It is interesting to see the competitive gaming industry mirroring the athletics world, in terms of the emergence of supposedly performance-enhancing gadgets and accessories. Lately we've seen a sweat-proof gaming mouse from Marsback and a weighted mouse cable support stand from … | Continue reading
California-based furniture company Lahoma employs parametric modeling in Fusion 360 to create their line of custom, designer furniture. | Continue reading
The latest designey, unlikely-looking e-bike is the Vinci, designed by Enzo Prathamesh Shinde: "I am not reinventing electric bikes. There are plenty of them available in the market," says Shinde, a California-based mechanical engineer. "But I didn't want to have a lame electric … | Continue reading
Part two of an exploration of design firms with women at the helm to consider for your next product development project | Continue reading
Invented by Rick Goren, there's a potential business lesson here for design entrepreneurs | Continue reading
The nonstandard size of the card stinks, so here come the crafters | Continue reading
In the 19th century, we learned to create buildings using steel frames. These could soar well above buildings framed in the incumbent wood, brick or stone. And in the same century, elevator technology became practicable, so the masses wouldn't have to work out those quads going u … | Continue reading
In the 1920s German manufacturer Eugene Dietzgen Co. designed and produced this brilliant drawing tool, the 932S Excello, for draftsmen. Check out how it works: Amazing, no? Although the tool is German, the Smithsonian has one of these in their collection at their National Museum … | Continue reading
The origins of Nebo's Brite Bucket are quite the mystery | Continue reading
One of those objects that I'm dying to touch: This Zoom Tube 8x32 Monocular Telescope by California-based Nocs Provisions ("Nocs" being short for monoculars/binoculars). This lightweight 9.5 oz (270g) water-resistant monocular has a wide field of view (384 feet @ 1,000 yards), is … | Continue reading
On the one hand, it reduces product waste. On the other hand…. | Continue reading
Here's a phone with a rather surprising object where you're expecting to see numbers or icons: That's the SpareOne Phone, designed by Singapore-based design consultancy NextOfKin Creatives for client XPAL Power, Inc. The brief was to design a "full functioning emergency phone pow … | Continue reading
If you go to Tongs.com, you won't find barbecue utensils. Instead you will find Snake Tongs designed by Dana Savorelli, "a 40-year veteran in the field of research and development of animal handling equipment." Savorelli's company, Midwest Tongs, produces a variety of his snake t … | Continue reading
Here's a phone with a rather surprising object where you're expecting to see numbers or icons: That's the SpareOne Phone, designed by Singapore-based design consultancy NextOfKin Creatives for client XPAL Power, Inc. The brief was to design a "full functioning emergency phone pow … | Continue reading
The curse of the industrial designer is that you know how things are made, and can easily become distracted by the construction of items in the built environment. Out in the world, we slow our friends and spouses down by pointing out unusual details in seemingly mundane objects. … | Continue reading
After a disappointing first gen, Arovia re-tools their Spontaneous Pop-Up Display | Continue reading
The first time I saw a dual-swing refrigerator door was in 1990s Japan, from manufacturer Sharp. The kitchens there are so small, it really does make sense to have a door that you can open from either side. Sharp I never got to take a close look at how those | Continue reading
For every jobsite roughneck who relies on their 18-volt driver, there are thousands of casual DIY'ers who only need something that turns marginally faster than a screwdriver. That's why the world's most popular power tool—according to Bosch, its manufacturer—is the diminutive Bos … | Continue reading
Hyundai's design turnaround continues to amaze me. If you look at where they were design-wise 10, 15 years ago, vs. the other car brands, and where all of them are now, I'd say Hyundai's moving in the right direction whereas many others are descending into madness (or CADness). I … | Continue reading
"There is only one substance that the modern child is allowed to handle quite freely," educator Dr. Maria Montessori wrote in The | Continue reading
"If you want to design/build/fly these things, you have to be dreaming it up" | Continue reading
LG's new Direct View LED Home Cinema Screens are made up of panels that are assembled at your house by a professional installer. The panels go together seamlessly, and the modular system means you can order a gigantic screen in a conventional or unconventional aspect ratio. Some … | Continue reading
Here's a wonderfully bizarre, terrifically imaginative project from Industrial Design student Segev Kaspi. Called Forest Ranger Druids, it's Kaspi's graduation project at Israel's Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, and was intended to "stimulate public discussion of … | Continue reading
"If you want to design/build/fly these things, you have to be dreaming it up" | Continue reading
"It's a workshop that lets people play…with the right tools [and gives] them a really nice foundation that they feel like they can build on" | Continue reading
