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New York State is home to some impressive waterfalls, New York City, not so much. The city is planning on changing that this summer with the New York City Waterfalls project. It's a big, expensive undertaking: $9 to $10...
POSTED Friday, May 9, 2008
Poor little Pleo. The innocent and uber-cute robot dinosaur suffered at the hands of your DVICE narrators, sure, but that mild session of humiliation pales by comparison to this ass-whipping Pleo took at Maker Faire last weekend. What could...
POSTED Friday, May 9, 2008
What if you could control everything in your home with a little handheld gadget? That's what this universal remote by David Chacon got us thinking about, with its roomy screen — a nerve center right in your pocket. Called...
POSTED Friday, May 9, 2008
Sony’s already into the digital picture frame biz, but now it busts out one that’s truly useful. The Canvas Online VGF-CP1 leaps into the next level with its Wi-Fi connectivity, opening up way-cool possibilities such as automagically showing your...
POSTED Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Though it's called the Egg phone, this design concept better resembles the fried variety than a shell-covered ovoid. Designer Roman Tubl set out to conceive a cellphone that's easy to use and a pleasure to hold. Throw in a...
POSTED Wednesday, May 7, 2008
If you’re looking for the tallest tower of LEGO in the world, here's a picture of it right here. This monster was built in the Legoland Windsor theme park in the U.K. of 500,000 LEGO bricks, and stands just...
POSTED Tuesday, May 6, 2008
We already showed you how to stay fashionable in urban combat situations. Along the same lines, Peter Gronquist has jazzed up retired rifles, chainsaws, machine guns and artillery shells and slapped big names on them: Louis Vuitton, Coach, Gucci...
POSTED Tuesday, May 6, 2008
The Brits are once more taking Singapore by storm, but this time with their snazzy, sustainable architecture. Firm Foster + Partners has plans for an over-1,600,000-square-foot (filling an entire city block), mixed-use structure that's completely decked out with green-friendly...
POSTED Monday, May 5, 2008
We’ve been hearing rumblings about the U.S. Navy’s triple-hulled ships, but here’s one that was launched last month, the U.S.S Independence. Built by General Dynamics, it’s called a “littoral combat ship” (LCS), and the trimaran can move huge weapons...
POSTED Monday, May 5, 2008
Typically, a Do Not Enter sign or symbol is enough to deter folks from trying to enter a room. But what about people who don’t read English? Or who grew up in the wilds of Alaska and don't understand...
POSTED Monday, May 5, 2008
Today we got to take an advanced look at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's new exhibit: "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy." The show has three types of costumes on display. First, there are original superhero costumes that were worn by...
POSTED Monday, May 5, 2008
The BBC commissioned this novel idea that combines social networking with a digital radio, and the result is Olinda. It’s a normal digital radio until you remove its translucent orange cap, exposing a plug-in interface. You can add modules...
POSTED Monday, May 5, 2008
Attention Foosball players: Here’s the largest table football game in the world. In fact, Table Football XXL is so huge, two entire soccer teams — 22 players — could face off with it, settling their challenges without ever setting...
POSTED Friday, May 2, 2008
We like the Orbit clock. By using circular hands, it emphasizes that time isn't just a linear progression of events — more of a big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff, a point of view shared by our favorite Time...
POSTED Friday, May 2, 2008
We got our hands on LG's Vu cellphone from AT&T today. It's a sexy number that emulates the iPhone on a number of scores, most notably its touchscreen. The Vu even complements it with some very appreciated tactile feedback...
POSTED Thursday, May 1, 2008
This is about as fancy as toilets get. Kohler calls this sculptural throne the Fountainhead, which make sense — Navy guys would recognize that “head” nomenclature, and yeah, it has the equivalent of an enormously powerful (but quiet at...
POSTED Thursday, May 1, 2008
Got an extra million dollars hanging around? Put down a $100K deposit on the upcoming Cirrus “The-Jet,” a tiny single-engine aircraft that doesn’t exist yet. Full-sized models are now touring the world, and when it does fly, the personal...
POSTED Wednesday, April 30, 2008
What better way to decorate your arty abode during wartime than hanging up this Cuckoo Bunker Wall Clock by Joseph Barakat for Diamantini Domeniconi? That little bird out front is one brave soldier, wearing only the flimsiest of helmets...
POSTED Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Take a look at the Hy-Bird, a hydrogen-powered electric airplane that gets 10% of its power from the sun. Made of super-lightweight (and expensive) carbon fiber, there’s talk of this fuel-cell aircraft flying around the world this summer, and...
