Tokyo motor show

The tokyo motor show always features some of the most outrageous and futuristic concept cars. This year's show
is no different, featuring the mazda taiki, the yamaha tesseract and the honda puyo.

Manhole cover design

Decorative coins? Nope, Japanese manhole covers from the Okachin Manhole Cover Gallery, which is over a thousand images deep. If you're going to make your living climbing down into sewers, you may as well have something pretty to look at on the way in.

Space Money

Money and spacetravel is apparantly a tricky combination. Imagine a heavy metallic coin floating around, bumping into delicate instruments. Well, a team of scientists has now come up with a way to provide space pick-pockets with a new prize. A new currency and coins specifically designed to solve these problems, called the quid (Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination).



I can imagine these being HIGHLY sought after by coin collectors that now have to do with mere Earth money.

link: BBC News

Sexy apparel!

Without showing anything this is a very hot ad! Not?

Drink' n fun!

iBar is a system for the interactive design of any bar-counter. Integrated video-projectors can project any content on the milky bar-surface. The intelligent tracking system of iBar detects all objects touching the surface. This input is used to let the projected content interact dynamically with the movements on the counter. Objects can be illuminated at their position or virtual objects can be "touched" with the fingers.
Cool thing is that the cameras recognize any objects such as glasses, money, credit cards, phones, hands - and adjust the projected connections and animations to them!

Home sweet home, back in the days!

See a nice collection of funky 70's interiors

Wrong job?

See the others of this campaign designed by Berlin's agency Scholz&Friends...

Cargobee

very cool product; great innovation from 's Heerenberg, Holland. not so nice design though. check out the Cargobee website for more images and applications. could be the new Roodrunner?

Delorean back in the future?

The famous stainless steel Delorean, mostly famous because of the Micheal J. Fox movie Back to the Future is about to have a come-back. The company 'Delorean company' from Humble TX is maintaining and restoring these cars, that were mainly great because of their Giugiaro design. Check out this article in Detroit news about the plans to make a new version with the same body, but updated technology.

Bloggerdeblog!

now this is an interesting phenomenon: springtime won a sparkaward end of june and this week 1 after the other blog is posting an (almost the same!) article on their blog after the spark organization sending out a press release a couple of weeks ago.
engadget gizmodo treehugger core77 trendhunter
it looks like all those blogs forward links or the copy eachother? the result is this week various journalist are calling us to find out more. let's be honest, we love the attention, but the concept is been around for a while, so why not call us before?

vignale samantha

last week a gentleman called for my lancia beta interior that he wanted to install in his "vignale samantha". a what? check out this cool car; oh, those were the days with companies like vingale, zagato and others making special bodies for regular cars!

Jealous computers

Who thinks up these commercials? Check jealouscomputers.com for stories on how ordinary computers get jealous and attack their users after they came too close with their new Nokia smartphones.

www.jealouscomputers.com

Making space travel sexy again...

Dava Newman, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics and engineering systems at MIT, has been working together with local design office Trotti and Associates on a new space suit design. The suit relies on materials incorporated in the suit to keep the astronaut pressurized, as opposed to gas pressure on current much heavier suits.



link: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/biosuit-0716.html

swarovski philips earbuds

very cool! brillant integration of product and jewelry. check out the colette website, a luxury shop in paris

easy glider electric Big-O?

check out this cool powered version of our Big-O! nice youtube movie also

Augmented Art?

If you think augmented reality is just a serious design tool, think again. Why not use it to create something fun, art even?
That's what Pablo Valbueno did, with his Augmented Sculpture project. Like they say in the Gizmodo link, it does have a Tron feel to it.



Take a look here: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/groovy/augmented-reality-sculpture-makes-you-think-you-are-tron-274773.php>Gizmodo.com

Table of trash

Makes you think about your paper use/waste... the table is actually made from recycled paper; wellboard.
You can see this and other stuff by Marie-Louise Gustafsson at www.marielouise.se/projects. Some really cool things, like the 'slacker chair' and 'cosy' table...

Design heroes

Nice mockumentary on the world of design..




http://www.designerslashmodel.com/

via: Design Observer

Recycling with a twist

www.relationchip.org

VOGT + WEIZENEGGER, V+W started a project called Relationchip, where clothes with a history get a future... 'At the "RELATIONCHIP-STATION" visitors can exchange one of their garments into a prepared RFID-chip tagged garment from the station. with this act, the visitor automaticly becomes a member of the RELATIONCHIP network, leaving a statement, his portrait and his used garment at the station.'

the clothes people leave are re-designed by cj's, clothes-jockeys(!), gets tagged with the relationchip, and exchanged for the next person's garment...

Genetic jewellery.

'21st century locket
-replacing the display of the traditional picture or lock of hair, with the DNA of the person, plant or animal that is most precious to you.'

lab-yrinth make jewellery with dna capsules; you can have a necklace with your own dna, or from your lover, kids, pet... you can also by ready-mades with panda or reindeer genoma!

www.lab-yrinth.net

Neverending picture

Ever felt like you are stuck in time and space? Well, now you can experience it for yourself.



link to the neverending picture

Very cool solid woodwork toys, made by Takeji Nakagawa under his own brand take-g toy's.
Besides these cool figurines he also makes the more traditional woodblock toys.
A refreshing take on the usual vinyl desktop toys.



link: take-g toy's

City Shrinker

Ben Thomas is shrinking cities everywhere with his photography. Using some photography gadgetry he's creates photo's that make real world scenes look tiny:



link: City Shrinker, via: NOTCOT.ORG

Jeff Han

This guy started the whole multitouch display hype, it seems MS did some cooperation with him. Wired had a nice article about him and his screens:



link: Wired article

microsoft interface

check out this cool minority report interface on this microsoft site
www.microsoft.com/surface/