Arts & Design

I think interpreters cause more problems than they do help. You always get the feeling that for some words, they’re kind of making it up. You can hear that little sly “Uhh…” added in before these guessing moments. The AHKY (Arabic for “speak”) translation device plans to help military officials communicate with their captives allies, to assure them that they ...

What could be better than furniture made of weird shit? Couches made of odd items has been a recurring theme for us the last year, and I mean, who can blame us. This stuff is awesome. Check out this tennis ball bench, which isn’t quite a couch, but it’s close enough to fit in the “furniture made with weird shit” ...

To recycle a soda can, you usually just throw it away into one of those government mandated recycling bins. How about a creative way to use your empty cans? Look no further than Etsy. Available are these Dr. Pepper Earrings ($7) and the Mountain Dew Bracelet ($8), which can also double as a necklace for midgets. These would make a ...

Sure, this might be a cheap jab at Microsoft, but I think the sales numbers of these two “competing” media players, if you can actually call it competition, show all you need to know. Hide-a-Pod is really a much more ingenious idea than any other iPod anti-theft unit we’ve ever seen. Well, maybe other than the one where you hide ...

The Orbit Bracelet is a neat piece of wearable gear designed by Neko Design. The bracelet gives an appearance of floating around your wrist throughout the day. The bracelet doesn’t slide around your arm all day either, like most others. The Orbit keeps its position thanks to silicone-based elastic webbing which holds on to your skin, without cutting off circulation ...

Billions of people ride bicycles. Millions ride them daily. Yet, there has been relatively little change in its design for the 200 years it’s been commonly used. This design by Michaels Killian revamps the age old method of forward facing bike riding and creates the Sideways Bike. Other than the clear fact that it looks unique and extreme, riding the ...

This cool concept design would bring us one step closer to living in a Star Trek-esque world, if only it were a real device. The hands-free recorder fits around the back of your neck, recording every sight and sound that you might see or hear. A big worry might be how much memory a camera like this would have. The ...

People who are low on living space, which I believe is most of us, probably don’t have the room for cool couches and other types of furniture. The Flat-Pack Couch is a cool way to optimize your realm by only having a couch when it’s necessary. Or even times when it’s not necessary if you’re feeling like a naughty little ...

Sure, there are plenty of really smart phones out and about today, but none that are truly all encompassing. The Connext concept design from James Zhang is claimed to be a device that could actually adapt to handle most the geekier of your tasks. Combining OLED displays with E-paper flexiness, Connext can become a mobile phone, a computer, a multimedia ...

If you go to most public bathrooms nowadays, most everything is done using no hands. You can flush the toilet without hands, wash your hands without hands, dry your hands without hands. Until now, the only thing that remained typically for hand grabbing only was the toilet paper dispenser. Kimberly-Clark Professional presents their design for a no-hands approach to butt ...