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Young London artists looking for cheap studio space in an expensive city are turning their eyes toward subway cars — though those eyes would be looking up, not down. That's because these retired subway cars are actually on top...
POSTED Monday, December 1, 2008
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas over at New York City's Grand Central Terminal. Sharp helped deck the halls by sponsoring the Grand Central Terminal Kaleidoscope Light Show, which lit up the main concourse with a holiday-themed...
POSTED Monday, December 1, 2008
No, this is not some vaporous design concept. It's the Cowon S9 Curve, a portable media player that will actually be available in the U.S. sometime this month. Setting it apart is its 3.3-inch AMOLED (Active Matrix Organic Light...
POSTED Monday, December 1, 2008
Nikon's highest-end digital SLR cameras just got a new big brother, and his name is D3X. There's no fancy HD video shooting here — just raw, unadulterated power with 24.5 megapixels under the hood of this hefty, $8000 behemoth....
POSTED Monday, December 1, 2008
We like the idea of fancy light switches, the cheapest, easiest way to modernize a room with eye-catching tech. Now here's a design concept that takes light switches into the next dimension, giving you trackpad-like control in a touch-sensitive...
POSTED Wednesday, November 26, 2008
The crazy idea of selling billions of gallons of water in everlasting plastic bottles to people who already have access to clean water sources is turning our planet into a gigantic garbage heap. Finally, somebody is doing something about...
POSTED Tuesday, November 25, 2008
These days, we've got our fair share of futuristic and slickly-designed gadgets. The problem? The furniture we sit in while we use said gadgets has yet to catch up. This day bed by Mauelsaez aims to change that. Designed to...
POSTED Monday, November 24, 2008
Why are traffic lights round? Because they're products of their time — when they were invented a spherical bulb was the only thing that would light the glass evenly. Now that there are a host of lighting technologies (like...
POSTED Monday, November 24, 2008
The ROMP, or Remotely Operated Mobile Platform, is a remote-controlled unit designed to be cheap and versatile. Designer Chris Rogers built it to be able to carry out reconnaissance, bomb investigation and remote detonation, and combat missions — and...
POSTED Friday, November 21, 2008
The Swedish company myFC (My Fuel Cell) wants to free you up from power cables with advanced fuel cell technology. Its latest prototype is a charger that uses a compact, flat alternative to the usual fuel cell stack —...
POSTED Thursday, November 20, 2008
"Breathtaking," says BMW. "I shall call him... Mini-E." With that, BMW jumps into the electric car derby, unveiling its electric version of the Mini Cooper. The high-profile test program/publicity stunt will involve a limited run of 500 of the...
POSTED Wednesday, November 19, 2008
One look at the HP TouchSmart tx2 notebook, and you'll want to get your hands on one, literally. Its 12.1" widescreen display swivels into a tablet, and lets you use two fingers to expand and pinch graphics, rotate and...
POSTED Wednesday, November 19, 2008
A buildup of snow can be dangerous for large, flat-roofed structures like super markets and office buildings. All of that snow is usually removed by freezing hands and snow shovels, but, if designer Michal Glogowski's dreams ever come true,...
POSTED Tuesday, November 18, 2008
We've always wanted to take some of those remarkable photos captured at an exact split second. Now we can emulate the accomplishments of the great high-speed photography pioneer Harold Edgerton with the Universal Photo Timer, bringing laboratory photo tech...
POSTED Monday, November 17, 2008
Heard of Bang and Olufsen? The company specializes in exquisite, expensive electronics design, and this BeoSound 5 is no exception. You're looking at the controller for the system, a 10.4-inch screen with an aluminum scroll wheel that commands a...
POSTED Thursday, November 13, 2008
Oakley sunglasses founder Jim Jannard's RED Digital Cinema Camera Company is at it again. This is the next episode of the endless hype about its Scarlet camera system that started last April, and now the company has finally released...
POSTED Thursday, November 13, 2008
The Octospider in Bangkok is, of all things, a cafeteria. We have no idea how the food is, but the view is amazing. It's raised over the water on steel stilts, and the long, narrow, window-lined arms of the...
POSTED Wednesday, November 12, 2008
LA-based artisan Giancarlo De Astis turns all kinds of aircraft parts from retired planes into industrial, retro-chic furniture. He gets the aeronautical leftovers from junkyards and plane graveyards in Arizona, and fashions tables, chairs, lamps and other furnishings out...
POSTED Monday, November 10, 2008
Check out this wind-powered battery charger. Febot is a design concept for charging up a single AA battery, where you attach its suction cup outside a window of your house or car, and the tiny generator uses the power...
POSTED Monday, November 10, 2008
Sometimes there's nothing quite like an extremely low-angle shot. Most camcorders and some digital cameras make it easy with displays that move around to odd angles, but if yours doesn't have such niceties, the Flipbac angle viewfinder is here...
POSTED Thursday, November 6, 2008
The Mazda "KAAN" is an electric race car for the futuristic tracks of 2025, and part of the LA Auto Show's Motorsports 2025 Design Challenge. Like all of the crazy submissions, the KAAN has its own little back story:...
POSTED Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Gadzooks! A steampunk keyboard with modern sensibility? That's a whole fistful of Splenda in my Darjeeling tea. Dubbed as the Ergo, a mysterious fellow known as Datamancer cobbled this clacking wonder together from an old IBM M-15 ergonomic split...
POSTED Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Core77's timely voting-booth-themed 1 Hour Design Challenge (where, as you may have guessed, folks have an hour to toss together their ideas) set its designers on the quest for the perfect voting machine. Apparently, that means portable. The collapsible voting...
POSTED Tuesday, November 4, 2008
The Isola S from Japanese Toyo Kitchen's "Nobody" line is one stylish way to shrink a kitchen down into a sliding Yin-Yang. Its design stems from its native Japan, where space is far more limited. Hell, I could even...
