Tag: DESIGNCONCEPT

Are you concerned that your lover isn't getting a good night's rest while he's off on that "business trip" to Atlantic City? Or maybe you're wondering whether or not your clingy girlfriend has been in bed all day with a gallon or two of Blue Bell in hand, while you've been off visiting your 'rents? Enter Alexander Reeder's Dream Jammies, which connect faraway lovebirds with stalkerish sleep ...

Last week, design innovation factory IDEO wowed us with a reinvention of the woefully stagnant ATM. Now, it has released a video highlighting three new concepts for digital reading. 'Nelson' helps to contextualize a given book, granting sidebar access to online commentary, statistics about cultural impact and links that fact-check the book's data. 'Coupland' is designed for professionals, ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. We just found the perfect accessory for your next Trekkie cosplay party: the Star Trek: The Next Generation PADD replica. And priced at a song compared to the read ...

The Swiss architecture firm RAFAA must have been inspired by its Danish-Icelandic neighbor Olafur Eliasson when dreaming up this proposal for Rio de Janeiro. The Brazilian city was recently selected to host the 2016 Olympics, and RAFAA submitted this enormous sun-powered waterfall, called Solar City Tower, to the Games' International Architecture Competition. While Eliasson's $15.5 million public ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/04/01/design-concepts-surviving-the-post-apocalyptic-scorched-earth/'; The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never progress from the ...

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never progress from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over them, nevertheless. Over the past ...

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never progress from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over them, nevertheless. In honor of ...

CES is all about the hottest and latest tech, from 3-D TVs (yawn) to every single kind of e-reader imaginable (double yawn). And while the circuitry of these devices typically blows minds, their exteriors are often an afterthought. It's like having Einstein's brain in the body of Brian Peppers [note to eds.: or replace Peppers with Sam the Chinese Crested Dog] -- genius, but a little tough on the ...

Designer Damjan Stanković has a novel solution for street pollution, and it doesn't involve biofuels made from bunnies or boxy concept cars. His Red Dot Award-winning Eko traffic light brings the progress bar to the streets, eliminating those frustrating 90 seconds that we endure at intersections. Stanković is not, however, attempting to assuage your annoyance at having to wait; instead, the ...