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With, over 35 Million sold with just as many copies I'm sure, this Sugar Shaker is, according to Bill Stern an Art Historian, "the very essence of modernism, a perfect meld of function...
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Check out this amazing and inspirational feat of engineering called The HumanCar. A human powered car that is I am sure inspired by the famous Flintstone mobiles....
Motus Games, a subsidiary of Motus Corporation, has developed the Darwin Controller of which they tout is the future of Motion Based Entertainment, and the natural evolution of the Wii Controller. Using their R&D experience in developing motion sensing...
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Muji Award 02 Judges' Prize: Chronotebook
By: Wong Kok Keong
Patent 6593942: Event programming guide
By: Dennis Bushmitch et al
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Check out this very clever Napkin PC designed by Avery Hollerman that is perfect for collaborating designers. Using e-ink and RF technology it allows designers to draw in colour and skip the very tedious stage of transferring the sketch into a...
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There is an uncanny resemblance between the great work of Dieter Rams to the work of Jonathan Ive head of Industrial Design at Apple. ...
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The latest buzz on the Internet comes in the form of the Amazon Kindle e-book reader. I had first initially dismissed it as another e-book reader, but with time it has come to...
A British journalist interviewed Apple executive Phil Schiller about the Monopoly iTunes has created (ah la Microsoft Style) and the use of it for downloading music on the iPhone. The Apple PR animals jump right in to stop the interview, and forces it to...
I'm floored. This is not a trick, nor is it a story out of Star Trek, and best of all its not even a concept. Yesterday, November 01, 2007, Bug Labs launched for the first time to the public,...
1) It's Time To Call One Laptop Per Child A Failure It breaks my heart to see such wonderful design work from so many talented designers go to waste but the announcement that the One Laptop Per Child Foundation is offering a 2-for-1 sale in the...
I'm probably now one of the millions of "children" that have finished reading the last installment in the Harry Potter series. But the interesting part of this is the amazing cultural fall out of this book series has created. My cousin was telling...
1) Toshio Iwai's much anticipated Tenori-On is finally available today. Check out the videos to see how it works. It's a totally rad music making device. (Thanks Drew) 2) Ravi Chhatpar, Strategy Director in frog’s Shanghai studio, has written an interesting piece called "Innovate Faster by...
You might have caught this on Gizmondo, but if you have not, it seems in 2001 Matt Presta from Bridge Design was brought in to conceptualise, as a product pitch, the idea of a revolutionary motion sensing game remote control to Nintendo. I'm...
1) My iPod is like my model girlfriend, and my Zune is like the girl next door. Who would you marry? 2) "Sense and Simplicity" in the Philips brand really communicated in their designs? 3) The conversation sketching tool kit. Use sketching as a means...
Wallpaper Magazine has done a nice write up on the history of the Singapore Girl and her fashionable Sarong Kebaya uniforms. A true design classic that embodies all aspects of the Singapore Airlines brand, in fact, I would go as far as to...
1) What do you do when an executive says "I don't like orange" or "can we use circles in stead of squares"? Visual designer Nick Meyers of Cooper explains how the right kind of research with, not only the user, but also the stakeholder can...
Sorry guys. I just had to drag myself out of bed to post this. Really made my day! Via: Technabob ...
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