POSTED Monday, November 3, 2008
Capping off our day of Halloween costume roundups is everyone's favorite droid, R2-D2. Artoo joins the iPhone, the folks at BioWare, and fellow robots on this haunted day at DVICE. Click through for 10 Halloween outings featuring the beeping...
POSTED Friday, October 31, 2008
Hot diggity. It looks like every costume at BioWare's office this year was a hit. The crew nailed the scout, demo man, spy, pyro and engineer from Team Fortress 2's pantheon, a game by fellow developer Valve. The good...
POSTED Friday, October 31, 2008
In a rush to build the maximum number of gigantic and magnificent skyscrapers before the oil runs out, Dubai is at it again. Just look at this 2150-foot monster, the Anara Tower, scheduled to be built next year. The...
POSTED Thursday, October 30, 2008
Curiously dubbed "YO," this attractive iPod and MP3 stereo speaker dock is a concept by American-born designer Victor Vetterlein. The speakers are detachable and wireless (as well as waterproof), and charge at the dock just like an MP3 player...
POSTED Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Hawaii resident Won Park's origami first got our attention with his One Dollar Camera. Then we started browsing through his work online, and we discovered a treasure trove of pictures of his origami projects, including paper versions of the...
POSTED Monday, October 27, 2008
Dyson makes a mighty fine vacuum, but an even finer defender of humanity. The amateur (but by no means unskilled) artists contributing to Worth1000.com's "Rejected Transformers 6" contest have cobbled together Transformer-like creations out of unlikely bits, including shopping...
POSTED Friday, October 24, 2008
Get out of the way, everybody, because here comes Bloodhound, the world's fastest car. The British-designed Bloodhound SSC (supersonic car) was unveiled in London today, with plans for a record-breaking supersonic run in 2011. The 42-foot land rocket will...
POSTED Thursday, October 23, 2008
When you set designers loose with a theme like "the world of motorsport in the year 2025" you're bound to get some absolutely insane designs. Looking at the sleek, versatile Honda Great Racer, that's exactly what came out of...
POSTED Thursday, October 23, 2008
There's power in them thar waves! That's why Portugal built Agucadoura, the world's first wave farm off its coast, consisting of three Wave Energy Converters generating a total of 2.25MW. The elongated metal contraptions bob up and down with...
POSTED Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Okay folks, this is about as extravagant as it gets. Behold 1010, a limited edition 18k gold pen from Swiss baublemaker Caran d'Ache that's built to "celebrate the special genius of watchmakers." Called 1010 because of the balanced look...
POSTED Wednesday, October 22, 2008
It might take a few years (or decades) for this iBangle design concept to end up on your wrist, but for the time being, we can stare in astonishment at its ambitious design. You see that blue inner band?...
POSTED Tuesday, October 21, 2008
This Halloween you'll probably carve up a pumpkin with a goofy face. So did Alan Penner from Goleta, California, but his is geeky enough to join us here at the DVICE Tower with its instant-messenger-style smiley charm. Penner's other...
POSTED Tuesday, October 21, 2008
We're still in awe of that fantastic Battlestar Galactica PC we showed you last week, but take a look at this: Unlike that custom-built Battlestar, this one's a commercially-available PC. It looks like it has glowing nuclear fuel rods...
POSTED Monday, October 20, 2008
The conceptual City Rack by designers Ilya Tkach and Nikita Gutsalenko has a lock built-in so your can secure your bike — rather than having to chain it up to whatever fence or post you find. It looks like...
POSTED Friday, October 17, 2008
Toyota has been coy about the appearance and features of its upcoming 2010 Prius hybrid vehicle, but somehow these pics leaked out. The photos show a Prius that's about the same shape as its predecessor, with wedgier-looking headlights and...
POSTED Friday, October 17, 2008
Is it us, or isn't it a bit ironic that the same week Sony's newest Playstation Portable (PSP-3000) becomes available, a fantastic design for a future model bursts on the scene? While the PSP-3000 has scant few innovations, this...
POSTED Thursday, October 16, 2008
Singapore's upcoming EDITT Tower, or the "Ecological Design In The Tropics" Tower, is green inside and out. Designed by the architects at TR Hamzah & Yeang and sponsored by the National University of Singapore, the 26-story structure features a...
POSTED Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Steve Jobs introduced a new line of MacBooks today, saying that the $1299 flagship of the lower-priced laptop line is the same as the MacBook Pro, but smaller (well, almost, Steve — except for those faster processors and graphics...
POSTED Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Apple introduced a new line of Macbook Pro laptops today. Taking a cue from the MacBook Air, at .95 inches, the new 5.5-lb MacBook Pro is much thinner than its predecessors, and as expected, it's carved out of a...
POSTED Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Take a glimpse into the future: This is the World Trade Center's transportation hub, revealed a few days ago after numerous redesigns. Created by one of our favorite architects, Santiago Calatrava, the soaring organic architecture features a glass and...
POSTED Monday, October 13, 2008
Here's a PC case mod that's worthy of the name Battlestar Galactica. This liquid-cooled work of art has a numerous video screens, a side window hidden by a servo-controlled door, and a slot-loading DVD drive that lets you see...
POSTED Monday, October 13, 2008
That battery you're throwing away may not have enough energy left to power your gadgetry, but it does have enough juice to light up a low-energy LED. That's the driving idea behind South Korean designer Sung Woo Park's conceptual...
POSTED Friday, October 10, 2008
It had to happen. Now there's an electric Porsche, made by German Porsche modifier/carmaker RUF Automobile GmbH. The company dropped a 204hp electric motor into a Porsche 911 chassis, powered it with 96 lithium ion batteries from California battery...
POSTED Friday, October 10, 2008
Now you can network your water faucets together. The Elettronico Faucet by Carlo Frattini lets you control the water's temperature and flow rate on its touchscreen, which can also control other faucets you hook up together in a special...
