Design posts

The TungstenW biometric wallet is a new way to know that your cash, credit cards, and I.D. are safe and secure rather than being in an ordinary wallet. Before actually using the TungstenW biometric wallet you need to use a computer to hook it up to. From there you can program it with a fingerprint. This will allow only you to have access to your wallet. The wallet comes with Bluetooth connection that allows you to join it with a Bluetooth-enabled handset. This will sound an alarm whenever you roam more than 10 feet away from your wallet. The wallet is available in gold, green, black, pink and white fiberglass…

The new MiLi Power Skin case for the iPhone is not just a protective case but can also juice up the battery at the same time. The MiLi Power Skin is able to work as a charging system because of the 1,200-mAH lithium polymer battery that is housed in the thin case. The MiLi will be equipped with a USB port in order to connect the iPhone or iPod to the device. The MiLi Power Skins are more than just style but for those who are into things that are esthetically pleasing, the cases will be available in eight two-color combinations and be available for around $69.95. [Source: Ubergizmo & MiLi]…

Chinese farmer turned inventor, Wu Yulu, is finally getting some recognition after designing and building homemade robots. Yulu has faced some hardships in his life: a fire that burnt his house to the ground, being splashed by battery acid, and the stress of being heavily in debt. Yulu is finally getting a break and people are highly intrigued by his new inventions. He has built almost 50 robots which can pour drinks, use lighters to light cigarettes and even paint. He’s even designed one that can help with chopping up food for meals. After working on his creations for nearly 20 years, Yulu’s robots…

What do you get when you mix a wheelchair with a tricycle? One cool looking wheelchair called the RoTrike. Ordinary wheelchairs aren’t really that great but they do their job. People who have to use wheelchairs have to move themselves around by pushing the wheels with their hands and they have to carry their own body weight up and over the wheels just to get in and out of it. It puts a lot of pressure on the upper body. This new invention will solve all those problems. The RoTrike is a three-wheeled chair that looks like it is from the Victorian era and also resembles a tricycle. There are two wheels under…

The Thrifty Phone Watch – because we don’t already have enough gadgets that keep us distracted from important work and other tasks throughout the day. Apparently as technology advances, people are getting lazier and need a device that’s with them at all times. You don’t even have to hold this one, so bonus! The futuristic gadget is multi-purpose and especially helpful when you have no free hands to hold a phone, or are at an event which doesn’t allow iPod’s or other devices. The Thrifty Watch Phone is a video camera, MP3 player and PDA. Who needs all of those things when you can have just one and leave…

Time to have your own personal musical light show with new light-up headphones. Designers Min-guk Ji, Hong-joo Kim and In-oh Yoo for Metatrend Institute have created some very cool headphones that are sure to have everyone wanting them. The “Transparent OLED Headphones” are made from flexible OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) boards that let the customer make their own lighting show or patterns across their head. Making your own designs will also allow the customer to set their current song or “color groove setting”, scroll any messages or stay at whatever color they want to have…

A USB stick that shows you what’s on it, without having to actually plug it into your computer? Yes please! They were really thinking of convenience when they came up with the idea for this. It’s really simple: the pink area shows images, the blue represents documents and green is for movies and other multimedia files. The colors fill up the space in proportion to how much is actually stored so you’ll be able to tell what’s taking up the most room and where there’s extra space to add files. The design for this new USB stick is just a prototype at the moment but it will hopefully be on the market soon. You’d…

That headline up there may sound like Monty Python-esque absurdity, but it’s quite real. Or at least half of it is. At a farm in Northern Ireland, farmer William Taylor is putting his cows on treadmills – not to lose weight, but to generate electricity. Yes, really. The treadmills are placed at a slight incline, and to prevent themselves slowly sliding backwards, the cows have to walk, while a feed container gives them something to stay occupied. As they trudge along, the treadmill turns a crank which in turn spins a generator, and apparently, one cow walking produces enough power to run four milking…

Whenever you think of ‘wrist communicator’, it’s hard not to conjure up images of clean Star Trek vessels and their neat, pressed uniforms. The 24th century is slick, man! But while this new concept Samsung smartphone/wristwatch is certainly futuristic, you gotta’ admit – the design seems a lot like the wristbands favored by the kind of people you find constantly playing hacky sack (not that there’s anything wrong with that). Designed by Erik Campbell, the concept is based on a combination of a flexible, OLED touchscreen, a physical keypad and shock-resistant electronics. Obviously, the…

There are some things in architecture that really just have to make you think wow. Most of these things are over-the-top one-time designs that are extremely unique and are unlikely to be seen elsewhere. But this architectural beauty is one that could be applied elsewhere in the future. It’s a multi-level car park, but one that we have never seen the likes of before. The 1111 Lincoln Rd. building is a 300-car parking with many levels that offer 11 shops, 3 restaurants, a shop on the 5th floor and a restaurant on the roof. Wait a minute… I thought this thing was a car park? Well, it is! It just…