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A Laser Gizmo That Helps You Drill Straight

Learning to drill a hole perfectly perpendicular to your surface is a crucial DIY skill. If you're drilling downwards into a horizontal surface in front of you, it's easy enough to see if you're...

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A Look Inside Auto Design Mastermind Chip Foose's Shop

Imagine buying a brand-new C5 Corvette, pulling the body off of it and replacing it with the body of a foreshortened 1965 Chevy Impala. That's just another day at the office for Chip Foose, the Art...

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Getting From Kickstarter Into People's Kitchens

If you're anything like me, you're already on your second French press of coffee, fully caffeinated and shaking to the point of full-body convulsions as you dive head-first into another spectacular...

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MIT Develops Machine to 3D Print Glass for Architectural Applications 

MIT's Mediated Matter Group develops novel production methods that allow us to shape material in new ways. As part of their Additive Manufacturing of Optically Transparent Glass project, they've...

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Knife Week: Higonokami History

It's Knife Week at Hand-Eye Supply! Get 25% off all knives in stock with the code "KnifeWeek2015" now through Saturday 8.29.15! To celebrate, let's re-meet the Higonokami, a simple Japanese knife with...

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The 2015 Core77 Conference: Business Now

Last week, we introduced the firsttwo sessions of the 2015 Core77 Conference, taking place in Los Angeles on October 23. Today, we're back with a preview of our third session, Business Now.Our first...

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Giant Red Ball Attempts to Flee Ohio for California to Join Smaller Black...

You've probably heard that earlier this summer L.A. dumped 96 million "shade balls" into their reservoirs. The thinking was that the black, 4-inch HDPE spheres will reduce evaporation. Here's a quick...

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What Do the Students Experience in SVA's Products of Design Program?

We here at Core77 wouldn't have let founding partner Allan Chochinov out of the office four years ago, if he hadn't gone off to do an important thing: Co-founding and chairing the School of Visual...

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Smart Design for a DIY Air Compressor Cable Reel

I recently purchased this retractable air compressor cable reel:Sixty bucks is more than I wanted to spend, but it's a lot easier than manually winding the cable up each time. And since it's easier to...

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The 2015 Core77 Conference: The Future Now

Core77 is holding its second-annual design conference in Los Angeles on October 23, and we're pulling out all the stops. We've got a spectacular venue in downtown LA; we're throwing two parties; we're...

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A Surprising Carbon Fiber Alternative: Nanofibers Made from Carrots

Carbon fiber is awesome stuff, being both lightweight and strong. It's also a difficult-to-produce, non-renewable material. But for over a decade two material scientists from Scotland, David Hepworth...

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Tesla's Robotic Snake Charging Arm

There are people that we expect to espouse robot snakes, but Elon Musk wasn't one of them. Nevertheless, Tesla Motors has released this video of an experimental robot snake charging arm that plugs...

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What Kind of Fabric Can Stop a 2x4 Launched From a Pneumatic Cannon at 100...

Texas Tech University's National Wind Institute is the place to go when you want to study how to mitigate tornado and hurricane damage. One of the toys they've got in their testing labs is a crazy...

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Trippy Non-Mechanical Ferrofluid Clock Features Self-Assembling, Organic...

You simply have to see this. Imagine an Etch-a-Sketch had sex with a lava lamp, and the resultant offspring was raised by adoptive digital clock parents. The result could only be the Ferrolic Display,...

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Knife Week: ISO the IXL British Army Knife

It's Knife Week at Hand-Eye Supply! Get 25% off all knives in stock with the code "KnifeWeek2015" now through Saturday 8.29.15!The IXL British Army Knife is a gleaming example of what traditional...

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Learning to Sketch vs. Sketching to Learn

Sketching Lab is an annual design conference in San Jose, Costa Rica that promotes the design process and visual communication techniques for students and young professionals in creative industries....

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When Stormtroopers Keep You Warm: Design Teacher Repurposes Spent Gas...

Alex Dodson describes himself as "a technology teacher at a secondary school tasked with inspiring the next generation of designers." We've no idea what he does in the classroom, but we're guessing his...

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The Nebia Showerhead Atomizes Your Shower Water

Five years in the making, the Nebia showerhead is designed to get more water onto your body while reducing the actual amount you're using. How does it do that? Science.The Nebia is the brainchild of...

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Desktop Organizing: Pen, Pencil & Marker Storage

I've seen a lot of office spaces, and in many of them it's hard to quickly find a good pen or pencil on the desk, even though the resident has many of them. In a number of cases, all the user needs is...

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LG Rethinks Design of Roll-Up Keyboard by Going Solid Rather Than Flexible

Flexible, roll-up keyboards made from silicone, like these two, actually can't be rolled up that tightly, making them awkward in their stored form.On top of that, they provide the spongy feedback that...

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