TENORI-ON (sound on your palm) is a novel personal digital instrument for playing sound and ambient light patterns. […]
Category Archive: gadgets
Rebecca Spender´s KnitWit are smart needles that keep track of the number of stitches you’ve already done. Movement […]
According to Swedish designers Magnus Torstensson and Erik Sandelin, humans are “the decorated monkey”. We submit our bodies […]
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The Weather Predicting Clothes Pegs, by Oliver MacCarthy, know when it’s going to rain. A latching mechanism allows […]
Vinat Venkatraman and Pei Yu‘s Book Radio takes the mental model of a physical book where user can […]
The MugMouse, by interaction designer Louise Wictoria Klinker, is a computer mouse you can use to drink coffee. […]
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moo-pong is a technology that allows people to capture, share and view video images using Tangible User Interface […]
The MusicCube, a wireless cube-like object, renders more tangible several content attributes of Mp3 music. Play lists, music […]
KEE, designed by Miasnik Shira, is a motion based digital instrument for the performing arts. The user modifies […]
The FLORA (Fluorescent Light Organizing Radio Accessory) is a location-aware watch that helps people locate others, a mixture […]
The Funkenschnorkel (corrupted German, adapted from “broadcasting snorkel”), by Andrew Zoz Brooks, is a backpack loudspeaker system for […]
WorldEar is a device that would be installed at the head-height of seated passengers in trains around the […]
For the launch of the new Vauxhall Astra, Crispin Jones designed special keycases: they only allow people who […]
Mountaineering is “the art of moving safely in mountains”. Still, the number of casulties is rising and amateur […]
Royal College of Art show 2005, VII. The Pancam, by Mark Hauenstein, is a low cost digital camera […]
There’s a lot of weird plush toys around but you can’t get worse than the Alien-inspired Plush Face […]
Wake n’ Bacon is an alarm clock that wakes you up with the smell and sizzle of cooking […]
Özgur TASAR, from Umea Institute of Design in Sweden, has developed Nokia One, a home communication interface that […]
Tennis Sensation is a tennis game that allows a wide variety of users, particularly the visually impaired, to […]
Yesterday, during the CAIF workshop, Takashi Matsumoto (KEIO University) presented Z-agon. Each face of this cubic movie player […]
Tom Igoe has just been talking about his Email Clock here at the Collaborative Artefacts Interactive Furniture workshop. […]
Philips’ Smart Companion is a robot that looks at you, listens and talks to you, nods yes to […]
A recent study showed that thin people are on their feet an average of 152 more minutes a […]
What can a blogger do to cheer up a weak blogging day? Post a project by France Cadet. […]
Olympus has prototyped a head mount display that shows information when required without impairing vision. The HMD does […]
A nifty solution to the “boredom of filming wedding ceremonies” or the danger of filming in a dangerous […]
As part of her Social Defense Mechanisms: Tools for Reclaiming our Personal Space research, Limor Fried (creator of […]
Florian Muller has developed Hug Over a Distance to let you tell your loved one how much you […]
The WSJ has an article on a series of gadgets that are being previewed this week at the […]
Babble is a wireless box that duplicates and disassembles your voice before broadcasting it through a series of […]
Networked emoticon device let your partner at home know if something at work or at school has made […]
The MouseField, by Koji Tsukada, Toshiyuki Masui and Itiro Siio, combines an RFID reader and motion sensors to […]
Orgánica D.T.M. is selling hand-made plush and wooden toys in limited edition. 10% of the proceeds will be […]
The US National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is funding research into three “less lethal” weapons to be used […]
Needies are interactive plush dolls inspired by codependent, high-maintenance relationships. Totally attention-starved, they compete with each other for […]
Last week, during the Salone del Mobile in Milan, I went to see the Greenhouse Effect exhibition that […]
SleepSmart is a kind of clock that measures your sleep cycle and waits for you to be in […]
By 2050, the over 65s in Japan could make up a third of the population and technology will […]
The Eye Ball R1, a wireless camera and microphone in a baseball-sized casing, can be tossed into a […]
VoiSec, developed by Swedish company Libego, is a button for recording, storing and playing short spoken messages. This […]