Imagine being in the ocean, trapped in a swell some 700 meters from shore. Suddenly a yellow package drops out of the sky as if sent by a god, hits the water next to you and expands into a flotation device.

That was the experience of two unlucky, then lucky teenage boys off the coast of Lennox Head in Australia last week. Someone spotted the boys in distress and called it in, but the nearest lifeguard station was a kilometer away. Just that morning, however, Lennox Head had brought their new lifesaving drone into service.

In a little over a minute, a lifeguard supervisor had launched the drone, spotted the boys, flew it over to them, and remotely dropped the flotation device. The boys were able to grab it and swim to shore. Here's the footage:

The drone is manufactured by a company called Little Ripper Lifesaver, founded by Kevin Weldon after he witnessed a drone canvassing the streets of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and realized its lifesaving potential. The Marine Pod dropped over Lennox Head contained a water-triggered flotation device, which is repackable and reusable. The company is now testing a saltwater-activated electromagnetic shark repellent device, with plans to include that in future kits.

Little Ripper also makes a Land Pod, which contains an automatic defibrillator, a location beacon, a thermal blanket, a radio, a highly-visible rescue banner and a first aid kit. Lastly they make a Snow Pod, which adds skin warmers and energy bars to the Land Pod.

Lennox Head received the drone as part of a trial set up by an organization called Surf Life Saving NSW and the New South Wales Government. According to ABC News,

Surf Life Saving NSW project manager for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), Kelvin Morton, said the project was a world-first.

"These UAVs that we're using to drop these inflatable pods is innovative, and we know that most or all of the lifesaving organisations around the world are stepping back and waiting to see how this goes."

Mr Morton said the drones gave surf lifesavers a new advantage. "It gives them eyes across the water at a height of 60 metres and they can move at 50 kilometres an hour," he said. 

"They've never had that ability before. They can see things in the water that a jet-ski simply cannot."

At a distance it appears this lamppost has gained a parasite.

In fact it's a bike lock. The bike it was once safeguarding has long since been stolen.

Maybe the maintenance crew responsible for the upkeep of the pole did not have a saw. Or maybe they did and didn't feel like using it. Either way, they "solved" the problem with a paintbrush.

Different iterations of the companion robot—which we like to define as a robot designed to carry out targeted tasks while attempting empathy and interaction—were seen in just about every section of CES. We were hoping cute robots looking up at us would evoke joy, but instead they left us with heavy hearts. 

If we're now designing robots to empathize with us, watch our children and replace physical activity, what will our lives look like in the next 50 years? Take a look for yourself, and see if you can imagine integrating any of these robots into your daily routine:

Childcare

The perfect accessory to 21st century helicopter parents, iPal watches your kid's every move so you can finally take a break. The feature most demonstrated at CES was the iPal's ability to sing Happy Birthday to your child, occasionally in sync with other iPals. We understand that singing this song once a year is incredibly annoying and a total waste of time, so we're glad to see technology can free parents of that burden.

Similar to iPal but a little more friendly looking, Buddy is a companion robot programmed to keep your home safe, entertain your kids and keep you connected with loved ones. 

Reading bedtime stories to kids is a drag with little to no gain on the adult's end. Owl-shaped robot Luka is designed to entirely replace the parent during this process. What a relief!

Don't let this Toymail Talkie fool you. He looks like an innocent, non-robotic stuffed monster, but he's actually possessed by Amazon Alexa.  

Sports and Entertainment

Candy Beam is a new way to receive candy from strangers! Mixed feelings.

Maava, the glamorous robotic assistant, was all over CES shoving iPads in your face and reciting the weather. If there was ever a doubt that robotics is a male-dominated field, take a look at this form factor.

On that note, let's not forget about the Internet-breaking stripper robots that came all the way from London to impress CES attendees in Vegas took "companion" to a whole new level. We'll keep it PG and say that at the very least, it was interesting to see robots being objectified as, well, objects. 

Chores

Laundry robots were everywhere, and they are some of the worst offenders. Perhaps it's our New York state of mind, but who in their right minds has space for a laundry-folding robot that's larger than a normal human? And seriously, how lazy can you be? Two prime examples are Laundroid and FoldiMate.

