Friday, March 13, 2009 - 1:33pm
If you've got a lot of gear plugged in at your entertainment center — your TV or Blu-ray player or game consoles — you know that you need a big power strip and a way to organize your cables. Designer...
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Friday, March 13, 2009 - 1:56am
Instead of imagining future cities dominated by stalker-esque interactive advertisements blaring from every corner a la Minority Report, imagine if cities formed artistically symbiotic relationships with their human populace. That is the vision proffered by design group Urban Alliance from...
Thursday, March 12, 2009 - 12:08pm
We're all for a future where robots deliver us packages quickly and efficiently, and that's exactly what the Cargonaut is programmed to do. Thought up by German-based industrial designer Matthias Schmiedbauer, an army of the robo-copters would be able to...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 1:24pm
Norwegian designer Anders Gloslie decided that Eskimos should be able to enjoy awesome roadsters like the rest of us. He's created the TH!NK FROST, an oddly named super snowmobile for two. It's got treads instead of wheels and a body...
Sunday, March 8, 2009 - 11:06pm
Far less practical than the neon tube umbrellas of Blade Runner, but just as futuristic, the Cloud Umbrella is a concept design straight from a sci-fi megalopolis. Created by Dutch designer Joonsoo Kim, the Cloud Umbrella is carried around in...
Friday, March 6, 2009 - 12:02pm
Totally Rad: Karim Rashid Does Radiators, an exhibit that opened this week in New York City, features radiators that you'd be forgiven for mistaking for contemporary sculpture. It's curated by Karim Rashid, the mad designer behind this Kone vacuum and...
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 - 1:54pm
For both hobbyists and designers, there's an appeal in reappropriating salvage and scrap and turning them into things such as furniture or, in Rich Muller's case, sculptures of robots. He runs the website Guy Robot, which details his hobby:I work...
Friday, February 27, 2009 - 2:39pm
I had to completely rewrite this post. It first came out as a bunch of rambling nonsense equating to: "Whoa! Dude! Hover car! Look! WHOA!" Really, though, I guess that's all that needs to be said here. The Audi Shark...
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 8:03am
Everyone has a couch. There's nothing unique or cool about owning a couch, no matter how expensive the leather it's wrapped in is. If you want some truly original seating for your living room, these giant foam dinosaur bones are...
Monday, February 23, 2009 - 2:28pm
Air. You never know when you're going to find yourself without it, and you do need a steady supply to keep going. Especially if you're underwater, or in a dangerous environment with noxious fumes. That's why Ricardo Baiao designed the...
