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Announcing the 2015 INDEX: Award Winners
Every year we look forward to the INDEX: Awards, a program that staunchly stands by its mission to uphold designs that improve life and seek out sustainable solutions to the most pressing global...
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A Mathematician's Elliptical Pool Table
For nearly 40 years, the Snooker and Pool Table Company of Essex, England has been producing bespoke billiards tables in a variety of styles. But this year they received a commission that must've had...
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Jaguar Designer Cesar Pieri's Auto Art
As the Creative Design Manager at Jaguar Advanced Design, Cesar Pieri spends a lot of time thinking about cars. So when he decided to take up painting as a creative outlet, he found inspiration from...
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Knife Week: Midori Hamono Chef Knives
It's Knife Week at Hand-Eye Supply! Get 25% off all knives in stock with the code "KnifeWeek2015" now through the end of Saturday 8.29.15! It's not all pocket knives and pencils at Hand-Eye Supply....
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Team USA Retooling for Giant Robot Duel vs. Japan
Preparations are underway for the U.S. vs. Japan giant robot fighting match. As you probably remember, Team Japan's skipper, Kogoro Kurata, accepted the challenge under the condition that melee combat...
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Brass, Walnut & Technology: Love Hultén's Beautiful Furniture Combines...
There are not many designers who could take the concept of a 19th-Century writing desk and turn it into a modern-day soldering station with a built-in computer. There are fewer designers still who...
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A Design Mystery: Why are People at This Store Consistently Misusing This...
Here's one of those bread-and-butter design problems that alerts you to the importance of context. It's simple enough to design a coffee dispenser in a studio, where you've worked out people's average...
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Matthias Wandel's DIY Automatic Baby-Rocking Machine
Woodworking inventor Matthias Wandel is a newly-minted father, and we Wandel-watchers have been wondering when he'd incorporate the new baby into a project. Years, we figured, and we were wrong: He's...
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No Bridge, No Problem: Drive Fast Enough and You Can Cross a River in a Car
Years ago there was a hoax video showing people running across water. Their claim was that if you picked up enough speed in advance, you could pull a Jesus for a dozen steps or so. It turned out to be...
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DARPA is Funding a Project to Disable In-Flight Aircraft with Swarms of...
Gremlins are mythical imps that destroy airplanes. During World War II, Royal Air Force pilots blamed the creatures for their frequent on-board mechanical woes. Author and RAF ace Roald Dahl later spun...
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At Mcity, The University of Michigan is Teaching Autonomous Cars to Drive
"There are many challenges ahead as automated vehicles are increasingly deployed on real roadways," explains Peter Sweatman, director of the U-M Mobility Transformation Center. "Mcity is a safe,...
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Tonight at Curiosity Club: WTF Is Money?
Tonight at the Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club we welcome Marcus Estes to make heads and tails of money. His presentation will begin with the historical origins of money as a representation of value,...
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Building A Rubber Band-Powered Race for the Ages
Ready, set—snap! Earlier this month, Art Center College of Design hosted their annual Formula E competition (the 'E' is for elastic) where students, professionals—and anyone else crazy enough to...
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UCLA's Trippy Augmented Reality Sandbox
Sim City fascinates millions of players who are able to manipulate urban environments to their liking. UCLA has created a kind of nature-based alternative, and one that looks more satisfying in that...
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Death Star Architect Speaks Out, Defends Design of Exhaust Port
When you hear the term "starchitect" you think of a Gehry, a Graves, a Foster. But portmanteau aside, none of these men have ever designed anything that actually existed among the stars, in outer...
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Blazing Fast Rescue Action: Japanese Firefighter Tech Rope Speed Competition
There's no country in the world that has lax firefighters, but in Japan, the prevalence of traditional wooden structures adds an element of increased urgency. And while some team members of a Japanese...
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Screwpop's Well-Designed, Ultra Minimal Utility Knife
The unfortunate thing I've learned in running a photography rental studio: People steal. If it isn't nailed down and can be concealed in a bag, eventually it will go missing, as have the following...
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DiResta's Cut: Vampire Spike Table
Jimmy recently got his hands on a killer, and historical, piece of equipment: A vintage South Bend lathe. Manufactured in 1944, Jimmy's model was undoubtedly created for the war effort, as the famous...
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Japan Pulls Olympics Logo Under Accusations of Design Plagiarism
When Japan released the design of their logo for the 2020 Olympics, it was widely derided as being unattractive. Now an even more serious allegation has been made: It's not just ugly, it's...
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Trend in Invisibility as Automotive Application Continues
Like many of you, I always assumed the technology to render things invisible would be developed by the military, and would later trickle down to the civilian sector. Instead, surprisingly, it is...
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