Meet Hanako. Hanako is a collaboration between three Japanese universities and robotics company Tmsuk. And, quite frankly, Hanako is creepy as all hell. A new dental patient robot, I guess this is actually a good idea – I certainly don’t mind the thought of dentists practicing thoroughly on a robot before coming at me with drills and knives. …
How many times have you been sitting at a Starbucks and, looking over at your fellow coffee-shop customers, been really jealous at the guy with the awesome Transformers sticker on his Macbook? Well, thanks to new start-up StickerYou, you too can now paste your meticulously crafted, industrially designed computer with gaudy stickers. The service, which launched today, allows users to create high-quality vinyl stickers from the comfort of their own home, simply by using StickerYou’s intuitive system. You can use their artwork or your own, and interesting, you can create stickers in any shape…
You know, you really gotta’ admire the idea behind the Segway: create an efficient, easy way for people in cities to get around that requires no fossil fuels and produces no pollution. Smart, right? But what the designers missed, however, was that people – especially in North America – really don’t want look stupid as they move around town….
Design geeks, begin salivating now. One of the hot new features of Adobe’s Photoshop CS5, due to be announced April 12th, is content-aware fill….
Offering the promise of a promise, Adobe next month will formally introduce its next-generation of creative software products, Adobe Creative Suite 5. The routinely expensive software suite will get its first public demo on Monday, April 12, 2010. What do we know about CS5? …
This is the South Korea Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo, designed as a giant display for the Han-geul characters from the Korean alphabet. The whole thing looks fantastic, and post-show the organizers plan to sell each of the 25,000 panels individually to raise cash for a foundation advocating minority and multiculturalism in Korea….
Coke? What about Coke could possibly be worthy of a mention on Techi? Well, if you already took a look at the picture above, we’re sure you already know why. Andrew Kim, a very talented design student, appears to have crafted something that the folks at Coca Cola should seriously look into: eco-friendly and modernized product packaging for their soft drinks. …
For you youngsters out there, Weird Science was a movie from the 1980s in which 2 young boys used a computer to literally create the woman of their dreams.Well, we aren’t there yet, but with a development out of the University of Missouri, we’re one step closer. Researchers at the school have developed a working 3D printer that uses something called ‘bio-ink’ – a mushy, gooey substance made from human cells – that binds to a bio-paper template, which then dissolves to leave something that looks like a human body part….
Sometimes you just look in wonder at what the world’s super-rich spend their money on. So join us to take a glance at this insanely excessive diamond-covered iPad from Mervis Diamond Importers. The Mervis Diamond iPad features 11.43 carats of diamonds, hand-set in a micro-pave styling. The diamonds are the very, very best grade available (VS2/SI1 for those in the know) and if you place an order now you’ll receive your blinged-out iPad in June. Oh, one more thing – the Mervis Diamond iPad costs $20,000. The iPad features 64GB of memory and is 3G-enabled. And we don’t think you’ll be pulling this…
If you have a strange desire to have a kid after seeing the “Baby Cot Pod,” we wouldn’t blame you. The designer of this crib obviously has a taste for great design — similar to some other famous company we all know and love — and we can’t help but think that even Steve Jobs would appreciate this thing. …
Using a combination of night vision, radar and motion sensor cameras, GM cars will soon be packaged with windshields that highlight important information right in front of you, with lasers no less. Other cameras pointing at your face can tell where you are looking, making your own car yet another place where you are no longer safe from surveillance….
Hewlett-Packard has just rolled out its newest design in the way of flexible display screens, or “digital paper,” as they are sometimes called. This is part of a collaboration with Arizona State University, and it began quite a while ago but no one has seen or heard anything about it for a couple years at this point. This week, however, a Dutch blog called Hardware.info got a short video of their latest prototype. Fortunately, the presenter was speaking in English….