POSTED Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Look, I'm all for sustainable housing and eco-building, but we've got to be sensible here. Spending $15 million on a house shaped like a bee hive because it's "eco friendly" is kind of insane. Sure, it's sitting on a beautiful...
POSTED Monday, April 28, 2008
Instructions: Read this in the deepest, slowest voice you can. Italicized words should be pronounced with extra sexy. "Hey baby, you hear 'bout the hot new trend this week? Goin' green. That's right, and nothing's greener than my SOL-oh...
POSTED Friday, April 25, 2008
Designer Alex Naboko of Minsk, Belarus is on the right track to bringing back the glory of air travel. It's easy to imagine crisply uniformed attendants wandering the spacious aisles, serving better-than-expected trays of food on the large tables...
POSTED Friday, April 25, 2008
Behold the S2 Pebble, Samsung's newest entry to the cheaper-than-iPod Shuffle MP3 player category. This player has a couple of things going for it. First, it's really, really shiny, and looks like it belongs in your mineral collection. Second,...
POSTED Thursday, April 24, 2008
Happy birthday, Hubble Space Telescope. It's the 18th anniversary of the Hubby's launch and, to celebrate it, NASA and the European Space Agency have released 59 new images of interacting galaxies. You may not have thought galaxies mingle very...
POSTED Thursday, April 24, 2008
You'd like to take a step towards a "green" lifestyle by growing your own herbs and flowers. After all, indoor plants help clean your air, and any food you grow at home puts you one step closer to eating...
POSTED Wednesday, April 23, 2008
With this being Earth Week and all, Dell decided to get in on all the eco-fun with its smallest PC yet. This one’s wrapped up in a renewable bamboo case that looks stylish, rounded, and smooth. Its innards are...
POSTED Wednesday, April 23, 2008
If you’re one of those high-end PC users who sprung for Windows Vista Ultimate hoping that the promised Ultimate Extras would someday amount to something, you might have to keep waiting after today. Microsoft released a precious few updates...
POSTED Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Bigshot Toyworks, a design studio known for its ridiculously high quality action figures, is giving one of Ashley Wood's distinct robots a real world presence. Meet Bertie, one of Wood's pipebomb 'bots from his upcoming World War Robot comic...
POSTED Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Wedging yourself into an economy-class airplane seat is one of the atrocities of our age, but there’s help on the way. The Cozy Suite is a revolution in airline seating, giving you more room to yourself while giving the...
POSTED Monday, April 21, 2008
The City Transport Cell is a collaborative effort between design students Stefan Mathys, Florian Kaufmann, Thomas Spycher and Christof Bigler. Their mission: design a car for the cities of the year 2020. The bold team of four went ahead...
POSTED Monday, April 21, 2008
Your average autonomous underwater vehicle (or AUV) uses propellers or jets to maneuver underwater, but Finnegan the RoboTurtle, described as an "agile and aggressively maneuvering biomimetic autonomous underwater vehicle," is shaking things up with a new way to get...
POSTED Monday, April 21, 2008
This has got to be a first. The Quadruple-Neck Guitar has now exploded on the scene, but the problem now is, who the heck will be able to do it justice? Contrary to the fake, musical-talent-free Guitar Hero paradigm,...
POSTED Friday, April 18, 2008
If you’ve spent the past decades pruning and cultivating those spectacularly small bonsai trees, here’s the perfect finishing touch: CrashBonsai, a tiny smashed car, wrapped around that tree, just like in real life! Artist John Rooney painstakingly crushes, melts...
POSTED Friday, April 18, 2008
Leave it to Kohler to call a faucet a “new. life. form.” But this fixture for your kitchen really is different. The Karbon Faucet articulates from a compact pole-looking thing into a long arm that reaches right where you...
POSTED Thursday, April 17, 2008
Get out of the way, everybody! Here comes the one-wheeled Audi Snook. Maybe this auto-stabilized monowheel design concept isn’t such a bad idea, though, because it won German student Tilmann Schlootz a Michelin Challenge Design Award 2008 at this...
POSTED Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Are you a badass? A real badass? Then you probably have no need for the Outlaw chair. I mean, anyone who would get himself a Victorian chair tricked out with jewels, studded leather, and what looks like a puma skull...
POSTED Tuesday, April 15, 2008
What better way to tell Mom how much you care than to give her an alarm clock for Mother’s Day (May 11) that reminds her of all that time she spent waiting on you? Take your pick of a...
POSTED Monday, April 14, 2008
We’re not big fans of printing anything — trying to keep everything digital and virtual — but if we were, we’d use a tiny mobile printer like this Canon Pixma iP100. Set up for true power-printin’ road warriors, it...
