Splach: An E-Scooter With a Plush Suspension for Urban and Offroad Terrain

Your average electric scooter would be great for cruising through airport terminals, warehouses and shopping malls. But when it comes to sidewalks, curbs and bumpy grass, having the wheels bolted directly to the frame can provide a jarring ride. Enter Splach, the first e-scooter … | Continue reading


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Storage Furniture for DIY'ers on a Budget

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Henrybuilt Launches New Standalone Storage Furniture Line

High-end cabinetry and furniture design company Henrybuilt is launching a new line of standalone, non-built-in storage furniture called Primary Objects Studio Group. Designed as a more affordable offering for customers outside of Henrybuilt's typical clientele, the pieces are "Av … | Continue reading


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Yea or Nay? A Solar-Power-Harvesting Pickup Truck Tonneau Cover

Worksport's speculative TerraVis system uses the sun to power your tools | Continue reading


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A Hatchback-Based Wheelchair Deployment System for Cars

Yesterday we looked at BraunAbility's roof-mounted wheelchair deployment system for cars. Today we've spotted a wildly different approach, this one by New-Zealand-based mobility solutions company Abiliquip. Their Abiloader design keeps all of the mechanicals in-house, so to speak … | Continue reading


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Ford's Electric F-150 Pickup Truck Sounds Like It Will be Better in Every Way

Maintenance costs are expected to be half, though the sticker price remains a mystery | Continue reading


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Scholarship Funded by CNCMachines.com is Open to Industrial Design Students

Those of you who are still in school and undergoing remote learning may be concerned that you're not getting enough bang for your buck. But there's one way you can make your tuition $2,500 lighter: Apply for the 2021 Manufacturing Scholarship sponsored by CNCMachines.com, a retai … | Continue reading


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Facebook Experimenting With Data-Gathering Eyeglasses in the Name of Augmented Reality Research

Are they making a mistake by focusing their research on West Coast cities? | Continue reading


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A Rooftop-Based Wheelchair Deployment System for Cars

BraunAbility is the mobility solutions company that retrofitted NYC taxis with wheelchair accessibility (as seen above with the Nissan NV200). They also devise modification that wheelchair users can purchase for their own cars. One particularly innovative example is their Chair T … | Continue reading


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Ford Reveals the New, Bizarre, Tiny Truck They've Secretly Been Working On

Proof that Ford's designers--who bear the heavy responsibility of not screwing up the styling of America's #1 bestselling vehicle, the F-150--still get to have some fun sometimes: Yes, Ford has won the approval of the Unicode emoji subcommittee, so this official emoji for "pickup … | Continue reading


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Swiss Miss Ditches Cylinder for New, Eco-Friendly Package Design

Did you know that you can't recycle those cylindrical hot cocoa containers? | Continue reading


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Credit Where Credit is Due: The Design Firm Behind LEGO's New Paper Packaging

L.A.-based RKS was tasked with prototyping sustainable bags for bricks | Continue reading


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Apple Finally Lets You Control Your iPhone by Tapping the Back of It

"Back Tap" is hopefully the start of a new type of UI | Continue reading


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Video Tour of Apple's "Spaceship" Campus. It Looks Like an Awesome Place to Work

Ample green space, bicycle infrastructure, sunlit offices and meeting rooms. A massive gym and a cafeteria that can feed 15,000 people. Indoor/outdoor space, a solar array, underground parking. If you've ever been curious to see what it's like inside Apple's "spaceship" campus, h … | Continue reading


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New "Dieter Rams: The Complete Works" Book Reveals Every Product Design He's Ever Done

With over 300 product images, it catalogs his entire career | Continue reading


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Save Thousands of $: Autodesk University Will be Free This Year

Add up the admission ticket, flight, hotel and meals, and traveling to the annual Autodesk University conference will set you back several grand. More than that if you gamble, as it's always held in Las Vegas. But this year the pandemic's scuttled the in-person gathering, and Aut … | Continue reading


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What's the Most Popular Face Mask in the U.S., and Other Mask Statistics

We all want off of the pandemic ride, but there's still a ways to go. Even if a COVID vaccine were to emerge before the election--which seems highly unlikely--experts say it won't be widely distributed until mid-2021 at the earliest; worse, 35% of Americans would refuse to take i … | Continue reading


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Konstantin Grcic's Suspension-Based Citizen Chair for Vitra

A breath of fresh air: Konstantin Grcic has not only designed a new type of chair, but has cited his inspirations and departure points for it. The gulf between the inspiration source and Grcic's final design reveals his talent. First off, his dual inspirations: Grupo Austral's B. … | Continue reading


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Great Use of AR: Heat Signature "Iron Man" Vision for Firefighters

