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Final Frame: A Radio For Treehuggers

A Radio For Treehuggers, made with 80% real oak, designed by Solène Le Goff & Christophe Gouache....

Pendulum Radio Controls are Way More Fun than Knobs

MintPass, the designers behind the brilliant Progress Bar Clock, are at it again with a radio design that could keep us entertained for hours......

Livio & NPR Team Up on the Wi-Fi Radio Front

National Public Radio fan, are you? We don't blame you. Those guys on Car Talk sure know how to spin a bad situation into a good one. Kind of like turning Livio's dedicated streaming Pandora box into ...

RFID Papercraft Radios by Matt Brown

Matt Brown envisions offering laser cut paper radios with RFID tags to be invisible direct listeners to radio staions the musician, charity, brand or designer wants the listeners to hear. The concep...

Pure Sensia Radio Features WiFi and a Touchscreen

Remember when radios used to just tune in to your favorite station and play music? Well now that traditional FM radio has so many musical competitors for our sonic attention—Pandora, Satellite r...

Human Antenna Radio Rug

Tune into radio stations by your footsteps across this rug made from conductive thread. It certainly would make for an unusual game of Twister....

Make Your Vintage Tech Display Do Double Duty

We've been seeing a trend of using old tech as a kind of sculptural art piece. So if it's going to sit there taking up space, why not make it do double duty, like this vintage radio does for one Instr...

The Muji Bath Radio Disguised As Shampoo Bottles

More than meets the eye...the Transformer's jingle seems appropriate in describing this splash proof Muji AM/FM radio which is disguised as shampoo and body soap bottle. Tune to your favourite radio s...

Green Concept: Magic Cube by Kai Yu

Now, the combination of an alarm clock with a radio is nothing to get too excited about. But the combination of an alarm clock, radio, lamp, and charger (that is solar powered) is something we wouldn'...

Techno-Gong: Hiding Gadgets In Plain Sight

One of the things that we really like is the fact when some of our devices are hidden in plain sight. Don't get us wrong, we love our gadgets, but sometimes it's just better to have them hidden away t...

The Perfect Bedside Accessory: Stylish Eklipse Clock Radio

Admittedly, this gadget isn't bringing any mind-blowing new technology to the iPod-dock-slash-alarm-clock market. But hot damn if this isn't the sexiest thing to hit your nightstand since you bought a...

Lexon Tube Radio Puts a Twist On Tuning

Lexon's Tube Radio puts...pardon our propensity for puns...a twist on FM band tuning with a design by Hélène Carric. The antenna is hidden within the vertical case while the speaker is facing upward...

The 4 Gadgets You Might Be Missing in Your Hurricane Kit

Growing up in beautiful Miami, Florida; all anybody could ever talk about at the beginning of June is hurricane season. Are you prepared? Did you stock up on plywood, water and batteries? For all our ...

Final Frame: Tivoli's "Tower of Babel"

Tivoli's "Tower of Babel", constructed from 1000 radios for Milan Design Week 2009. Watch how it was constructed below......

Retro Radio Dock: Playing MP3s in Vintage Style

A great looking dock is always needed. You need one in your bedroom, in your office, and they can be used almost everywhere else. The trouble is that most docks just look mundane and uninteresting. Th...

Mac Mini Friends: Mini-Sized Devices For Your Mac

Wouldn't it be perfect to be able to match that new Mac Mini with a bunch of friendly-looking devices, that are just about the same size? You could stack them and rack'em without any problems. They'd ...

Storing Your Multimedia Collection...in the Kitchen?

What to do when you've got a vast collection of DVDs, books, CD, cassettes, but aren't much of a cook? Flickr user jm3 reorganized his kitchen to be an extension of his media storage solution, amusing...

Final Frame: R2D2 Boombox

Bill McMullen's Jedi-approved R2D2 Boombox (sadly, it's a non-working piece of artwork, but rad nonetheless). [via Geekstir]...

Kitchen-Ready Radio Likes it Wet and Greasy

I don't know who else out there is like me, but I keep an iPod dock in my bathroom. I love to blast music while I'm getting ready in the morning. It's been pretty convenient for the most part—th...

Final Frame: AT-AT Boom Box

AT-AT Boom Box: A couple more images below the jump....

"I'm Not a Clock" FM Radio is Telling the Truth

Yeah, yeah... If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it's probably a duck. But even though this gadget quacks like a clock, it's not a clock. In fact, "I'm Not a Clock" is its name. It's a rad...

Brionvega RR227 Radio: Retro Reissue With Some Up to Date Tech

It's the RR226 + 1. The Brionvega RR227 is a 1965 reissued radio from that Italian company that has brought us minimal and beautiful TV's in the past. To bring this radio up to date, they have include...

CES 2009: Updated Lasonic TRC - 931 iPod Ghetto Blasters

Sure, we have fond memories of our early 80's ghetto blasters bumpin' out Kool Moe Dee and Suicidal Tendencies, but do we really wanna take it back old school like these Lasonic TRC-931 iPod Ghetto Bl...

Final Frame: Vintage Radios from a Bygone Era

A photo set of vintage transistor radio graphic designs and a HUGE accompanying collection of vintage radios....

Sonoro Cubo Elements: A Sleek and Beautiful Clock Radio

Most clock radios are a bit depressing. They rarely look interesting and do the dirty deed of waking us up each morning. Some function better than others, while others like the Philips Wake-Up Light p...