UK firm Redweb Security has developed an “i-powder” to be used against burglars. The biosyntethic substance carries a […]
Scientists are fighting smog by developing “smart” building materials that clean the air with a little help from […]
Cristina Bilsland is particularly interested in researching “mundane” issues and responding to them through product design. She has […]
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RNID, UK’s charity for deaf people and design magazine Blueprint are launching an exhibition of futuristic hearing aids […]
Game Paused is “calling all artists, designers, writers, musicians, directors, programmers and animators with a passion for the […]
You wake up in the morning and sit at your breakfast table. There comes a can of Earl […]
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The Panoramic Photograph Collection features American cityscapes, landscapes, disasters and group portraits. I liked the automobile racing and […]
Researchers at NTT Cyber Solution Laboratories (Japan) are working on “information rain”, taking advertisements to the realm of […]
Drawn is a concert-performance in which live painting is augmented in real time, the painted forms appear to […]
For the Evidence Doll research project, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby have interviewed women about their sexual partners. […]
TENORI-ON (sound on your palm) is a novel personal digital instrument for playing sound and ambient light patterns. […]
Camera Lucida is an interactive “sonic observatory” that converts sound waves into light by means of a phenomenon […]
My tip for the summer, ladies. Bikini Life-Jacket© “BAY WATCH” by Swedish designer Thomas Bernstrand who proposes also […]
Eelko Moorer (remember the rubber bear skin rug?) has been working on a booklet called Emergency Games: A […]
On August 15, 1945, Korea was freed from Japanese occupation, but the country was divided into two and […]
The Robot by The Tornados. Via Bedazzled.
Yes, this is a handbag. Maybe not very practical but just added to my I-want-one-of-those list. Designed by […]
The Japanese banking system has been exceptionally slow to introduce 24-hour ATMs, and still imposes banking charges on […]
Natalie Jeremijenko‘s Ooz project is an experiment in “interspecies communication.” Like a zoo, Ooz is a series of […]
A small but fascinating collection of Soviet and Russian photography. 1890-1950. Via Bibi’s Box.
I quite hate self-promotion. But I like Piers Fawkes, first for his PSFK blog and now for his […]
Two new products for the well-being of the elderly: A group of Stanford University students have designed a […]
Kill yourself whenever you feel like it or just have a finger with an extra joint. Fabian Seibert […]
Actually the title of this post doesn’t reflect my opinion, it’s the way Afke Golsteijn “defines” her work. […]
KODAMA ( (echo in English) aims at demonstrating the existence of voice as a physical object and how […]
Tom Dixon has collaborated with Scottish charity Streetwork on a community based channel which allows young, homeless people […]
Augmented Maps, engineered at Cambridge University, is a system which augments an ordinary paper map with additional information […]
With Mollycoddle, Christine Liu wanted to explore the relationship that people have with their clothes. Mollycoddle is a […]
Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari (1919 – silent, Germany) free and legal to download on Internet Archive. Via […]
Julian Gallo is having fun in Buenos Aires, Argentina, bringing Google Maps in the real world. He takes […]
This week it is my birthday and Max got me an Aibooooooooooo! Don’t know how to call it […]
Cyclone Uppercut is a boxing game that runs in Virtual Reality Simulators. The player is a boxer who […]
Terrific video of David Hasselhoff massacring Hooked on a Feeling.
The British Antarctic Survey’s new base (competition mentioned last year) will be designed by Faber Maunsell and Hugh […]
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 […]
The guys at Gizmodo are clearly in need of a feminine touch now that Joel has left the […]
Propaganda posters from the Spanish Civil War. Via Jaf Project.
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 […]