POSTED Thursday, October 9, 2008
Flying cars are all hat, no cattle. But wait. What's this? A flying car that will actually exist, roll on real streets and highways and then take off into the wild blue? You betcha. Pony up your $194,000, and...
POSTED Thursday, October 9, 2008
Would you want to live in a house with no privacy whatsoever? Because this stack of window-walled blocks is exactly that. Its designers over at Julien De Smedt Architects worked with a guiding concept that would give George Orwell...
POSTED Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Now that you've seen that $10 million dollar train set that looks like the real deal, think of this: What if it was invaded by zombies? LEGO zombies? That's what the Zombie Apocafest 2008 in Seattle, Washington was all...
POSTED Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Attention zillionaires who still have huge wads of cash left: Rolex is having its 100th birthday, and to celebrate, the storied Swiss watch company rolls out an update to its flagship timepiece, calling this exquisite bauble the Rolex Oyster...
POSTED Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Just looking at pictures of the Miniatur Wunderland — a $10 million, 9,600-square-foot train set in Hamburg, Germany — you may mistake it for a living, breathing place. Several places, in fact, including its native Hamburg, and America (complete...
POSTED Tuesday, October 7, 2008
If you thought the Herman Miller Aeron chair was the top-dog place to park you posterior, take a look at this. Now it's 14 years after that ultra-comfortable chair's debut, desk jockeys — time for Herman Miller to top...
POSTED Monday, October 6, 2008
Sometimes, it seems like high fashion is all about putting something silly on your head — take designer Giles Deacon's Spring/Summer 2009 collection, for instance. He's got his models wearing Pacman-inspired headgear. There's the iconic yellow Mr. Pacman helmet,...
POSTED Friday, October 3, 2008
We're nuts about tiny electric cars, and this Nissan Nuvu concept car rolled out at the Paris Motor Show is the coolest one yet. The 9-foot minicar seats the driver up front, a passenger seat alongside, and room for...
POSTED Friday, October 3, 2008
Someday soon, most of us will have computers in our home theaters, and we'll be needing a mini keyboard like this one from Brando. What's so great about it? Two letters: RF. Its radio frequency control works up to...
POSTED Friday, October 3, 2008
Sling Media just started shipping the Slingbox Pro-HD, and DVICE has its gadget-loving hands all over it. We've been fans of Slingboxes since the beginning, relishing their ability to stream home video sources like cable or satellite TV (even...
POSTED Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Designer Hans Thyge Raunkjaer likes vintage DeSoto cars, and decided to create a faucet that reminds him of the Chrysler classic. Can you see the resemblance in the comparison above? Well, it's slightly similar, and we can imagine that...
POSTED Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Looks like if Baywatch ever airs again, it'll be filled with less rippling bodies and more autonomous underwater rescue vehicles — AUVs that would look pretty darn scary circling around you in the water. The Mantra is a concept...
POSTED Wednesday, October 1, 2008
The X Sting Wish: stupid name, drool-worthy design. UK-based designer Adam Scott bills this monster as an extinguisher of fires, but we'd readily believe it as an exterminator of aliens in an action-packed sci-fi flick. Scott designed the X...
POSTED Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Egads. It's bulky. It's inefficient. In today's modern world, it would be a colossal hassle. I love it. This steampunk phone is a conceptual prototype by Londoner Arthur Schmitt, and it tickles all the right spots from a design...
POSTED Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Whether you have a full head of hair or you're an indie sci-fi movie maker who can't afford to build his own set, this Israeli barber shop is definitely a place you should visit. It's got a steamlined interior...
POSTED Tuesday, September 30, 2008
What's that red streak zipping across the waves at 110mph? It's the R8,8 Biocat Catamaran, and its Ferrari-like looks are complimented by a super-green biodiesel engine. Don't let its treehugging name fool you, though — it's a fire-breathing 29-footer...
POSTED Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Remember that six-PCs-in-one-sweet-glowing-box setup we showed you? Well, designer Fredrik Perman isn't all about raw processing power. He also has a softer, sweeter-smelling side: flower-shaped USB fragrance oil warmers. The units are designed to burn all kinds of fragrant...
POSTED Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Two of our favorite things just got together: TiVo, and using a computer in our home theater. Nero, makers of DVD burning software, finally made good on its year-long promise and released a package of TiVo software you can...
POSTED Monday, September 29, 2008
These indoor flying machines are getting more sophisticated every day. If that tiny Tomy QFO we showed you is just not radical enough, take a gander at this Micro R/C 4-Channel Flying Saucer, equipped with a remarkably advanced solid-state...
POSTED Friday, September 26, 2008
You won't have your grandparents over to your posh, colorful apartment in Tokyo while living at the Reversible Destiny Lofts. Designed by NY-based architects Arakawa & Gins (who, between you and me, need to pick some different colors for...
POSTED Friday, September 26, 2008
The first thing I did when I saw this setup was look at my own wall and see where I could fit one, too. Then I grabbed a napkin to clean up all the drool. Up above is exactly...
POSTED Friday, September 26, 2008
The Dodge Boys are getting frustrated. While GM basks in all the accolades (and brickbats) for its Chevy Volt, Chrysler races to catch up, and now rolls out three prototypes of its own electric vehicles (EV) — a conventional-looking...
POSTED Thursday, September 25, 2008
Okay, we were just kidding around yesterday with that (actually legitimate) idea for a lie-detecting headband, but now we've found another device that takes a similar concept way, way too far. Here's FAST (Future Attribute Screening Technologies), a system...
POSTED Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Take a golf cart, put a smiling face on the front and four seats inside, wrap it in a body that might have once been seen in an animated Disney feature, and what do you get? Peapod, Chrysler's answer...
POSTED Wednesday, September 24, 2008
If Rick Deckard had a versatile 18-wheeler to hunt down replicants with, his life probably would have been a lot easier. At least, that's what the Blade Runner, a bus concept by British firm Silvertip Design, promises to be....
