Design posts

If you love creepy crawlies, you’ll love Putrefashion. It’s a bangle-like bracelet that allows living insects to crawl and live within. The bracelet is designed with plastic materials, and it has airholes that allow the insects to breath while also enabling to move around and crawl — likely freaking out anyone around you in the process. In this case, its creator prefers to use mealworms, but you could put whatever you want inside, if it fits. Want to have one of these bracelets for your own? You’ll need a laser cutter, screwdriver, and a lot of patience. It’s possible though — the instructions…

Some see abstract art as a mess while others see it as a beautiful piece of work, but regardless of the side you favor, this project by a motivated group in the UK is sure to impress any tech-savvy person. Extracts of Local Distance is the work of Benjamin Maus, Frederic Gmeiner and Thorsten Posselt, all of which whom have created something special: a computer software that analyzes vanishing points of photographical architecture, organizes all these points and segments of images, and creates new images based from the contents of hundreds or thousands of other images. The result is an image that…

As we sit back and watch Apple slowly try and take over the world, it doesn’t help that application developers are quickly assisting their efforts. I’ll make a prediction that in ten years time, somehow the iPhone will be able to drive your car. This way you can sit at home, drive your new Apple electric car to the Apple grocery store, have an Apple grocery store employee fill your car with food, and drive it back home. All while watching Apple TV through your MacBook. Does it seem far fetched? Who knows, but five years ago, I didn’t think I would be able to control my household electronics with my cell phone….

Walk up to a bartender, ask her for the house special, and drop a few of these bills — you’ll instantly own the joint. It’s glow in the dark money, after all. What more can be said? You see, Jaesik Heo, Hojoon Lim & Dahaeng Lim have put this idea into action and have created an intriguing concept. They know what the people want — we want to be able to pull out our wallets, open them up, and instantly find the cash we have to pay. After all, if you are going to have to pay for something, you might as well do it with style. Not to mention that being able to make sure you handed someone a $10 bill instead of a…

What’s the problem with netbooks and other portable devices these days? For starters, you can’t type on them unless you have the hands of a five-year-old. Sadly, many of us are not blessed with small hands. That said, the iWEB 2.0 Laptop Concept would laugh at all those other laptops that try to serve you a tiny keyboard. The iWEB 2.0 features a slick design (and we don’t mind the Transformers wallpaper either) that just makes us think of fancy things when we see it — businessy and eloquent. The main highlight, however, is the fold-out keyboard. It allows the user to have access to a full-sized keyboard…

One of the newest and SIMPLEST gadgets out there for your Smartphone, is the MoviePeg iPhone dock. Coming in an vast array of colors, it will allow your iPhone to situate almost any way you can imagine. Just like My Applecore, this is one of those inventions that we shake our head at thinking, “Someone is getting super rich of something as simple as that. Why didn’t I think of it?”. For those of us who use our iPhone as our alarm clock, now we can actually prop it up on our nightstand instead of it getting lost in our bed. Thanks to the MoviePeg, you can take away that contraption you built using duct tape and…

Doctors all over the world will soon be treating less wrist injuries. Samsung has released its ultra compact SMX-C20UN camcorder that features at 25-degree active angle lens. The idea behind this feature is to allow owners to have a more comfortable hand position while recording. This means that you will be able to hold your video camera longer on your family vacations, which also means longer boring videos to show at a family get together. For those of you who are clueless with computer video editing, the Samsung SMX-C20UN features a built in video editing device to get rid of all those times Mom…

With the trend quickly leaning towards a Hollywood in 3D, Apple has jumped on board with the technology and released its concept of the MacBook 3D. Equipped with Apples version of 3D glasses, you can now enjoy the “Avatar experience” from the comfort of your own computer desk. The majority of the features will remain the same but added are stereoscopic iSight cameras, a touch screen trackpad and a hingeless spine design. If it wasn’t already nerdy enough to open your MacBook inside of Starbucks and be glued to your laptop screen, we will now be able to view these same nerds (myself included) while…

Polaroid? They still exist? Everyone once and a while we rummage through our grandparents closet and stumble upon this old metal box that when the shutter is pressed, prints out a photo. We shake the photo, at rapid speeds hoping that it will dry quickly and we can look at the instant quality of a polaroid picture. Gone are those days and we now have digital cameras……. umm.. and then…. Impossible Project releases a new, polaroid camera with a new age design. Really? and its got a digital feature? The new Polaroid 600 One is designed by Paul Giambarba, who is also responsible for designing the…

We’ve all heard of the hand massage, but what about the sound massage? Perhaps that idea won’t be so foreign after feasting your eyes on the Sony Sound Lounge, a concept design by Sharifah Nasser. Nasser has created something that looks futuristic, classic, and eloquent all at the same time — it is a coffee table with a sound system built right in, and anyone who loves music has to at least wonder what this thing would be like in person. Now it is true that seeing this thing in a home might be a tad bit awkward, but the thought of the Sony Sound Lounge in a recording studio or high-class office building…