Friday, February 20, 2009 - 10:40am
At first glance, you might think this is some kind of cake knife, but this design concept by Kim Been is actually a handheld toaster. The idea is to run the portable toaster over the bread until it's done to...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 10:14am
Might as well put those ugly wall sockets to work with these "Plug and Play" tables, drawing power and also physically supported by them. Designed by Sung-Pil Hwang and the Nothing Design Group, each table has an integrated power strip...
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 - 10:48am
Attention guitar heroes: your path to becoming a real guitar player may be on the way. Strap this Maestro contraption onto any guitar, load a music file of the song you'd like to learn into it, and using laser lights,...
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 - 10:14am
Take some Venetian blinds, put solar panels on them, store their energy with modern batteries, and later apply that power to electroluminescent foil, and you get yourself some ... Blight? Okay, Belgian designer Vincent Gerkens may not have known what...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 10:21am
Fed up with politics? Start your own country at sea, living in your own utopia with its own laws, customs and peculiarities. Sure, it's been tried before with varying degrees of success, but now the nonprofit Seasteading Institute says...
Monday, January 26, 2009 - 10:09am
Here's a dream come true for those of us lazybones who find ourselves unexpectedly snowbound more often than we care to admit. Dubbed "the world's smartest snow shovel," i-Shovel is so intelligently automatic, it's able to sense when there's...
Friday, January 23, 2009 - 10:54am
Here's a great idea: a way to dispense one ice cube at a time. Quicksnap, invented by Graeme Davies, is a finalist in the Royal College of the Arts design contest, and will be available later this year. Just...
Monday, January 19, 2009 - 8:54am
We're intrigued by the way British design student Thomas Thomassen blends retro styling with modern technology in this brilliant case mod. His Mini Media Centre looks like its mother was a avocado-colored vintage mixer and its dad was a...
Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 12:36pm
Finally, a fair speed bump. Its smart sensors flatten it when a car driving slowly approaches, but stays tall and obnoxious if a car's flying along at more than around 19mph. This could be a suspension saver for those...
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - 9:13am
Even those of us who don't have pools can appreciate the Ecolight, the pool light that's a microcosm of a hydroelectric plant. This design concept is super-easy to use — mount it on the water jet from the filter...