Here's a robot that uses your already existing vacuum to clean for you. Imagine an outer body experience (or nightmare) where you're watching yourself vacuum, but instead of a human, you are a robot. That's kind of what this is. Just to reiterate: It doesn't have a built-in vacuum, it uses the one you already own—so this is laziness in its purest form.

Utility

The TwinswHeel autonomous delivery droid's rugged design allows it to deliver packages year-round. But can it ring your doorbell?

Navatics' Mito underwater drone is able to capture 4K photo and footage of life underwater. Its live-streaming capabilities allow us to see what may be too difficult for human divers to capture. Let's just hope people still go diving for fun in the future. 

Other

We still don't quite understand what Honda's new robots are designed to do.

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Read our overall CES trend report here.

For over a century we have been driving cars, enabling us to roam our surroundings with little effort. Now with the introduction of automated driving, machines will become our chauffeurs. But how about getting us around road construction, or finding a friend in a crowded area? What if you just want to explore and find new places? Will these cars be able to handle such situations, and how can you show your intentions?

Currently there is no middle ground between the car taking the wheel or its driver. This is where Scribble comes in: a haptic interface that lets you draw your way through traffic. You draw a path, and the car will follow, not letting you drive but pilot the car. Scribble lets you help your car when in need, allowing you to wander your surroundings once again.

View a video demonstration here.

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I came across the story of Eric Trujillo, a Colorado-based luthier who runs Mi Vida Strings in Denver. 

Trujillo repairs and builds string instruments for clients around the world--his most famous client is probably Bob Dylan--and is ensuring the craft stays alive by teaching it to his 11-year-old son, Daniel.

Which means Daniel has more hand tool skills than your average sixth-grader. So when it came time for him to submit a science project for school, they chose a rather unconventional topic: Daniel built, from scratch, three different single-string, cigar-box-style violins using different blends of wood with each.

The Trujillos then used an audio-sensing smartphone app to see how each blend of wood affected the sonic quality of each instrument:

Well, that blows the doors off of my baking soda volcano.

The "cast iron district" that is SoHo in Manhattan still has some sidewalks and stoops that look like this one, on Wooster Street between Grand and Broome Streets:

Note the raised nubs at the interstices between the glass, which provide traction in rain.

The stairs are cast iron, and you may be wondering why the original 19th century manufacturer would go to the expense of perforating them with glass circles. Those circles are actually lenses, and they serve a clerestory purpose. As with many other manufacturing districts around the country, SoHo's heyday antedated electricity and artificial light. Many of these types of structures were fronted by hollow sidewalks, with basement workshops and storage spaces directly beneath. Topping them with these "vault lights" admitted crucial illumination into the space.

Interesting historical tidbit: Vault lights were invented in 1845 by New Jersey native Thaddeus Hyatt, who became fabulously wealthy from them. An abolitionist, Hyatt used his fortune to fund anti-slavery organizations and was thrown in jail for his troubles. He eventually retired in England, where he died in 1901 at the age of 85.

There are plenty of ways to store sex toys without using products specifically designed for that purpose. But there are a number of interesting design features on the products that are designed for organizing sex toys. The Joyboxx has a removable tray which can serve as a "bedside coaster for your sex toys," as Babeland puts it. It's easy to clean; it can even be put in the dishwasher.

The Barisieur is a premium alarm clock that eases you into your morning with the soothing sounds of bubbling water, along with the smell of the freshly brewed coffee or loose leaf tea.

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This cabinet of metal drawers lives in my shop. I found it on the street and use it to hold the random things that don't live on my tool wall.

As you can see by this label that I never removed, it was once used by a police department.

I scored it maybe seven years ago. It was sitting in a pile of discarded furniture outside of the Louis J. Lefkowitz State Office Building, a large municipal complex near the courthouses downtown. At least once a year, and sometimes twice a year, they get rid of a shocking amount of furniture. Here's what it looked like this week, as I passed it with my dogs:

I took an interest in this desk, hoping to find a slab of real wood I could salvage. 

