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Safety Pin Flash Drive Makes an I-Always-Lose-Things Fashion Statement

Art Lebedev’s studio is best known for its flashy glowing Optimus keyboards, but the firm dabbles in other clever designs too. Like merging a USB flash drive with a safety pin creating four gigs of storage you’re unlikely to lose. https://gizmodo.com/optimus-popularis-keyboard-still-on-track-with-2011-lau-5537972 There’s no word on whether or not the Bulavkus flash drive concept will ever…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Apr 25

Tiny Skis for Wheelchairs Tackle Snow With Ease

The small and thin front wheels on a wheelchair or stroller might roll easy on hard surfaces, but on snow and ice they sink right in like a hot knife through butter. So a Swedish inventor has created a simple ski accessory that lets smaller wheels easily slide over frozen conditions. The Wheel Blades—created by…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 24

Clever Leave-In Handles Let You Bake Up Self-Slicing Bread

Once the smell of freshly baked bread starts wafting through the house, there’s nothing more agonizing than having to wait to dig in. So designer Tal Zur has come up with an incredibly ingenius way to shave a few precious seconds off the wait for a freshly sliced loaf. Her Hallah Handles concept is a…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Apr 23

Bubbles: The Future of the Lightbulb?

Although there are many lightbulb options open to the smart consumer, they all share one important trait: they’re all solid, and don’t pop unlike this bubble light. The Surface Tension Lamp, designed by Italian designers Spazio Rossana Orlandi, replaces the lightbulb’s glass with liquid water. An LED lamp shines through a bubble as it expands,…

Tech News Kif Leswing Apr 18

Wireless Sensor Syncs A Hot Pot With An Induction Cooktop

Induction cooktops can rapidly, powerfully heat a skillet. If you don’t stare at your stove, you can easily burn food to a crisp. A new induction cooktop adds greater control to the operation with preset cooking modes and a wireless sensor that monitors the cookware’s temperature. Introduced by European appliance designer Gorenje, iQcook contains a…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Apr 17

Peelable Polarized Lenses Turn Any Specs Into 3D Glasses

3D movies particularly suck for people who already wear glasses since it means they have to wear two pairs while at the theater. That, or spend the next two hours squinting at the action on screen. So designers Lucy Jung and Daejin Ahn came up with a rather ingenius solution. Their Stix concept is a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 16

These Lovely Light Switches Look Like Your Laptop Keyboard

From Italian industrial design house PLH comes a beautiful light switch that looks like it was cut from your MacBook. Gorgeous and minimalist, they replace traditional 502 switch plates with silver boxes fitted with simple black keys. Each aluminum piece has a different number of buttons to control the lighting system. The only downside? It…

Tech News Leslie Horn Apr 12

HandiZoom: Control Your DSLR Like a True Video Camera

Learning to shoot video with a DSLR after years of using traditional video cameras can be an awkward transition. One feature yet absent from DLSRs is a controlled zoom mechanism. Zooming manually not only produces an entirely different feel to a shot, it also requires the use of an additional hand, besides the one holding…

Tech News Michael Hession Apr 11

Now This Is How You (Hypothetically) Redesign the Pringles Can for the 21st Century

Pringles might be delicious, but its unique can-shaped packaging makes it difficult to enjoy an entire stack when your hands can’t squeeze down the tube. Not exactly an Earth-shattering problem, but we’re still glad there are young designers willing to tackle the issue. The solution, which won Dohyuk Kwon a Red Dot Design Award, was…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 10

This Beautiful Induction Cooktop Table Makes Slaving Over a Hot Stove a Pleasure

Clearly designed for Julia Child-types who prefer a modern twist on classic French cooking, La Cornue’s W stovetop, designed by architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte, looks like it was yanked from a quaint turn-of-the-century farmhouse in the French countryside. But you won’t need to power it with a roaring fire or even hot coals. Its smooth glass…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 9

Frozen Beer Foam That Keeps Your Beer Ice Cold Sounds Amazing and Needs to Exist in America

Japan. We need to talk. Your food is awesome, your electronics are solid, your people are sweet—you have enough good things already. You do not need to hoard Kirin’s new frozen foam for beer—which looks like tasty beer soft serve and keeps your adult beverage cold for half an hour—to yourselves. SHARE IT WITH US.…

Tech News Casey Chan Apr 3

Snap-Together Voltron Chess Set Is a Checkmate Of Awesome

The game of chess has long been viewed as a pursuit for nerds. But that’s totally going to change with Joseph Larson’s Thingiverse creation—a custom chess set where all the pieces come together to form a super robot ala Voltron. The set was created for a Tinercad-sponsored contest to design a unique chess set. With…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 2

