Dijital Fix presents the first physical gallery of Hipstamatic photos taken with iPhones around the world. Judged by IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT VP, David Bias and others. Coincides with Dijital Fix's second store in NYC's Lower East Side.

Pathfinder from BMW. Intelligent and networked microNavigation for destinations not yet covered in current systems or only with incomplete coverage.

Zerotracer is a fully-enclosed electric motorcycle by DesignWerk.

Lusting for Tunto's LED lamp! It combines modern technology, wood and simple design language in a creative way. The hidden touch-sensitive switch gives the user a true feel of the material and finishing of this unique product.

Here’s a look at the new first-class cabin of Lufthansa’s new A380 planes by London industrial designer Priestmangoode.

Slick design to fight summer heat with Balmuda's GreenFan. Using an innovative blade design the GreenFan produces a much better breeze than conventional fans using a lot less energy.

Super nice details on the city smart workhorse bike D8 by Public. This model has become the standard for many bicyclists in Europe because it is so dependable and versatile

SIG, or “Self-Energy Conversion Sunglasses” are quite simple. The lenses have dye solar cells, collect energy and make it able to power your small device through the outlet in the back of the frame.

Tempting and more beautiful than ever ~ the new Xbox 360

FEATUREDMoleskine's Kindle Cover ~ an official product inspired by all of the Moleskine hackers!

The ButlerBot (aka Baxter) and RoboFridge by Norris Lab are designed to serve chilled beer to you and your guests.

Tristan Perich's 1-Bit Symphony is an electronic composition in five movements on a single microchip. Though housed in a CD jewel case, 1-Bit Symphony literally "performs" its music live when turned on.

The making-of story of Jabulani, the official match ball for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ by Adidas

The Gift Card is finally personal. Check out the Home Depot's new gift card. It lets you attach a personal video to your card. The person you give the card can then watch the video in augmented reality. Watch the demo video to learn more.

A gallery of futuristic American concept cars from the 1950's selected by automotive journalist Larry Edsall, author of the book "Concept Cars- from the 1930's to the Present".

This amazing Monster Chess Set is made from 100,000 LEGO blocks. The pieces are robotic and move on their own. It was designed with the help of the LEGO company itself and took 4 people a year to construct!

Beautifully designed by Lea Dennison, Freud's cafetiere represents the work that Lea put into perfecting a spout that would modify the flow of liquid so that it is very nearly drip-free. Great material combination.

At the recent Hanover Trade Show, Volkswagen presented the Milano Taxi Concept, a design study of a mass-market, compact, emission-free taxi with an electric power-train that allows for a range of up to 300 km.

Frackenpohl Poulheim designed the humanoid
robot 'Myon', which was created by the neurorobotics research laboratory at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin within the framework of the european research project Alear.

Electronic Popables (MIT high-low tech ) integrated traditional pop-up mechanisms with paper-based electronics to create a book that looks and functions much like an ordinary pop-up with the added element of dynamic interactivity.

Greenaid seedbomb vending machines UPDATE! A recent initiative from L.A.-based design firm Commonstudio, has been growing through L.A. and beyond, offering bite-sized contributions to more livable and beautiful cities.

For ‘In Progress’ exhibition, studio Wieki Somers has created 3 still lives made of 3d-printed human ashes, that question the value of life and objects using the visual language that can be found in 16th and 17th century still life paintings.

The “Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus” is a drawing machine illustrating a never-ending story by the use of patent drawings. A project by Julius von Bismarck & Benjamin Maus.

FEATUREDHard Graft Tilt iPad Case ~ beautifully simple leather and felt sleeve for your ipad that is easily ROLLED to create different viewing angles!

ROBOTZKI embodies the fusion of technology and design. A robotic desk lamp with 5 actuators and a high power LED by Benedikt Achatz for Ingo Maurer.

IPhone application: "The Atlas of True Names" by Kalimedia. It tells you the origins of place names from all over the world. Very beautiful and enchanting ....