POSTED Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Despite being named after an amazingly lethal fish, industrial designer Matt Bassett's H1 "Fugu" rescue helicopter is designed to save lives, and do it better than the 'copters that came before. He's worked it out so that the Fugu...
POSTED Thursday, September 18, 2008
The "Growing Jewelry" collection by Icelandic designer Hafsteinn Júlíusson features beds of real Icelandic moss fixed to rings. There's also a pair of knuckle dusters in case you want to add some lettuce to your knuckle sandwich. Be forewarned,...
POSTED Wednesday, September 17, 2008
If you feel like you're being spied upon now, you ain't seen nothin' yet. Designer Benjamin Males presents Target Project, part performance art and part tech demo that shows how easy it is to automatically gather and record racial...
POSTED Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid has done it again. Look at her Symbiotic Villa, a house that's more like an exotic, angular beehive than a mansion. She designed this dwelling for the Next-Gene 20 project in Taiwan, where twenty...
POSTED Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Canon just rolled out a monster DSLR camera. The Canon EOS 5D Mark II is not going to be cheap when it's available in November ($2700 for the body, lenses extra), but for that wad of cash it brings...
POSTED Wednesday, September 17, 2008
We've shown you shots of the upcoming Chevy Volt before, but now the electric vehicle is officially… official. Due in the latter half of 2010, it's the first official plug-in hybrid from a major manufacturer, promising costs of a...
POSTED Tuesday, September 16, 2008
The line between the grown up and kiddie tables blur with Netherlands-based designer Tineke Beunders' Marbelous. It has grooves cut into the tabletop, legs and supports that'll have marbles rolling all the way down to the floor. The best...
POSTED Monday, September 15, 2008
Filmmakers rejoice! Now you can abandon those rolls of expensive film for digital video, recorded uncompressed on this odd-looking Ikonoskop A-cam dII camera. Using the array of lenses available for super-16 film cameras, this baby slams 1080p video onto...
POSTED Monday, September 15, 2008
56 Leonard Street is a new skyscraper going up in New York City designed by Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron. Situated in posh Tribeca, the tower cuts an odd silhouette with its jagged edges and apartments that...
POSTED Monday, September 15, 2008
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a Webstar! Actually, none of those are far from the truth. It's a Superstar. A floating, self-powered, self-regulated, self-contained metropolis. Think that sounds nuts? Even when Beijing-based MAD designs something grounded in...
POSTED Friday, September 12, 2008
We attended the opening of Chicago-based artist Dzine's new show at the Deitch gallery in Long Island City New York on Sunday night to see some of sparkliest vehicles in town. Dzine's new sculptures include a bright orange motor...
POSTED Thursday, September 11, 2008
Pipe smokers have thus far missed out on much of the techno-fun, but now designer Hakan Bogazpinar comes to their rescue with Eolos. Never mind that it looks like some kind of sophisticated weapon — it has a built-in...
POSTED Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Since the Large Hadron Collider didn't destroy the world this morning, isn't it high time we forgive and forget? And what better way than with a meaty gallery of industrial goodness from all stages of its development, cataloging the...
POSTED Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Finally, we get a full-on look at Chevy Volt electric car! You saw a sneak peek at its center console and a few spy shots, but now here's a clear look at (almost) the entire car. Weird, though —...
POSTED Tuesday, September 9, 2008
We showed you the XR-3 hybrid vehicle back when it was merely a concept, but now it's the real deal, and it's unlike any other eco-friendly vehicle out there. How? Well, when you buy it, you get a DVD. On...
POSTED Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Having a panel of nozzles blasting you against the shower door isn't enough. No, you need wacky designs as a backdrop for your showertime hijinks, and these Colacril Linea Shower Creativity panels are here to help. Take your pick...
POSTED Monday, September 8, 2008
Here's the next generation of e-reader, taking the same E Ink tech used in the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader to the next level. Made by Plastic Logic, this flexible (but not foldable) electronic newspaper is the size of...
POSTED Monday, September 8, 2008
I guess we'll have scrunching or modular cars in the year 2030. It wasn't too long ago that we showed you this French car concept for the year 2030, and now here's Mihai Stamati of Chisinau, Moldova with a...
POSTED Friday, September 5, 2008
Find someone isn't agreeing with you? Or saying yes when they should say no? Grab a Yes No Wrench and adjust the offending head accordingly. Gently, now — DVICE doesn't take any responsibility for twisted necks. The Yes No...
POSTED Thursday, September 4, 2008
Never mind renting a tent with faux Palladian-style arched windows for that chic outdoor soirée — make your guests think a UFO has landed in your yard with the solar-powered Art Rainbow. Providing shade and psychedelic colors akin to...
POSTED Thursday, September 4, 2008
Leave it to those sophisticated creators at legendary firm Frog Design to re-invent the light bulb. The same masters who designed some of the first Apple computers, Sony TVs, and lots of other neat stuff tackled the LED bulb,...
POSTED Wednesday, September 3, 2008
This is not just any clock radio. This Etón P’9120 has that Porsche name on it, launching it into that brand and price stratosphere that makes you think you’re really getting something extraordinary. In this case, the storied trademark...
POSTED Wednesday, September 3, 2008
The Peugeot design competition has yielded a lot of clever designs, from cars that can shape-shift, to one-seater personal transports, and cars with spheres for wheels. Now here's the Peugeot Stylight by Ognyan Bozhilov of Bulgaria: a three-seater hybrid,...
POSTED Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Who says wallets have to be made of dead animals? The $70 Dosh Wallet brings the transport of money and condoms into the 21st century with its weird semi-flexible plastic that holds all your most valuable stuff in a...
POSTED Tuesday, September 2, 2008
"Un Sui" is a heavily stylized home in Yamato Kanagawa, Japan built by architect Norisada Maeda and his studio N Maeda Atelier. "Un Sui" translates into "mass of soil," though on the inside it looks a lot more like...
