If there is one thing your apartment never has enough of, it’s space. It’s easy to fill up just about every last inch of square footage in your place — with knick-knacks, with necessities, and especially with furniture. Imagine if you could just make your bed disappear when you aren’t using it so you suddenly have an empty room to […]
The Ceiling Is The Limit
World’s Thinnest Smartphone
While most of us are perfectly happy with our smartphones, some prefer something a little more compact and pocketable. For those people, Japanese company Kyocera has come up with a device that it’s billing as the “thinnest smartphone in the world.” It’s called the KY-O1L, and it’s built specifically to fit inside a business card holder. For that, the phone […]
The New Vision For A Game Control
The next PlayStation and Xbox are confirmed to be in the works at Sony and Microsoft, but the more interesting upcoming consoles might just be those from 80s relics like Atari and Intellivision. The latter has now fleshed out its plans to get back in the game with the Amico, its new console that, we have to say, is a […]
Vava’s Pet Cam
It can be tough on both you and your pet, leaving them home alone all day while you’re at work. That’s why we’ve seen camera-equipped gadgets that let you check in on and interact with them … but what if the pet isn’t in the same room as the device? Well, that’s where the VAVA Mobile Pet Cam is intended […]
TouchFocus Eyeglasses
We’ve written about electronically adaptive eye-glasses that can switch between everyday and reading modes at the touch of a button before, but nothing has made it to the wider market yet. So this Japanese company’s TouchFocus design might be the first to get the concept up and running. Back in 2011, we looked at PixelOptics, which used electrically-actuated liquid crystal […]
World’s First 3D Printed Steel Bridge
Dutch robotics company MX3D has completed the 3D printing of a steel bridge, which will be installed across a canal in Amsterdam next year. Designer Joris Laarman worked with the robotic manufacturing technology start-up to build the 12-metre-long pedestrian bridge, which is being previewed at Dutch Design Week between 20 and 28 October. First proposed in 2015, the structure has been constructed by robots from layers of […]
GO2SLEEP : AI Powered Device
The Go2Sleep Home Sleep Test is a revolutionary device on monitoring and improving your sleep quality. It elevates comfort while maintaining almost the same detecting accuracy of a pulse oximeter, but with a lot more key information. The precise data gathered would then help generate a comprehensive sleep report, just for you. Based on the data, the smart App would […]
Beijing Beats Office Blues
Perhaps going to work in the morning wouldn’t be such a drag if the workplace was designed by People’s Architecture Office (PAO). The firm is responsible for off-the-wall ideas like a pedal-powered RV and ventilation shaft dwelling, and has now revealed an unusual office complete with running track, garden and a seating area meant to resemble a mountainside. The office […]
Stator The Future Scooter?
Judging by the success of the Scrooser and the Phatty, people do like the idea of fat-tired electric scooters. California-based skateboarder/cyclist/product designer Nathan Allen is now attempting to join the throng, with the interesting-looking and apparently self-balancing Stator. Currently in functioning prototype form, the Stator features a powder-coated chromoly steel tubular frame, a quirky one-sided handlebar that folds down for […]
Making Aquaculture More Eco-Friendly
Even though widely-consumed fish such as Nile tilapia may frequently be raised on farms, the food that they eat still contains ecologically-important fish that are caught in the ocean, depleting wild stocks. That’s why Dartmouth College scientists are now looking at replacing the fishmeal in that food with existing algae meal. Nannochloropsis oculata is a marine microalga that’s already being […]