OLED Display Keeps The Insulin Pumping
When a new technology comes to market, a ripple effect can cause all sorts of product categories to benefit. To wit, insulin pumps have lagged…
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Oh Little Bonsai, You Like My Music?
This week is an orgy of the hottest and latest concepts and products coming out of Japan. We’ll be at 100% Tokyo but over at…
My Wind Chime is Smarter than Yours
Ah wind chimes. They can be so relaxing or excruciatingly irritating. It wouldn’t be so bad if they served a functional purpose but thanks to…
World’s Largest Mouse
If you thought your premium mouse had a lot of buttons, check out the Glide Keyboard from Weston Boege. Resting on low friction pads, the…
Tripod: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
On Monday I introduced our future robot masters’ future robot dogs, but today we get a glimpse of their autonomous tripods that will take embarrassing…
Beefing Up Your Old Mobile Phone
Most of us still use ho-hum mobile phones. I don’t say that to be condescending but to create a distinction between most of the mobile…
Wireless Stereo Speaker Docking Station Laughs at Physics!
What I love is wireless ghetto blasters. What I love is when they look really weird and awesome. And when they are waterproof, have rechargable…
Donut Power Strip
Wait, it’s not really a power strip if it’s a donut right? Ugh, what a conundrum! I digress. The Donut “Powerstrip” by Ramei Keum solves…
Rotary Style Music Navigation
A small circle inside a pendant style MP3 player. You stick your finger thru the wheel key and spin it to control all audio functions…
E-note, Don’t Call it a Digital Post-it
From the minds at Sequoia Studio, E-note is a conceptual project that explores the future of Post-its (insert legal copyright here). E-note uses tactile and flexible…
Useful Tools in a Designer’s Arsenal
As a practicing architect, one of the difficulties I face is the pearl that is the English system of measurement that persists in the United States…
Double Pane LCD Screens
Now why didn’t I think of that? Sure, there are companies working on “3D-ish” screens but the technology is ridiculously expensive. Why not take a…