It's meant to look at home on both tiny smartwatch screens and huge factory walls | Continue reading
"So my gym closed," writes Zachary Skidmore, a former M.P. for the U.S. Army. "So I grabbed a chainsaw and went to work. I built what I'm calling 'Lumber Jacked Gym' in around 60 hours over the span of 2 weeks. I managed to satisfy my hunger to work out. | Continue reading
In 2005, Derk-Jan van Heerden was an aerospace engineering student at TU Delft. That year he wrote his Master's thesis on the subject of "What happens to decommissioned airplanes?" After graduating, van Heerden got a job with KLM's Engineering and Maintenance division, where he m … | Continue reading
Whatever group of people engineered self-inflating airplane emergency slides deserve many awards. It's absurd to see something that big emerge from something that small in such a short amount of time: As for how and why this guy is tasked | Continue reading
Earlier we looked at floorplans of round houses, which don't seem to make a lot of sense. However, I subsequently came across these floorplans for round dorm buildings, which seem practical enough. The University of Hawai'i at Manoa's four Hale Aloha dorms are 13-storey cylindric … | Continue reading
I think the monitor is smaller than my current laptop's trackpad | Continue reading
Because COVID-19 can live up to 7 days on our masks... what if we were able to print disposable masks with our home printer? Making them accessible globally, free, disposable (less risk of contamination), quick to make and easy to share physically and virtually. https://www.print … | Continue reading
Industrial designer Julia Behm has been designing medical equipment since 2007. On Coroflot, we spotted her portfolio of medical cart designs, which are crucial and unsung pieces of kit these days. Check out the sheer range of forms Behm's worked on over the years: | Continue reading
Eco Gloves are a sustainable and convenient alternative to disposable latex gloves (like the kind I've been using at the gas station and supermarket). They're individually wrapped (by pair), made of plant-based materials like cornstarch, and both the gloves and the packaging they … | Continue reading
It's marginally NSFW, but who cares, you work from home now | Continue reading
James Dyson may have designed his ventilator the fastest, but Tesla's engineers are getting there, too. Just weeks after Elon Musk volunteered Tesla's services, here are the company's engineers showing you their prototype. They're making good use of already-on-hand automotive par … | Continue reading
Face shield donations are coming fast and furious these days. Ford, Apple, Prusa Research and Foster + Partners are just a few of the organizations pitching in with different designs, which have by necessity evolved rather quickly. Let's look at the design changes. First off, wha … | Continue reading
This week Apple CEO Tim Cook took to Twitter to announce the company is making face shields, at a production target of one million per week, for healthcare professionals. (This is on top of the 20 million facemasks that supply-chain wiz Cook managed to summon up for donation.) | Continue reading
I didn't realize that folks who pre-ordered a Tesla Cybertruck have already set up a fan website. CybertruckOwnersClub.com has a well-trafficked forum section, and it is there that we encountered these two camper concept renderings by an owner-to-be: Image credit So, that's a thi … | Continue reading
So like the rest of you, I'm distracting myself from worst-case COVID-19 scenarios. My latest mental escape of choice is looking at photos of dome houses, which look cool as hell. Well, of course they always look good in photos--a professional photographer could've made my | Continue reading
A surprising repercussion of the COVID-19 pandemic is that the accuracy of weather forecasts has gone down. Weather is a big deal on a farm, and I use both the Dark Sky and AccuWeather apps to prepare for what's coming. But a couple of weeks ago, I noticed the forecasts | Continue reading
Architectural eye candy + escapism by Pfeffer Torode Architecture and PageDuke Landscape Architects | Continue reading
Yowza! Russian custom motorcycle builder Dima Golubchikov has been modifying a BMW R9T touring bike, and got it ready in time for the Motovesna International Motor Show…which was of course canceled over COVID-19 concerns. But luckily for us, he's decided to share images of the bi … | Continue reading
As we shift from analog products driving the global economy to digital experiences, product development requires a new breed of design thinker | Continue reading
A father and industrial designer, who has asked to remain anonymous, provided these videos. He and his kids are cooped up during the COVID-19 crisis, with remote classes in effect. "My two girls, who are seniors in high school, had a physics project to do," he writes. As it turns … | Continue reading
Shot at a Whole Foods in Maui: Image source: Maui 24/7 Image source: Maui 24/7 I guess if you've got the gear on hand, sure, why not. And after you drop the groceries off at home, you can go back to your hobby without needing to change. | Continue reading
How on Earth do you screw up the Audi symbol? | Continue reading
Daihatsu's "Friendship Series" go the extra kilometer, in terms of design consideration | Continue reading
