While we’re stuck waiting for something other than lithium-ion batteries to power our laptops, at least we can quench our alarm clocks’ thirst for power, with water. Ambient Weather has created an alarm clock whose power source is actually tap water. As the water begins to evaporate, just top-it-off. A full tank […]
Ambient Technologies, borrowing a bit of technology from its Ambient Orb, is testing out what it aptly calls the Ambient Clock - a clock that can query your Google Calendar and display busy time. In the above pictured prototype, busy time is depicted by the shaded outer ring of the clock. The company is looking […]
Maybe you’re unable to drill holes into your wall because you rent. Maybe the wife knows what your drill skills are like and simply won’t allow you to mount that new plasma television on the freshly painted walls. Enter the Alu Media Wall. You see, it looks like you’ve got the plasma hanging […]
Pen design has come a long way since the thick spring loaded 12-color. It may not have the same nostalgia, but the 4fp pen by acme studios is the thinnest multifunction pen on the market. Combining a ballpoint pen, 0.7mm pencil, orange highlighter, and a stylus into one svelt design, the 4fp is […]
If you’re looking to get rid of that vanilla ipod speaker system in favor of something more playful, this dancing DJ, ipod dock/speaker system is for you. Though the sound won’t match that of the Bose sound dock, the price tag won’t either. According to this article we can expect to see this in […]
TK over at Silly Thing, received one of these Air Max 360 inspired USB drives from Nike. Probably not something we’ll ever see for sale, but cool nonetheless.
We’ve always had a thing for Richard Sapper’s Tizio lamp and now we can build our own. Grab a pre-packaged DEK (Designer Emulation Kit) and get out your wire cutters. The do-it-yourself mini-lamp attaches to any standard 9-volt battery and comes in 4 varieties. Did we mention the light is an LED? […]
File this under ‘we should have thought of this years ago’…
ZHO Innovation has created the Cable ID, a rubberhelix sure put an end to your cable identification problems. Need to know which CAT5 cable goes to the bedroom? No problem, it’s the blue one that’s marked bedroom. Sure an old Sharpie does […]
Hiroshi Fujiwara, one of Japan’s most popular pop musicians, recently spent some time at Nike’s Portland and LA headquarters. His blog entry on the visit contains some cool pics of Nike’s private jets, but most interesting are the pics of the NIKE-ID machines of the future. Sure you can customize a […]
