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Objet D'esign: A Chunky Brutalist Keyboard
This outrageously chunky Icebreaker keyboard was designed by filmmaker Denis Agarkov. "Architecture, especially the flatiron building in New York and a similar one in downtown L.A., has influenced me...
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From Mobile Refill Station to Walmart Partner
Lower-income families, and those living paycheck to paycheck, are forced to purchase goods in small quantities. This amounts to a poverty tax, where they're paying 30% to 40% more for the product by...
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Strange Design Decision: An Oven with French Doors
I can't figure this one out. This Flexify Air Fryer Oven, by Chinese appliance brand Midea, was voted best-in-show by The Kitchn—and it has French doors. For heaven's sake, why? The chunky handles not...
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This Laptop Screen Extender Gives You Two Extra Monitors
Chinese manufacturer Kefeya offers this $250 S3 Laptop Screen Extender, which adds two external monitors to your laptop. The company says the frame is made of carbon fiber, and that together with the...
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Neurode: An ADHD-Fighting Headband
This incredible-seeming Neurode wearable is meant to treat ADHD without the use of medication. Instead it sends light electrical stimulation to your prefrontal cortex, directly acting on the part of...
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Rotomolded Bottles!
I'm calling this one out because I spent many years working in structural package design, at a corporation with a storage room filled with bottle designs from around the world. And I don't think I've...
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A Coffee Table that Walks
Carpentopod is a walking coffee table, designed and built by Netherlands-based game developer Giliam de Carpentier. Inspired to improve upon Theo Jansen's Strandbeests, Carpentier wrote software to...
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Design Ideation: ID Firm Swerve's Take on Desktop Charging Devices
There's not enough data here to call it a case study, but I like seeing the form experimentation. These desktop chargers are by industrial design consultancy Swerve."Over the past few years Swerve have...
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New Production Method: Impact Printing
Researchers at ETH Zurich are developing an alternative to 3D printing with concrete. They've devised a system called impact printing, where an overhead robot rig fires chunks of a clay mixture...
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Sustainable 3D-Printed Glass Masonry
Circular manufacturing doesn't work with conventional masonry. Once you lay bricks or cinderblocks and mortar them into place, you can't practically smash them up to make new bricks or blocks. But a...
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The World's Underwater Fiber Optic Cables
Fun fact: In Alaska, the permafrost makes laying underground cables impractical. It's also not cost-effective to build overhead lines suspended from anchored poles. So to get broadband internet to...
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Caroline's Cart, a Shopping Cart for Special Needs Individuals and Caregivers
For lone caregivers of special needs kids and adults, shopping for groceries can be difficult; pushing both a wheelchair and a shopping cart is impractical. Enter this Caroline's Cart, developed by...
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BioLite's Incredibly East, Inexpensive Energy Backup System for Homes
Blackouts are common where I live, and some of my neighbors have "whole house backup generators." These consist of a large propane generator that sits on a concrete pad outside your house, and is wired...
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Designer on a Sci-Fi Mission: Daryl Villanueva's EVE Odyssey
I love to see designers that are on a mission. One such person is Daryl Villanueva, the founder and Chief of Design of vehicle manufacturer Bandit9. Check out their wild-looking EVE Odyssey bike, a...
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From solar theta waves to dance you can taste and a bronze diplodocus – the...
The London Design Festival is once again promoting the city as a global hub for creativity. The 2024 festival runs from September 14th to 22nd, showcasing a vast variety of design-related activities...
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Master Forge: An Ultra-Fast Chord Keyboard with Unfortunate Aesthetics
A company called CharaChorder has produced this Master Forge product. It's a chord keyboard, that the company claims allows typing speeds above 300 words-per-minute. (For you non-writers, that's a...
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Unusual Product Design: A Suitcase / Leg-Rest for Traveling Kids
From Scandinavia comes this Stokke BedBox, designed by ID firm Frost Produkt. As the firm explains:"The BedBox® is the world's only premium, ride-on suitcase for children with an in-flight bed or...
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Product-Based Inspiration for Spaceship Designs by Eric Geusz
Eric Geusz, a/k/a SpaceGoose is a software engineer by day, and an artist at night. He sells prints and T-shirts of his sci-fi illustrations.And on his Instagram, he freely shares the inspiration for...
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Creative Ways to Decorate Cars, by Artist Rudy Willingham
To give you an idea of artist Rudy Willingham's sense of humor, here's how he wields creative cutouts over real-world environments. These were images he was hired to produce, to promote House of the...
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Embody Gaming Chair as Pop Art: Herman Miller x FAILE
Here's an unlikely set of collaborators: Herman Miller's Gaming division and FAILE, a/k/a Brooklyn-based artists Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller. Inspired by the duo's Deluxx Fluxx interactive art...
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