We just dissembled and stored away our bedroom window air conditioning unit, a bit of a pain in the behind, but necessary as autumn weather starts letting itself be known in our area. Wouldn't it be n...
Most of us use a dial or a mouse click to switch what we're listening to. But the Potger Design Cubic Sound MP3 player bucks tradition and focuses on a more physical action to switch tunes: flip the c...
We've posted about Tetris inspired furniture before, but we're pretty sure this chair takes it to the next level. It also seems to be taking influence from another popular toy in the '80's. We're ...
Designers Wout Fierens and Miquell van Meelen of Wondering Boys created the Table of Sound for the recent designboom sound innovation design competition. The design didn't win, but we like the concept...
The whole point of putting your waste paper out to be recycled is for it to be reused in yet another generation of paper products -- toilet paper, printer paper, magazines, etc. But what if you could...
Each time we have to fill up a glass of tap water to feed our plants, it makes us cringe a little bit. Not that it's a huge deal, but we're always looking for a way to save money on our water bill ...
Why waste valuable kinetic energy created while leisurely rocking when you could power an OLED lamp while doing so? That's probably the question that spurred on this design by Rochus Jacob, resulting ...
Typically clocks aren't all that fancy, high-tech or innovative and we're glad people haven't forgotten that clocks can be those things. Luckily we can count on one company to keep amazing us with ...
Forget night lights. Johanna Hyrkas has designed a night rug. Her Light Carpet is part of the Imu Design collective, which showcases works from young Finnish- and Helsinki-based designed. There isn't...
One of the most annoying task in gardening is raking the leaves. We can't count the number of hours that we've spent raking up leaves. What's even more annoying is that when there are more leaves that...
So we like to work from bed a lot. Like, a lot a lot. With posturepedic bed, a laptop, and a kitten who likes to sleep on our chest it's kind of impossible not to. Maybe that's why the Robotic Bed fr...
Do you remember Smell-O-Vision, the failed cinematic system designed to reproduce smells in a movie theater? Not many do, but it looks like the idea is being pitched for the home theater set via the S...
As consumer technology convergence starts folding in a whole array of lighting, home entertainment and automation systems, even so-called universal remotes often fail to be intuitive to use. So the ...
If you want to see where user interface for computing, gaming and appliance user interface may possibly be heading (and likely, considering 3D is being pushed hard as consumer technology in the disp...
Here's a video showcasing some of the future technologies dreamt up by telecommunications giant, Nokia, including gaze tracking eyewear and an interior window embedded display (and of course one of th...
The beauty of LED lights are their bright efficiency. A small bulb can light up a large area without using much energy, and that's the premise behind Korea designer Sungho Lee's LED Pin concept, a s...
The Electrolux Design Lab 2009 annual global design competition showcases the style and creativity of undergraduate and graduate industrial design students who imagine what home appliance and electro...
When you are living in the suburbs or the country side, it's easy to grow your own food. Veggies like tomatoes and some fruits like apples tend to grow quite easily. However, the closer you move to a ...
Ok, this could be the best or most dangerous thing to have in your home. Dr. Whippy, an art project by british artist, Demitrios Kargotis, is an ice cream machine that serves customers based on their...
Are you a workaholic? A coffee-holic? Are you both?! Wouldn't it be great if your two vices could help each other out?...
We know that going camping can be extremely therapeutic and calming. No technology means you have no distractions from the gorgeous views and spending time with your loved ones. Although, not ever...
We conduct so much energy in all of the things we do each day; why aren't we embracing that? There's so much we could do and so much money we could save if we just harnessed our ability to produce ...
It must be something in the air, but it seems like everyone wants to work with porcelain now. We're certainly not complaining, just think it's interesting that designers are using the material in c...
Sure, it would be great if all our homes were juiced via solar panels, but since a lot of us rent and we can only demand so much from our landlords, we have to make do with what we've got. One way to...
Everyone knows that RGB stands for red, green and blue. We all know that those colors play a very important role in how we view things on the computer screen and on paper. Now we have a whole new w...
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