POSTED Monday, April 14, 2008
Just to dash that first thought of yours: Nope, not a concept. This is real, my friend. The MonoTracer is an enclosed motorcycle or "cabin cycle," a style of vehicle which experiences a lot less drag than your average...
POSTED Monday, April 14, 2008
Moonlight is a German company that makes these beautiful glowing orbs. The polyethylene spheres range from 13-30 inches across and can survive in temperatures from -40 to 170 Fahrenheit. Though they've been around in Europe for a while (they...
POSTED Friday, April 11, 2008
The setup certainly doesn't make it sound positive: The Redbird Reef off the coast of Slaughter Beach, Delaware is a dump site for retired New York City subway cars, and there are already nearly 700 of them on the...
POSTED Friday, April 11, 2008
The Guggenheim Museum has established a tradition of building structures to house and display art that are themselves works of art. Following the lead of the original Guggenheim in New York designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and the stunning...
POSTED Friday, April 11, 2008
Soon, the small island nation of Bahrain may be known for more than having served as the temporary home of Michael Jackson. Its brand new World Trade Center twin towers are connected by three wind turbines that spun for...
POSTED Friday, April 11, 2008
At first glance, this is a digital watch. But wait just a second. The Di Grisogono Meccanica DG is all mechanical, mocking the digital zeitgeist with its segmented numerals, which are all gussied up in neon-green paint and fooling...
POSTED Thursday, April 10, 2008
Today Nikon introduced the P80, a new and larger addition to its line of Coolpix point and shoot cameras. The company is calling the P80 the "most compact super-telephoto camera" on the market, compared to other models out there...
POSTED Thursday, April 10, 2008
Sure, there are a lot of concept car designs floating around, but when Toyota cranks out a futuremobile, everyone remembers the Prius and stands at attention. This 1/X plug-in hybrid concept shaves off plenty of pounds to save energy,...
POSTED Thursday, April 10, 2008
Ikea is converting the Kobe Portliner Monorail in Japan into an innovative showroom in preparation for the launch of its store location at Port Island. Lucky for the display, it's beauty will be fleeting - Ikea will only run...
POSTED Thursday, April 10, 2008
In Mad Max, Lord Humongous and his men rolled around wearing whatever they could find, from paintball masks to leather jackets and next to nothing. We won't have to worry about scavenging when the mushroom clouds start blooming —...
POSTED Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Half Johnny Appleseed, half doomsday machine, the colorful CV08 "suburb eating" robot is a massive hexapod that'll crawl across the urban landscape, destroying the houses and everything within them in order to replant trees. Each leg fulfills different functions,...
POSTED Monday, April 7, 2008
Parasols are good for more than just decorating those fruity tropical cocktails. For example, Parasolar, a design concept by Oded Shorer, has an easily carried case that opens up to reveal a cloth canopy with integrated photovoltaic panels. Neat....
POSTED Monday, April 7, 2008
Ladies and babies alike should be able to appreciate a fine set of wheels with strollers like these. Each Roddler is styled with old-school lead-sled flourish, with sleek over-the-wheel fenders and customization options including various shapes, colors, classic trims,...
POSTED Monday, April 7, 2008
Ever wish you could live in the world presented by a good book? With the Space Book by designer Jin-Hui Kim, you could. Each page of the oversized pop-up book is a different room of a make believe house,...
POSTED Monday, April 7, 2008
The NE apartment building is a stylish approach to a motorcycle-centric living solution by Japanese architects Yuji Nakae, Akiyoshi Takagi and Hirofumi Ohno. It features eight apartments separated by seven concrete walls, all of which are accessed by adjacent...
POSTED Friday, April 4, 2008
Putting a twist on the conventional drawbridge, the Gateshead Millennium Bridge over the River Tyne in England tilts to let ships pass under it instead of parting at the middle. The bridge's crazy design is the result of a...
POSTED Thursday, April 3, 2008
Now the tinycam derby heats up even more, with Sony jumping in with its $900 HDR-TG1, a palm-size HDTV camcorder it’s calling the world’s smallest. Besides its 1080i HDTV showing up on that 2.7-inch viewscreen and recording on the...
POSTED Thursday, April 3, 2008
NASA posted up some harrowing news to go along with their daily photo: In a surprising and potentially troubling request, the new space station robot known as Dextre demanded that astronauts refer to it in the future as "Dextre...
POSTED Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Some of us don’t mind looking preoccupied with our cell phones, wearing a Bluetooth earpiece as if always expecting a call. That’s why we might be willing to spend $150 on this Plantronics Discovery 925 beauty, just rolled out...
