Design

If the title above elicits a surprise ‘What?’ hold on a bit because there’s a rational part to it. Apparently, an Italian munitions firm have outed a special multi-caliber line of bullets that are specially engineered for greater velocity. Dubbed the CompBullet, the copper rounds have vents that ‘lubricate’ their trajectory out a barrel when [...]

In what amounts to an impressive exercise in clandestine design cleverness, the SatPlus Sat Chair has arrived in the online retail space for those badly in need of a satellite dish. The catch is pretty obvious: it’s shaped like a chair, so no one will suspect. Costing upwards of 200 quid, the SatPlus Sat Chair is meant [...]

Modder Dean Liou has unveiled his latest creation using a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 laptop to create the fantastic Lenovo ArcadeDockX1 Mod. The arcade cabinet uses the 15 inch screen of the Lenovo X1 as the gaming display and the controls are connected via USB. The ArcadeDockX1 cabinet is equipped with a flight stick and throttle [...]

An innovative battery concept has been designed by Huang Kun, Meng Xun, He Ting & Liu Yuan, called the One = Two. Which is already a 2011 red dot design concept winning entry, and provides a great way to be able to use every last drop of power from each battery.

A long time ago in Portugal (okay it was 2003) two German friends started dreaming up a tent. The funny part is eight years later they’ve got their own startup that sells an innovative tent. Partially funded by a European incubator, Heimplanet is the collaborative offspring of Stefan Clauss and Stefan Diekhoff, who think they’ve [...]

Art Lebedev has this week unveiled a few more details about its Optimus Popularis Keyboard, which includes a small screen on each of its keys allowing you to display any characters you would like as shown in the image below. In the upper portion of the keyboard, between the function and numeral keys, an area [...]

A useful utility has been developed which has been designed to provide Android App developers with a utility for Mac, Windows and Linux that will mirror a portion of your desktop screen to your USB-connected Android device. The new Android Design Preview software is still in its beta development stage but would already provide a [...]

Even though Toyota’s vision of the future may still be a few years away in reality. The presentation they have created featuring their Fun Vii concept car shows just what car manufactures are aiming for in the long run. The Fun Vii concept car is equipped with three seats, one for the a driver, one [...]

Honda has shown off a new electric scooter at the Tokyo Motor Show 2011, called the Motor Compo, this electric scooter can be folded down to make it more portable, and as you can see from the photos it features a unique design. The Honda Motor Compo is just 3 feet long and 4 feet [...]

Simply put, seen below is just one combination of the Sliding Hub system in action. It’s supposed to be the ultimate answer to instant, portable home building for any location. The really incredible part is the designer Gabriel Aramu imprinted a little timeless genius into his Sliding Hub: the combinations are endless, though available references [...]

Okay, so it doesn’t serve coffee out of thin air. Great idea, but that’s just not the case with the Scanomat Top Brewer, which has a faucet-like neck jutting from a counter surface. The magic happens underneath via a turbine system that preps the coffee for your empty cup. The best part is it can [...]

A free add-on for Adobe Lightroom called Knobroom is available that will allow you to control the creative adjustments of photos using physical sliders and knobs from a Midi controller with Adobe’s Lightroom  3 software. The software add-on has been around for sometime but is a great way to add a new style of creativity [...]