A seat designed to make you healthier!
Wanting to design a seat that guides you into sitting cross-legged, Gao Fenglin’s Meditation Seat can only be sat on in a certain way, directing…
Reimagining the joypad for VR
Play a PS4 and you don’t ever need to look away from your screen. Your hands and fingers know EXACTLY where each button is, as…
The Seatpost that Smooths Out All Bumpy Road-rides
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redshiftsports/shockstop-seatpost-add-suspension-to-your-bike Any seasoned rider is aware of a certain inhibiting factor called saddle pains. Too much time on a bike driving down a rough trail…
Bellroy’s iPhone case wants to stay slim but be functional
Simple, sensible, and sufficient, much like most Bellroy products, the Leather iPhone X case looks dapper, and puts the space under your phone’s camera to…
Lenovo wants to literally merge the tablet and smart-speaker
Looking like the Echo got friendly with a tablet PC, Lenovo’s Tab4 wants to combine the best of technologies to give you something that just…
Innovative Translucent Leather is visually and literally a class apart
Another one for the “new materials” file is Sruli Recht’s translucent leather, made from cow skin. Working for over three years on the Apparition, a…
The CupCooler Puts the Refresh in Refreshment
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/172663027/cupcooler-instant-cools-your-life-effortlessly I can confirm that having a sip of a drink only to find out it’s lukewarm is easily the most cringe-worthy summertime experience. If…
Kensa’s Writing Instruments Want to Look Classic, but Feel Completely New
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cowellstudio/kensa-a-slim-minimal-hexagonal-pen-and-mechanical There are two sorts of people in the world. Traditionalists/purists, who love the classics, and Neophiles, who are excited by the groundbreaking and the…
The incredible material that is “wood wool”
Let’s file “Wood Wool” under new materials, because I’m hearing about it for the first time. Also referred to as excelsior in North America, these…
A case/stand that multi-tasks, like your iPad!
The remarkable Tilt not only serves as a beautiful case for the iPad Pro 9.7″ and the Apple Pen, it also doubles up as stand,…
The car that looks at symmetry in the rear-view mirror
As an editor, sometimes you’re faced with a strange quandary. What if a design is interesting, potentially ground-breaking, but disagrees with you visually? The DS…
Phil Saunders, the concept designer behind the Iron Man suits
You may not have heard of Phil Saunders (or conversely you may have if you’re a close follower of his work like I am), but…