This is the Ferrari 612 GTO Concept from Sasha Selipanov, aka The Angry Car Designer. This is one of the most intriguing and creative renderings to date with some elements of the 458 Italia mixed in with a bit of Aston Martin One-77.

TSC, [Tunable Sound Cloud] an architectural application to tune the acoustics of your space in real-time with a unique style! [check the video in the post!]

The LuminAR is a project from MIT that "reinvents the traditional desk lamp, evolving it into a new category of robotic, digital information devices". Combines a Pico-projector, camera, and wireless computer in a compact form factor.

One of the most elegant applications and combination of tech and furniture (desk lamp+cam) for an AR concept. Created by Camille Scherrer, “Le Monde des Montagnes” offers a glimpse to the future of pop-up books.

Curious Displays by Julia Tsao is a new platform for display technology. The surface is made of hundreds of ½ inch display blocks. Each block operates independently as a self-contained unit, with full mobility.

Surveillance Cameras: they are alive!!! by Ricardo Iglesias for Sonar 2010 involves the creation of a series of "living" robotic cameras that follow people. The cameras record visitors, projecting them in situ and on the Internet.

Awesome modding by Hirac of a Mac Classic turned into an Ipad Stand.

GraphyCalc is a beautiful demonstration of the interactive possibilities of the modern web platform. A JavaScript 3d graphing calculator, written by Dean McNamee.

The lotus effect, which explains the super water-repelling property of lotus leaves, but way cooler is the answer to why the leaves never collect dust.

Pocketgrey is protective sleeve for laptops on the go, designed by questionwhy and produced by Fair Trade producer groups in Nepal. It opens out a workstation with mouse mat and writing space. Handstitched from pure wool.

A rubber stamp of the facebook 'like' button.... It's just a concept for now but people can use the email on the site to register their interest.

Molson Coors has created the beer lovers dream - a 10 pint Carling, Coors Light or Grolsch system that fits straight into the fridge and pours a proper draught beer every time. Modern technology meets beer to awesome effect.

Go with the Flow by Dean McNamee and Filippo Cuttica during the TUI class at Copenhagen Institute of interaction Design. It's a tangible user interface that allows you to visualize and filter incoming emails.

"Laptopograms" are images made by pressing photosensitive paper onto a laptop screen and flashing an image in a manner not unlike contact printing or photograms. From Aditya Mandayam and Fabrizio Urettini.

TUME (Top-up mobile electricity) can reduce gang controlled electricity; stop the risk of electrocution and allow fair competition with local established businesses by making an electricity grid accessible to people on the streets.

The TMA-1 headphones from AIAIAI previously previewed in post #21933 are finally ready for pre-order.

Flight patters from Aaron Koblin were part of a series of experiments for the project "Celestial Mechanics" by Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne at UCLA. FAA data was parsed and plotted using the 'Processing' programming environment.

VIDEOSupernova - A Carl Sagan / Cosmos inspired iPad generative animation.

The "Copenhagen Wheel" project was conceived and developed by the SENSEable City Lab (MIT) for the Kobenhavns Kommune. Interesting proposal and quite appealing design.

Ordinary products- a chair, a pair of shoes, a pair of boxing gloves, a doormat and a chest belt-are supplemented with electronic digital counters that count peculiar interactions with their users.
Designed by Julijonas Urbonas at the RCA.

Living Light by The Living is a building facade of the future that displays air quality and public interest in the environment. It is a permanent outdoor pavilion in Peace Park, across from World Cup Stadium in Seoul, Korea.

Here comes a different kind of hot-stepper: A pair of Wellington boots that convert heat from your feet into electricity. The kicker? You can store up enough juice to charge a cellphone, so you can yak it up without missing a beat.

The installation “Chapter I: The Discovery” by Félix Luque Sánchez consists of a sculpture representing an unidentified object in the shape of a dodecahedron and a number of videos re staging the moment of its discovery.