Qwake Technologies' hi-tech face masks provide "superpowers that save lives" | Continue reading


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Technical Illustrator Giorgio Piola on "The Most Important Drawing That I've Done in My Life"

He spent 45 days on it, drawing until his fingers went numb | Continue reading


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What Apple Didn't Announce Yesterday: The Apple Face Mask

Yesterday Apple held a virtual press event announcing new iPads and Apple Watches, ho hum. Of far greater interest to us was a new object they designed that did not make the announcement: The Apple Face Mask. Image credit: Mark Gurman Image credit: Mark Gurman Image credit: | Continue reading


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Prompted by Children, LEGO Phasing Out Single-Use Plastic Packaging

Yesterday LEGO announced they're investing up to $400 million over the next three years on sustainability initiatives, including material changes and the pursuit of carbon-neutral operations. In this day and age that's not surprising--what is surprising is the inspiration source … | Continue reading


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"The Futuristic Form Factor:" LG Unveils Wing Smartphone With Rotating Screen

Thirteen years after the first iPhone was introduced, we're finally starting to see some diversity in the form factors of smartphones. Thus far folding smartphones have been a wash due to tricky hinged-screen issues, but LG is betting that a rotating mechanism enabling dual-scree … | Continue reading


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New Book Reveals Rarely Seen Dieter Rams Product Designs (as Well as the Famous Ones)

"Dieter Rams: The Complete Works" has over 300 product images, spanning his entire career | Continue reading


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GMC Hummer EV's "Crab Mode" Uses 4-Wheel Steering to Move Diagonally for Obstacle Avoidance

For months now we've known that GMC is resurrecting the Hummer as an electric vehicle, and now they've announced when it will be unveiled: On October 20th. To whet the appetite, they've released this teaser of a rather unusual trick the vehicle can perform: "The supertruck's indu … | Continue reading


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A Smarter, Space-Saving Design for a Cutlery Tray: Joseph Joseph's DrawerStore Organizer

Broadly speaking, storage systems come in two varieties: 1) Broad, shallow and everything visible, and 2) Deep, multi-layered and obscured. Examples of the first are pegboard tool walls or bulletin boards, whereas the second is represented by tool chests and filing cabinets. Conv … | Continue reading


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For His Home Office, This Guy Built a Replica of a 1980 Via Rail Train Interior in His Basement

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The Government Modelmaking Shop That Helped Navy SEALs Capture and Kill Osama Bin Laden

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Stunning Graphic Shows Just How Bad the West Coast Wildfires Have Made the Air Quality

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Turn Stop-Motion Footage Into Smooth Video Using AI Frame Interpolation

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Tool Rolls with Internal Zippered Pouches, Yea or Nay?

Is this an improvement on the form factor, or a subversion of it? | Continue reading


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Osprey's Handsome, Limited Edition Hemp Bags

The durable Arcane Hemp Collection is made from sustainable materials | Continue reading


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Again with the "Blade Runner" Intro: This Time San Francisco

After viewing the terrifying photos revealing California's recently wildfire-altered sky… …comes yet another rendition of the Blade Runner intro scene, this time of San Francisco, consisting of actual footage shot by drone : At this point in 2020, analogies to hell just seem faci … | Continue reading


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U.S. Air Force Now Testing Out Robot Dogs for Base Security

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A Look at "Rear Seat Delete" Kits for Increased Pickup Truck Storage

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The Challenge of Designing a Bear-Proof Mechanism: Overlap Between Smart Bears and Dumb Humans

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A New Approach to Drone Delivery: Lower Packages From a Wire

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Design Criticism: Pentagram's Modular, Physical Signage System for the National Library of Luxembourg

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If Dieter Rams Designed an Xbox: Microsoft's Minimalist Xbox Series S

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Hell in a Handbasket: Anti-COVID Cake Shields for Blowing Out Birthday Candles

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A New Pod Design Catches On: Mamava's Lactation Pods

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Tesla Ditching Industrial Robots for Huge Die-Casting "Giga Press"

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Bootlamps: "A Headlamp For Your Boots"

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Sustainable Packaging Resource: MetsäBoard's Paperboard Solutions

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A Space-Saving Sauna That Telescopes Out of a Cabinet

This man has never eaten a carbohydrate in his life Now that you're working from home, you'd probably love to have a sauna in your house, like this: But even if you've got the money for one, do you have the space? If you're in that category, German | Continue reading


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Dutch E-Bike Company VanMoof is Killing It During the Pandemic

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The Latest Head Bubble Alternative to Face Masks

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The Custom "Infinity Mirror" Brake Lights on This Nissan Skyline

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