POSTED Tuesday, April 1, 2008
The Siafu (curiously named after terrifying army ants) is a concept laptop by designer Jonathan Lucas of Long Beach, California that would give people with impaired vision the tactile input they need to fully use a computer — from writing...
POSTED Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Have a seat on the Pixel Couch, the perfect place to plant your posterior if you’re wearing a pixel tie. Decorate your walls in a pixel pattern using a few Post-it notes, get yourself a suit to match and...
POSTED Monday, March 31, 2008
Do you like camping but can’t stand wallowing in the dirt with all those bugs and worms? Then the Treepee is just for you. Hang it from the nearest sturdy tree, stake it down on all four corners, and...
POSTED Friday, March 28, 2008
Here’s a design concept that old-school artists who wear berets and paint with palettes will like. The gorgeous Palette-Digital Artist is an entry into the Microsoft NextGen PC Design Competition for 2008. It's a handheld touchscreen PC, and looky...
POSTED Thursday, March 27, 2008
Your surge protector is probably tucked behind the sofa. You know, out of the way. But what if your surge protector were instead ten times larger, red, and in the center of the room? You'd never be able to...
POSTED Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Slide is a different kind of faucet. At first, we thought it was touch-controlled, but no, the top part of it is actually moved backward to both turn it on and regulate its temperature. It’s certainly a clean design,...
POSTED Wednesday, March 26, 2008
We’re sold on cardboard. We’ve seen it used to build sturdy cribs, an iPod boombox amplifier, and someone even made cardboard blocks that look like building materials for a castle. We just never envisioned a future where we’d all...
POSTED Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Korean phone purveyor Pantech (also known as Sky Premium) is teaming up with universities there to design the "Phone of 2010." We dig it, and what they came up with so far look mostly like units for the home, though...
POSTED Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Watchmakers Maurice Lacroix unveiled three new watches in its Starside series, and each one is almost as nice as just staring up into the stars themselves. The analog watches are all designed around a celestial motif, cleverly displaying . They...
POSTED Tuesday, March 25, 2008
The Silbervogel Gravity Car, designed by Jakob Hirzel, is a concept racing car that would still turn a few heads even though it isn't a gas guzzling muscle car. The Silbervogel has a detachable top half that covers the driver,...
POSTED Monday, March 24, 2008
This is what the future looked like in 1973. Funny thing is, this LIP Mach 2000 Dark Master watch is still eye-catching today, with its primary-colored controls and intricately detailed face. The design stays nearly true to the original,...
POSTED Monday, March 24, 2008
In the name of Fine Art, we present to you a stairway to nowhere. Start walking up this winding, twisting stainless steel staircase and you end up right back where you started. Sculptor Olafur Eliasson thought this artwork, which...
POSTED Monday, March 24, 2008
The manhunters are coming. Air Force pal and defense contractor Northrop Grumman has been tinkering with this X-47B drone since early in this century, but now things are getting serious. How serious? The sophisticated radio-controlled jet might be flying...
POSTED Saturday, March 22, 2008
Here’s the kind of crazy kitchen range that finds itself on the Short List of the Australian International Design Awards: The Fisher & Paykel Izona CookSurface lines up three spooky-looking burners in a row, eliminating that back burner that...
POSTED Friday, March 21, 2008
The AIR, or the Area's Immediate Reading, is designed by Preemptive Media and is on display at Eyebeam's exhibition space in New York City. It's a GPS-equipped handheld device that'll let you know everything you didn't want to about where...
POSTED Friday, March 21, 2008
We visited the New York International Auto show today at the Javits Center in Manhattan. The show opens to the public on Friday, in the meantime we got to roam the floors ahead of the crowd, which was pretty...
POSTED Wednesday, March 19, 2008
We’re big fans of Nixie clocks, using old Nixie ("Numerical Indicator eXperimental") tubes from the pre-LED/LCD era and turning them into unique timepieces. Now we’ve found another Nixie wristwatch (here's the first one we saw), created as a gag...
POSTED Wednesday, March 19, 2008
The Suzuki S-Ride features the kind of seating arrangement you'd see in a fighter jet: one person up front, one person in back. Who knows if this concept will ever be a reality, but the S-Ride is aimed at...
POSTED Tuesday, March 18, 2008
What will San Francisco be like 100 years from now? The History Channel sponsored a City of the Future contest for architects to show us their vision of Utopian metropolises from 2108, and the winner for the San Francisco...
POSTED Friday, March 14, 2008
What do you get when you take a Harley-Davidson V-Rod motorcycle, put an extra wheel on the front, install a couple of seats and top it off with a gorgeous fiberglass body? You get a Cirbin V13R, a tricycle...
