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Artist, iPhone unite to literally finger paint New Yorker's June cover

Tuesday, May 26, 2009 - 10:21am

When you think of what you can do on the iPhone, painting an iconic scene from scratch probably isn't up there. Yet that's exactly what Jorge Colombo did with his iPhone for the June cover of the The New Yorker...

Kamil Kurka's coffee maker looks like it beamed down from the Enterprise

Kevin Hall

Monday, May 18, 2009 - 1:17pm

This coffee maker by Kamil Kurka doesn't look like it belongs to our century. Beyond its good looks — after all, I think a design like that can speak for itself — the unit also features controls that'll let you...

Robotic taxi is sleek, small, seats two — but are our streets ready?

Kevin Hall

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 11:45am

The idea of a car that drives itself has been kicking around for a while — especially as an automated urban people-mover — and that's exactly what designer Kubik Petr's robo-taxi is designed for. Looking a little bit like a...

Jackoon painting robot is a mini, motorized Jackson Pollock

Monday, May 11, 2009 - 8:14am

Oscar G Torres, the grad student who presented this Helios gadget-charging power tree last year at NYU's ITP show was back at the Spring ITP show this year with Jackoon, a robot that paints. Jackoon is named after Jackson...

CCTV birdhouse looks much more menacing than it really is

Monday, May 11, 2009 - 7:32am

This object may look like a menacing CCTV camera, spying down on all around it for some vague, faceless overseer to use. But in actuality it's a birdhouse, a perfectly innocuous item whose sole purpose is to provide shelter for...

Amazing Water Clock moves floating spherical indicators with magnets

Thursday, May 7, 2009 - 1:29pm

We've shown you lots of unusual clocks, but this Water Clock now sits atop the list. Its square white ceramic base has powerful magnets inside, one of which controls the red ball showing hours, and the other, the white ball...

The WheelLY, portable shelter and storage for the homeless

Kevin Hall

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 - 12:16pm

From the oddly named Zo-loft architecture and design studio comes the WheelLY, a portable shelter and storage system designed for the homeless. WheelLY — as the name suggests — is designed to be easily rolled around, with a handle that...

'Seat Duna' concept dune buggy cleverly hides its solar panels

Kevin Hall

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 - 10:19am

Not too long ago, Spanish designer Miguel-Angel Iranzo Sanchez showed off the Seat Brisa, which was essentially a solar-powered love seat. Now he's designed the Brisa's successor, the Duna, which comes off looking a bit more like a car with...

What do 426,000 cellphones look like?

Friday, May 1, 2009 - 1:49pm

Chris Jordan thinks a lot about statistics. Things like the number of sodas consumed in 30 seconds, how many commercial flights are in American skies every eight hours — things like that. But he's done more than just think. Taking...

Transparent Lexus is one seriously cool car

Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 1:26pm

Here's something you don't see while driving down the highway: a transparent Lexus. Created by a collaboration between Lexus and Japanese architect Huzimoto Takeshi, this one-of-a-kind specimen is a Lexus LF-A with a shell of transparent acrylic. Of course, this...

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Artist, iPhone unite to literally finger paint New Yorker's June cover

Kamil Kurka's coffee maker looks like it beamed down from the Enterprise

Robotic taxi is sleek, small, seats two — but are our streets ready?

Jackoon painting robot is a mini, motorized Jackson Pollock

CCTV birdhouse looks much more menacing than it really is

Amazing Water Clock moves floating spherical indicators with magnets

The WheelLY, portable shelter and storage for the homeless

'Seat Duna' concept dune buggy cleverly hides its solar panels

What do 426,000 cellphones look like?

Transparent Lexus is one seriously cool car

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