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Launching Airplanes from Catapults, Part 2: Electromagnetics
One thing we Americans have in common with our warplanes is that both are getting heavier. Traditional steam-driven catapults are not powerful enough to meet the future's projected needs (unless we...
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Non Sequitur: Upcycle a Coconut to Trotify Your Bike
Bicycles: they're great, but they're not horses. But since it's probably too much trouble to actually acquire a horse—what with the feeding and grooming and keeping it in a stable, etc.—a new product...
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Launching Airplanes from Catapults, Part 3: Airbus' Eco-Climb Concept
While many eyes in the commercial airline industry were undoubtedly watching the U.S. Navy's EMALS (Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System) testing, it is Airbus that has first stepped forward...
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It's Stool Time, Part 1: Striking a Balance
This is easily one of my favorite shots from Salone 2012...At over six months out, we're closer to the next Salone than the last one, but seeing as many of the projects we saw in April are worthy of...
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IDEO.org is seeking Design Fellows in San Francisco, California
Design Fellowship IDEO.orgSan Francisco, CaliforniaIDEO.org, a nonprofit that brings design solutions to poverty-related challenges around the world, is accepting applications for its Fellowship...
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It's Stool Time, Part 2: Extraterrestrial Seating by Jamie Wolfond
Speaking of seen-at-Salone stools: Jamie Wolfond is pleased to present two new seating designs (he exhibited "Communicable Seats" at the RISD Furniture Design department's "Transformations," which was...
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The Aquaponics Garden: A Self-Cleaning Fishtank that Provides Fresh Herbs
With Back to the Roots, a company that supplies Whole Foods with gourmet mushrooms grown in spent coffee grinds, Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez figured out how to turn other people's garbage into...
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It's Stool Time, Part 3: Karim Rashid's Sweet CNC Cedar Seating
I'm totally digging these solid wood stools that look like they were made by elves with a 5-axis CNC mill. Designed by Karim Rashid for Italian manufacturer Riva 1920, the Fiore (first pictured) and...
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Darius Kazemi's Blindfolded Bot Shops for You
When people projected that in the future we'd have robots doing our shopping for us, this is probably not what they had in mind. Massachusetts-based programmer Darius Kazemi has created, as a lark, "a...
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The Company Behind Cubify 3D Printer is Suing Formlabs--and Kickstarter
Lady Justice, ironically 3D-printed on a Cubify by TrompevenioWell folks, it was just a matter of time: Kickstarter is being sued.The plaintiff isn't a disgruntled pledger who didn't get what they paid...
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ICHEG Acquires 250 Atari Industrial Design Department Drawings, Plans Exhibition
Courtesy of The Strong, Rochester, New YorkCourtesy of The Strong, Rochester, New YorkThis will be difficult for Generation Xbox to comprehend, but it used to be that when kids wanted to get their game...
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Weaving a Bicycle: The RaceBraid by Jacob Haim and Munich Composites
It'll take a bit of diligence, but I'm hoping to save up enough for my first custom bicycle next year. (I've acquired two bikes a year for the past two years and while I've been very happy with my...
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A Persistent, Location-Aware Eye in the Sky for your Computer: Tom Taylor's...
Tom Taylor is a technologist and engineer who enjoys working "in the fuzzy space between matter and radiation," and he's got a neat Mac app (probably most fun for those who travel a lot for work):...
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The University of Cincinnati is seeking an Assistant Professor of Industrial...
an Assistant Professor of Industrial DesignThe University of CincinnatiCincinnati, OhioThe University of Cincinnati is seeking a tenure-track full time faculty member within the top-ranked Industrial...
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Why a Car Collector With a One-Car Collection is the Richest of Them All
The unnamed gentleman featured in filmmaker Josh Clason's "Poetry in Motion" mini-doc, below, is not like most car collectors. He owns a beautiful piece of German industrial design history—Mercedes'...
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Core77 Ultimate Gift Guide 2012: Seven Designer Phenotypes, Two Pop-Up...
It's that time again! For the eighth year in a row, we're excited to launch our Ultimate Gift Guide for the designers in your life, including selections from KiBiSi, Snarkitecture, Fort Standard,...
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Auto Design History: Origin of the Mercedes 300SL Gullwing, Part 1 - The Type...
Before we can get to Mercedes' iconic 300SL Gullwing, we need to delve into a little auto design history. The lightweight and groundbreaking 300SL, believe it or not, had its roots in this rather...
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Bellroy's Minimalist Card Sleeve Wallet
In their quest to cover the full range of wallet needs, the relentlessly-evolving Bellroy has released a new model that's the opposite of the carry-all Travel Wallet: The Card Sleeve Wallet. Minimalist...
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A Fixed Thing Is a Beautiful Thing: The Fixer's Manifesto
Just as the general goodwill of holiday spirit permeated the ether last week—like a redolent apple pie fresh from the oven—so too did its economic doppelganger launch its annual assault on wallets...
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Auto Design History: Origin of the Mercedes 300SL Gullwing, Part 2 - The W194
World War II put a lot of things on hold, among them, international auto racing. Mercedes, or rather Daimler-Benz as it was then known, stopped producing racecars and started producing war materiel...
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