While the most cities shudder at the potential of a major disaster and the impact it would have on the lives of its inhabitants, the majority urban infrastructure experts would probably agree that it never hurts to be prepared for…
Continue Reading →Have you ever imagined your cup of afternoon tea as a hot steaming sea of soothing flavor? Well, if you have, have you ever stopped to think that instead of adding some sugar or milk to make that body of…
Continue Reading →Way back in November of 2007 the folks at Snarfd dubbed Brooklyn based Industrial Designer Joey Roth's Sorapot, a radically minimalist reinterpretation of the teapot, the "Sexiest. Teacup. Ever." This set off a chain reaction in which our own David…
Continue Reading →You know we go ape for watches here at JoshSpear, and although I personally use my cell phone as a timepiece, I still love the novelty behind Lv Zhongfang's TIWE-d watch and hope it'll someday get out of concept stage.…
Continue Reading →When I first peeped the Excubo Jacket made especially for sleeping on the bus or subway by industrial designer Matthew Gale, I laughed. But then I remembered a million late nights watching people on the metro play the doze-off game…
Continue Reading →Availabots are your friends. Visual interpretations of your friends, that is. To be even more technical, Availabots are "physical representations of presence in instant messenger applications" that "stand to attention when your chat buddy comes online, and falls down when…
Continue Reading →I do believe the rusted, splintered, sun-bleached erection fenced inside the city park is called a playground. Probably planted there decades ago, it's bound to continue its rot. I'm sure in the beginning it was a design of its time.…
Continue Reading →Scandinavia has come to our eyeball-rescue once again with the Ericsson Tower Tube, a radio base station concept that is a cost-efficient, environmentally-friendly, and a minimally phallic alternative to nasty cell phone masts. The concrete towers, designed by Sweden's well-loved…
Continue Reading →The perennial question in a new move is finding the perfect furniture. For me, it doesn't exist. Call me fussy, but it's a frustrating experience to buy pieces because I never find what I'm looking for. Let's put it this…
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