But a close inspection revealed the top was plywood that had been edged with thin strips of real wood so I passed.

As I mentioned before, this complex regularly dumps an obscene amount of furniture to be hauled away. It doesn't even look that old nor does much of it appear to be broken. My guess is it's that thing where government bodies need to spend all of their money at a certain time of year in order to retain their budget allotment.

A neighborhood away, I spotted this sofa out by the curb.

I inspected it as best I could and could find no visible damage or stains, except for some pilling of the fabric, seen here.

Perhaps the pillows beneath, which I could not get at, bore the marks of some accident. If that's the case it's a damn shame, as having a cushion re-upholstered is not difficult. Or maybe the owner just got tired of the style.

I bet a lot of people could've used a lot of the items shown here and would have been happy to haul them away, had they known about them.

Given the popularity of Ikea-hacking, it was inevitable that Ikea would court those who like to modify their furniture. Thus the company has collaborated with Tom Dixon and created the Delaktig, a sort of furniture platform that end users are meant to customize with add-ons either purchased or DIY'ed.

The Delaktig is essentially a rectangular aluminum frame on legs that comes in three sizes, with the footprints of a twin bed, an armchair or a square ottoman. In its simplest form, a piece of upholstered foam is placed atop it to form a seating surface. End users are meant to add various components to transform these platforms into sofas (or the smaller sizes into chairs) along with armrests, table-like platforms or lighting.

The accessories, whether store-bought or DIY'ed, are attached by means of a vertical plane that somehow (it's unclear from the images) slots into the side rails.

Here's Dixon, Ikea Head of Design Marcus Engman and Ikea Creative Leader James Futcher discussing the design:

Wired reports that "Ikea's initial line of add-ons will come from the company and from students at the Royal College of Arts in London, the Parsons School of Design in New York, and Musashino Art University in Tokyo," pointing to the company's desire to get young people involved.

From IkeaToday: "Prototype by Shoko Sato from Musashino Art University in Tokyo. A simple and beautiful idea according to Creative Leader James Futcher. Using the same dimensions, the leg of the sofa just flows out beautifully into a lamp and coat stand."

Then there's this bit, which I found intriguing:

Dixon says his studio will put out luxury peripherals like marble countertop side tables or leather sofa cushions—stuff Ikea wouldn't sell, because of the cost.

The concept is admirable: If you have a piece of furniture that can be reconfigured, in theory you needn't get rid of the entire thing in order to update the style. Maybe it would help avoid situations like this.

Two things I wonder, though: One, would someone who can purchase Tom Dixon's stuff deign to purchase an Ikea frame? As for two, I'll pose this question to you: Do you think the Ikeahacking crowd will cotton to the product, or is the transgression of "hacking" itself what they enjoy? Meaning that they wouldn't buy it if it was intended to be hacked?

In any case, I'm curious to see what the results of this experiment are. Hopefully we won't have long to wait: The Delaktig becomes available in Europe next month, and in August for those of us in the 'States.

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Shellac is a great finish and sticks to everything, but from a retail standpoint, shellac flakes are a fussy product to stock. Because how fast it dissolves is a function of its age, how it was stored, the quality of the alcohol used to dissolve it in, the size of the flakes, and agitation.

We have no control over the last three parameters but we have spent years upping our game on the first two. So when you get a bag of shellac from us it's in a fairly heavy bag that is a good oxygen barrier, and it's got an oxygen absorber in it. This seems to help. In addition we try not to keep it around and fly in small quantities as we need them from India or from our Tiger Flake supplier.

We test every batch of shellac that goes out of here. We make sure it dissolves easily and every bag is batch dated so we can keep track of what's going on. So after getting a query from a customer about the differences between the various types of Tiger Flakes we stock, I figured I'd do a quick test to show you all the results.

Some terminology: With shellac, "cut" is the term used to describe how thin or thick the shellac-to-alcohol mix is. A 2-lb. cut, or two pounds of shellac dissolved in a gallon of alcohol, is pretty standard but a quick calculation suggests that my samples are about 1.5-lb cut. That's a little thin for a lot of build-up, but reasonable.