POSTED Thursday, March 13, 2008
The DNA personal computer is one of those concepts that, like the almighty Voltron, becomes more powerful the more pieces of it you connect together. It starts out as a bare-bones computer-in-a-cube, with a low-powered processor and graphics card for...
POSTED Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Shoe purveyor Nike dipping into the auto industry may sound disastrous, but the Nike ONE is an undeniably sexy single seater. The Nike ONE design team was led by legendary car designer Phil Frank, who designed classics such as the...
POSTED Wednesday, March 12, 2008
The same firm that brought us the Waxpod has another, perhaps more practical design, the Façade vase. The designers ask of consumers: "Do we really need a beautiful vase, or do we only need a beautiful facade for the...
POSTED Wednesday, March 12, 2008
The Single Person Cooker is is portable kitchen — everything about its design helps you cook on the go or in a tight space. It's lid is actually a cutting board, and the unit has a space for cooking...
POSTED Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Here’s a design concept that uses nanotech teamed up with photovoltaics to make windows that light the night using organic LEDs (OLED). Winner of a Dyson Student Award, Lightway uses panels shaped in a style that harkens back to...
POSTED Friday, March 7, 2008
Toyota’s being coy about iQ, its latest pocketcar that just rolled out in its shipping trim at the Geneva Motor Show. Clearly aimed to compete directly with the Mercedes-built Smart Fortwo car, the company’s not saying if iQ will...
POSTED Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Okay you twitchy gamers, here’s a gaming mouse that just might be faster than you are. The Razer Salmosa has a lightning-quick 1ms (that’s millisecond for mere mortals) response time, faster than any game, display, and certainly quicker than...
POSTED Tuesday, March 4, 2008
If you just had an ultra-thin voice recorder in your pocket all the time, think of all the things you’d avoid forgetting. Just whisper a reminder into this credit card-sized digital device’s 6.5-millimeter thinness, and your faulty human memory...
POSTED Friday, February 29, 2008
If you’re thinking about going green with a Toyota Prius, hold on a second. Underneath this spectacular spacecraft-like exterior by Italdesign Giugiaro beats the frugal heart of a Prius. Well, almost, because the Quaranta concept car, to be rolled...
POSTED Friday, February 29, 2008
Someday, when curved organic LEDs (OLED) are cheap enough, an arc-shaped iMac will actually be possible (to give you an idea, a 11-inch non-curved OLED screen costs $2500 today). Until then, we’ll have to settle for iView, a design...
POSTED Friday, February 29, 2008
A British company known as Inflate sells easily-erecting structures akin to — get ready for it, this reference is embarrassingly dorky — the capsule home technology in Dragon Ball Z (you can kill me in the comments for that). Nick...
POSTED Thursday, February 28, 2008
Zu Zu's Petals is a collection of consumer electronics concepts by Bluemap Design that are meant to inject a little natural goodness into the unnaturally-shaped technology world. The various devices of Zu Zu's Petals are presented as if they are...
POSTED Wednesday, February 27, 2008
“Open the pod bay doors, HAL.” Can’t you just hear that sentence in your head as you look at this 1/12 scale model of the Discovery EVA pod from 2001: A Space Odyssey? Wish we had more information about...
POSTED Monday, February 25, 2008
The Paramount Parabolic Multi-Monitor Display by Humanscale gives you an easy way to attach anywhere from two to eight screens onto its unfolding monitor arm, no tools required. Everything snaps into place, including the displays. The screens are curved toward...
POSTED Friday, February 22, 2008
Would attractive design make you go green? Constructed to look like a flower, the Ravi solar generator has photovoltaic arrays attached to petal-like extensions. And, like a flower, it absorbs energy from the sun during the day, storing it in...
POSTED Thursday, February 21, 2008
Ross McBride calls his line of watches and clocks "normal," but we call them minimalist. We mean that in only the best way, because look at this thing! It's just so clean and simple, and it's tricky at the...
POSTED Thursday, February 21, 2008
Not going to be able to get out to New York City's Toy Fair 2008 this year? Don't worry, DVICE has your back — whether you're browsing the Toy Fair halls for the first time or simply clicking back to...
POSTED Sunday, February 17, 2008
Who cares what the neighbors think? Let's build a house that looks like a snail shell! That's just what a Mexico City couple did, with the help of the astonishing imagination of those wild and wooly architects at Senosiain...
POSTED Thursday, February 14, 2008
Weary travelers flying into Japan's Kita Kyushu airport will be pleased to know that they can give their arms a rest — on certain afternoons, Yaskawa Electric will have RoboPorters cruising the airport, ready to serve. Each RoboPorter can haul...
