Concepts

Continuance AA Battery Concept Adds USB

Continuance AA Battery Concept Adds USB

AA batteries aren’t going away anytime soon.  You can thank digital cameras, a variety of toys, and Xbox 360 controllers for that.  However, there are probably now more USB powered gadgets than their are standard battery [...]

Twist and Brush Toothbrush Concept Forces Toothpaste Through Your Head

Twist and Brush Toothbrush Concept Forces Toothpaste Through Your Head

We’ve all done it.  Packed a travel bag complete with a tooth brush, but only to forget the necessary toothpaste.  This concept from Spanish designers Awamura-ganjavian puts the paste directly inside the brush insuring that you [...]

Tata Pixel Concept Car Spins Like A Tank, Drives Like A Smart Car (video)

We’ve all done it.  Driven down a narrow road way only to find that there isn’t enough room to turn around and drive out.  The result?  A haphazardous backing out maneuver that could possibly lead to [...]

Under Armour E39 Electronic Shirt Detects Heart Attacks In Athletes While In Play, Also Helps Them Improve Their Game (video)

Under Armour E39 Electronic Shirt Detects Heart Attacks In Athletes While In Play, Also Helps Them Improve Their Game (video)

For the last few years the word “accelerometer”  has become synonymous with Smartphones.  But now the tech is taking a jump into clothing thanks to the innovative folks at Under Armour. They’ve developed a shirt called [...]

NoteSlate Tablet Designed For Notes, Costs Just $100

NoteSlate Tablet Designed For Notes, Costs Just $100

Tablets rock, no doubt about that, but if you’re a note taker at heart then they’re probably a bit too much kit for you.  The Noteslate, which we have to emphasize as a CONCEPT ONLY, as [...]

Isabelle Hayeur “Fire With Fire?” Installation

Isabelle Hayeur “Fire With Fire?” Installation

Isabelle Hayeur’s video installation is made out of three rather giant giant screen playing three separate videos of fire starting and growing, and then extinguishing itself over a 15 minute continuous loop. Located at 112 West [...]

Face Mug Could Have Been Dreamed Up By Kramer

Face Mug Could Have Been Dreamed Up By Kramer

Give up on the amount of coffee and gain some cookies. That’s the deal the Face Mug offers you. That, and a lot of ‘ooohs’ and ‘aaahs’ whenever you gloriously plunk them down on a table. [...]

ChumBuddy Eats You While You Sleep

ChumBuddy Eats You While You Sleep

Designer Kendra Phillips turns shark advocate this week and churns out the ChumBuddy, a 7 foot plush shark that won’t churn you into chum unless you happen to have a nightmare about it while sleeping in [...]

Planon’s SlimScan SS100 Scans Receipts Not Credit Cards

Planon’s SlimScan SS100 Scans Receipts Not Credit Cards

Planon’s new credit-card sized hand scanner isn’t a mini-solution for manually charging credit cards, as there are quite a few of those already on the market, but a way of scanning credit card receipts in order [...]

LUMI Sleep Mask With LED Lights

LUMI Sleep Mask With LED Lights

Early mornings, who loves them? Dogs, and that’s about it. But with LED lights embedded, the LUMI eye mask – or sleep mask, depending on which side of that word debate you’re on – is meant [...]