Designer

Orlens Glider Concept is Green, Recyclable Air Transport of the Future

This concept glider, dubbed Orlens, is attention-grabbing through its rather beautiful shape alone. But when you look into how it would work, you can see that designer Roland Cernat has put a lot of thought into its greenness. It would be made of entirely recycled materials, and be recyclable itself, would have photovoltaic cells atop the wings for energy for eco-friendly propulsion and have an aerodynamically-efficient body. The body too would be made from a flax-based bio-compound that would be CO2 neutral. It's pretty much what green personal air-transport of the future should look like, which is why it's just won Roland the Lucky Strike Junior Designer Competition. Impressive, and I'd love to take it up and give it a spin, were it not just a concept. [Inhabitat]

7:16 AM on Fri Jul 18 2008
By Kit Eaton
4,080 views, 38 comments

Latest by GadgetPlay: There there, ps61318, there there. more »

glow

Daft Punk's Designer Shows DIY Glowing Outfit Tricks

Almost as famous as Daft Punk's electro-tunes are their glowing electro-outfits. And now, thanks to the chap who made clothes for their 2007 Alive tour, and an Instructables DIY page you too could don glowing gear. It looks fairly easy, as long as you're nifty with a needle and thread: the hardest part seems to be soldering the wire's electric contacts. There're a bunch of tips on wire placing and sewing, and photos of EL wire patterns on everything from boots to hats. And now, if you excuse me, I'm off to persuade my missus of the benefits of a glowing bra. [Instructables via Hacknmod]

11:20 AM on Mon Jun 23 2008
By Kit Eaton
7,960 views, 32 comments

Latest by DJTripleRRR: Hmmm... This'd be awesome for clubbing gear... I'm gonna try it sometime... more »

clocks

Icon Clock Merges Design With Telling Time

We've got plenty of clocks around our home, but none of them are as minimal or as stylish as this Icon Clock. Each clock comes in all of one shade (but there are many colors to choose from) and feature two tongue depressor-ish hands. That's it. Pick the color that matches your motif and decorate away. Here's a secret to interior design from us. Let someone (not you) who doesn't think adding an iPod dock to a room will improve the ambiance. [GNR8 via Better Living Through Design via DVICE]

9:10 PM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By Jason Chen
3,500 views, 11 comments

Latest by GadgetPlay: 3 1/2" diameter? Can you attach a watchband? I, too, will stick to my Ikea million-and-one off. *Unsheathes samurai sword to contest for blue one.* more »

war

Living Isn't Worth Wearing the Diddo Velema Gas Mask

A poisonous green cloud approaches. To your left, your scared wife and young son, trembling in one another's arms. To your right, three Diddo Velema gas masks complete with Gucci and Luis Vuitton detailing. You realize that the masks are probably just a pointed artistic commentary of the violent, consumer world you live in. But it's still not worth putting a haughty, overpriced purse on your head.

Trust us on this one. If the designer included a miniature dog pouch, we'd reconsider. [diddovelema via techdigest]

10:20 AM on Wed Apr 9 2008
By Mark Wilson
6,652 views, 25 comments

vibrator

Watch Designer Creates Elegant Sabar Love Device For 'Business Time'

Apparently sick of designing watches to tell people what time it is, Michael Young has just created the Sabar, a smooth, black, banana-shaped love machine. One look at it and you'll know what time it is. Business time. That's right ladies (and some gentlemen), it's the perfect time go into business for yourself. Coming and going any time you please has never been easier. [Charles and Marie via Dvice]

3:45 PM on Tue Feb 26 2008
By Jason Chen
6,884 views, 19 comments

Latest by roni26: The Cone vibrator is another cool looking vibe. [www.pleasuremenow.com] more »

led fireplace

Electroscape LED Fireplace Brings the Aurora Borealis to Your Crib

The Electroscape fireplace from Platonics has a remote-controlled LED lighting system built in. Ahh—nothing warms you up on a frosty 21st Century morn better than some funky LED lights that you can mix, from single color to multicolored, from the cozy comfort of your armchair. You can even specify what arty "fire" objects are displayed inside: driftwood, pebbles or gravel. The fireplace pumps out 2kW of heat from its element, though, rather strangely, Platonics says this is an optional add-on. Maybe those LEDs get really hot. Available now for around $3100 in the UK. [Platonic fireplaces and Ubergizmo]

7:08 AM on Fri Feb 22 2008
By Kit Eaton
5,507 views, 13 comments

Latest by n/a: @Curves: That 'chair of infinite pain and death' is actually the Barcelona chair by Bauhaus architect Mies van der Rohe. It's an icon of the "modern classical" style. Designer you aren't, I take it? more »

peripherals

LaCie Adds Neil Poulton-Designed External HD To Classy Drive Roster

LaCie's no stranger to getting designers to fashion up external hard drive designs, what with Sam Hecht, Ora-Ito, Karim Rashid, GmbH and the LEGO guy (actually also Ora-Ito) lending their name to designs. This latest one by Neil Poulton looks like the 2001 monolith sans naked monkeys, but with an eerie blue ambient light on the front emanated by an LED on the bottom. You'd normally have to pay some kind of huge price premium for designs, but LaCie's $149 for 500GB seems pretty reasonable. Ships January. [LaCie via PC World]

2:15 PM on Thu Dec 6 2007
By Jason Chen
2,946 views, 34 comments

Latest by n/a: This is where I'm at: I have a 250g 8m F.A. Porshe 7200. Iv used it for 2 or 3 years without any problem... other than i need more space now. I origenally thought the design was pretty slick.. and more »

humidifier

Umydo Humidifier Brings Class to Your Dry Air

As a guy who produces either way too much or way too little saliva, humidifiers are key to keep from waking up 14 times in the middle of the night to gulp down water. This Umydo Humidifier doesn't just moisten up the place, it adds a touch of class to a room that only a stainless steel quarter circle dog bowl could match. We're unclear on how the thing actually works or where the mist comes out of, but we definitely want one. [Allmodern via Oh Gizmo]

