Designers: What is the Application for Flexible Displays?
The tech blogosphere is abuzz with news of this screen technology:Produced by LG, the OLED screen is "a prototype 18-inch screen…that rolls up like a piece of paper," according to The Verge. Hype is...
View ArticleHome Office Happy Hour: A Desk That Transforms Into a Bar
For those that telecommute or work from home, the division between work and life can be tricky. When are you off the clock? Designer Jonathan Odom has devised a physical signifier that makes the...
View ArticleAn RC Car That Can Drive Up Walls—and Even Across Them, Sideways
A collaboration between Disney Research Zurich and Autonomous Systems Lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) has yielded the VertiGo, a sort of RC car/drone hybrid.The lightweight...
View ArticleDesign Job: Rev Up Snap-on Inc.'s Engines as their next Industrial Designer...
Seeking a highly motivated, talented Industrial Designer with demonstrable knowledge in all stages of the design process and 2-5 years experience. S/He must have successfully taken products from...
View ArticleAn Automated Floating Garbage Can That Cleans the Ocean
As an industrial designer with a proficiency in injection molding, Pete Ceglinski's job was to "make plastic products," he explains. "And after a while I realized that we didn't need the stuff that I...
View ArticleHow to Fix Prefab Architecture? Make It More Like Product Design
I’m an architect, and for many reasons—quality, availability, efficiency, sustainability and aesthetics—I think residential architecture should be produced more like the industrial design typically...
View ArticleHoly Cow: Low-Cost 3D Printer Uses Your Smartphone's Screen to Cure the Resin
MakerBot made 3D printers affordable by going with FDM (fused deposition modeling). But now a college professor has created a far less expensive printer—albeit with a tiny print area--by going the...
View ArticlePlastic That Turns Into Clay and Back Again
A company called Polysis specializes in producing polyurethane resins, and with their secret recipe of herbs and spices they've produced a peculiar plastic called "haplafreely." What's unique about the...
View ArticleDesign Job: MKG seeking a 'brains and brawn' Event Design Intern in New York
This intern will be responsible for participating in initial brainstorming sessions, creating floor plans and renderings to creating technical drawings, working with fabricators and overseeing the...
View ArticleUnusual Shop Furniture: A "Carpenter's Piano Desk"
This has to be the most unusual workbench I've ever seen:It was created by a Taiwanese artist and furniture builder whom, frustratingly, I can find little information about; his name is alternately...
View ArticleReader Submitted: BONCHO: The Bike Poncho That Actually Keeps You Dry
BONCHO covers riders' bodies from head to toe when riding in the rain and neatly folds up for easy and compact storage.Every day, bad weather deters countless people around the world from riding their...
View ArticleSponsored Post:Innovative Approaches for Designing for Social Impact
This past year, Core77’s Allan Chochinov had a chance to speak with leaders in social innovation about their projects, methods, and ideas about design for social impact. In looking back on some of...
View ArticleDiResta's Cut: Screw Caddy
In this episode of DiResta's Cut, Jimmy needs to make a heavy duty screw caddy for his upstate shop. He whips one out using Japanese sycamore, some rope and some ipe edging for abrasion resistance....
View ArticleA Simple, DIY System for Getting Organized
Last time, I showed you how I got rid of all my useless stuff. But it doesn't help much to be clutter-free if you don't have a good way of keeping everything organized. As a designer, you can imagine...
View ArticleKodak to Release Yves-Behar-Designed Super 8 Camera
Retro design is a given with U.S. automakers, who'll gamely mine their archives in an effort to resurrect former glory. But one thing they'd never do is release a re-skinned Mustang or Charger and...
View ArticleDesign Job: Big thinkers wanted at Dell in Austin, TX! Jr. Industrial Product...
Seeking a Designer with abilities to sketch and draw/design their ideations on paper to final product. Candidate needs an aptitude for ALL things mechanical (must know the entire mechanical product...
View ArticleThere is a Potentially Useful Piece of Furniture That Has Yet to Be Designed
I've long maintained that there's a piece of furniture all of us could use, but which has yet to be designed. In our bedrooms we all have beds, dressers, a closet to hang clothes in. But where do you...
View ArticleA New, Brilliant Translation Device That Must Overcome Its Own...
What could be worse than producing a brilliant product, only to see it undercut by tone-deaf marketers? That's the problem faced by the Ili Wearable Translator, a cleverly-executed device that...
View ArticleRub-a-Dub: 11 Organizers for the Shower
When I remodeled my bathroom, I added a niche to the shower surround so I had a place to keep my shower gel, shampoo, conditioner, etc. But users without such a niche may find themselves looking for a...
View ArticleYea or Nay? A Hands-Free System for Smartphones and Tablets
In recent news, a California man staring into his phone accidentally walked over the edge of a cliff and fell to his death. A week later, a woman in China staring into her phone fell into a canal and...
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