 LaCie Unveils First FireWire Speakers::They are sleek and savvy speakers built on the power of firewire thus eliminating the hassle webs of power cables and wires. Ideal for it's comfortability and portability. Assured to be perfect for your… [MORE] |
 Lego Bling - Forever Young Ring No.1::Class up your LEGO ring with a little Bling. The Forever Young Ring No.1 adds a shiney stone to an already cute design. [MORE] |
 Google Is Developing Artificial Intelligence (AI)::Co-founder Larry Page announced that Google is in the development stages of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and he claims the realization may not be far off.
Sci-Fi movies immediately come to mind and initial… [MORE] |
 Phone Sex - Playboy Will Run Previews On Mobile Phones::Playboy TV's latest marketing strategy includes running softcore previews of their realty show 'Double Entry' on cell phones. Users who are unable to download streaming video won't be left out - they'll… [MORE] |
 The Wally Island - When Super-Luxury Yachts Become Floating Islands::This one may be the new meaning of "luxury yachts". The mega yacht project from WallyDesign where you comfortably live onboard like on your own estate. [MORE] |
 Foldable and Stackable City Car Concept::A team of researchers at the MIT's media lab with backing from General motor corp., are developping the prototype of a lightweight electric vehicle that can be cheaply mass-produced, rented by commuters… [MORE] |
 Sound Stage X1 - A Home Theater for Really Lazy People::Are you lazy enough to set-up your dream entertainment system? Evesham sound Stage X1 gets it done for you without any fuzz. This high-end fully pack audio system is complete to bring you a spine-tingling,… [MORE] |
 Shark Shield - Protects You from Sharks While You Surf::Australia-based Shark Shield has brought out "the first electronic shark-deterrent system specifically designed for surfers." It can protect you from shark about 26 feet in diameter by generating an electrical… [MORE] |
 Diet Coke and Mentos Experiment 137 - Expect Your Kids Follow::The video, titled "The Diet Coke & Mentos Experiment," shows the video's creators unleashing a Bellagio-esque fountain by dropping Mentos candy into 2-liter bottles of Diet Coke. (We'll get to what causes… [MORE] |
 Leg Spines = Super Spider Robots::US researchers want to apply the leg spines of spiders and insects to robots. The researchers found that the modified robot could simply cross a wire net that formerly blocked its trail. And they state… [MORE] |
 Underwater Music - MP3 Player For Swimmers::Swimming becomes less streneuos with cool music. Portable and innovative and an ideal must-have for for beach bums and sporties alike. [MORE] |
 Robonurse - Ready to Serve Hospitals by 2010::The IWARD project plans to develop a "nursebot" that carries some hats, and can manage cleaning up drips, operating face and voice recognition technology to "communicate with patients and spot unauthorized… [MORE] |
 Lolita Chandelier by Ron Arad::In this week’s New York Times Style Magazine, they featured a short blurb about Ron Arad’s Crystal chandelier. The chandelier is a crystal spiral with LED lights embedded within the crystals. The LED… [MORE] |
 Gravitonus Workstation Adds Functionality for the Disabled::This Gravitonus Workstation is a seriously high tech workstation for supergamers, the ultra rich and villains. Now, a new addition enables the Gravitonus Workstation to adapt easily to helping the disabled. [MORE] |
 Natural Deselection by Tim Simpson::Tim Simpson’s Natural Deselection machine is powerful on many levels. Not only does the piece give commentary on the way technology can be powerfully dark when dominating nature, but also it’s entertaining,… [MORE] |
 Clock or Sculpture? - About Time by Cultivate::CULTIVATE is a design house that, as many Dutch designers do, explores the extreme edges of puns. They are very toung-and-cheek with their designs. The About Time table clock is certainly in this punny… [MORE] |
 Leica M8 Digital Camera - Classic Design Gets 10 Megapixels::I can’t say enough good things about the Leica M8. This camera company has created design perfection. The M series lenses, which are meticulously detailed to perform with the most clarity possible, had… [MORE] |
 Give your iPod a Safe::Worried someone will steal your iPod? The iPod safe lets you lock your iPod to a desk, or something else that won't move. That way you can share your tunes without sharing your iPod... [MORE] |
 USB RoboDog Webcam::This cute USB Robodog will keep watch over your desk! [MORE] |
 Doodle In 3D::Doodle is getting geeky techno junkies all in a fluster - it's a "work-in-progress that explores the possibilities of intuitive and direct drawing in 3D virtual space". Unfortunately there's only a limited… [MORE] |
 Woofer Speakers by Cultivate::CULTIVATE is a design house that, as many Dutch designers do, explores the extreme edges of puns. They are very toung-and-cheek with their designs. The “Woofer” speakers push the puns way over the… [MORE] |
 The Wenger Giant Swiss Army Knife::I introduce to you the king of all Swiss Army knives the Wenger Giant Swiss Army Knife. It has 85 fully useful tools and 100 different functions. Wenger admit that it is a bit bulky and unrealistic in… [MORE] |
 Enteractive by Electroland - Art or Architecture?::The project was an grid of squares embedded within the entrance walkway of an existing office building. Each square was illuminated by LEDs and was pressure sensitive. The effect is that the LED lights… [MORE] |
 Hot Tub and Barbecue All in One::The Dutch Tub is one of those ingenious ideas where you wonder, ” Why has no-one thought of this before?” It’s a bit like an old-fashioned wood fired hot tub, but it uses a bit more advanced coiling system… [MORE] |
 Spikey Baby by Shin Tanaka::I’m not even exactly sure how this works, but I’ll take a stab. What Shin does is design these little folded paper characters. Then, he puts up the pattern of the folded character up on his website,… [MORE] |
 Delete Key Eraser - Eraser for Geeks::This eraser designed by Art Lebedev is formed like the famous Delete key on a computer keyboard. [MORE] |
 How to Turn a Brand Into a Lifestyle::First it was Motorola with their "Dolce & Gabbana" version for their Motorola v3, and now it's the turn for LG with their "Prada" phone. In fact we could say its a Prada iPhone because the look of it… [MORE] |
 Handful of Plates by Alissia Melka Teichroew::I get excited when a designer creates a new typology for a product category, and that’s exactly what Alissia Melka Teichroew with her design Handful of Plates. The execution is pretty simple: take a… [MORE] |
 Bionic Eye Restores Sight to the Blind::Scientists have made incredible advancements in the development of technology that has the ability to restore sight. The first phase of development has successfully restored patients sight to the pont… [MORE] |
 UPDATE: Perceptive Pixel Multi Touch Screens - Minority Report on Ecstacy?::Last September, we revealed a video from Jeff Han that showed a video of his futuristic touchscreen revealed at TED. His latest video one ups the last by showing the power of multiple touch screens. Make… [MORE] |
 Olympus Wooden Camera - Stylish and Enduring::Isn’t it cool that a camera made from wood? This is a prototype wooden camera from Olympus. It’s made from Japanese cypress wood that grows between 100 -130 feet tall with a base diameter from two… [MORE] |
 Competitive Skeeball - Chuck E Cheese Games Make it to the Big Leagues::After raising the bar with the creation of adult-coed Dodgeball and Kickball leagues, local San Diego’s VAVi Sport & Social Club has once again found a way to let adult’s inner-youth come out!