POSTED Monday, September 1, 2008
Here at DVICE, we're gluttons for high resolution photography of big machines, though this gallery strikes something of a melancholy note. On October 8th, NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis will embark on a mission to restore the Hubble Space Telescope...
POSTED Monday, September 1, 2008
Finally, one man will be able to rock a "My Other Car is A Landspeeder" bumper sticker and mean it. Daniel Deutsch spent six weeks building a replica of Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder featured in Star Wars: A New Hope,...
POSTED Monday, September 1, 2008
The Boeing 747-200 that has been reappropriated as the Jumbo Hostel has a rich history. Under Transjet Airways, it ferried Muslim pilgrims to Mecca on top of global charter flights. It was grounded in 2002, and seemed destined to...
POSTED Monday, September 1, 2008
In São Paulo, Brazil, there's an office building called Harmonia 57 that has a façade covered by plants. They got there because of pores built into the concrete, where foliage can be planted and grow out until it covers...
POSTED Monday, September 1, 2008
You can hear the "potato-potato-potato" roar of Harley-Davidson motorcycles all over Milwaukee this weekend, coming here from all over the world to visit the company’s hometown and its huge celebration of the 115th 105th anniversary of the fabled big...
POSTED Friday, August 29, 2008
We’re nuts about the open-wheel design of this GYM electric car, but might be too lazy to get it to go anywhere. That’s because inside this far-fetched design concept of a rowdy-looking roadster is also a gym full of...
POSTED Friday, August 29, 2008
If you’ve fallen in love with the MacBook Air but just can’t stand the thought of muddling through OS X, becoming a snooty Mac user, or suffering through Apple’s skin-deep quality and often-shoddy workmanship, Samsung is aiming its .66-inch-thin...
POSTED Friday, August 29, 2008
We like our sinks weird, spooky and magic, and now here’s a faucet to match. High-end plumber Graff designed this gorgeous work of art it calls Luna, appearing to be more ski jump than faucet. Its hot and cold...
POSTED Friday, August 29, 2008
We can hardly wait for GM to roll out its $40,000 Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid car in late 2010, but the company is teasing us. After showing off an early prototype, we heard the company was trashing that first...
POSTED Friday, August 29, 2008
Remember Gak? It was that Play-Doh-like ooze that's easy to picture drooling out of rusty sewer grates. Now imagine pressing that all over your iPhone to get it clean. Nope, not gross at all. Still, Cyber Clean (which comes...
POSTED Thursday, August 28, 2008
The Seat Brisa is a sports car, but not the kind that'll burn rubber down the road with a gas-guzzling roar. Instead, its hood is covered with photo-voltaic cells that power an electric engine tied to the rear motor....
POSTED Thursday, August 28, 2008
Christened the Signterior by its creator, Shanghai-based architect Nobuhiro Nakamura of A-Asterisk, the name is a blend of the words "signage" and "interior." All of the floors, walls and ceilings on every level within the Chinese structure are painted...
POSTED Wednesday, August 27, 2008
What happened to the drain on this sink from Italian company Axolute? The water either magically disappears, or it slips away via patented “Horizontal Integrated Siphon” technology. You decide. Okay, all you party poopers, if you lean forward and...
POSTED Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Here’s the long-anticipated the Nikon D90, the first digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) camera that can also shoot high-def video. The 12.3 megapixel camera has Live View, letting you see your framing on the 3-inch viewscreen just like a point-and-shoot...
POSTED Wednesday, August 27, 2008
The Peugeot 888 is billed as the "personal vehicle for the future Metropolis." For designer Oskar Johansen from Norway, that means a car with space for two with room for luggage, as well as a nifty shape-shifting body. On...
POSTED Tuesday, August 26, 2008
This is a sneaking mission, agent. You've been cleared to take the Super Soaker Bottle Shot pistol with you, though how many enemies you'll be able to get wet depends on what kind of bottle you find. That's right,...
POSTED Monday, August 25, 2008
Designer John Paul Rishea has a gallery of wild and outlandish clothing, if you've got the balls to wear them. He's created futuristic-looking collars, sets of wings and robotic gauntlets that would make robo-rockers Daft Punk drool, all sold...
POSTED Thursday, August 21, 2008
The NASA concept car (which, as far as we can tell, has nothing to do with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, though it looks like astronauts are driving it) has some pretty radical features that are immediately appealing....
POSTED Wednesday, August 20, 2008
If you like your espresso hot and fast, it looks like this Brunopasso PD-1 espresso machine could be up to the task. Designer Tadahito Ishibashi wanted to remind you of an Italian sports car, complete with dashboard-looking gauges and...
POSTED Friday, August 15, 2008
Quit wasting your time building LEGO models of Death Stars and LEGO space ships from moldy and childish movies that are decades old. Leap back a few centuries and build the Taj Mahal, the most beautiful structure ever created....
POSTED Thursday, August 14, 2008
Hobos everywhere, rejoice! Here's the familiar-looking Swivel Barbecue, a tripod grill that sets up in a jiffy. With a quick half-twist, its three poles form a sturdy stand from which you hang the cooking grate. Adjust its height over...
POSTED Tuesday, August 12, 2008
When a ‘50s-style nixie clock isn’t going to cut it, get even more retro-techno with this Scope Clock. Made by nixie wristwatch maker David Forbes in his Cathode Corner laboratories, this gorgeous creation mixes up the old and the...
POSTED Monday, August 11, 2008
There’s no shortage of ways to be jarred out of bed in the morning, but we like the idea of a scent waking us up rather than obnoxious noises or absurd tests. Sure, the Wake n’ Bacon alarm clock...
POSTED Friday, August 8, 2008
The cry of "Man overboard!" isn't one that'll cause a rush of panic on the decks of the Queen Elizabeth in Turkey. That's probably because people are continually jumping ship: to visit the surrounding pools, spas, bars and the...
POSTED Friday, August 8, 2008
Clock Delay is the name of this unusual timepiece, perhaps because you can blame it if you’re late, saying you were trying to decipher what time it really was. But it’s not that hard to figure out — just...