All the samples in the test were Tiger Flakes, just because that's what we had from our most recent packing. We stock four types of Tiger Flakes (in order of color density): Super-Blond, Blond, Amber, and Garnet. I applied a fairly heavy coat of each type of shellac to a freshly planed board of maple and took a look at the results.

Remember a few things: There is only one or two heavy coats on this wood, maple absorbs very little finish, and a proper French polish would have far, far more buildup and show off the colors better. Even a regular shellac finish would have more buildup than these samples.

What is interesting to me is how even a thin coat of super-blond adds a little color to the maple, but the main difference between the colors is a little bit of extra color definition in the pores of the wood. This is what makes grain pop in a finish.

My conclusions:

- If you are just planning a wash coat of shellac as a primer, using blond is less expensive than super-blond and should be almost indistinguishable.

- If you are planning a French polish over distinctly colored marquetry, super blond might keep your materials less yellow, but if you are doing wood tones, blond might be just as good.

- If you want character in your finish without going crazy, especially if you aren't French polishing, garnet will pop the grain nicely and isn't nearly as dark a finish as the flakes might suggest.

- Amber is a good choice if you want the piece to look shellacked as if the finish had age in it.

Note: While our bags are fairly decent oxygen barriers and they have the absorber, and they reseal, store the bags in a sealed glass container, kept in the fridge. Super-blond has the shortest shelf life in flakes, garnet the longest.

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This "Tools & Craft" section is provided courtesy of Joel Moskowitz, founder of Tools for Working Wood, the Brooklyn-based catalog retailer of everything from hand tools to Festool; check out their online shop here. Joel also founded Gramercy Tools, the award-winning boutique manufacturer of hand tools made the old-fashioned way: Built to work and built to last.

Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun designs out-of-this-world experiences for the likes of NASA, Mattel Inc. HQ, LEGO HQ, MoMA and more. Her celebrated and respected "Willy Wonka" approach to experience design is what brought her to Brooklyn-based A/D/O's attention last year, when she was a speaker at their Common Sense Festival. 

This year, Hayoun is partnering with A/D/O once again on Homo Sapiens, I Hear You, a series of monthly seminars centered around how Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs can determine if present day designers are properly doing their core job—addressing basic and essential human needs. From there, participants collaborate to find solutions to flaws in the system, uncovering new perspectives designers should start considering. 

With the first seminar in the series—Sleep With Me: On beds, the unconscious and the nighttime—under her belt, Hayoun reflects on the process of building the series from the ground up and why she believes it's vital for designers to keep an open mind towards non-traditional research methods:

Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun speaking during the "Sleep With Me: On beds, the unconscious and the nighttime" seminar. (All images photographed by Sara Kerens)

Can you tell us about the inspiration behind this seminar series and how it all came together?

I first came to A/D/O in May as a speaker at the "Common Sense" design festival, and that visit turned into a much longer conversation with the team about the current design discourse and how we could add something new, fresh and frankly, needed. The A/D/O lens considers "The Future of Design", which goes hand-in-hand with some of my academic background in critical design. What we've envisioned, together with A/D/O, is a dialogue on the practice design—and this is achieved by looking outside of the traditional design community and bringing in "non-design" experts, inputs and inspiration. That is why we have filmmakers sharing the stage with hypnotherapists, scientists, economists and designers for each session so we can collide all these viewpoints and question them as we go along. Each month is spent unravelling Maslow's hierarchy of needs, interrogating and criticizing that egocentric model and proposing a new one at the end of the series.

Scenes from "Sleep With Me: On beds, the unconscious and the nighttime"

Following the content consideration, of course, the focus had to move next onto "the texture" of these classes, their length and how this will be presented to the public—this is my specialty. I am a designer of experiences and that is what I do for a living, designing immersive architectures, systems and experiences that bring together narratives, future thinking and science all together. Here we decided that the research seminars would be non-linear, non-conventional, non-passive classes where members of the public will participate. In a way, I thought of these monthly seminars as an expedition, a live encyclopedia, where every month you learn a new insight to apprehend possible futures. It is composed of 12 classes and associated programs, hypnosis radios and other sublime experiments.

