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Receiving A Gold Plated iPad At Hotel Check-In Is Normal, Right?

You know the drill. You pull up to a Super 8 Motel with the vacancy light on, you argue with the attendent about getting a room away from the ice machine, you whip out your AAA card for extra savings and then you take the 24-karat gold-plated iPad the attendant hands you and head off…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman May 26

The Simplest Flashlight Is Just a Rolled Up Piece of Paper

A flashlight is a crucial thing to have around the house, but even though it can be super useful, it’s probably plastic and/or filled with D batteries. Not exactly elegant. The Paper LED Torch Light on the other hand, is the picture of simplicity. Designed by Kazuhiro Yamanaka, the Paper LED Torch Light is as…

Tech News Eric Limer May 25

Sand Can Light Up A Room

LED lightbulbs are already energy efficient, but they would be even better if they could emit light without connecting to the grid at all. Brooklyn-based designer Danielle Trofe is trying to make that happen. Trofe created two designs for this month’s Wanted Design 2013. Both are hourglasses that use the kinetic energy of falling sand…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman May 12

5 Wearable Concepts Worth Taking a Chance On

Wearable gadgets are everywhere, and it’s not just the big boys who are looking to get in on the action. A handful of smaller and, in some instances, unique takes on the burgeoning trend are popping up on crowdfunding sites like Indiegogo and Kickstarter. Here are five of the most promising activity trackers of the…

Tech News Peter ha May 10

Confidently Crack Your Eggs With a Yolk Separating Whisk

Some recipes call for just the white stuff when you’re cooking with eggs, while others need just the yolk. And if you’ve yet to master the art of using the egg’s shell to separate the two, you’ll be hoping Ivan Zhang’s clever Whisk’ concept becomes a purchasable product. The tool’s plastic strands feature an indent…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 6

A Rubberband Lamp Makes You the Designer, Too

The Delta Lamp lets you recapture the fun of middle school rubber band balls, without landing you in detention. Plus, it’s an outlet for all your creative energy. French designer Malet Thibaut gives you everything you need to customize this bedside lamp: the frame made of five wooden pieces, base and the top, the plug,…

Tech News Leslie Horn May 1

Beer Mapper App Takes the Mystery Out of Choosing Your Next Pint

Imagine if an app could learn your taste in beer the way Netflix learns your taste in movies. It’s coming. Drink it all in. Beer Mapper is a project by engineering student Kevin Jamieson. The app, when it becomes available, will work a lot like a Hot or Not for beer: It shows you two…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Apr 29

This Shirt Can Be Worn For 100 Days Without Washing, Which Sounds Incredibly Sketchy But Also Awesome

Who even knows. The creators of Wool&Prince are claiming that you can wear their wool button-down shirts for days on end without them wrinkling, smelling or showing any dirt. Frankly, that sounds ridiculous, but maybe? Testers recruited by Wool&Prince all unsurprisingly claim that no matter what they do, the shirts look fresh from the dry…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman Apr 28

Eat Away Your Carbon Footprint With This Eco-Friendly Edible Spoon

The idea of an edible utensil isn’t exactly new, but nothing’s been quite as convenient (and non-sticky) as Triangle Tree’s brilliant if not entirely appetizing-appearing Eco-Spoon. https://gizmodo.com/theres-a-special-nobel-prize-for-the-genius-behind-thes-5963895 This overgrown Frito has been lovingly sculpted out of corn and other all-natural ingredients into a stubby, bottom heavy spoon for all your dining needs. But not all…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Apr 22

Tangible Alarm Smartphone Dock: Shove to Snooze

It’s early morning. Your phone is screaming at you. Unless you open your eyes and seek out place to touch, it’ll never stop. But the Tangible Alarm could bring back the eyes-closes snooze-button flailing of days gone by. A concept by Victor Johansson, the Tangible Alarm would provide a backup for your phones built-in alarm.…

Tech News Eric Limer Apr 22

These Mathematical Lawn Chairs Make It Easy to Solve for Ass

There’s an easy solution to your lawn chair equation: making those suckers out of pure math. Well, math and plastic. That kind of abstract design nerdery is exactly what the F3 collection by Fabio Novembre is all about. Each piece’s form is inspired by a mathematical form that “flows freely” although which ones specifically isn’t…

Tech News Eric Limer Apr 20

This Floor-To-Ceiling Lamp Marries Modern-Day Tech and Old School Design

Lamps can be pretty, but there are few quite as versatile as Konstantin’s Grcic’s OK Lamp. Both a ceiling fixture, but also kind of a floor lamp, its rotating LED panel can cover almost any possible angle. And it’s form is the marriage of new tech with decades-old design. Mounted on a floor-to-ceiling, steel-cable track,…

