Our friends over the pond at tech magazine T3 sent us this heads up about a project they've been working with their readers in the goal of designing the "best cutting edge smartbook/notebook", sport...
A few years ago my grandmother was diagnosed with Macular Degeneration, an eye disease that causes vision loss in the center of the visual field due to a damaged retina. When I visited, my grandmothe...
Right now, the iPhone is the cell phone to beat. Apple just made a great product and people have been flocking to it. What could dethrone the iPhone? How about a new Google Phone! TechCrunch reports o...
For small space dweller, there's often a compromise made between choosing where one can work on their laptop or desktop and where they can eat. And even for those with plenty of space, many of us ju...
We've all had those face palm moments of Oh Crap, Did I leave the coffee maker on?! Sometimes it's hard to remember to turn off or unplug every single device we have plugged in. Wouldn't it be nic...
The smooth and sleek design of the Milky Way by Henrik Amberla allow this device to serve two functions, as an alarm clock and as an art object for your nightstand. With an innovative design and int...
Remember those hypercolor t-shirts from the 1980's? Well apply that visually novel idea to cookware and that's basically the idea for the Coral cooking pots, a concept which gives would-be Giadas a vi...
There is nothing like the old school, especially when you are talking about the neat telephones that one used to talk to their neighbor using a very long string and two cups. Behold the Cup Communic...
Love this amusing concept of drawing upon the designs of operating system calculators from both Windows and OS X widgets as the basis of real world calculators for the (home) office. Designers at Mi...
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...
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