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nike hindsight cycling glasses concept design will let cyclists know what hit them

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Designed by Billy May for Nike, the Hindsight is a concept design for cycling glasses that extends a person’s vision by up to 25° on each side. The extra vision is achieved by attaching curved Fresnel lenses on each side of the glasses.

Of course it still depends on the person wearing it to actually take advantage of the extra…

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July 2nd, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: design future tech mobile tech technology

beanzawave usb portable microwave heatz your beanz and drinkz

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Created by “microwave expert” Gordon Andrews and designer Stephen Frazer in partnership with Heinz, the Beanzawave is the world’s smallest portable microwave. It’s powered via USB and uses “a combination of mobile phone frequencies” to heat whatever you put in there. Uhuh. I see. *chucks phone out the window*

Heinz, maker of Snap Pots, commissioned Andrews and Frazer to come…

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July 1st, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: design gadgets mobile tech technology

shake control: environment-friendly wiimote for your tv

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Winner of the 2008 red dot design award, the Shake Control presents a unique and environment-friendly way of controlling television sets. It may also be frustrating enough that people won’t want to watch TV anymore. Instead of using batteries, the Shake Control is indirectly powered by the user; a magnet generates current whenever you give the controller a shake.

Users…

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June 24th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: design future tech gadgets home entertainment strange + wonderful technology

wtf lamp concept: amusingly blinding

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If this lamp concept from designer John Nouanesing is ever turned into a real product, it’ll be one of those things that’ll amuse you for a day or two. Afterwards it’ll just be a conversational piece, something to show your date while you figure out what to say – or do – next. Pretty soon you’ll be wondering why you…

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May 24th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: design just plain fun

night watch concept: killer mosquito robot or mosquito killing-robot?

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Russian graphic designer iunewind cooked up this cool concept for a robot. Modeled after a mosquito, iunewind calls it Night Watch. His work is so detailed, I can almost believe that it’s a shot of an actual invention. There is one problem though: iunewind’s English isn’t that good, so I’m not sure as to what the purpose of his robot…

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May 6th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: design just plain fun robotics strange + wonderful

technabob quickpix: when a picture is worth 1000 words

nintendo nes controller mouse: when can i buy one?

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Technabob reader Joseph Ayoub sent me an tip this morning with the simple message “WaOo i found this ! It’s just awesome!” I couldn’t agree more.

While it turns out this NES-inspired mouse is just a foam model, somebody needs to put these into production now. Nintendo, are you listening? For now, I guess you’ll just have to settle for…

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April 30th, 2009 comments (5) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design quickpix retro video games

these keyboards won’t strain your wrists: computer keyboard chair

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We featured a chair made of recycled CDs a while back; I’m pretty sure that chair will carve markings on your ass after just ten minutes of sitting. I’d rather sit on this computer keyboard armchair. It’s equally geeky but far more comfortable. I think. “Sit on a keyboard” is a thought that never crossed my mind.

Called “Text-ile”, the…

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April 27th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: computing design strange + wonderful

k-95: waterproof submarine flash drive goes for a swim

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How many times have you accidentally taken your USB flash drive into the swimming pool, only to find all your data destroyed when you towel off? What’s that you say? None times? That’s alright, we’ve got an invention for you anyway.

Man Works Design’s K-95 waterproof USB flash storage device is a concept design in search of an actual need.…

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March 17th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: computing design technology

soundshelf design concept: not for libraries

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Polish designers Witek Stefaniak and Anielka Zdanowicz observed that conventional speakers rarely fit in with our living spaces because of their appearance, so they end up being “put away in the corner of the room or hidden in the wall”. I’ve made the same observation. Anyone blessed with eyesight has made the same observation. If you met a Cro-Magnon man…

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February 19th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: audio design future tech home entertainment

audiomatryoshka speakers don’t wobble, won’t fall down

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The word Matryoshka isn’t exactly a part of the English vernacular, but once you realize that it’s really just the Russian name for those little nesting dolls your grandmother has sitting on her mantle, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about.

This concept for a set of speakers the designer calls “Audiomatryoshka” is definitely bold, if not a little over-the-top…

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February 3rd, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: audio design technology

iyo induction charger powers your iphone with yo-yo magic

The iYo is a yoyo-powered induction charger for your iPhone. This is a concept charger by Swedish designer Peter Thuvander and is definitely the first yo-yo-based charging mechanism I have seen this week. This month, even.

As the inventor helpfully points out, “since solarchargers don´t work at night or in Sweden half the year, this should be a smash hit.”…

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September 19th, 2008 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: karen m.

filed under: future tech gadgets media players mobile tech

encoder rings hide binary secrets

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These Encoder Rings are decorated with holes that represent a 64-character code rendered in binary. This is your big chance to wear sensitive data on your finger, since only geeks with great eyesight would ever have a chance of figuring out what was on there.

The rings are a concept piece designed by Jonathan Ben-Tovim. You can see more of…

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September 18th, 2008 comments stumble it! digg it! author: karen m.

filed under: design geek art + craft

tell time on the outer limits with the rim clock

The Rim Clock turns all that you know about clocks inside out. Instead of staying put and pointing to numbers like the hands of other, more well-behaved clocks, the hands on the Rim Clock are actually protrusions that go around the outside and point to the wall.

The Rim Clock was designed by Jansen Lye to be minimalist and distinctive.…

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September 11th, 2008 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: karen m.

filed under: design strange + wonderful timepieces

humax tv mixes modern display, retro curves

Humax TV by Tej Chauhan

No matter how cool it is to hang a super-skinny flat panel on your wall, virtually every LCD or Plasma television is looking like the same, nondescript rectangular box. So it’s good to finally see that somebody out there is thinking a little outside of that box.

This new design for a Humax LCD television was envisioned by UK industrial…

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March 27th, 2008 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design retro video

computer cases get faces

Ross McBride PC Face Concept

Now I know many of you out there are holding your breath with anticipation of the next slick industrial design to come out of Apple at this week’s MacWorld show, but while you guys wait, I came across this unique computer design that I actually thought was worth a mention.

Product designer Ross McBride created this concept for a tower…

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January 15th, 2008 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: computing design

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