POSTED Thursday, February 14, 2008
Forget all those tacky TV stands you've seen at Best Buy. This simple and adjustable TV Easel by Swedish designer Axel Bjurström, on display at the Stockholm Furniture Fair last week, takes a familiar form and applies it to...
POSTED Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Matt Denton's fabulous iC Hexapod hobby robot is no stranger to us here at DVICE, and he gave us the scoop on the 'bot's most recent outing to the Monster Mash gallery in London, a collection of personal artwork from...
POSTED Tuesday, February 12, 2008
These awesome Stirling "hot air" engines are crafted by a designer from the Netherlands who goes by the mob-worthy nickname "Jos the Finch." They run entirely off of the heat generated by waxinelichtjes, or squat tea light candles, and, depending...
POSTED Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Today, making a cup of wakeup juice is so easy a zombie could do it. You could even forgo all the machinery and buy the instant stuff, or hit up Starbucks. Yet those who still practice the art of waking...
POSTED Monday, February 11, 2008
Meet Bloom's Daylight "table lamp." Like this sun jar it collects energy during the day so that it can illuminate your room at night. In the morning the lamp looks like a potted plant— that flat "flower" on top...
POSTED Monday, February 11, 2008
The Genius Navigator 365 by Evergreen works like your standard cheap mouse, but you can flip it open to reveal a little gamepad on the inside. It's eight buttons and d-pad will most likely satisfy your needs if you're...
POSTED Friday, February 8, 2008
What if New York City were totally trashed in a disaster? That was the premise for a design competition that spawned this Cloud City idea by Studio Lindfors. It was one the Selected Entries in the "What if New...
POSTED Friday, February 8, 2008
Remember that awesome dump truck we showed you? Well, here's the Chameleon Truck, once again by concept designer Haishan Deng. Like his Super Tipper Truck, the Chameleon Truck makes up for the shortcomings of its modern trucking cousins. Where you...
POSTED Friday, February 8, 2008
The iPhone may have Google Maps, but it doesn't rely on real GPS— it approximates your location using cell phone towers. And while there are smartphones with GPS out there, none contains a fully-featured GPS device. Garmin's newly-announced nüviphone...
POSTED Thursday, January 31, 2008
It's no news that thin is in, whether we're talking about computers or televisions. Shouldn't you be able to accessorize your supermodel-sized TV and computer with similarly thin lighting? To that end Think/Thing has come up with the Slenda...
POSTED Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Car seats are so hard to deal with, or so we hear. We haven't been in one in a while. The designers at Think/Thing were tired of having to hunch into the back seats of their cars adjusting straps...
POSTED Wednesday, January 30, 2008
If you had to stare at the back of a rack of blade servers and find just one wire, which of these examples would you rather deal with every day? Thought so. In what might not be a bad...
POSTED Monday, January 28, 2008
That's not a UFO lighting up your shower stall—it's the Hansaclear Lux, a shower head with LEDs that let you choose a different lighting color every day. The prettiest color-changing shower head we've seen yet, its unique design clearly...
POSTED Thursday, January 24, 2008
So you've heard all about Virgin Galactic's new spaceship, but the big thing you want to know is when will tickets be cheap enough so everyone can afford them? Only one man knows that: Sir Richard Branson, the billionaire founder of the company.
POSTED Wednesday, January 23, 2008
I’ve always thought that space travel was a project for big government due to the complex physics and the huge amount of money involved. But I’m wrong. Virgin’s Sir Richard Branson (above in the pic) along with designer Burt...
POSTED Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Students at the University of South Australia have spent several years developing an environmentally friendly car that they call Trev: it's meant to be the ideal commuter vehicle. Trev is fully electric vehicle that uses 1/5 the energy of...
POSTED Tuesday, January 22, 2008
The Polymer Vision Readius received a release date of sometime toward the middle of this year, and the cell phone/e-reader hybrid is shaping up to be an enticing contender against Apple's iPhone and the new wave of e-readers. It...
POSTED Tuesday, January 22, 2008
The Library of Congress is archiving a considerable volume of photos on the photo sharing site Flickr from the annals of American history. Its Flickr account already has over 3,000 pictures, in both black and white, and the welcome...
POSTED Monday, January 21, 2008
The Handpresso probably won't win over any purists since it only works with premade espresso packets, but it'll let you have some fancy coffee wherever you are. Just crank it up with the hand pump, load it with a...
