Audi has the reputation of producing high-end, stylish, and consumer-popular all wheel drive cars. But Audi's image is beginning to change a little with its movement into the 'my car's faster than yours but cost more than my house' market.…
Continue Reading →Phillips' design probe program SKIN takes a far-future look at the kinds of clothes we may be wearing in 2020--let's just say they will display more than just cleavage. The SKIN program challenges the present societal notion that our lives…
Continue Reading →We're always wondering, what does the future hold for personal and home audio? What will consumer packaged music look like even just a few years from now? With the advent of perpendicular storage, NAS systems, cheap flash memory, and increasing…
Continue Reading →Forget the details about rotors, stators, electromagnets and peak efficiencies, and focus on the fact that the Tidal Force m-750, from Wave Crest, is the sickest e-bike ever! Utilizing the Wave Crest Adaptive Motor System, the 750 Watts of power…
Continue Reading →Chronos Chromos Concrete is a new type of system that allows you to dynamically display patterns, numbers and text in the surface of a concrete slab. This project appears to have come out of the Royal College of Art in…
Continue Reading →Google just quietly launched Google Mars-- I kid you not. This online application allows you to browse the martian landscape the same way Google Maps allows you to scan and research our planet earth. Browse the mountains, canyons, dunes, plains,…
Continue Reading →Adam Kalkin is one of the most inventive and creative people I have read about in a very long time. His Push Button house was on display this past weekend in Miami Beach, but the shipping container with a luxury…
Continue Reading →Pedestrian Levitation is a very interesting "daily life" visualization project, which tracked the movements of pedestrians on street crossings (and of course the stray jay-walkers, too). Their movements are traced through a frame comparison, and video tracking tool, and some…
Continue Reading →Lumiloop is a modular system of program and display panels that can be chained together to form a reactive bracelet. Designed by Elise Co and Nikita Pashenkov--"Each display module features a small 8x8 LED matrix, dynamically driven by an interchangeable…
Continue Reading →Boy, oh boy. I sure hope we see this prototype Numark iPod DJ mixer hit the markets soon. I figure it was only a matter of time until something like this was made. Numark was showing off a prototype of…
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