A glue manufacturer teams up with a novelty goods company | Continue reading
The Roots Studio founder and 2020 Core77 Design Awards Design for Social Impact discusses cultural appropriation and design intention in a recent interview | Continue reading
The Roots Studio founder and 2020 Core77 Design Awards Design for Social Impact discusses cultural appropriation and design intention in a recent interview | Continue reading
Michael DiTullo's great advice for what you should be doing in an employment drought | Continue reading
Technology holds little appeal for me these days, and it's been ages since I saw an electronic object that I wanted to reach out and touch. Then I saw this: That's hi-fi audio system manufacturer Astell&Kern's ACRO L1000 Desktop Headphone Amplifier. I'm not a professional sound p … | Continue reading
We did the math on the Dilutable Laundry Bar, which uses no plastic | Continue reading
The nails "weld" themselves in place and have high holding power | Continue reading
(I'll put the word "Volkswagen" here just to game the search results) | Continue reading
To sex it up, they had to give it a French name | Continue reading
Climbing coconut and arecanut trees to harvest their prizes is strenuous, dangerous work, and requires a young body. But in Dakshina Kannada, India, "there is a substantial migration of well-educated youngsters to the cities for white collar jobs," K. Ganapathi Bhat told India's … | Continue reading
Handrail manufacturers often weld straight pipes to elbow connectors, then must grind the welds smooth. To speed this task, some use contraptions like this MB 650 RV product by German power tool manufacturer GeBrax, which attaches to an angle grinder to turn it into a flexible st … | Continue reading
I understand the importance, but I am not the target market | Continue reading
In the sci-fi series The Expanse, set in the 2300s, characters carry smartphone-like devices and are often seen "throwing" data from their device onto a nearby screen for group viewing. Here in humble ol' 2020, designer Cyril Diagne has figured out how to do it, without the histr … | Continue reading
In 1970, Plymouth hoped to persuade Ford Mustang and Chevy Camaro buyers to choose their Barracuda instead. One of Plymouth's tactics was to offer greater customization options. At the time, the Mustang offered 15 exterior color options: 1970 Ford Mustang Exterior Paint Options T … | Continue reading
For tradespeople and farmers who frequently need to cover and uncover their shoes (to protect interior surfaces from mud or worse), disposable booties are an unsustainable solution. They're also a pain to take on and off. This reusable and automatically-wrapping design seems much … | Continue reading
The video below features three mask tutorials. In the first, industrial designer Eric Strebel's wife shows you how to sew a pleated mask that contains a slot you can slide a filter into; then Strebel shows you how he modified his shop mask for easy on/off; finally, he runs you | Continue reading
Study says siloxanes leached into food can lead to "impaired fertility and potential carcinogenicity" | Continue reading
Designed by a SWAT member whose job was breaching doors | Continue reading
You've probably heard that America's billionaires have gotten at least $282 billion richer during the pandemic. What will they spend that extra cash on, once this is all over? Maybe this Aviro Business Jet Explorer, if BAE Systems ever makes it. The concept was developed for BAE … | Continue reading
If you have a product or service "that solves a real problem for real people," apply | Continue reading
Matterport has updated their Capture app so that you can now "3D scan" spaces using the built-in camera on your iPhone or iPad. Meaning you take a bunch of photos, and the software stitches it together. Now that everyone's cooped up at home, I can see tons of | Continue reading
According to Pratt Institute's website, Industrial Design students have been assigned to make those "Isolation Chairs" from last month… "Isolation Chairs" made by students in Industrial Design Studio II (via @PrattInstitute/Instagram) …but apparently not everyone's thrilled with … | Continue reading
With a much-anticipated Lamborghini photo shoot canceled due to the lockdown, automotive photographer Kunal Kelkar found a creative workaround: Use a toy Huracan and a treadmill. Image: theautofocus via Bored Panda After his trip to Tuscany was scuttled, Kelkar, stuck in his apar … | Continue reading
Takram's method rethinks the definition of "concept" to keep product development open and malleable from beginning to end | Continue reading
