Slim Sexy Scanner Looks Like A Saber
Doing away with the traditional norms of a bulky scanner is the svelte scanU. This pocket-sized gadget is inherently made up of three segments: the…
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Tap, Tap, Tappin’ on Heaven’s Door
Another iteration on the intuitive music making theme, “Jam” hails from a team at the Domus Academy where the brief was to design for basic…
Full Sense Entertainment in Surround Smell
You have the surround sound, the widescreen, the high definition. Your choice of lights, screen, sound. The next step is, and has been for a…
Another Coat Of Wax On The Old Standby
There comes a time when a good product category just dies, think telegraph or typewriter, fantastic inventions eclipsed by time and progress. Case in point,…
Wristlet Gets Young’ins Back in Time For Supper
Until such time toddlers are given mobiles on their 5th birthdays, parents will have difficulty keeping them wrangled in and safe from danger. This Wristlet…
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…
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…
What’s Black and White and Read All Over?
The obvious answer is concept cell phones with E ink displays. Despite their lamentable lack of color range, E ink mobiles are just all the…
If Nokia’s Aeon And A Nano Had Sex…
I don’t know what it is about Apple fanboys, but they can’t stand to see good design without their beloved logo glowing affectionately on the…
Fun with Wide Angle Views
I’m a big fan of fisheye distortion, it’s more visually interesting, tells more about the context of a picture, and it’s so very useful 3d…
This Cheese is Not For You!
Is your roommate Elizabeth always using your computer because she didn’t have the decency to buy her own? Does it just grind your gears when…
Energy Mate Converts Consumption into Sense
Green People rejoice! Stuart Sharples’ designed the Energy Mate system, making it simple to convert the energy you spent in your home into pounds and…
Voice Stick
Braille is still the standard when it comes to helping the visually impaired read. Unfortunately translating text into braille is costly and time consuming thus…
Compose Music All High Tech Like
Have you ever caught yourself whistling a made up tune and thought to yourself, “hey this could be a hit song!” Those moments of inspiration…
A Silent Alarm Clock
Alarm clocks usually jolt us awake leading us to reach for the almighty snooze button. Silence is a conceptual alarm clock that allows you to…
Vroom Vroom Beep Beep!
Who says I can’t play with my electronics! Move To The Radio shoves a radio inside a traditional wood block car toy. The volume is…