A study from UC Davis, published in Nature and called "Aerosol emission and superemission during human speech increase with voice loudness," finds that: "The rate of particle emission during normal human speech is positively correlated with the loudness (amplitude) of vocalizatio … | Continue reading
Our current focus on healthcare needs makes it clear that medical product communication design is sorely lacking | Continue reading
Healthcare pros use a simple pre-soaping technique to keep their vision clear | Continue reading
On tech blogs, I've seen a fair bit of excitement about these firefighting drones being pioneered in China: Now let's think about this for a second. The test shown above is of the drones extinguishing flammable material suspended outside of the building on a scaffold. | Continue reading
Some politicians have likened the COVID-19 pandemic to war. Wars, at least in the 20th Century, produced iconic social messaging graphics like these: In future decades, will people look back at our social distancing graphics and find one of them iconic? Based on what's out there, … | Continue reading
Sony, Panasonic, JVC--these were the Japanese consumer electronics giants that made inroads into America in the 1970s and '80s, gaining household brand recognition. A lesser-known brand was Sanyo, who like the others made everything--answering machines, portable cassette players, … | Continue reading
"Pathogen Resistance" refers to a plucky band of rebels…that are viruses, strategizing on how best to keep their movement going. This is the latest from science-y cartoonist XKCD: XKCD | Continue reading
Fun fact: Futuristic L.A. is populated by Bjarke Ingels' unrealized designs | Continue reading
Provides time savings and design flexibility for illuminating larger or curved surfaces | Continue reading
Now that many of you are trapped at home, you're undoubtedly noticing those many home improvement projects you never got around to. If you're like me and unsatisfied with your standard-swinging kitchen cabinet doors, indulge yourself in a few moments of fantasy with Blum's variet … | Continue reading
Here's a look at some entry-level underground shelters, designed and fabricated by the Texas-based Rising S Company. While Rising S has been in the news for being a luxury shelter supplier for billionaires--and we looked at their high-end stuff here--we wanted to show you the low … | Continue reading
"The 60-minute tours will cover the gems of the Vault" | Continue reading
Establishments using plastic sheets in an effort to protect their cashiers | Continue reading
This Tesla-design-criticizing Tweet is making the rounds: Okay, point taken: Blending the rear hatch into the bumper is a terrible idea from a damage/replacement cost standpoint. It was probably done to give the user the lowest-possible loading lip height. However, we should poin … | Continue reading
While recent news is filled with promising stories of medical inventions--James Dyson quickly designing a new ventilator from scratch, Italian engineers 3D printing hospital hacks, Ford and 3M designers MacGyver'ing respirator solutions--not everyone's getting it right. | Continue reading
Michael DiTullo renders a more classic look on the car's much-maligned grille | Continue reading
As the 3D printed face shield frames are taking hours per unit, I've tried to design a face shield that can be produced from a variety of materials/thicknesses and on a range of tools. Our intent is to try to manufacture these in high volume with die-cutting, but they are | Continue reading
Israeli tech company REE has developed a flat, car-sized platform whose only obvious features are four wheels at the corners. The floor holds the batteries while each wheel contains the "motor, steering, suspension, drivetrain, sensing, brakes, thermal systems and electronics." T … | Continue reading
Advances in the space of creating 3D models from 2D photographs are getting downright amazing. This month a team of computer vision researchers from UC Berkeley, UC San Diego and Google Research showed off their NeRF technique--that's Neural Radiance Fields--for "view synthesis" … | Continue reading
Apple has released a free app that provides basic information about COVID-19, along with a "screening tool" (i.e. a questionnaire) to help you determine what to do next. The COVID-19 app has up-to-date information from trusted sources about the coronavirus disease that is impacti … | Continue reading
The vacuum company has expertise in both moving air and filtering it | Continue reading
To address America's shortage of ventilators, last Sunday, President Trump tweeted: Encouragingly, the next day Autoblog reported that "General Motors and medical equipment maker Ventec are speeding up efforts under a partnership code-named "Project V" to build ventilators at a G … | Continue reading
With both you and your spouse working from home, tempers can fray, particularly if you have limited space and different working styles. Maybe one partner needs total silence while the other's job involves yapping on the phone. What millions of people may be overlooking is that th … | Continue reading
...and they patented the design, to ensure it's kept free of charge | Continue reading
The vacuum company has expertise in both moving air and filtering it | Continue reading