Tech News Eric Limer Apr 19

This Crazy Giraffe Floor Lamp Could Be a Pixar Mascot

A floor lamp isn’t typically a place you’d expect to find a lot of personality, but this one showcased at the Milan furniture fair has plenty of it. You’d half expect to see it prancing around on screen before a Pixar movie. Fittingly named “Giraffe” and desgined by Bernhard | Burkhard, the lamp’s extendable neck…

Tech News Eric Limer Apr 13

This Twisted Cabinet Wants to Strut Across Your Living Room

If you’re not living inside some kind of Beauty and the Beast nightmare, all your furniture is mercifully inanimate, but the Walking Cabinet gets you halfway there. It won’t actually stroll across your living room, but it looks like it wants to. Designed by Markus Johansson, the walking cabinet appears to have been frozen mid-strut…

Tech News Eric Limer Apr 12

The Navy’s Next Gen Fighter Jets Will Heal Themselves

The F-35 Lightning and F-22 Raptor fifth generation fighters are among the most technologically advanced aircraft in history but the fact that they’re barely out of testing (more than can be said about their Russian and Chinese counterparts) doesn’t mean the US military isn’t already designing an even better sixth generation. These next gen war-fighters…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Apr 9

The Best Coffee Mug Improvement Since the Handle

They say if you build a better mouse trap the world will beat a path to your door. And the same will probably hold true for the first coffee shop to adopt this clever spoon-securing NOTA coffee mug designed by Lee Hae Seung Scott. Often times a hot beverage will require more than just an…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 8

Print An Interactive Robot On The 3D Printer You Totally Have

Look, you probably don’t have a 3D printer. But if you do and you want to really scare the crap out of your friends you need a humanoid robot head like MAKI, the “emotive robot” that you build with 3D printed parts plus third party tech. Designed by HelloRobo, the idea is to provide a…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman Apr 7

This Pretty, Portable Fireplace Looks Fit to Burn Rocket Fuel

Sure, it’s easy to whip yourself up a old-school backyard fire-pit with a ring of rocks and whole lot of ugly. But wouldn’t you rather have a portable, modular fireplace that looks ready to blast off to the stars? Who wouldn’t? Faro is a stark, simple-but-beautiful test-kitchen for you pyromaniacal tendencies. Designed by Rui Pereira…

Tech News Eric Limer Apr 6

Minimalist Bamboo Desk Set: The Wood Makes It Good

Most people don’t really care if their stapler matches their pencil sharpener, or if their tape dispenser matches their USB hub. But that’s because they haven’t seen Yu Jian’s gorgeous bamboo desk set that incorporates various office-related accessories into hollowed-out bamboo trunks. The collection will bring a sort of zen-like consistency to your desk, and…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 5

Automatic Do-Not-Disturb Measures Your Brainwaves to Know When You’re Busy

Italian-born neuroscientist Ruggero Scorcioni has developed a new technology that will help you get stuff done by deflecting phone calls or other notifications away when you’re busy. Finally, technology to help keep your brainspace clear when you need it. Ruggero showed us his tech implemented as an app on smartphone at an AT&T event in…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Apr 4

Receiving A Gold Plated iPad At Hotel Check-In Is Normal, Right?

The Simplest Flashlight Is Just a Rolled Up Piece of Paper

Sand Can Light Up A Room

5 Wearable Concepts Worth Taking a Chance On

Confidently Crack Your Eggs With a Yolk Separating Whisk

A Rubberband Lamp Makes You the Designer, Too

Beer Mapper App Takes the Mystery Out of Choosing Your Next Pint

This Shirt Can Be Worn For 100 Days Without Washing, Which Sounds Incredibly Sketchy But Also Awesome

Eat Away Your Carbon Footprint With This Eco-Friendly Edible Spoon

Tangible Alarm Smartphone Dock: Shove to Snooze

These Mathematical Lawn Chairs Make It Easy to Solve for Ass

This Floor-To-Ceiling Lamp Marries Modern-Day Tech and Old School Design

This Crazy Giraffe Floor Lamp Could Be a Pixar Mascot

This Twisted Cabinet Wants to Strut Across Your Living Room

The Navy’s Next Gen Fighter Jets Will Heal Themselves

The Best Coffee Mug Improvement Since the Handle

Print An Interactive Robot On The 3D Printer You Totally Have

This Pretty, Portable Fireplace Looks Fit to Burn Rocket Fuel

Minimalist Bamboo Desk Set: The Wood Makes It Good

Automatic Do-Not-Disturb Measures Your Brainwaves to Know When You’re Busy

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