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Independent Designer-Builders: You Can Now Sell Your Goods on Amazon
Even if you're a talented independent product or furniture designer-builder, there's another crucial skill you need to succeed: The ability to negotiate that complicated middle layer between you and...
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Derek Hugger's Stunning Kinetic Sculptures
Artist Derek Hugger has "a passion for mechanisms and an insatiable urge to solve mechanical puzzles." He's also apparently got a woodworking shop, judging by what he's created: A series of intricate,...
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Parking As a Transformative Act
Parking cars today means putting them out of the way while they are not being used. It is a necessary evil in our ever-growing, auto-centered cities and the cutting-edge of parking technology does...
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A Desktop Robotic Arm That Can 3D Print, Mill, Plot, Carve, Etch, Assemble...
The prevailing form factor for consumer-level 3D printers and CNC mills is a box, dictated by the axial/gantry-style mechanisms of these machines. But entrepreneur Zaib Husain and engineer Azam Shahani...
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Skybuds Wireless Earbuds Are a Clever Solution for Storage and Charging
It's been a long road to arrive at truly wireless earphones, but a new crop of products entering the market are finally ditching that clumsy, behind-the-neck connective wire. Among these, Skybuds—the...
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Evolution of the Windcheetah
I am a big fan of Mike Burrows, and have mentioned his work quite a few times over the years at Bicycle Design. In 2012, lifelong "cycling fanatic" and engineer Karl Sparenberg of Advanced Velo Design...
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Casey Neistat on What Kind of Camera to Use
Years ago someone saw some photos I had taken and said "Wow, your camera takes really good photos." I thought that was like saying to someone "Wow, your pot makes really good stew." And it struck a...
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How Much Weight Soldiers Carry, and Incredible POV Footage of a Massive...
An old Army saw has it thatThe General asks, "What does it do?"The Senator asks, "How much does it cost?"The soldier asks, "How much does it weigh?"We think of soldiers as warfighters, but for even the...
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It's Almost Here - One Week Left Until the Core77 Conference!
Have you been feeling a little uneasy lately, like maybe you're forgetting something important? Perhaps it's your subconscious reminding you that time is running out tograb your ticket to the Core77...
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Crowdfunding 101: Failing in Public and Coming Back
Last summer, my little company launched a Kickstarter campaign for a Bluetooth successor to our Range smartphone thermometer. Unfortunately, as sometimes happens, our campaign failed and everyone went...
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Corralling the Keys
While a basic keychain works for many end users, others are looking for better tools. One problem with keys on standard keychains is that they don't tend to fit nicely into a pocket. Furthermore, some...
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The August Smart Lock Gets Some Smart Friends
We announced the Yves- Béhar-designed August Smart Lock two years ago, and by last year it was on the market. The remote unlocking design has been applauded not only by us—it won a Core77 Design...
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Better, More Flexible Eyeglasses Through Materials Science and Digital...
According to statistics, more than half of you are reading this with eyeglasses on the front of your face. Let's talk about how they're made.Eyeglasses frames are typically either metal, with titanium...
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The Push-Button, Motorized Packaging on Those Star Wars Books
This cracks me up: Several years ago the publishing house Becker & Mayer, having secured the licensing from Lucasfilm, released a series of Star Wars "manuals" that retailed for $100 each (S.R.P.,...
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Vertically Parked Cars, Sauna-Equipped Motorcycles and Self-Shortening...
The brilliant cartoonist/inventor Steven M. Johnson has been dreaming up kooky product concepts for 40 years. Luckily for us the man saves his work, and this year he released a new book, "Patent...
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Strange, Experimental Phone Designs from China
Are phones designed for users, or for the companies that produce them? What features might you design into a phone that didn't have to pass Apple or Samsung's strict internal guidelines? Those are...
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This Terrifying Mobile Tree-Harvesting Machine is Like a Robot Koala Bear...
Earlier we saw that loading logs into containers is still a primitive process. But thanks to Finnish forest machinery company Ponsse, the process of creating those logs is super high-tech.Ponsse's...
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A Rare Look at the Early, Pre-Memphis Work of Ettore Sottsass
Ettore Sottsass is practically synonymous with the provocative, raw aesthetic of Memphis—the pioneering design collective that formed in Sottsass' own living room in 1981—but he was already in his 60's...
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Alexandru Duru's Real, Working Hoverboard
It's just five days until October 21st, 2015, the date that Marty McFly traveled to and rode around on a hoverboard on. Which means Canadian inventor Catalin Alexandru Duru has just five days to paint...
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Redesigning the Standard Bookcase for Modularity
In terms of form follows function, a standard bookcase like the Billy shown below is a perfect design. It also uses the bare minimum amount of materials required to perform its function. An issue of...
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