Mimi Zou is an American product designer and recent graduate of the Royal College of Art whose graduate project is a biometrics enabled camera called IRIS. Controlled by your eye, IRIS understand what you’re looking at through your iris signature and tracks your eye so it can capture exactly what you see. I feel like this could be the future […]
IRIS Camera
Bubble Camp
Designer Pierre Stéphane Dumas‘ celebrated BubbleTrees have been used to comprise a full-scale camping hotel, ensuring that visitors to France’s Bouches-du-Rhône region feel pampered while still getting the best views possible. The transparent, globe-shaped tents are made from UV-reflecting, recyclable materials. Due to their geometry, the acoustics reduce outside sounds, while an echo within the sphere encourages inhabitants to speak […]
Illusion of Floatation
Founded by Christopher Duffy, an idea-based company known for producing furniture, lighting and interior products, Duffy London has now amazed the design world with its new ‘UP Coffee Table’, a glass-topped coffee table that gives an impression that a piece of toughened glass is being suspended by an array of 14 small helium balloons. The designer Chris Duffy actually worked […]
1DollarScan for Books
1DollarScan is an online book scanning service. Go online and place order. Follow instructions and proceed to payment. You mail them your physical book and they send you a digital file. It’s really cheap and they allow shipping from third party book stores like Amazon. A lot of other people from other countries like it when an ebook isn’t available […]
See What is Your Pet Up To
Did your cat chase a mouse or a sparrow, did the doggy pee on your car tire or was it the tabby that scratched your new linen sofa? To answer these and many more questions we have the Pet’s View concept. It’s not entirely a new idea for a pet’s perspective camera, however I like it for plug and play […]
Smart Shopping Carts
As part of the Change Project, researchers at Open University conceived the Lambent Shopping Trolley Handle. The 16-LED multicolor display and scanner attaches to any supermarket cart and gives shoppers nutritional, ethical and environmental product information. It also allows users to compare their choices with those of other consumers in order to gauge just how socially conscious they’re being. Displaying […]
Condom Subscription Service
Lucky Bloke’s condom subscription service delivers condoms in six-packs straight to your house. Mix and match them to create your own personal collection of tried and true favorites, new products, or a bit of both. Lubricant can be added as well. Your custom assortment will arrive, discreetly packaged, each month. You can set it and forget it – or login […]
BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 139
Transformer Table The Transformer Table by Quentin Kelley is an ultimate small spacekhit. In its folded state the piece is only 12? wide and can be used as a console or sofa table. But when the dinner party is in formation, it unravels into a 36″ wide, spacious dining table. The piece is quite a looker too – made […]