The Design Crack Guide to Consumer Technology
Gift Guide: Sex Toys
Christmas is just around the corner, and it recently occurred to me that a wonderful gift you might consider giving to your lady-friend is a device that can produce ecstasy. I must admit to you, I have not tried any of these stimulating devices myself. In fact, I’ve only chosen them based upon their innovative [...]
ora watch by alexandros stasinopoulos
This really is one of the freshest and most novel concepts for a watch I’ve seen in a while. The watch by Alexandros Stasinopoulos portrays three intertwined tape measures that move with the time. I have not quite figured how to describe the relation between time and space, but I’m sure there is one.
I’ve always [...]
chris chapman: roll-out vegetable garden
I do not have a green thumb. However, i love trying to grow plants. I’m very thoughtless with my planting. I just stick some seeds in the ground whenever without any sense of how many and how far aart the seeds need to be. Now, Chris Chapman has invented a way that I can plant [...]
sungho lee: LED pin
I saw the clothespin light, and I wondered to myself, “OK, it’s a clothespin and a light. So what?”. Now it all makes sense after seeing this image.
sungho lee: LED pin.
QLOCKTWO: everyone else posted this, why not me?
I really don’t think anyone goes out looking for a clock anymore. So, to realy differentiate yourself in the time telling business you have to make something like qlocktwo. it uses this weird letter matrix to spell out the time in five minute intervals. And it does this at the low price of twelve hundred [...]
Dinner Timer by Emma Caselton
Emma
Emma Caselton has created one of the most brilliant inventions i’ve seen in a long time. The beauty is in its simplicity mixed with its usefulness. What is it? it’s a linear timer that tell you exactly when to do what with your recipe. Simply insert the specially designed recipe in the timer’s slot, set [...]
Designer Profile: OOOMS
OOOMS is a guy/girl design duo based in the Netherlands. Their work has a sort of random quality that has a bit of natural bent.
The solar birdhouse is a recent product that creates a beacon for the garden at night without using any grid power to do so. I think it may scare the crap [...]
Burning Rubber: The Greenest Kinky Sex Toy Available
I’m impressed. What’s more I have a tire tread impressed on my butt. Or at least I will once I buy one of the eco-friendly paddles for my wife. The paddle is simple and beautiful design made from a simple rubber handle, a piece of steel, and a large piece of recycled tire [...]
Hand USB sticks- Throw Your Sign, Transfer Data
Need a way to throw up your West Coast Crip sign while you’re computing? No? Well too bad. Now, you have this option. USB has come so far… What can’t you stick on the end of a USB?
Hand USB sticks @ Sirtified | Cool Design Exclusively for Guys |
Lego and Digital Blue Team Up for an Amazing Camera.
This is unlike any camera I’ve ever seen. Lego does robots, lego does social networking. Now lego goes for the big guns, consumer electronics. I can’t wait to have one. The only hope is the future holds a LEGO videophone where everyone is rendered as a LEGO person. Exciting!A criação » Eletrônicos da [...]
White Fruit Radio: Uber Wabi Sabi
I’m sorry. I really don’t know what wabi sabi means. I just hear my boss use this term when referring to elegant and refined architecture that brings in a bit of nature into the design. That’s kind of what this radio does. The radio has no knobs or cluttery gizmos sticking out. The [...]
Mobile Record Players: Chrysler, God Bless Ya
If you were ever wondering how the car companies got into the mess that they are in to today, one only has to look at this particular innovation. At first glance, I thought this was ground breaking and sort of experimental in a good way. Then I thought about Chrysler’s inability to look [...]
Fuck The Rain
I’ve always wanted to make an enduring statement that would have broad popularity, and now I think I’e found a way: First, buy one of these stylish umbrellas of a middle finger. Second, walk around with this umberlla often. Third, find your picture on Google Maps. Finally, send the image to any media [...]
EcoLab’s Cleaning Twin
Such a beautiful simple idea: take a typical cleaning bottle and insert it in a much larger bulk cleaning dispenser. OK. This isn’t the prettiest packaging in the world. But it takes something that I’ve been thinking about in the back of my mind and makes it one step simpler. That thing in [...]
Fire Flower fire extinguishers
WHy can’t all fire extinguisers be this beautiful? How does this fire extinguisher work? The petals of the flower are made from a film that expands and smothers the fire when heated. Brilliant.Lifestyle – Fire Flower fire extinguishers – Japan Trend Shop
The Holedar Earphones by Yoonsang Kim
earbuds are so ubiquitous that it’s a bit hard to see past the flaws of earbuds that are caused by its lozenge shape. Philips and Yoonsang Kim have finally broken out of the box with the attractive and highly functional Holedar Earphones. The hook shape means no gross, bacteria laden earbud plopped in [...]
