Old Switch, New Tricks
Designed for the elderly, but pretty much a fantastic idea for pretty much everyone, the Easy Switch isn’t just a clever idea, it has a…
Sarang is the co-editor in chief of Yanko Design. He is a former industrial designer at a Bangalore-based multidisciplinary design studio, working in areas including appliances, FMCG, packaging, technology, luxury, etc. Sarang has written about design and technology for over a decade and has been a jury member on international design awards. He occasionally works on tech concepts featured on Forbes, The Verge, Hypebeast, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Tom's Guide, LetsGoDigital, and Unbox Therapy. Sarang graduated from MIT Institute of Design, Pune.
Designed for the elderly, but pretty much a fantastic idea for pretty much everyone, the Easy Switch isn’t just a clever idea, it has a…
The Branch fan is quite functionally superior, but I’m mainly intrigued by how cute it looks. Reimagined to look more like a lamp (Luxo from…
Personally, safety is much more important to me than any other instinct. Survival first, fittest later, if you get what I mean. Which is why…
If art doesn’t inspire, what use is it?! The Alchemist is a series of cool gentleman objects inspired from the book The Alchemist, by Paulo…
Let’s face it. Your power bank is nothing but a UPS (uninterruptible power supply) for your phone. It, however, can be so much more. The…
Honestly, I’ve seen so many extension box designs on Yanko, I’m probably immune to them now. However, when you see an actual, functioning product that…
In the past couple of years, I’ve been closely following a technology known as the Audio Spotlight. People have devised a set of speakers that…
I assume babies in the twenty second century will have levitating cradles like the one here. Aptly titled Cradlev, the concept cradle uses magnetic levitation…
It takes a different brand of creativity to look at a tennis ball and decide that it would make a dashing Bluetooth speaker. I’ll be…
While the possibilities of Senior Chat are diverse enough to change communication as we know it, I’ll speak purely from the design intent point-of-view. The…
The guys at Vicious Venom have a point. Most bags are one of two things. Stylish, or waterproof. We are yet to see bags that…
Good design is as little design as possible, says the design stalwart Dieter Rams. The Light Bookmark goes to show that sometimes the idea takes…