POSTED Wednesday, August 6, 2008
In times of economic distress, oftentimes the super-rich seem to fare even better than usual, and now must be no exception because here’s the just-released $550,000 Hysek Colosso watch for them to snap up without thinking twice. It looks...
POSTED Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Here’s a treat for all those clever science-y types that flock to DVICE: a coffee table featuring a periodic table of the elements. The trick here? This table contains actual samples of each of the 92 naturally-occurring elements. The...
POSTED Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Chess is a great game, but do you sometimes find it a little too… static? Wish you could add an extreme component to it? If downhill chess is something you'd like to try, the New Wave Chessboard is the...
POSTED Tuesday, August 5, 2008
The Electracity is a city car concept by Piers Prendergast out of London, and it has something a lot of small car designs lack: some serious trunk space. The electric vehicle has an extending rear section of its chassis...
POSTED Monday, August 4, 2008
Here's a train with only one car, and room for only a dozen or so passengers. It seats folks in a series of individual, side-facing capsules, as well as a small room for four at either end of the...
POSTED Friday, August 1, 2008
Artist and engineer Lee Rowland see things a bit differently from you and me. Using sophisticated 3D milling processes and a variety of materials such as polished aluminum, clear polyester resin and a dash of aerospace engineering, he’s created...
POSTED Friday, August 1, 2008
Is this a cell phone, or a magic wand? This design concept for a Nokia 9900 cell phone shows what the future may hold for flexible E-Ink screens, hidden inside a pen-shaped device. Beyond being rolled up like a...
POSTED Friday, August 1, 2008
Let’s just leapfrog all those other ideas for energy-saving car tech and hop into this magnetically-driven ride, shall we? While Slovak designer Matúš Procháczka’s concept is prettier than sexy four-inch spike heels, it’ll definitely take some major infrastructure modification...
POSTED Thursday, July 31, 2008
Belgian artist Wim Delvoye's gothic construction vehicle sculptures show what a world after the industrial revolution could have looked like if it was shaped by the same minds that put gargoyles atop imposing spires and buttresses in European architecture....
POSTED Wednesday, July 30, 2008
It's no surprise that NuVa is a Japanese company, because its pneumatic elevator is one of the most stylish and compact ones we've ever seen. It offers its occupant 360° of vision on the journey up and down, and,...
POSTED Wednesday, July 30, 2008
This is one crazy-looking building. Currently under construction in Tinajin, China and to be completed in 2012, the 1175-foot Sinosteel International Plaza and the 288-foot hotel next to it have hexagonal windows that make them look like the inside...
POSTED Wednesday, July 30, 2008
As far as concept cars go, they don't get much more futuristic than this. The Alfa Romeo Bertone BAT 11 is a concept car that looks straight out of a scifi movie. But this is real, and it's actually going...
POSTED Wednesday, July 30, 2008
If you're into audiobooks, maybe having an animated lady-bot storyteller spin you a yarn would make the experience even more enjoyable. Created by the folks over at Kyoto University's Robo-Garage, this foot-tall 'bot will "read" you Murasaki Shikibu's classic...
POSTED Wednesday, July 30, 2008
A Japanese "circuit bender" who goes by Kaseo loves to turn everyday and out-of-date electronics into noise-producing instruments. He's rewired Casio and Yamaha keyboards, retooled Fisher Price playsets and video game consoles, and even turned Japan's iconic rabbit-beast —...
POSTED Wednesday, July 30, 2008
We can’t seem to get enough of OLED lighting, those glowing paper-thin sheets that our cross-company pals at GE (disclosure: DVICE is part of NBC Universal, which is part of GE) are working on. Now they’ve given us a...
POSTED Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Calling the Valtra RoboTrac a tractor is a bit deceptive. That's because it's also a robot, and it's much smaller than its industrious cousins. It's a fully programmable, automated farmhand that is designed to round out a farm team...
POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008
We’ve heard of eyeball lights before, those swiveling recessed lights that shine onto fireplaces all over suburban America, but now the term “eyeball lighting” is taken a whole lot more literally. Give glassblower Livio Serena from 5.5 Designers a...
POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008
Earlier this year, Virgin Galactic space pioneers Richard Branson and Burt Rutan showed us a model of WhiteKnightTwo, the workhorse aircraft that will launch SpaceShipTwo into suborbital space. Today in the Mojave desert north of Los Angeles, the space...
POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008
We’re looking for a nearby dead tree branch where we can hang this $60 Melting Clock, but even placing it on the mantelpiece will remind everyone of Salvadore Dali’s famous painting, The Persistence of Memory. Plop it on the...
POSTED Friday, July 25, 2008
If you’re a member of the Long Now Foundation, you think about vast spans of time. That’s why the futurist think tankers put a 0 before every year to show how cool and forward-thinking they are (for example, this...
POSTED Thursday, July 24, 2008
If you have carpal tunnel syndrome (also known as repetitive stress injury, or RSI), are you going to trust Microsoft to ease your pain? Heck no. It’s time to call for some otherworldly assistance with the Alien Mouse. Everybody’s...
POSTED Thursday, July 24, 2008
Called "Sharewear" by creator Di Mainstone, this pair of dresses light the area around them in different ways depending on how they're linked up. Both costumes feature a floating, halo-on-a-stick-style lamp above the wearer's head, as well as a...
POSTED Thursday, July 24, 2008
Atmos clocks have been running on thin air since 1928, but never have they looked like this. Now its storied maker, Jaeger-LeCoultre, has teamed up with famed Aussie designer Marc Newson to make this newest clock in the collection,...
POSTED Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Who says a PC has to be rectangular, or even square? Designer Apostol Tnokovski thinks the PC world is round, and conceived this 6-inch orb-shaped number as his proof. Not only is E-Ball oddball shaped, it’s called “the smallest...