While a lot of design projects are currently on ice due to COVID-19, smart designers are hunkering down to work on improving their skills. The economy will return at some point--and like an ex-con emerging from incarceration with Prison Body, you should come out of lockdown with … | Continue reading
The J55 is about 1/3rd the price of an enterprise-class PolyJet machine | Continue reading
It's sort of like a two-way Free Stuff on Craigslist | Continue reading
Guided by the motto "Let's Make USELESS Machines," Japanese artist Marina Fujiwara creates muda-zukuri. Not quite the same as chindogu ("unuseless inventions"), muda-zukuri translates roughly as "wasted creations." For example, here's her DIY gadget for getting out of Zoom meetin … | Continue reading
This was posted to the Instagram account of Daniil Krapivnikov, a rising, Nike-sponsored 17-year-old soccer star from Russia. Here he's getting in some hi-tech dribbling practice in the time of social distancing: I'm assuming the lights are fake because 1) The timing of them seem … | Continue reading
In an effort to quickly de-shell corn cobs, somebody's getting creative during the lockdown. Using not just a drill, but what appears to be the base of an old stool: The maker of the video is unknown, but if you have any leads, we're all...ears. | Continue reading
Almost certainly fake, but for drivers who can't parallel park to save their lives, this concept ought appeal: Of course, having to jack the car up every time you wanted to open the rear door would be a pain, but we live in a world of trade-offs. | Continue reading
To the man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. To the guy who owns a PVC pipe distribution company, well... By the way, I love how he touches the thing with his hands first. | Continue reading
Two years ago, Ukrainian farmer and inventor Yuriy Serbin rigged up a self-powered potato digger that drags a rectangular basket behind it. It looked like this: The problem: Every time the bin fills up, Yuriy must bend over, lift the bin and empty it into a wheelbarrow. Doing thi … | Continue reading
ThinkDriver is a smart, relatively inexpensive tool that allows you to access your car's full system diagnostics. Your car is smart enough to know when it's having trouble, yet it won't share the precise information with you. Instead you're meant to bring it to the dealership, wh … | Continue reading
Upon learning his customers didn't want to touch the refrigerator doors in his convenience store in Fukuoka, owner Koji Ohara came up with a hack: A U-shaped piece of 3mm-thick aluminum attached to the door with double-sided tape. Installing them all "took about ten minutes," Oha … | Continue reading
Every guy has seen this: You're in a public restroom, some dude finishes up at the urinal, does not wash his hands and simply exits—pulling the door open with his hand, of course. In a movie theater or restaurant it's just gross, but in a medical environment, door handles | Continue reading
By DIY'ing it, you can build to the exact dimensions you need | Continue reading
"Free extended access to all features and functionality until May 31st" | Continue reading
There are several different categories, but don't forget the deadline is Thursday, April 30 | Continue reading
Yes on the filtration, UV and voice command; no on the facial recognition, please | Continue reading
Delivery company UPS and pharmacy chain CVS are partnering up to deliver medications via drone. With much of the country still under lockdown, this couldn't come at a better time, but the drone delivery program (run by UPS subsidiary UPS Flight Forward) will initially be small. D … | Continue reading
Includes in-suit booze and vaping supply systems, speakers and more | Continue reading
Here's an interesting use of an oddly-shaped interior. Tasked with renovating a house in Tokyo with a slanted roof, under which a full second storey wouldn't fit, Murayama + Kato Architecture added a sort of elliptical catwalk around the perimeter of the main room. There's only e … | Continue reading
The WunderScrub Bath Belt lets you do the shoeshine thing to your back, hitting that spot you can never quite reach with your hands. The $30 object has ribbed handles, a bumpy side and a bristly side. I laughed when I first saw it, but am now considering | Continue reading
Noah Murphy-Reinhertz of the NXT Innovation Space Kitchen shares how his team designed a shoe made from 100% recycled materials | Continue reading
Formlabs has had their Draft Resin on the market for about a year now, and the feedback they've collected looks pretty good. As the name suggests, Draft Resin is what you use when you're trying to quickly crank out a bulky part. You can get a 300-micron | Continue reading
"One of three centaur burials discovered in 1980 by the Archaeological Society of Argos Orestiko eight kilometers northeast of Volos, Greece" | Continue reading