7:20 PM on Tue Nov 6 2007
By Jason Chen
3,005 views, 13 comments

Latest by HektikLyfe: The most exciting "feature" is the design. Depending on how you position it, you could emit a flacid sense of peace and relaxation or a rigid, erect and exciting new artistic expression. Sorry about that, I couldn't resist once I saw more »

stay warm

Space Heater Might Warm You Up With Its Pretty Design Alone

There was a chill in the air this morning, and it made us start thinking about heating up the place. But who wants one of those metal space heaters that can burn the house down if it tips over when there's a designer space heater like this Plus Minus Zero model that's on its way in December? The $120 object is designed by Naoto Fukuzawa, winner of some such award that says he has designer chops, and it'll be available in these attractive colors. We're warming up to this design so much that it might just be worth it to shiver until December. [Tokyomango]

1:15 PM on Thu Oct 25 2007
By Charlie White
2,261 views, 2 comments

Latest by Zenbrane: Those look pretty ugly to me more »

designer streetlight

Solar Tree to Light up Streets outside Viennese Museum

Ross Lovegrove, designer of beautiful, yet useful, things, has teamed up with Artemide and Sharp Solar to produce these solar-powered street lamps that are to light up the Ringstrasse outside Vienna's Museum for Angewandte Kunste (that's the Museum for Applied Arts and Contemporary Art.) They'll be going up on a tree-line boulevard, so expect the effect to be awesome. More pics and info below. More »

9:39 AM on Thu Sep 27 2007
By AddyDugdale
3,960 views, 4 comments

ifa2007

Hands-On and Slot Exploration with the Sexy Samsung Printers (Verdict: NeXT Flashback)

Last week we gave you the specs of Samsung's new Windows-, Linux- and Mac-compatible printers &mdash the ML-1630 is a monochrome laser printer, the SCX-4500 a 16 page-per-minute multi-function printer &mdash and yesterday we got to see them for ourselves. Glossy, smooth, they're the kind of printers that make you want to kick off your heels, sprawl on the top and start crooning "Makin' Whoopie." But first of all we wanted to know what the slot at the front of the ML-1630 was, so we beckoned over a Samsung gal... Updated after the jump

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6:30 AM on Mon Sep 3 2007
By AddyDugdale
5,441 views, 7 comments

Latest by esoterica: The NeXT was black. Matte black, but black. And had a matching laser printer that only worked with NeXT because the PostScript rasterizer was built-in to the computer, not the printer. [www.levenez.com] more »

cellphones

O2 Cocoon Designer Cellphone Unboxing

Swedish gadget blog Fosfor got their hands on the svelte O2 Cocoon phone, and were gracious enough to produce an unboxing gallery. Not only is the phone simple and elegant, but so is its packaging. We're big fans of this newcomer, from its clean lines to the incorporation of a hidden LED display. Hopefully this will spur some better design into the industry. [Fosfor]

4:50 PM on Fri Aug 3 2007
By blongo3
9,915 views, 10 comments

designer of everything

Porsche Design Unveils P'9521 Mobile Phone

Here's Porsche Design Mobile Group director Stephane Bret holding up his company's latest prototype, a clamshell cellphone that looks fast even while it's standing still. Not much information accompanied these pics, but as you can plainly see, this Porsche Design Mobile Phone P'9521 is a flip phone and has a squared-off design that might be attractive, but we'd have to hold one in our hands before we could really tell. More »

8:15 AM on Tue Jun 5 2007
By Charlie White
28,866 views, 25 comments

this one goes up to 12

Iseey Miyake OVO Minimalist Watch

Even though this watch doesn't have MSN or tell you when someone's calling, we're still in love. Why? Because we love minimalist watches. More »

3:10 PM on Sat May 26 2007
By Jason Chen
4,470 views, 12 comments

designer colors

Colorware Extends Paintjobs to Zunes

Now that you saw what a great job colorware did on Xbox 360s, you'll be glad to know they now color Microsoft Zunes as well. You can either ship them your Zune and have them color it up for $74, or buy an entirely new one for $325. More »

11:00 AM on Sat May 19 2007
By Jason Chen
2,803 views, 26 comments

have a seat

Itty Bitty Masterpiece Chairs of the World Collection

If you can't actually have designer furniture in your hepcat bachelor pad, now you can possess a veritable Greatest Hits of Chair Design in 1/12 scale with the Masterpiece Chairs of the World Collection. That oughta fit in even cubby-hole apartments. The little seats are highly detailed, and some of them have removable cushions. That chaise lounge even reclines a bit. More »

11:10 AM on Fri May 18 2007
By Charlie White
4,808 views, 13 comments

portable media

Zenum Organum Music Player Looks Sexy Today, May Ship Someday

Zenum is a company that does a lot of designing but no shipping yet, and here's an example: the Zenum Organum, a music player that the company says will roll out by the end of this year. It'll supposedly have a built-in mic, and will play back all the usual suspect audio files. Its 1.8-inch color display will show you JPEGs and BMP files, and it'll be able to store 2 gigs of your favorite audio in its flash memory. More »

9:05 AM on Wed Mar 7 2007
By Charlie White
3,310 views, 4 comments

Latest by deusdiabolus: ARRRRRGGGH! 2GB fixed? Why is it so hard to put a freakin' SD slot in the thing? more »

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