POSTED Thursday, January 17, 2008
If you did see one of these anti-riot vehicles at the 2008 North American International Auto Show, it's probably time to run. Police all around the world utilize special vehicles in situations where (at least, ideally) large crowds are...
POSTED Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Sir Steve of Cupertino just dropped some bombs at Macworld, the biggest of which being the announcement of a new MacBook Air ultraportable laptop. The thinnest laptop in the world, it measures a mere 0.16 inches thick at the...
POSTED Tuesday, January 15, 2008
CES hasn’t even started yet and I already found a must-have toy to buy. It’s the new Rovio by WowWee, and it’s hands down the best of the remote patrolling robots out there.
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
The Hyper-Sub Submersible Powerboat is a vessel that is capable of operating as a boat or a submarine. Built by Marion Hyper-Submersible Powerboat Design, the Hyper-Sub's creator, Reynolds Marion, enlisted his young, mechanical engineer next door neighbor to help...
POSTED Thursday, January 3, 2008
We show you a lot of cool and wild bikes around here, but what would you do with your old bicycle if you got one? If you are the folks over at Bike Furniture Design from Michigan, you fashion...
POSTED Wednesday, December 26, 2007
The Mobiblu Cube 2 was a cute little 512 MB or 1GB MP3 player, just larger than your standard gaming die. It had some major advantages over the iPod Shuffle, including a LED-screen, built-in FM tuner, and voice recorder....
POSTED Tuesday, December 18, 2007
The Sony Little TV manages to exude quite a bit of character despite being small enough to comfortably fit in your hand. The set has a silicone body covered by highly elastic "super-knit" fabric. The television is able to...
POSTED Tuesday, December 18, 2007
We've seen musical toilets, stealthy toilets, waterless toilets, pimped-out toilets and even toilets that'll improve your upper body strength. You know what's missing from that list? Take a guess. Peek to the right and then come back over here....
POSTED Friday, December 14, 2007
I'm starting to get the feeling that when car designers go through a midlife crisis, they don't go buy a sweet sportscar — instead, they design a car that feels a lot like a plane. Well, we're better off...
POSTED Thursday, December 13, 2007
There was a time when I spent more hours logged in as my brazen, orange-bearded gun-nut of a dwarven hunter on World of Warcraft (a bit like the guy above, minus the wussy bow) than I did walking around...
POSTED Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Honda Motor Company's midget-spaceman-robot Asimo went from operating solo to working in a collective. By communicating wirelessly, the Asimo units know what tasks nearby robots are carrying out, how much battery life each one has and who will pick...
POSTED Tuesday, December 11, 2007
NTT DoCoMo turns its attention to pint-sized cell phone users with the FOMA F801i 3G cell phone and accompanying wristband. The F801i has an alarm which, once activated, will alert anyone in the vicinity by way of 100 decibel...
POSTED Monday, December 10, 2007
Here's a gadget you probably don't want to hear about so soon after Thanksgiving: a belly fat measurer. Made by Tanita of Japan, all you have to do is relax for a while under the AB-101 while it scans...
POSTED Friday, December 7, 2007
First it was the cellphone industry and now portable storage? LaCie has gotten involved with designers as of late for collaboration on unique external hard drives that look and feel a little bit classier than external hard drives of...
POSTED Thursday, December 6, 2007
Having a hybrid is nice and all, but what about the kiddos? Without a drivers license, there is no way to show the world just how important the environment is. With a miniature solar-powered car, the kiddos can finally...
POSTED Saturday, December 1, 2007
It's only taken the history of the earth, but someone has finally found a way to innovate the bookshelf. This magnetic bookshelf is the work of Swen Krause and was designed for Nils Holger Moorman, a German furniture outfit....
POSTED Friday, November 30, 2007
Motoring around the countryside in tiny cars has been a trend in France for a while. One of the vehicles popular for this diversion has just hit England: the Zest Roadster. The Roadster's exterior is made of plastic and...
POSTED Friday, November 30, 2007
Ever feel like the only difference between a general gadget and a gadget marketed toward women is a coat of pink? Thankfully, Syntes Studio approached the topic differently. They've got two phones: an "urban" design that is functionally interesting,...
POSTED Friday, November 30, 2007
Only 10 EcosseSpirit ES1 prototype motorcycles will be made and, as you can imagine, a customized limited-edition bike comes with a limited-edition price: 3.6 million buckaroos. Still reading? Buying one of the prototypes not only means you can work...
POSTED Friday, November 30, 2007
The one time in his life that David Hasselhoff was upstaged, it was when working with Knight Industries Two Thousand, or KITT, his super intelligent car featured in the series Knight Rider. For those unaware, Knight Rider is making...