Bottle Holding Garbage Can Ring Makes It Easier To Recycle

In many parts of the world it’s ok to drink in public, so this simple plastic ring provides a clean temporary place to store empty containers until they’re claimed by someone who wants to recycle them. Without the Pfandring—which translates to Pledge Ring in english—bottles and cans are either just tossed away, or left piled…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Mar 28

Finger Camera Lets You Frame a Shot Like a Pompous Director

As if everyone walking around with a DSLR pretending to be Ansel Adams wasn’t bad enough, a research group in Japan has developed the Ubi-Camera which lets you compose a photo by looking through your fingers. Just like an old-timey director. OK, that’s actually dope. The underlying technology is pretty neat. When held up in…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Mar 28

A Collapsable Accordion Toaster Would Save Precious Counter Space

If you’re tired of your toaster just sitting around wasting counter space after the breakfast rush, you’ll appreciate Quirky’s Crisp toaster concept. Like playing an accordion, it can be squeezed down to a mere 2.5-inches wide so it’s easy to store. With the toaster fully expanded you get your standard pair of toasting slots with…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Mar 26

The Ultimate Speaker for Headphone-Free Music at Work

Parametric speakers aren’t exactly new, but this Kickstarter idea is tiny and practical. The Soundlazer delivers a focused beam of audio in a single direction. Theoretically, you could point it at yourself, and nobody around you would hear your embarrassing music at all. Roughly the size of a large (um, very large) smartphone, the Soundlazer…

Tech News Brent Rose Mar 21

Outlet Alarm Lets You Wake To the Roar of Power Tools

If the incessant beeping of your regular alarm clock doesn’t get you bounding out of bed in the morning, Kihyun Kim’s alternative might. It controls a set of built-in outlets that can power up another electrical device when it’s time to wake. Sure, you could plug a lamp into one of those outlets if a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Mar 19

Tiny Transmission Towers Tidy Tethered Toys

Those giant power-line transmission towers that keep high-voltage cables safely off the ground have been re-born as miniature versions that can do the same for the mess of USB, power, and headphone cables cluttering up your desk. These miniature transmission towers were created by Daniel Ballou, the same chap behind the Who’s There Chair from…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Mar 15

Does This Zip-Together Chair Bend the Laws Of Physics?

At first glance Igor Lobanov’s Wormhole chair looks like an impossible object that could only exist as a computer physics simulation. But once you wrap your head around its zip-together design, it not only seems plausible, but also pretty genius. Each chair is composed of two flat, but rounded, frame pieces that each fold into…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Mar 10

Combine Your iPhone and iPad Like Voltron To Make This Ukelele Synth

In a breakthrough that is sure to send shockwaves through the tiny guitar industry, Amidio has created a ukelele iOS synth that can be played on the iPad and iPhone at the same time with a virtual fretboard and strings. The devices connect over Bluetooth and the developers have managed to reduce the lag between…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Mar 5

Safety Pin Flash Drive Makes an I-Always-Lose-Things Fashion Statement

Tiny Skis for Wheelchairs Tackle Snow With Ease

Clever Leave-In Handles Let You Bake Up Self-Slicing Bread

Bubbles: The Future of the Lightbulb?

Wireless Sensor Syncs A Hot Pot With An Induction Cooktop

Peelable Polarized Lenses Turn Any Specs Into 3D Glasses

These Lovely Light Switches Look Like Your Laptop Keyboard

HandiZoom: Control Your DSLR Like a True Video Camera

Now This Is How You (Hypothetically) Redesign the Pringles Can for the 21st Century

This Beautiful Induction Cooktop Table Makes Slaving Over a Hot Stove a Pleasure

Frozen Beer Foam That Keeps Your Beer Ice Cold Sounds Amazing and Needs to Exist in America

Snap-Together Voltron Chess Set Is a Checkmate Of Awesome

Bottle Holding Garbage Can Ring Makes It Easier To Recycle

Finger Camera Lets You Frame a Shot Like a Pompous Director

A Collapsable Accordion Toaster Would Save Precious Counter Space

The Ultimate Speaker for Headphone-Free Music at Work

Outlet Alarm Lets You Wake To the Roar of Power Tools

Tiny Transmission Towers Tidy Tethered Toys

Does This Zip-Together Chair Bend the Laws Of Physics?

Combine Your iPhone and iPad Like Voltron To Make This Ukelele Synth

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