice. Then you’re tethered to the nearest plug point for easily another hour…
The Soundots Can Connect Like Lego to Build a Hi-fi Audio System
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/165495434/soundotstm-ai-2-the-smarter-speaker-0 Take a look at any image. Zoom as far as you can into it and you see the foundation of the image. The pixel….
The evolution of Hot Wheels: 50 years of automotive design on the smallest scale!
It’s easy to plot the growth we’ve experienced in automotive design over the past 50 years. From the hippie era to the hipster era, we’ve…
The Hubble Phone is the most outrageous phone you can buy
There’s a lot to love about the Hubble Phone by Turing Space Industries. It emulates the strangely beautiful clamshell format first seen in Nokia’s N93…
The mosquito killing machine that works like a venus flytrap
Most mosquito repellent devices rely on airborne fumes to either kill mosquitoes or drive them away, or electric circuitry to zap mosquitoes out of existence……
The Futuristic Palm-sized Sensor that can Analyze your Body Fat Percentage
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/686608668/ridm-professional-grade-body-composition-analysis? What is the singular, deciding indication of good health? Is it the heart-monitor that sits under your smartwatch? Is it the sleep tracker on…
The fire-hydrant gets a functional makeover
As designers, we have a habit, or rather a responsibility, of challenging the status quo. Be it something as ubiquitous as the credit card, or…
What if we grew our fruits to be shaped as containers?
I remember one snarky image that made its rounds around the internet. It featured peeled oranges stored in plastic containers, with a caption that read…