The Week in Design: Simplicity and Functionality
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.
We need fewer ...
While texting and driving is illegal, texting while pushing a stroller surprisingly isn't. Which is the only reason we can see something as frivolous -- and potentially dangerous -- as the Texthook getting approved.
Billed as the "dashboard for your mobile life," the Texthook, which straps onto the handlebar of a stroller and holds most smart phones, seems just about as practical as these ...
For those of us working at the Switched offices in Manhattan, we are intimately familiar with a certain stripe of New York mother that raises all kinds of hell on stroller wheels. Seriously, we'd rather get in a cage-match with some iron-faced kickboxers than these moms who would roll over any commuters in the way of their little baby's buggy. Perhaps artist Shi Jinsong had them in mind when ...