For this series on how to develop your own product with a DIY approach, Episode 1 focuses on finding your idea | Continue reading
In this model, the packaging is owned by the vendors and returned by consumers | Continue reading
Electric car company Polestar and electric bike company Cake have announced another collaboration, following their stand-on cargo bike: Their Electric Mobility Bundle. It consists of Cake's lightweight Makka bike essentially docked on the back of the Polestar 2 car, and it would … | Continue reading
It makes sense that this is called the Hong Kong Chair, as that's a city where every square centimeter of interior space counts. Created by Belgian designer Sander Nevejans, it's just 2cm thick when folded. "The cold drawn Italian steel not only provides the chair's strength," wr … | Continue reading
Great UX for a vehicle: You approach it while carrying a heavy package, and the liftgate automatically opens, allowing you to easily load. This sounds simple to execute, but surprisingly, as of yet there is no universal and perfect solution. From a UI/UX perspective, the challeng … | Continue reading
Designer extraordinaire Love Hultén is at it again. This time he's received a commission to design a portable synthesizer, and his resultant EC1 doesn't disappoint: There is considerable assembly required, but it all looks pretty do-able. The video shows | Continue reading
Like many of us, I'm constantly seeking new ways to belittle my chauffeur. One person in Dubai figured out the best way to do it, way back in 2008: Pay an automotive customization shop to modify your SUV and place all of the driving components in the back seat area. | Continue reading
"I am literally 'that guy' who walks around New York City with a sketchbook," writes industrial designer Kevin Banos, "constantly sketching and questioning my environment." Banos favors the smaller Fields-Notes-sized sketchbooks, and wanted a practical shirt—something that could … | Continue reading
The pieces don't have to interlock, but must all fit in the tray | Continue reading
Here's something I didn't realize about seaplanes: "Seaplane floats are typically made of riveted aluminum and over time will leak," pilot John Hartz told New Atlas, "so part of the pre-flight is to pump out each float compartment. Paddles are also necessary equipment, because yo … | Continue reading
Facebook is now competing for eyeballs in a new way. The company has partnered with Ray-Ban to release Ray-Ban Stories, a pair of $299 sunglasses (or eyeglasses) with two built-in 5-megapixel cameras, wireless connectivity, and speakers and a microphone for making calls through y … | Continue reading
When you hear "G-Shock" you think resin and digital, but now the brand's moving diagonally into metal and analog. Their new metal-clad GM2100 series beefs up the structure with stainless steel bezels, and adds chunky hands that look strong enough to be little tools. "A stainless … | Continue reading
A refill economy, whereby we bring our own vessels to hubs that dispense consumables rather than buying new packaging each time, would go a long way to reducing single-use plastic. Whether you're urban or rural, the concept isn't difficult to grasp. When I was in Manhattan, you c … | Continue reading
Design students, look away. There is no application here. At first I thought it was motorized, but now I think it's free-spinning, and he's just moving it with his feet and momentum . What I really want to see, is him trying to walk down it. No word on | Continue reading
The Most Likely Machine is designed to help kids better identify algorithmic bias so they can navigate the internet responsibly | Continue reading
Since 2015, London-based company Mayku has been making the Formbox, a desktop vacuum forming machine. Now they've released a new machine, the Multiplier, that can do pressure forming. For those of you unfamiliar with pressure forming: You know how vacuum forming works by pulling … | Continue reading
A collaboration between Konstantin Grcic and electric car startup Polestar has yielded a design for a speculative and new type of delivery vehicle. In essence, they looked at an existing form factor, that of the electric cargo bicycle, and seemed to conclude: If it's electric-pow … | Continue reading
Well, this is disturbing. A company called Scitec Inc., which manufactures telephones for hotels and institutions, manufactures a disposable landline telephone for hospitals. Designed to be mounted to a bedrail, it's intended to be used by a single patient, then thrown away—after … | Continue reading
Well, this is disturbing. A company called Scitec Inc., which manufactures telephones for hotels and institutions, manufactures a disposable landline telephone for hospitals. Designed to be mounted to a bedrail, it's intended to be used by a single patient, then thrown away—after … | Continue reading
In previous decades, professional lawn mowing machines came in two form factors: The riding mower, and the self-propelled walk-behind. The former was faster and could cover more ground, but the latter could get into tight spaces and through narrow gates. The problem: Professional … | Continue reading
How Nutshell Coolers' David Cutler and Tamara Mekler transformed a simple mandate into a groundbreaking design material. | Continue reading