We decided to expand and to draw from the expertise of both international and local collaborators. As a designer, I have been greatly inspired by Cabinet Magazine, a Brooklyn based publication that publishes quarterly on one theme through various viewpoints and genres (fiction, journalistic etc.). Naturally, we contacted them and asked them to join and to define an editorial line alongside the classes so that we can share our monthly theme through their eyes. We also contacted locally based radio host Elle Clay to produce a podcast each month on our research theme with exclusive interviews with our speakers and immersive narratives, Radio Wolfgang are working on the dissemination of that content and Amsterdam-based graphic designers Our Machine have developed the graphics for the projects. So there will be lot of materials and multiple formats to distribute the classes across platforms, both digital, audio and beyond; and it is extremely exciting to work with such talented and passionate collaborators.

This series is based around Maslow's already existing Hierarchy of Needs theory. Do you think it's important to look towards history when finding inspiration for future projects?

Absolutely. I am a designer, an educator and an academic. Only in the past 20 years have designers really started to invade research seminars and make Ph.Ds. New schemes like 'practice-based Ph.D.'s' have emerged and research through making is one of the way in which designers approach this. But for all of it, the basis is that you can't start a creative project without acknowledging your peers. There is a long-standing history of humanities, architecture, design movements to acknowledge and learn from and so it is key to make references to them and to critique, rethink and reassess. So yes, you are right, Maslow is not new, and he is a man too, which I normally try to avoid when I choose reference points. Im more inclined to follow the work of feminist academics like Prof. Donna Haraway for example.

How did you finalize a list of topics to cover during these seminars based on your research?

Using Maslow's hierarchy of needs in its pyramidal shape, we defined a framework and the basic points for the research seminars. So the three first months are on the basic needs (Sleep, Eat, Breathe), and as you keep going you interrogate friendship, spirituality etc. This is how we selected the topics. After that, it is a matter of texture and alchemy, getting various viewpoints and workshop to inspire curiosity and perhaps even new work from members of the public.

I am really excited by [all of the topics]; I like to leave space to be surprised too. And so some of the themes might look less exciting than others, but the speakers are just as fantastic from one month to the other.

Do you believe designers can benefit from non-traditional research methods?

Completely yes, I believe in unconventional research practices, and that is what I have been working on at the University of the Underground, for example. The University of the Underground is a tuition free postgraduate university hosted at the Sandberg Institute and located in the 'underground, within a hidden network of urban spaces', under nightclubs the Village Underground in London and De Marktkantine in Amsterdam. It provides an accredited Master of the Arts (MA Design of Experiences—a full time two year program) which exists at the nexus between critical design, experiential, theatrical, filmic, semiotics, political and musical practices. Started in February 2017, it aims to teach students how to engineer situations, to design experiences and events to best support social dreaming, social actions and power shifts within institutions, companies and governments. 

By questioning the social and cultural capital of education, projects are opening up discussions on the manufacture of knowledge, confronting past and present fears. As a part of the university, we put together the Unconventional Research Office, which intends to demonstrate the state of ideologies in contemporary societies, where knowledge is interwoven with the idea of the nation-state and cultural heritage while current developments in technology propose a global notion of 'collectiveness'. 

The program I've created at A/D/O is distinct from the University of the Underground, but aims to offer and experiment around non-traditional processes too. For A/D/O, it is a big step forward to have the monthly seminars and to make this kind of thinking available for a very broad community of creative practitioners here in Brooklyn and internationally through the radio program and the articles Cabinet Magazine will produce monthly. So exciting times, all together.

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Learn more about Homo Sapiens, I Hear You here.

The next seminar—The Last Supper: On tables, carnivores and kitchen stories—will be held at A/D/O on February 12th. Register here.

Yesterday, Nike announced the Epic React Flyknit Runner, the first running shoe that incorporates Nike React, a responsive foam that Nike chemists, designers and engineers developed back in 2017: 

The runner boasts a single-piece Flyknit upper with a more technical midsole in contrast. Nike React is much softer than EVA foam, so this runner's midsole needed to be taller and extend past the midsole around the heel to compensate for its extra bounce—that way the shoes won't bottom-out when in use. 