POSTED Thursday, November 29, 2007
Architect Jason Mellard sketched up a design for a sustainable marine facility he hopes will allow researchers easier access to study marine and avian life. Where did he look for inspiration? Mellard cites the Star Wars movies, wildlife and...
POSTED Thursday, November 29, 2007
I'm told the good folks over at the Electrolux Design Lab competition set out to design household appliances from the future, but their entries are so good I'm starting to suspect they really are time travelers trying to pull...
POSTED Tuesday, November 27, 2007
The Maeslant barrier, known as the Maeslantkering, which protects the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands was closed for the first time on November 8th and succeeded in protecting the port from flooding. The walls of the barrier took...
POSTED Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Powered by biofuel, the Koenigsegg CCXR is a new alternative fuel automobile setting out to show how eco-friendly designs can still have plenty of muscle. When building its new car, Koenigsegg made a happy discovery: the ethanol found in...
POSTED Monday, November 26, 2007
I'm a little surprised it has taken this long to do so, then again I cancelled my subscription to Accordion Weekly and haven't followed the trends, but Roland has released the very first fully digital accordion. This behemoth of...
POSTED Saturday, November 24, 2007
CES has a weird taste for what is innovative, like this speaker lamp, and occasionally gadgets that don't exist. This year one of our favorites of CES's "favorites" was Vestalife's Ladybug speaker dock. It's a portable set of speakers...
POSTED Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Is it a prop from the set of Dr. Who? Perhaps a wrist version of H.G. Wells' Time Machine? No, it's a real working steampunk style watch created by none other than Japan's Haruo Suekichi. The watch shown has...
POSTED Tuesday, November 20, 2007
In an time when flip flops double as flasks and nearly any gadget can be covered with bling, it's a relief to find a company whose goal is the "careful elimination and subtraction of gratuitous features and design unrelated...
POSTED Friday, November 16, 2007
The MC Square is a "light and sound machine" that purports to help its users with stress relief, relaxation, memory improvement, better sleep, and concentration enhancement. The technology is even backed up by scientific studies. Sounds great, right? The...
POSTED Thursday, November 15, 2007
The Volitan, or the "Flying Fish," is a concept design for a boat that would run green over the great big blue. It harnesses both the power of the wind and the Sun, using solid sails and an array...
POSTED Thursday, November 15, 2007
The powerful technology found behind the lens of Nikon's flagship D3 DSLR is the culmination of over a decade of work. The camera packs a punch with a 12.1 megapixel sensor, which can shoot at 36 by 23.9 mm...
POSTED Tuesday, November 13, 2007
The idea of a Gibson Robot Guitar hits all the right notes with me, what with robot in the title and a ton of snazzy lights and automated bits. All you have to do is strum the strings and...
POSTED Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Ever look up at that little red twinkle in the sky and wish you could pay a visit to Mars? We're not there yet, but the two Mars Analogue Research Stations (MARS) in Utah and on the uninhabited Devon...
POSTED Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Whether you love or hate the Zune, there's no denying that Microsoft is doing something really cool with the ZuneOriginals line. Starting today, November 13th, Microsoft will sell 4 GB, 8GB and 80 GB variants of its portable media...
POSTED Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Somewhere out there in gadget land a clock radio is having one hell of an identity crisis. It could sit there in a cute package and perform its function as desired, or it can be a wild child and...
POSTED Monday, November 12, 2007
Mowing the lawn sucks. It's tedious, dirty, and sweaty. I mean honestly, who like walking behind a lawn mower in the hot summer sun? Nobody I know, that's for sure. That might change, however, if more lawnmowers look like...
POSTED Thursday, November 8, 2007
Oh, hey, I didn't see you there. What's what? Oh this! Why, it's my very own Pentaphone Isolation Space. It cuts down on ambient noise so I'm not distracted and keeps people from butting into my conversation. Of course...
POSTED Thursday, November 8, 2007
The Wind Shade Roof is a structure decked out with a bevy of wind turbines to power whatever it houses in climes where conventional energy can be hard to supply. Architect Michael Jantzen designed the structure to be able...
POSTED Tuesday, November 6, 2007
The Mademoto Electric Cruiser has done the unthinkable and taken all of the beneficial purposes out of rollerskates, skateboards and other manual modes of rolling transportation. Thank of the Electric Cruiser as the front half of an electric moped,...
POSTED Monday, November 5, 2007
We've seen a lot of different ways to store wine, but it's time to give champagne some love. The Vertical Limit, commissioned by champagne house Veuve Clicquot and designed by Porsche Design, is probably the coolest-looking way to store...
POSTED Monday, November 5, 2007
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