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Socially Assistive Robots Take Over Los Angeles
"I am having too much fun!" This October, the Los Angeles Convention Center will be host to the first public demonstration of the Socially Assistive Robot developed by the USC-Vertebri School of...
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Well, Whose Shoulders Should We Stand Upon?
This post is part of the Inspiration series, made possible by Veer.com. In our first post in the Veer series, we observed that inventions flow as iterative progressions built upon previous work more...
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Decide on Good Design for the 2010 People's Design Award
Don't forget to make your vote and submit nominations for this year's People's Design Award hosted by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. There are already plenty of ideas to vote on...
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Amazing Life arrives at Lodz Design Festival in Poland
Lodz will host its fourth International Design Festival from 14th to 30th October 2010 based on the theme AMAZING LIFE. The organisers invited Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka, design curator, and Oskar...
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London Design Festival 2010: Yuri Suzuki and His Musical Fish
Jellyfish Theremin at Sound Interjections!, Yuri Suzuki's solo show at the KK space. Yuri Suzuki's multitude of experiments with sound fill the KK Outlet on Hoxton Square. 'Sound Chaser' deconstructs...
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Mayo Clinic is seeking a Service Designer in Rochester, Minnesota
Service Designer Mayo ClinicRochester, MN The selected individuals will use human-centered and participatory methods of Design Thinking to identify unmet patient, provider and institutional needs to...
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London Design Festival 2010: Table for two? Hel yes!
During the London Design Festival, a magical temporary restaurant sprung up in East London. There are tables with canopies of branches and food foraged from imaginary urban forest served on a very...
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Room Within a Room: An Enviable Home Office
If you work from home and live somewhere that's blessed by cold, long winters, you'd probably agree that keeping the home office warm during the day, when no one else is home, is both a challenge and...
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Adobe's impressive and relentless drive to go green
Because of their ubiquity I'd use Adobe products whether I like the company or not, but luckily there's plenty of reason to like them. Adobe's efforts to be a green company are persistent and...
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Alternative sleeping surfaces, part 1: Sleeping on steel
One of the most surprisingly comfortable surfaces I've ever reclined on was in a teepee-like Sami structure in Sweden's Arctic Circle. The "floor" was thickly layered with birch branches covered in...
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Valencia Design Week 2010: NUDE Young Designers Fair
Skip past the rows upon rows of office and hotel furniture at the Feria Habitat Valencia this week, and head for the NUDE Young Designers Fair to catch a glimpse of what the Valencian design scene...
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Core77's Live 1 Hour Design Challenge this Friday at A Better World by Design
We're delighted to be returning this Friday to host our second Live 1 Hour Design Challenge at A Better World by Design. Organized entirely by students from Brown University and the Rhode Island...
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Maker Faire NY: Celebrating Process
Top: Cokementos demo by Eepybird. The first Maker Faire NY wrapped up on Sunday, leaving many happy home-tinkering New Yorkers in its wake. The exhibitors and attendees come from a mix of niche...
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Alternative sleeping surfaces, part 2: If you want a real Japanese futon,...
In the quest for good sleep, last year I saved up for a real Japanese futon. The real deal is thinner and fluffier than the ridiculously dense slabs that most Americans think of as futons, and I could...
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Soapy Pigeon Poo and Nano-Gold Particles at the London Design Festival
During the London Design Festival an exhibition entitled Further Instructions showcased new work by Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen; two designers with an interest in where synthetic biology and nano...
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Concrete Cloth material: "A building in a bag"
The Hesco Bastion we showed you yesterday was a sort of flat-pack building system; Concrete Cloth is similar in that it stores flat but can be ballooned into a much larger structure, for disaster...
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Drzach & Suchy's Shadow Clouds (or, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Rapid...
In Raiders of the Lost Ark there was an amulet attached to the Staff of Ra. When you placed the staff in a particular place in the Map Room and the sun was in a certain position, it would shine a beam...
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Japanese rooms, the meaning of Mu, and Kenya Hara on emptiness
I received an interesting note in response to yesterday's post about living with a traditional Japanese futon. The author of the note, Ko Nakatsu, took exception to my oversimplified blog-ready...
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Umeox Mobile's Solar phone: Chinese cell phone designs finally striking off...
We're finally starting to see Chinese product designs that don't look exactly like something else we've already seen. Check out Shenzhen-based Umeox Mobile's Solar phone, which is waterproof,...
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Brilliant, and green, guerilla marketing by Green Street Media
City sidewalks and curbs are filthy, and U.K.-based Green Street Media, which provides "sustainable, eco-friendly advertising solutions," takes advantage of this in a clever way. When a client wants a...
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