Tag Archives: design

Sony’s iPod dock sadly has a size 14 footprint

Sony made a product for the iPod? Whoa, did you see that sheep just fall from the sky? No? Oh, well, I guess the world isn’t coming to an end, and Sony really did just release an iPod Docking Station. The CPF-IP001 iPod Docking Station blasts your music at a pretty small size with its 2 15-watt tweeters and its ...

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BenQ-Siemens show new phone concepts

You’ve gotta love concept electronics. Right when you think you had seen everything, a bunch of these concepts get released. The BenQ-Siemens new concept phones are indeed an interesting bunch. There’s a phone which stays on your arm with a strap like design, one with an asymmetrical body which twists into something resembling a gun with a screen, and a ...

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SW Solar Lamp: Pretty and simple…pretty simple

Solar technology is flaunted by the eco-geeks of the world because of the Sun’s incredible source of eco-friendly energy. With Maria Hamprecht’s design of this SW Solar Lamp the fashionistas of the world will now join the praise chorus. The SW emits a lovely ambient, silhouette-like, soft glow. The kind of light that many photographers use to make their subjects ...

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Upside down reversed cellphone design considered more ergonomic

The cell phone design we all know and love might be changing drastically in the near future. 180 degrees difference actually. A patent has been field for this upside down design, which is supposedly more convenient and comfortable for longer sustained periods of use. The new design would place the keypad above the display screen to ensure that the majority ...

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LG Chocolate Strawberry, please no more

LG is starting to go overboard with their Chocolate line of cellphones. It’s getting to the point where comparisons to the constant flux of Motorola RAZR and KRZR phones need to be drawn. This time, the LG Strawberry Chocolate has been released. Nothing has changed other than the case color and the price. It might be suprising at first to ...

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SENZ umbrella doesn’t take any crap from the wind

Damn, Disney tricked us. We all thought that Mary Poppins was using a regular umbrella when she flew around, turns out they were doing green screens and replacing this SENZ umbrella with the normal one. Well, maybe that didn’t happen, but the SENZ umbrella solves a problem we have had since umbrellas came around: the wind turing them inside-out. Not ...

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Transcend USB key weighs 2g, feather anyone?

Harder, Faster, Better, Stronger. That’s the title of an amazing Daft Punk song, but they should have included lighter in there. That’s the way trends are leaning right now. If your device weighs any more than your competitor’s, just forget about it. Transcend doesn’t have to worry about this right now. Their new line of JetFlash T2K USB keys only ...

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Wire frame 3D design for the real world: Trippy as hell

We’ve all seen what 3D render artists go through designing a graphic on the computer. With all of the wire framing and pixel by pixel intricacy, it seems like a job that’s heavily focused on a close eye. Most of us don’t have an eye for such detail, but at least we can look like we do. These amazingly designed ...

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Flying car by 2009? Well, we’re getting there.

The Seattle Times writes a profile of Israeli conceptualist, Rafi Yoeli, the designer of a new concept called the X-Hawk. While the X-Hawk might not be the flying car we originally envisioned it’s a step in the right direction. The X-Hawk is being designed as a urban rescue vehicle, designed in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New ...

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New iPod Shuffle colors released!

Apple has released a new improvement on the line of the iPod Shuffles: colors! Instead of the plain, boring silver, you now can choose between pink, green, blue, orange, and silver. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like any specs have been changed, it’s still only a gig, still $79. So if your children (or you) have been asking for a Nano ...

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