They’re… [MORE] |
 Edible RFIDs - Kodak Gelatin Tags::Kodak has developed an edible RFID tag, which they claim has many important benefits. The tags themselves are coated with a thick layer of soft gelatin which takes a while to dissolve. After dissolving… [MORE] |
 Mobile Messenger with Bottle Opener - Ogo 2.0::IXI Mobile revealed their latest hand-held mobile communication device; the Ogo 2.0 (CT-25E) is a mobile messenger that offers the standard Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity, QVGA display, full QWERTY keyboard,… [MORE] |
 Batman Rope - The Atlas Powered Rope Ascender::Imagine the batman rope that pull up batman in the air. Now it came to reality. This device called "Atlas Rope Ascender" [MORE] |
 iPod Bikini - Did Apple Buy Product Placement in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue?::Adrants suggests that, "You can't buy publicity like the kind that comes with an appearance in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue." But can you? This unique product placement of an iPod on Marisa… [MORE] |
 Insect Based Robots - The Next Generation of Bots::When we talk about robots suddenly we connect to human looking machines, but it seems future will bring us something different. And it makes a lot of sense, if insects are everywhere and reach every place...… [MORE] |
 Lightsabers Go High Tech::Talk about overkill! Without any new Star Wars movies on the horizon, fans will have to amuse themselves with their memories, but maybe the new and improved lightsaber will help! This monstrosity includes… [MORE] |
 Cellphone Breathalyzer::As if today's cellphones don't already have enough features, Japan has gone ahead and added one more... DoCoMo has a new model that is a breathalyzer and cellphone combination. Initially marketed to larger… [MORE] |
 Transparent Concept Car - Rinspeed Exasis::This car is nothing to hide. The Exasis car built for Rinspeed company's 30th anniversary by the Swiss engineering company "Esoro", and will be shown to the public for the first time at the Geneva Motor… [MORE] |
 HornTones - MP3s For Your Car Horn::With MP3s being used for cellphone rings and to accompany digital imagery, it's not surprising to discover that the latest and greatest MP3technology will soon allow you to customize your car horn.
A… [MORE] |
 Kizmeet.com - First Glances, Second Chances::A smouldering look... just a little bit more than a passing glance... and the bus pulls away from the curb. How many times have opportunities passed you by, only to be plagued for days afterward with a… [MORE] |
 CPR Glove - A Potential Lifesaver::The power to save lives may no longer require CPR training, with the development of the CPR glove by two McMaster University students. The glove is wired to detect a pulse, and to give guidance throughout… [MORE] |
 Ultra Fast Coffee Maker - Two Cups of Java in 30 Seconds Flat::Other than waking up to find you've completely run ouf of coffee, the next worse thing is discovering that somebody forgot to set the coffeemaker to auto-brew the night before.
With AutoPress this worry… [MORE] |
 MP3 Player for Toddlers::Continuing in the 'mini-me' trends so popular today, Peapod Toys is introducing an MP3 player specially designed for children ages 12 months and up. With built-in speakers and simple controls, youngsters… [MORE] |
 Howard - Hand-Wrist Assisting Robotic Device::A Robot called Howard (Hand-Wrist Assisting Robotic Device) help patients to recover their usual strength and use of their hands following a stroke. It wraps around the hand then the patient begins hand… [MORE] |
 Hot or Not Composite Images - Society's Definition of Beauty by Ranking (GALLERY)::Flikr user Pierre Tourigny has downloaded an abundence of Hot or Not images and put them into a morphing program called SquirtzMorph to determine what society deems as the image of beauty. Specifically,… [MORE] |
 JITWatch Connects to PDA, GPS and Cellphone, Tells You How Much Time You Need::The JITWatch is a German invention that coordinates all of your gizmos to let you know things like when you'll need to leave for your next appointment. It does that by referencing your GPS location and… [MORE] |
 Google Screws Up Logo for Valentine's Day (Googe)::Just when we thought Google had figured out everything, they fell apart on something pretty basic - spelling their own name. Today Google's special image for Valentine's day is missing something... The… [MORE] |
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