POSTED Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Visitors attending Santa Monica's GLOW festival found a stunning surprise in artist Shih Chieh Huang's Recycled Robots, simple sculptures made from odds and ends including plastic bags and bottles, computer fans, portable DVD players hooked up to screens, and...
POSTED Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Conceived by design firm Architecture and Vision, the Moon Base Two is an inflatable lunar habitat that'll keep up to four astronauts safe and sound as they work for six months. While an inflatable base probably isn't what most...
POSTED Tuesday, July 22, 2008
This collapsing Foldoub caravan concept by Dutch designer Niels Caris gives you a lot more space with a lot less to tow. While the frame of the camper is made of lightweight, flexible materials, it all folds into a...
POSTED Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Panasonic rolled out the DMC-LX3, a new flagship for its point-and-shoot line of Lumix cameras today, and this is not just like all the others. Finally, somebody breaks this stupid vicious circle of the megapixel wars. If you haven’t...
POSTED Monday, July 21, 2008
Never mind that this solar-powered car looks like a streamlined humpback whale covered with high-tech barnacles. The SolarWorld No.1 can hit a top speed of 75mph, and averaged 45mph over an 1864-mile race course without once stopping at a...
POSTED Friday, July 18, 2008
You'd probably think the Proxima is a car if you saw it from the front, or a motorcycle — albeit an odd-looking one — from the rear. You'd be right, both times. A concept by Alvino Design, the Proxima...
POSTED Thursday, July 17, 2008
Meet the curious "M.01," otherwise known as the Car for Paris 2030. It's described by its designer Ashley Chichocki as exploring "what is really necessary in a vehicle," and as such it addresses a major issue that cities are...
POSTED Thursday, July 17, 2008
Here's a concept fish owners (or fish who are owned by children) wish was real: a robotic fish feeder. A unit like the Fifer would probably serve a pond better than a fish tank as it's designed to deliver...
POSTED Thursday, July 17, 2008
When audio designer Roberto Delle Curti wanted the world’s biggest, baddest subwoofer, he didn’t go prancing off to some snooty audio store. He got out a shovel. Underneath his world-class home theater lurks the Real Total Horn, consisting of...
POSTED Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Just when Japanese watch purveyor TokyoFlash had gone completely off the deep end, determined to never sell a watch that could be easily deciphered by earthlings, the company adds this Nekura Tumbler to its eclectic collection. Even grandma could...
POSTED Tuesday, July 15, 2008
You probably saw this propaganda photo from Iran last week, showing a quartet of dangerous-looking missiles simultaneously launching in a test exercise. It became immediately obvious to anyone with half a brain that the shot was Photoshopped, with an...
POSTED Monday, July 14, 2008
Here's a robot sculpture that would spark a lot of debate between fans of the Autobots or Decepticons. Autobots' leader Optimus Prime is looking a little thin in all his junky glory, but the sculpture is still really impressive. It's...
POSTED Friday, July 11, 2008
Meet Gonzo, the solar-powered wing-flapping robot. Put it anywhere where there's sun and its solar cell will charge a battery, and its wings will start flapping furiously. There's also Lilly the robot that, like Gonzo, will flap its wings...
POSTED Wednesday, July 9, 2008
The idea of LED-embedded bathroom tiles has useful written all over it. But unless you’re completely remodeling, they’re going to give you some installation challenges. This Tile + Light concept created by Korean designer Hyomi Kim makes it easier,...
POSTED Monday, July 7, 2008
Now you’ll be able to rest easy in that skyscraper with The Wizard, a design concept for an emergency escape system that lowers you safely to earth if all hell breaks loose. Strap on its all-encompassing belt system, firmly...
POSTED Monday, July 7, 2008
The Seascout aquatic rescue robot would be a welcome addition for professionals and wayward tourists in open waters. If someone was in trouble, all they would need to do is activate a GPS tracker and the 'bot would glide...
POSTED Monday, July 7, 2008
The Blue-Me portable vacation home lets you enjoy a pleasant siesta with all the amenities wherever you please. Designed by artist Anton Markus Pasing, it's like a full living room and kitchen anywhere you go with an oven, a...
POSTED Monday, July 7, 2008
The idea of a dedicated room just for washers and dryers may be an alien idea for our future brethren. Designed by Harsha Vardhan from New Delhi, India, the Alternative Clothes Cleaner is a conceptual washing machine that doubles...
POSTED Saturday, July 5, 2008
Why bother with picking up a bottle to pour a drink when you have the Super SideBar, dispensing your choice of five of your favorite libations with the touch of a button? While those bottles are tucked away out...
POSTED Wednesday, July 2, 2008
It’s about time somebody rolled out a windmill for you and me, and it took famed designer Philippe Starck coming out of retirement to do it. This simple-looking $633 thingamajig is said to be able to crank out 20-60%...
POSTED Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Michael Salter is something of a pack rat. Instead of letting all that clutter go to waste as some might, however, he puts it to good use — or into making robot sculptures. You may remember these adorable Styrobots...
POSTED Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Sometimes the power of one horse is all you need — especially if that horse is one you're looking to train and keep tabs on. The Roush horse buggy lets its operator do just that, providing them with a...
POSTED Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Until now, if you wanted the highest-quality Nikon pro camera, you had to shell out $5000 for the Nikon D3, the company’s top digital SLR. Today Nikon announced a baby brother to the outlandishly heavy D3, and it’s calling...
POSTED Tuesday, July 1, 2008
The interactive table race is on, and here comes Interactive Scape, a 58-inch touch surface that’s a whole lot like the Microsoft Surface table that’s being shown all over the world but sold nowhere. Yet. Well, there is the...
POSTED Monday, June 30, 2008
Does that silver-toothed grimace look familiar? That there is an alien, but not just any alien — the queen of them all from James Cameron's 1986 science fiction classic Aliens. The fancy car is the work of youths from...
