For when you want the doors to open up, then slide back into the cabinet | Continue reading
LastRounds are washable, reusable and save thousands of gallons of water | Continue reading
Core77 recently added a free Guides section to help industrial designers seeking resources. We'd say investigate not only the guides, but the listed vendors, as the trend now is for them to release free, helpful information that's useful whether or not you decide to use their ser … | Continue reading
As everyone from farmers to environmentalists have found, airborne drones are fantastic for monitoring wide swaths of land that are too expansive to cover by foot. But they do consume a fair amount of energy, which reduces their deployment time; the mere act of remaining airborne … | Continue reading
Working on an assembly line where you're repetitively driving fasteners looks grueling, but at least there's a tool that makes it a bit easier: These auto-feeding screwdriver rigs, from German manufacturer Weber. Here's how it works, with both video and a description from the com … | Continue reading
For the Tokyo Marathon a few years ago, Japanese juice maker Kagome came up with a nifty promotional stunt: One of their lucky employees would run the race wearing Tomatan, a wearable robot they invented to feed tomatoes to the wearer while running. Why tomatoes? "Tomatoes have l … | Continue reading
Here's a question every industrial design professor ought raise with their students: To what extent should objects be visible or invisible? While furniture, hair dryers and circular saws obviously fall in the former category, what about computers, which most of us use for work, b … | Continue reading
Further proof we'll soon be receiving packages delivered by drone: Yesterday Amazon gained FAA approval for its Prime Air fleet of delivery drones, joining competitors UPS and Wing (a subsidiary of Google's Alphabet). The question is, what will the dominant form factor of these o … | Continue reading
This month Toyota and JAXA (the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan's NASA) announced the name of their recent, ongoing collaboration: The Lunar Cruiser, which will be a manned, pressurized EV that astronauts will use to cruise around on the surface of the moon. Due to the … | Continue reading
This VR cycling program lets you travel the world from the comfort of home. | Continue reading
You could be forgiven for thinking that Apple has colluded with Singapore's ultra-wealthiest citizens to provide a catastrophic-global-warming-event escape pod. The city-state's newest Apple store, Apple Marina Bay Sands, looks like a cross between Westworld's Rehoboam and a floa … | Continue reading
One of the smartest conventions urban planners have adopted in recent years is protecting bike lanes with rows of parked cars. It increases both safety and bicycle uptake. However, here's a prime example of how good design can be undone by a lack of coordination and communication … | Continue reading
I have no idea who'd buy this, but a Palo Alto startup called XCinex is rolling out Venue, a $60 sensor that sits on top of your TV and counts everyone sitting in front of it. The idea is that you then stream content for which you get charged per | Continue reading
How can design schools going online-only to avoid COVID replace that in-studio instructional feel? There are no widely-accepted answers yet, but the Harvard Graduate School of Design, which begins its online-only courses next week, is experimenting with ways to provide remote han … | Continue reading
The Muzen Wild Mini looks pretty, but the designed-in protection seems lacking | Continue reading
The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries enjoyed a brief opening. Then came COVID | Continue reading
For over ten years, Canadian mechanical engineer Jonathan Tippett has dreamt of a future where mecha/mechs--giant, human-controlled exoskeletons--are a reality. Now he and his company, Furrion Exo-Bionics, have put a start date on that future, and it's right now. Their creation, … | Continue reading
The Honda e was designed specifically for urban driving and convenience | Continue reading
The importance of diverse design teams, the intertwining of software and hardware, and how he and his team are navigating a new reality in 2020 | Continue reading
From the real world to virtual to back again. It's strange to think that shopping carts have evolved from this… …to this… …back to this. That's Amazon's Dash Cart, the IRL shopping cart they're debuting at their new Amazon Fresh supermarket in Los Angeles. Though the space | Continue reading
We know that COVID can be transmitted through fomites--objects and surfaces that are covered in virus particles--and thus we wash our hands and disinfect surfaces. Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash It's also known that COVID can be transmitted via droplets--the visible particles … | Continue reading
Architect/furniture designer Ben Uyeda of HomeMade Modern is teaming up with design/build firm A05 Studio to release a new sustainable furniture brand called Hoek Home. At this point information is light--the brand won't launch until October--but judging by the sneak peek, it loo … | Continue reading
Coleman Milne is a UK-based funeral car and limousine manufacturer. Their latest offering is an unusual, all-electric hearse created by modifying a Tesla Model S. While their motivation is unassailable--the firm is seeking "greater environmental sustainability" and accommodating … | Continue reading
Following a viral infection, the right side of my face has been paralyzed for the past six weeks. The doctor feels the nerve damage is permanent. Facial paralysis, a/k/a Bell's Palsy brings with it a host of daily inconveniences, and I was hoping design would solve at least one o … | Continue reading
While Timberland initially made their name with rugged outdoor footwear (and again by taking the '90s hip hop world by storm), the brand has steadily evolved with the times in what ought be a lesson for many heritage brands. Today the 68-year-old company's footwear is as likely t … | Continue reading
You can sanitize a cloth face mask using a washing machine, but those of us using N95 masks--which are definitely better than cloth in terms of filtration--need a gentler method that won't damage the mask. "There are many different ways to sterilize something, but most of them wi … | Continue reading
Clickspring is the name of a YouTube channel run by Chris, an Australian mechanical engineer who's become obsessed with machining fine objects. That in turn led him to clockmaking, with which he had no experience. "I don't have any formal training as a machinist, or clockmaker," … | Continue reading
From sketching exercises to design chats, Ayse Birsel's Virtual Teas will help you figure out your next steps | Continue reading
Industrial designer Andrey Avgust hails from Belarus, a country whose currency I admit I've never seen. But he's seen our yankee dollars and recognizes that their design kind of stinks. For fun Avgust gave U.S. bills a redesign, starting with the material: Polymer. Then he took t … | Continue reading
Now it's up for sale, and has to be seen to be believed | Continue reading
This isn't a design competition, but rather a competition to see if you can come up with a way to improve an existing and incomplete recycling system. The waste product in question is recreational fishing line, which comes in two varieties, monofilament and braided. A system exis … | Continue reading
Now it's up for sale, and has to be seen to be believed | Continue reading
With the wondrous digital fabrication technique that is multimaterial 3D printing, product designers can create one-piece mockups of complicated objects: Educators can commission incredibly detailed teaching aids: Industrial designer Jiani Zeng and computational designer Honghao … | Continue reading
The company behind it says it "may be used almost anywhere in the world" | Continue reading
Japan's nonprofit Nippon Foundation has launched a humble initiative armed with a lot of design firepower: The Tokyo Toilet project, which has lined up a team of starchitects and star designers to create freestanding public bathrooms in the vicinity of Tokyo's Shibuya neighborhoo … | Continue reading
Last week in Part 1, industrial designer Eric Strebel showed you how to create the stack-ups for molds for some small action figures. That part was relatively straightforward, but to create the actual molds, some ingenuity is required as the original parts have undercuts. In an e … | Continue reading
The Phade disposable "eco-straw" is the first commercial product we've seen made from Danimer Scientific's canola-oil-derived bioplastic. Manufactured by Georgia-based WinCup, a purveyor of disposable utensils, cups, bowls and containers, the Phade drinking straw is "a realistic … | Continue reading
Danimer Scientific's canola-oil-derived material can be injection molded or extruded | Continue reading