Got a hankering for glossy imagery of those new Samsung S3 and S2 DAPs. We’ve got the hookup, so knock yourself out. How the photographer made those pebbles look matte we’ll never know.

After a long, painful, nearly anonymous ride on the wrists of a select few uber-geeks, Microsoft’s finally throwing in the towel on one of its longstanding pet projects: the SPOT watch. Those who’ve followed the technology recently (you know who you are) already know that the writing’s been on the wall for some time; the [...]

Good design takes what was previously a drawback to a product and makes it a benefit. Take this fancy umbrella stand, for example. While drippy umbrellas fresh out of the rain are usually an annoying mess-maker, this stand turns the rain into a good thing. Because there’s grass underneath where the umbrellas go, rainwater keeps [...]

You’d like to take a step towards a “green” lifestyle by growing your own herbs and flowers. After all, indoor plants help clean your air, and any food you grow at home puts you one step closer to eating “local.” But sometimes it’s difficult to motivate, especially if you don’t think you have a green [...]

SwashBot is constructed out of spare R/C helicopter bits, including four servos, a receiver, a battery pack, some LEDs, and little exoskeleton bits. It looks like it takes some coordination on the controller to get SwashBot to go where you want him to, but there is no denying his slightly spastic charm. A great [...]

What started as an idea in 2002, has now been completed. The University of the Americas in the city of Concepcion, Chile. The idea behind this futuristic design was to bring a futuristic building to an urban area that is growing in logistics. The area of where the project began was once a quiet area [...]

These days, people like to get those popular gadgets either diamond-strutted or gold-plated. We’ve seen couple diamond-strutted cell phones, now it’s the turn for your beloved MacBook Air, it gets gold-plated!

Fashion and technology have been dancing with each other for years now. Sadly, it’s not been the kind of dancing you see in movies where everyone seems to know when to pop-n-lock and bust out the serious Justin Timberlake moves, that eventually ends in a triumphant “tada!” with hands lifted in the air. No, sadly [...]

The Eclosion pump-up sofa is an interesting take on the whole futon/sofa-bed concept. One side features a hidden air bladder that can be pumped up, turning it from a relatively small bed, to a sofa that’s suitable for a couple of people. It was designed by Olivier Gregoire and while it may seem similar to [...]

Honda will showcase an experimental model of a walking assist device which could support walking for the elderly and other people with weakened leg muscles, at the International Trade Fair on Barrier Free Equipments & Rehabilitation for the Elderly & the Disabled (BARRIER FREE 2008) which will be held at Intex Osaka, Friday, April [...]

Remember Samsung’s 14- and 31-inch OLED panels on display at CES? With any luck, we’ll see them hitting assembly lines sometime in the next two years. Woo-Jong Lee, VP Marketing at Samsung SDI says that medium and large size displays like monitors, laptops, and TVs will get the OLED treatment in 2009 and 2010. Nothing [...]

We have seen the design of this classic spaceship as a source of inspiration for a chandelier, a telephone and a putter. Soon you will also be able to get the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 as a cool looking bottle opener.

While we patiently wait for Nokia’s current, “no major new products” fiscal quarter to expire, we’ll have to trudge through releases like these 5320 (left) and 5220 (your other left) candybars. As members of the XpressMusic range the devices themselves are fine. Unfortunately, fine isn’t going to win back that 1% lost market share. The [...]

Are your objects of tactile reality not quite giving you enough depth, dimension and shading? Neither are mine and thankfully Swedish designers Front are exhibiting their “Shade” project at Spazio Rossana Orlandi during this years Milan furniture fair. Using standard silhouettes of common household items and shading them as if on paper, the designer states [...]

You knew the Eee PC 900 was coming soon, but not even the most audacious rumormonger thought it would be this soon. We have received confirmation from ASUS that the next version of everyone’s favorite ultra portable notebook will come out on May 12th of this year.

I’ve been carrying around the Targus Grove Topload EcoSmart bag for a while now, and I gotta say, it may be eco-friendly, but that doesn’t mean it ain’t sturdy. The big selling points for this bag are that it’s PVC-free, the metal hardware is nickel-free, and the plastic hardware is recyclable. As I didn’t know [...]

A light bulb that runs on solar power? Not quite… the Bulb Solar Lamp is more of a bulb-shaped nightlight that glows in the dark. Not people who would tolerate their idea being thwarted by the simple fact that anything shaped like a light bulb would have trouble standing up, the lamp’s designers encased the [...]

Going green to overt suicidal dreams is what’s for dinner at this new restaurant in Sweden called “New Restaurant.” Keeping your patrons alive and happy is good for business. In a country that has to deal with six months of winter darkness a year, design firm Architect Olssonlyckefors have created an oasis of happy thoughts by [...]

The Virtual Wall provides a barrier made up of plasma laser beams depicting pedestrians doing what they do best and any car that crosses that barrier suffers the consequences. Okay so maybe those lasers aren’t powerful enough to do any harm but the effect is enough to make drivers and pedestrians alike follow crosswalk rules [...]

These Moonlight Orbs illuminated spheres make for a unique way to light your home, your pool or your property. Made in Germany, the polyethylene spheres (and half spheres) range in size from 13 to 30 inches in diameter and operate on standard electrical wiring or rechargeable batteries. The battery powered versions are sealed and self-contained [...]