It can be used for packaging or insulation, and it's made from cereal by-products | Continue reading
Apple has been famously resistant to pressure, taking a we-know-best attitude towards the maintenance and repair of their products. But this month, after years of being lobbied by right-to-repair consumer groups, Apple has finally agreed to sell spare parts and the specialty tool … | Continue reading
At this week's L.A. Auto Show, a startup called EdisonFuture showed up with their EF-1V, an electric solar delivery van: Incredibly the company offered virtually no information, except the following: 0-60 in under 6.5 seconds; towing capacity 7,500-lbs.-plus; cargo capacity 260-4 … | Continue reading
The Leaf, Nissan's diminutive and uninspiring electric hatchback, debuted over a decade ago. Now the brand is hyping a new electric model that looks to make more of a splash: The Ariya, a clean-looking crossover SUV that's meant to represent the company's renewed foray into elect … | Continue reading
Their Signature Suite Rear Environment wants to go beyond First-Class seating | Continue reading
At this week's L.A. Auto Show, the Kia EV9 concept debut was so mobbed by journalists and camera crews, I had to wait and keep coming back to get even partially clean shots of it. The designers had to be satisfied with the crowd draw. Bold | Continue reading
This week at the L.A. Auto Show, Fisker pulled the sheets off of a "production-intent" design of their Ocean concept: The all-electric Ocean has an interior made from recycled fishing nets, old T-shirts, reclaimed rubber and other recycled materials (though actual percentages of … | Continue reading
Toyota's electric Rhombus concept, which was designed "to suit the values and lifestyles of drivers born after 1990," made an appearance at this week's L.A. Auto Show. Notably, the Rhombus was designed not in Newport Beach nor Tokyo, but at TMEC, Toyota's R&D branch in China. | Continue reading
The collection is a "Swiss-Army knife approach" of modular pieces for storeowners to customize according to evolving needs | Continue reading
A lamp that lights up when floating, and turns off when resting. | Continue reading
Quiet for filming while capturing sound, self-illuminating and can change color | Continue reading
Made of polypropylene, the fold-flat system is light and strong | Continue reading
Quiet for filming while capturing sound, self-illuminating and can change color | Continue reading
The all-electric AWVs go to work on a construction site in New Mexico | Continue reading
We humans naturally produce fertilizer from our bodies, but we're well past living in the agricultural societies that would make that a useful trick. Two other worthless things our bodies regularly yield are nail clippings and hair. Very long hair can be used to make wigs, but th … | Continue reading
At 14 I landed a job as a busboy at a white-tablecloth restaurant. Each shift I was given a black apron and something I'd never seen before: A shiny piece of aluminum that looked like this, except with the restaurant's name printed on the back. It had a pen | Continue reading
Aluminum extrusions, rolling casters, a pair of handles and transparent tippable storage boxes in whatever sizes you need. This is an object few people see outside of a manufacturing or assembly facility, but I'd really like to have one of these in my shop or house: That's Auer P … | Continue reading
Here's a furniture design target market you probably never think about: Group homes, psychiatric institutions and adult or juvenile detention centers. But these places need furniture too, and this subcategory has wildly different design briefs than those tackled by Ikea and Ethan … | Continue reading
An interesting concept: Metal Wall Games sells versions of classic boardgames that are played vertically on your wall, rather than horizontally and on a table. Wall Scrabble Wall Othello/Reversi Wall Connect Four So how do | Continue reading
Some brands of butane refill canisters have five conspicuous circles on top of the cap: Those are break-off adapter tips, so that you can refill different brands of lighters. Image source These have been around for decades, and sadly the original designer is unknown. But I think … | Continue reading
Previously, we looked at luxury sleeper cabs for long-haul truckers. Those were all aftermarket modifications and custom jobs, like this one: But what do sleeper cabs look like, straight from the manufacturer? To find out, we looked at the top truck brands by sales in the U.S.—Fr … | Continue reading
Every millisecond counts in a pit stop, which is why some racecar manufacturers have installed air jacks on their cars. When an air hose is attached to a port on the vehicle, four metal cylinders—typically at the corners of the car, or in a diamond configuration—shoot out of the … | Continue reading
SpinLaunch's kinetic launcher costs a fraction of conventional rocket boosters | Continue reading
