Tag: HGG-DESIGNFREAK

João Sabino a Portuguese designer has finally found a use for all those computer keyboards that land in the trash. He has repurposed 393 discarded keys to cover interesting-looking, though impractical, handbags. The tote style bags are described as fashionable, though we can't really imagine anyone carrying one of these around. That doesn't mean we can't sit back and admire the geeky ...

Apple LED Cinema Display (Creative, Under $1000) The increases in productivity and relief on the ol' eyes offered by additional screen real estate have been touted for years, and we can hardly imagine ever going back to a one-monitor system. Designers, artists, photographers, and video pros have been using Apple's Cinema Displays for years and for good reason: The picture clarity, color ...

Scandyna Dock Pack (Style Maven, Under $250) Looking for an iPod dock with a little more design sense than offered by most of those clunky, boxy models lining the shelves at your local chain store? Scandyna's Dock Pack combines an orb-like iPod dock with two of Scandyna's compact ultramodern (or retro-modern?) Micropod SE speakers. Each has a tweeter and bass/midrange speaker, and the speaker ...

Innovative Cricket Laptop Stand (Creative types, Under $50) For those of us who have thrown caution to the wind with our own jury-rigged laptop stands, Innovative's offering is a total godsend. Whether used as a simple prop to angle a laptop's keyboard up and allow heat to better circulate, or to plug in a full-sized keyboard and have the screen go vertical, the Cricket can handle it. And ...

Tenori-on (Music Lover, under $5,000) The crème de la crème of niche musical gadgets, the Tenori-on was developed by Japanese gaming god and conceptual artist Toshio Iwai. To understand it, you really have to see it?hey, here's a link!?but the gist is that it's a pad with a 16 x 16 array of dots that both trigger sounds and lights, letting you created a seemingly unlimited ...

Tokyo Bay Tokibot Clock (Domestic God/Goddess, Under $50) When the robots come to enslave us all?and they will?a little forethought in the form of a devotional idol will surely go a long way to saving the humans. Tokyo Bay's retro-styled robot clock doesn't do much other than tell the time, stand and look pretty cool, but for devout tech geeks that's more than enough to ask for in a ...

Parrot SPECCHIO Photo Frame (Style Maven, Under $500) The one failing the vast majority of digital photo frames share is that they look and feel cheap. Parrot's new SPECCHIO model is a stylee exception, and includes a bevy of clever tech features as well. When the 8"x 8" frame is turned off, it's a silver mirror; turn it on and photos magically appear (in 5" x 3" area). Besides using a USB port ...

Asus U6V-B1 Bamboo Laptop (Man/Woman Who Has Everything, Under $5,000) Computer companies do everything then can to distinguish their models from the hordes of similarly specced plastic PCs out there, but Asus took it a step further: Rather than just paint their remarkably full-featured 2.75-pound sub-notebook green, they actually made it Green. The U6V-B1 has a case made of water-resistant ...

Infectious Laptop Covers (Style Maven, Under $50) For those who like to mix it up a bit rather than be a walking billboard for their laptop's maker, Infectious offers a slick line of laptop art: vinyl stick-on sheets designed by a stable of international artists with styles ranging from trippy abstraction to Japanimation to purely graphical. They offer a range of sizes depending on a laptop's ...