Design

A team at altLab in Lisbon have used a number of sensors and a little Arduino wizardry to create a very unique kind of hat which is capable of measuring the discomfort level you are currently under, whilst eating taco’s. The helmet measures your discomfort by measuring your perspiration, temperature, and the rate at which you drink [...]

If you have every needed to lend a memory stick to a friend, but couldn’t hand over your USB stick due to the data on it being needed by yourself. A new concept has bee designed by Hyunsoo Song from SADI which overcomes the problem in a simple way. The memory concept allows to break [...]

A number of companies are developing NFC based payments systems, like Google with their Google Wallet, and the majority of these systems use smartphones, and now another company has come up with the idea of using your watch you make cashless payments. RumbaTime is developing the RumbaTime Go, which is a watch with an NFC [...]

I am always a fan of stop motion movies and this one created by film maker and animator Jonathan Chong is just great to watch. The complete video is a total of 5,125 frames over 3 minutes 23 seconds and uses 920 pencils to create the different effects and animations. Watch it after the jump, [...]

If you have a few ideas that you would like to put through a 3D printer but the cost of purchasing your own printer has put you off. Then you might be interested in a new 3D Printer kit called the Printrbot that has just started its journey from concept to manufacture over on the [...]

If you enjoy wearing an Apple Nano on your wrist, using one of the various wrist straps now available. You might remember or even be using one of the LunaTik straps which made the jump from concept to manufacture, after receiving nearly $1 million in funding from the Kickstarter community last year, and jump started [...]

It’s actually called the Crouching Tiger and Turtle, a walkway that recently opened in the German city of Duisberg. If it reminds you of a roller coaster it’s because it is designed after a roller coaster. Oh well, pedestrian walkways have always been too pedestrian for their own good. It doesn’t hurt to have a few twists [...]

Double bunks are some of the coolest places to sleep in. Other than park benches in the dead of winter and the backs of taxi cabs, double bunks have a peculiar charm about them. Of course, the charm is stronger when you have a double bunk all to yourself. If you’re sharing it with another [...]

Nobody in their right mind would invest in a totaled Ferrari. Then again, designer extraordinnaire Charly Molinelli probably doesn’t have his head screwed right, which is usually a good thing in the design milieu. What he just came up with is a real nice addition to any off-kilter living room. As seen below, the agonized contours [...]

If you are looking for something a little more original to sit on, you might enjoy these Deckstools, created from broken and recycled skateboard decks. Unfortunately broken skateboards are part of skateboarding and are usually destined for the landfill. But Deckstool use and recycle these unwanted broken pieces in to, high quality furniture and other [...]

The team over at Signal Snowboards have a regular feature called ‘Every Third Thursday’ in which they create some weird and wonderful snowboard creations. In a tribute to Steve Jobs the team has built the iShred, a snowboard equipped with an iPad and other electronics inspired by Apple products and Steve Jobs. Watch the video [...]

Some of our readers will remember the BMW i3 and i8 concept cars that we showed you a while back, both models will be shown off at this weeks LA Auto Show, and both cars feature hybrid engines. As a reminder, the BMW i3 will have around 170 horsepower and will have a top speed [...]