Equal space dividers are useful for a variety of trades. Furniture and cabinet makers can use them to mark consistent intervals on workpieces without needing to do any math. Seamstresses use them as well. If you know where the top and bottom buttons on a garment need to be, | Continue reading
You might not use this to build a gun safe, but here B-Star Crafts demonstrates the simple technique of using magnets to provide low-level cabinet and drawer security: While the techniques are basic, the video seems to have scratched many an itch; at press time it had 13 million | Continue reading
This Monad bookshelf, by French industrial designer François Bauchet, relies on simple, fastener-free inter-material joinery for its structure. "Less features," writes Bauchet, "characterized by avoiding the superfluous, and with a high-quality finish." The two epoxy-painted stee … | Continue reading
Alex Animashaun created James Bond's Jaguar hybrid. Now he's elevating your commute. | Continue reading
Here's a strange invention intended to let you cut freehand curves in paper, easier than you could with an X-Acto: This Handy Paper Cutter. "The Handy Paper Cutter cuts out designs as if you were photoshopping with your mouse," reads the product description. "A sharp, rust-proof | Continue reading
We've all seen our luggage go up that conveyor belt or scissor lift that reaches the underside of an airplane. But few of us have ever seen the guy inside who has to Tetris everything into place. Here's what that looks like: (Source: 3askaryyy) Reading through the Reddit comments … | Continue reading
Gremlins are the mischievous, fictional creatures that Royal Air Force members jokingly accused of sabotaging aircraft in WWII. (In reality, their aircraft troubles simply stemmed from mechanical failures.) So perhaps it's no surprise that DARPA's Gremlins program, an initiative … | Continue reading
Mecum Auctions is selling off an antique truck lot this week, which you don't see that often. I clicked through the 79 trucks in the lot, and while many of them look unusual, this one in particular jumped out at me: | Continue reading
In 2017 we learned about Dylan Gastel's clever design for a DIY backyard skating rink. Gastel's thoughtful system converted what used to be a challenging construction task into something that could literally be assembled by eight-year-olds, without using any tools and without hav … | Continue reading
Plenty of ways to do it, with or without specialty tools | Continue reading
Register now to attend on Tuesday, November 9th at the UT Foundry, featuring Core77's own Senior Producer Allison Fonder | Continue reading
Astonishingly, this demo cuts a sheet of glass into a spiral bowl | Continue reading
With a background in industrial design, multidisciplinary designer Joris Wegner points out that we have no physical indication of whether our devices are listening to us or not. At rest, are our smart devices really "just patiently waiting for their wake word or are our private c … | Continue reading
A bike built around a Pelican case, head-mounted fluorescent light fixtures and more | Continue reading
SVA's multi-disciplinary projects demonstrate the type of work you could create as an MFA student | Continue reading
Have you ever wished your mechanical pencil could also be used as a compass? Well, me neither. But apparently there's enough demand in Japan that stationery manufacturer RayMay Fujii designed this PenPass: These run more than $15 on Amazon, | Continue reading
While there's tons of people selling craftsy wooden objects on Etsy, the Bambetel shop stands out. Besides offering the stock desk organizer, they've got two handsome wall clocks… …as well as this nicely-designed desk clock. Most interestingly, | Continue reading
Can ship clothing wrinkle-free, but will it protect a bottle? | Continue reading
If you're in some profession where you routinely need to apply one of two types of tape, Uline's Multi-Roll Dispenser has you covered, plus one. But as you can see, the design is terrible: Obviously the tapes oughtn't be so close together. A better design is this Double Tape | Continue reading
What is believed to be the oldest leather shoe in the world is the Areni-1, some 5,500 years old, recovered by an archaeologist at an Armenian cave. It's technically impressive for being made over five millennia ago, and it looks like what you'd expect: Image: Pinhasi R, Gasparia … | Continue reading
What is believed to be the oldest leather shoe in the world is the Areni-1, some 5,500 years old, recovered by an archaeologist at an Armenian cave. It's technically impressive for being made over five millennia ago, and it looks like what you'd expect: Image: Pinhasi R, Gasparia … | Continue reading
If you're in some profession where you routinely need to apply one of two types of tape, Uline's Multi-Roll Dispenser has you covered, plus one. But as you can see, the design is terrible: Obviously the tapes oughtn't be so close together. A better design is this Double Tape | Continue reading
Can ship clothing wrinkle-free, but will it protect a bottle? | Continue reading