POSTED Friday, June 27, 2008
We're pretty sure it isn't practical, but Jorge Cross's amphibious vehicle design for the year 2030 fills us with warm fuzzies with its retro sci-fi feel. The three-wheeler tapers to a single ball at its front, which rotates 90°...
POSTED Friday, June 27, 2008
Let’s take a step back from conventional automobile design for a minute and take a look at Ozone. This rolling cylinder created by Istanbul designer Özkan Koral is a design concept for a Peugeot hydrogen-powered car, where each of...
POSTED Friday, June 27, 2008
If this conceptual race car was a reality, you'd find me at the racetrack a lot more often. Sponsored by Honda and the Indy Racing League, the objective of designer Tyler Mars's project was to create a new, eye-catching...
POSTED Friday, June 27, 2008
NASA just unveiled its Hyperwall 2, the world's highest-resolution visualization system. What's that mean? Well, it's a 128-screen display that covers an entire wall, capable of rendering a quarter billion pixel graphics. It's 23 feet wide and 10 feet...
POSTED Friday, June 27, 2008
Two things impressed us about Memeo's Share software right off the bat. First, it acts as both a picture and video organizer as well as a media uploader, and keeps the process as simple as possible. It works on...
POSTED Thursday, June 26, 2008
At first glance, Andrei França Noah high performance vehicle may fool you into thinking it's a unicycle, but look close: it's got two tires, mounted in tandem. The Noah is designed to use the human driver as the control...
POSTED Wednesday, June 25, 2008
This Magni Gyro M-22 Voyager looks like a helicopter, but it’s not. This gyroplane has a rotor up top, but there’s very little power going to that spinning blade. When this baby takes off, it’s pushed along by its...
POSTED Wednesday, June 25, 2008
The Antro Solo gas-electric hybrid is an interesting blend of space age chic and primitive technologies. It's got an array of solar panels along the top of the vehicle to power it's electric motor, and yet both passengers in...
POSTED Tuesday, June 24, 2008
What if there was a camera out there that was always with you, and cataloged your life experiences in picture form based on how you were feeling at the time? That's what the Camoria does, an over-the-ear digital camera...
POSTED Monday, June 23, 2008
Airliners have a black box that leaves a record of what caused an accident, and now there’s Roadscan Drive Recorder, a black box for your car. It continuously records video of whatever happens in front of your vehicle, and...
POSTED Friday, June 20, 2008
Whatever your feelings are about Comcast, you'll be helpless but to fall in love with the media giant's 10 million pixel display at the new Comcast Center in Philadelphia. The media wall covers an area of over 2100 square...
POSTED Friday, June 20, 2008
Those kooky designers. Now they’ve gone and bent a really long piece of metal and created a living room full of wall accessories. Aykut Erol’s Line Furniture System takes the concept of drawing a complete image without lifting the...
POSTED Friday, June 20, 2008
Everyone likes a cheery snow globe to brighten their day, right? Well, you’ll need a martini after you see this gallery of very special snow globes by artists Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz, experts at using a naïve medium...
POSTED Friday, June 20, 2008
Songbird is looking to make some noise in the hearing aid world with its disposable, cheap and discrete Flexfit. The $80 unit is drastically less expensive than your average aid, which costs upwards of a few thousand dollars (not...
POSTED Friday, June 20, 2008
The RoboVault's long list of security measures makes us imagine Tom Cruise dangling over criss-crossing security lasers. Not only is the structure in South Florida made solidly out of concrete and reinforced with rebar and impact glass — all...
POSTED Friday, June 20, 2008
Right on the heels of the Panasonic HD camcorders announced yesterday, Sony tops that with this HDR-CX12, an HD camcorder whose still picture capabilities are more remarkable than its HD shooting prowess. Like those Panasonic camcorders, this one also...
POSTED Thursday, June 19, 2008
Frontline Aerospace calls its V-STAR (which stands for Vertical-Takeoff-and-Landing Swift Tactical Aerial Resource) the "Humvee of the air," but not because it can ferry soldiers around like one of the big jeeps. It's a versatile unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)...
POSTED Thursday, June 19, 2008
JBL's Control Now speakers work great alone or in a group of up to four units. Each speaker is a $250, 90° wedge that is bought one at a time, and you can sit them on your desk, install...
POSTED Wednesday, June 18, 2008
When the weather turns hot as a June bride in a feather bed, our thoughts turn to ice cream. We like our cones stacked a mile high, and the $14.95 Cuisipro Ice Cream Scoop & Stack is the perfect...
POSTED Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Electric motorcycles and scooters have made a lot of progress lately, and one of the first plug-in motorcycles to ship will be this Electric Motorsport GPR-S, known in Southeast Asia as the E-Boxer. The good news is its charging...
POSTED Wednesday, June 18, 2008
We already liked Panasonic’s HD camcorders, and now the company’s gone and topped itself. These two new models, the HDC-SD100 ($1100 ) and HDC-HS100 ($1300), are pricey but get the job done better than ever. Panasonic already wowed us...
POSTED Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Here's the scenario: The survivors from the Twelve Colonies finally find Earth and are invited into your living room, only to find a hulking Centurion model proudly displayed. Awkward. Still, if toy designer Fred Barton had entered our "Make A...
POSTED Tuesday, June 17, 2008
What kind of phone would a blind person use? I'll give you a hint: It's not an iPhone 3G. No, such a phone would have to eschew any fancy touchscreen for something more tactile, certainly — something like the...
POSTED Monday, June 16, 2008
Belgian designer Vincent Callebaut, the Lilypad's creator, describes the city as a "floating ecopolis for climate refugees," but it looks more like a resort than a shelter. Inspired by nature, it's designed to house 50,000 people displaced from the...
POSTED Monday, June 16, 2008
World-class chefs will tell you to put a prep sink near your cooktop, and Kohler hooked up with world-class designer Anne Kitzmiller to make it so in grand, futuristic style. The Kohler Crevasse rinsing sink looks like a 33-inch...
POSTED Friday, June 13, 2008