The outsole features a blue rubber at the heel and toe for extra traction and support for the two parts of your foot that strike the ground the most.

Rapid data-driven ideation was used to design the midsole. This allowed the part of the shoe to be just one piece with no adhesives necessary. The pattern in the foam varies throughout the shoe depending on which areas need more cushioning and which need to remain firm.

Since the upper sits on just one piece of React foam and that's it, the midsole and outsole are basically merged together as one, except for the thin rubber additions. 

Just as cool as the shoes is the creative GIF from their marketing campaign:

If that doesn't make you want to snag a pair when they release on February 22nd, I don't know what will.

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Trashiness factor aside, I regularly read the New York tabloids for local awareness, particularly on matters of crime. It's rare that I see the word "design" in a headline, but this week it's popped up, for lurid reasons.

Apparently there's an NYC-based office goods design start-up called Perch. The copy from their mission statement is your standard bland, unoriginal drivel:

"We started to wonder why are our personal workspaces were [sic] such a black hole in our otherwise design-driven lives? PERCH is on a mission to give our workspaces the love and attention they deserve."

"We're here to do something revolutionary - help you get excited about sitting down at your desk…. No detail was overlooked in the design and construction, with every joint and angle perfectly aligned, and each desk built to last a lifetime."

In addition to two models of desk, they also sell--sorry, they "curate"--"a selection of the best workspace products to go with them." These include an $18 piece of pyrite (a/k/a Fool's Gold) that's "Renowned for its ability to enhance will power [sic], help overcome bad habits and establish new patterns of health and positive energy, this is a small but powerful ally to keep on your desk;" a $24 Clear Pen Pot made from acrylic "that provides you with a clear overview of all its contents;" and a $36 pair of bird's feet cast from pewter.

Anyways, back to the newspaper stories. The company was started in 2014 by ex-Google-Account-Manager Lucy Lyle, now 30. A Post article titled "Office-design startup's founder ran off with investor's money: suit" reports that in late 2017, Lyle "vanished with [Angel Park Investors Russell T. Shepard's $350,000] investments, shuttering the doors of Perch," according to court papers.

A Daily News article titled "Ex-Google worker flushed out of Brooklyn 'safe house' after owing investors more than $350G over failed startup" reports that

"A former Google employee behind a failed office furniture startup is hiding from angry investors in a Brooklyn "safe house," a new lawsuit charges.

Lucy Lyle, the founder of the "design-focused office product company" Perch, was tracked to her hideout in Clinton Hill by a private investigator, according to the suit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court by Russell Shepard, the manager of Angel Park Investors. The company says Lyle, 30, owes more than $350,000.

"Lyle appears to have vanished with the Plaintiffs' investments, shuttering the doors of Perch. Lyle is now living in a safe house in Brooklyn, NY in an attempt to avoid the repercussions of the apparent theft of Plaintiffs' investment funds," the suit reads.

Here's the thing. Perch's website is still up and running and the chatbot is still programmed to engage you when you open the webpage. I clicked on products and added them to the shopping cart, and found that the check-out function is still set up and ready to take your money.

I don't know what the odds are that any of you were looking at this site and thinking of buying anything, but obviously you shouldn't. It also occurs to me that this can't be the first time this has happened; if you readers know of any other design brands that are defunct but still have operating e-commerce pages, please let us know so we can spread the word.

In the wake of Hawaii's false missile alert brouhaha, an apparently unofficial design competition has sprung up inviting designers to re-imagine the UI. You're not allowed to change the copy, just the elements on the page.

I've been looking over the 146 entries received so far, and folks--some of these are great, but a lot are just terrible. Needlessly busy, overdesigned and/or scattershot. I don't want to call anyone out by name, so I'll post some entries without attribution and let you decide which is which.

You can go through the entirety of the entries here. I know that this isn't a big-money competition, as the three prizes are just $150, $100 and $50; but if you've got some time, surely some of you out there can do better!