E-paper makes a flexible display that consumes power only when updated. The design is inspired by a regular tourist map where you get good overview, good level of detail, and quick access combined with the advantages of GPS navigation. Store your images from your digital camera on the internal drive and sync them to the GPS log. [...]

Here’s a sure sign that the U.S. space shuttle is a solution looking for a problem: The space plane might be launching a paper airplane that will glide back to earth at 5300 miles per hour. The Japan Origami Airplane Association was tapped by researchers at the University of Tokyo to fold up a 3.1-inch [...]

A few months ago I wrote about the Opel Flextreme concept vehicle which was built on GM’s E-Flex platform. Well since Opel (GM’S European brand) and Saturn share a lot of design traits, it was not that surprising when the company announced the Saturn Flextreme Plug-in concept at this year’s NAIAS.

Furnishing your apartment is half about form, half about function. You want your furniture to do what it’s supposed to do, be it comfortably support you while you watch TV or store all your books, but it also needs to look slick in the process.I’m not sure how well these Prove Shelves do either task. [...]

I don’t know how many people actually care about the water temperature at home, but if by some odd reason you are one of those persons, the Faucet Buddy is here to help you out.
Sadly, it seems like it is only a concept so far, but it has the potential to go into the mass-production [...]

Pack these in checked luggage. The Silver Scissor Cuffs from Paris designer Thomas Jaillot are just that: opening and closing scissor shaped bracelets. We’re pretty sure they won’t work to cut paper as they are custom made from silver rather than being actual, bent scissors, but try telling the TSA that.

I have long had an interest in guitars and loud music. The tragedy is the fact that I can’t play. Don’t get me wrong, there was a time that I could whip out a little bit of old Bird on my sax, but years have past since I sold that. Music for [...]

Here’s a stylish way to backup important files you have on your computer.

Simply push the button to release the locking, and then swivel it around to gain access to the stick. It comes with 2GB of memory and is also preloaded with the “Kaspersky Antivirus” software.

The Little Disk from LaCie is a shiny black portable hard disk designed by Sam Hecht. It’s about the size of a lighter and comes with a 30GB storage capacity.

It comes with an extractable USB connector that’s integrated so it can never get lost and a protective removable cap. USB 2.0 powered, it works [...]

Gotta love Apple: Only the reclusive Cupertino company could command such a massive amount of attention for such underwhelming announcements. Oooo, HD movies on iTunes, only two months after Vudu started doing it. Then there’s Apple TV Part 2, which may as well be subtitled Pretty Please, Won’t You Buy It This Time? And now [...]

The Carmen is a surprisingly versatile example of contemporary lighting from Modiss. With its distinctive clear methacrylate shade, the Carmen can be used variously as a table lamp, a suspended lamp, or a freestanding floor lamp. Used individually or in a grouping, the modern styling of this contemporary lighting fixtures is innovative and eye-catching. Available [...]

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Do you just love getting up in the morning? Does the sound of your alarm clock going off, shocking you awake from sleep, fill your heart with joy? I don’t know what the hell’s wrong with you, but congrats on winning the lottery of life. And boy, do I have a treat for you.If you [...]

We sort of understood it with iPods, and we grudgingly accepted it with the iPhone, but the MacBook Air has a sealed, non-user-replaceable battery, and that means we’re suddenly a lot less in love. We’re digging for details on how much it’ll cost to swap out — and what Apple expects road warriors to [...]

Toilet tanks were boring and soulless until Vital Industries decided to do something about it. If you are not content with the safe color choices brought to you by your manufacturer of choice, why not add a toilet sticker? There are a few of them to choose from. They have SCUBA divers, motor scooters, bicycles, [...]

Here they are! Your oh-so-recently refreshed family of MacBooks. From left to right, we’ve got the tried and true MacBook, the all new showstopper (you can call it MacBook Air) and the MacBook Pro. Unfortunately, the two wingmen aren’t seeing any updates today, but that fellow in the middle sure it getting a lot of [...]

OneLessDesk is the latest product made by Heckler Design, and it will be announced at Macworld 2008 on the upcoming days.
Basically, it is a combination of 2 desks in 1. Since it is specifically made for Macs, the biggest desk is suppose to be for the monitor and other extra items, like an iPod dock, [...]

An Apple insider told Wired today that the company’s new ultraportable, expected to be seen in public for the first time tomorrow, has an extremely thin profile and is shaped like a teardrop when closed — thicker at the top behind the screen, tapering at the bottom behind the keyboard.
“It’s unbelievably thin,” said the source.
The [...]

Using a pair of scissors to cut out your desired shape on paper or cloth is somehow no easy task. Yeah, I mean it. For those who seldom use scissors to cut things will mostly have problem driving it on a piece of cloth or paper to cut out your required shape. But, no worry, [...]

Golly. No sooner does Gadget Lab get the exclusive scoop from an Apple insider on the MacBook Air, than an eagle-eyed reader finds a case for it.
Commenter Geewillickers pointed us to the site of Orbino, where you can find the Aria, a case for the as-yet nonexistent Mac notebook. This is either a cheap publicity [...]