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Brilliant AR Application: An Expert Can Remotely Overlay Arrows and Data on...
The Model 201-2 was Singer's top-of-the-line sewing machine from the 1930s to the 1950s. It's powerful, quiet, lays down a beautiful stitch, and adjusted for inflation, sold for a couple thousand of...
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Building a New Sonic Architecture at the New Museum
Museum displays are typically meant to be seen and not touched, but a recent wave of exhibitions is upending those rules. Take DELQA, an interactive music and light installation opening in the New...
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Have a Happy Hand-Eye Birthday!
Hand-Eye Supply has been doling out cool functional tools and good times for five whole years! To celebrate a major handful of good times, we're doing the right thing and having a party! If you'll be...
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Midcentury Modern Mad Men Merch, All For Sale
It's weird to think that fictional television shows not only have a cultural impact but can also influence what objects people will buy. When Sons of Anarchy, a show about a rather violent gang of...
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Design Student Builds on Thingiverse Breakthroughs for 3D-Printed Clothing...
While 3D printing enables rapid prototyping for product designers—emphasis on "rapid"—the production method's uptake by the clothing industry has been slow. But it seems it will happen, eventually; a...
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Mimi Vandermolen, the Ergonomics Genius Behind Ford's "Rounded Edge...
In this week's Designing Women profile, we take a peek into the archives of Ford Motor Company's Design Studio—now celebrating its 80th anniversary—and find an extraordinary woman along the way. Mimi...
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LaCie Celebrates 10 Years of Rugged Hard Drives
In 2007 Apple came out with the iPhone, the indispensable and fragile piece of glass that we end users are constantly buying protective cases for. The previous year, computer hardware company LaCie...
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Designers: Did You Ever Watch the Team That Must Install What You Design?
Imagine you're an architect, or an industrial designer or an interior designer, and you're designing someone's kitchen right down to the cabinets. So you draw your plans up in your perfect little CAD...
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Watch It Live Now: Transforming Warehouse Structures Into Creative Workspaces
Live from Portland, Oregon! - Carrie Strickland and Bill Neburka of Works Partnership ArchitectureTonight at Curiosity Club: we'll hear from Carrie Strickland and Bill Neburka, architects and...
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BioLite Shares the Case for Parallel Innovation
Sometimes, all it takes is a spark to launch a potentially world-changing idea. Long eclipsed by coal, oil and renewables, wood is no longer regarded or used as a primary source of energy in the...
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Energy Everywhere: BioLite's New NanoGrid System Lights The Way
Obvious though it may be, seeing the forest for the trees is a felicitous reference point when it comes to describing BioLite, a Brooklyn-based company that develops innovative products for two...
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Iwachu Skillets: Effortless Japanese Cast Iron
Cast iron is a known Good. Its even cooking surface, versatility and durability have made cast-iron pans into vital kitchen staples all around the world for hundreds of years. To usefully update such...
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Double-Faced Watch Design: Luxury Analog on One Side, Apple Watch on the Other
Internet hoaxes abound, but I like to think my BS meter is correctly calibrated. So what's worse than when the needle goes into the red, but the gotta-be-a-gag product you're presented with appears to...
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DiResta's Cut, Episode 02: Go With the Flow
In this second episode of our "Diresta's Cut" series, Jimmy DiResta starts out with a loose plan that Mother Nature instantly sends off of the rails. After encountering a ruined cedar tree on his...
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Horrifically Dumb Fire Truck Handle Design Has Led Firefighters to...
A fire broke out across the street a couple of weeks ago and the building was evacuated. See the doorway directly under the traffic light on the right? I shot this photo right after the FDNY showed up...
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An Unusual Bridge-That's-Not-a-Bridge Design
Over 100 years ago the city planners of Newport, in southeast Wales, had a niggling design problem. They needed a commercially-viable way to get people and goods across the River Usk, but could not use...
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The Multi-Level, No-Visible-Cars NYC That Might Have Been
On Saturday morning I had to run down to Bed Bath & Beyond in TriBeCa to pick up some kitchen stuff. As I hit the CitiBike station a block away and unlocked my ride, I found the journey downtown...
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Samsung Invents Washing Machine with a Built-In Sink
I'm a guy who grew up without sisters, so I was surprised when I started seeing what was going on inside of all-female-occupied apartments in my 20s. In Brooklyn and Manhattan at least, where space is...
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Organizing the Snail Mail
Just because we're all swamped with email, that doesn't mean that physical mail has gone away. Many people I work with struggle with mail—and one of the first issues is where to put all that mail when...
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The Original, Real-Life Dystopian Cityscape of Kowloon Walled City, and the...
Kowloon Walled City was a crazy social experiment, except there were no scientists in charge; the test subjects were. On the site of a dismantled Chinese fortress in Hong Kong, refugee squatters began...
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