An interview with James Powderly, part of Graffiti Research Lab and the team that developed Eyewriter [see post #31312], the eye-reading technology that allows paralyzed artists to "write" graffiti.

Preview of 3DFY, which creates 3D version of any photo or video in realtime using your webcam. The user can spin the 3D version in any angle, pivot, in front behind or inside the 3DFY version.

The latro lamp by Eindhoven-based designer Mike Thompson utilizes living algae as its power source.

VIDEOOne of the best video mapping outdoor installations created by Seep. "Battle of Branchage" projected on Gorey Castle is visually stunning.

An electronic device can predict an incoming bout of misery through statistical analysis of accumulated data. 'Happy Life' is a concept by Auger-Loizeau, part of the Impact exhibition, a unique collaboration between science and design.

WATERWEAR from Tunewear is made from a durable, transparent material with a triple zipper design to lock an iPad safely inside, it away from water and dust. Bring it with you when you take a bath or go outdoors by the pool or to the beach.

Oneybike, by industrial designer Peter Varga, is a leisure bicycle concept inspired by the classical highwheeler simplicity, connected with comfort of recumbent bike with retro feelings.

Sharp shows off the PN-V601, a 5×6 matrix thirty 60-inch LCD setup with world’s thinnest bezel width (2.4mm on the right side and bottom and 4.1mm on the left and top of the displays).

VIDEOTroika 'Light Rain'- UK Pavilion, China-. From a drizzle to heavy rain, light raindrops enliven the space, creating a beautiful environment in which to reconsider the importance of one of the most simple and essential natural phenomena.

Upon exit of the Seed Cathedral, Troika's last installation (Living City) presents a giant green river of plants bursting through the canopy of the last walkway, showcasing some of the most useful plant species for the future of our cities.

Presented at Shanghai World Expo 2010, Firefly is an interactive lighting that reacts to human behavior like a cloud of glowing insects. They wriggle, light up and scatter in response to the motion of visitors. From Kkristen+v.Moreau.

Last April UVA (United Visual Artists) created "Speed of light" for Virgin Media to celebrate the tenth anniversary of broadband in the UK. One of the several light installations featured a mesmerizing laser living room.

The amazing "Eyewritter" team was awarded a Golden Nica and grant to further develop their technology. Their new site has some quite inspiring material.

Photosynthesis Car by Michal Vlcek and Klavir generates energy from natural photosynthesis.

Brain Farm is making some of the most incredible films today, partly because of their vision and partly because of their incredible camera technologies.

Bing Destination Maps is an interesting way of rendering geographical maps in a more visually simplified way. The 'Cool' feature allows the selection of a visual map style such as 'Sketchy', 'European', 'American' or 'Treasure'.

Nepal’s Wind powered Rickshaw has windmill installed on it that provide extra thrust to the pedicab.

Car parts can be beautifully engineered bits of techie car art. Here's ten Jalopnik commenter-suggested car parts that'll make your inner technophile swoon.

A year ago someone decided to test the image and sound degradation that occurs when you upload a video to YouTube, then download the YouTube result, and upload it again. He did it 1,000 times, with trippy results.

Robot fish by NYU researchers uses ionic polymers that swell and shrink in response to electrical stimulation to power its tail. The robot could be used to steer schools of fish away from hydroelectric turbines.

WirelessIris brings follow focus to your DLSR via iPhone app. This will have you fussing with your camera's controls from your spacious (and convenient) Apple touchscreen device in no time!

Sony Computer Science Laboratories exhibited a life-logging device for cats. The device can be used with the Twitter service and automatically posts comments in accordance with the activities.

The Corpora is an algorithm and a virtual living mechanism at the same time,using data collected from hundreds of sensors, it builds up a ‘harmonic’, ideal environment based upon the results. It is augmented reality architecture.

Capture breathtaking aerial videos with this lightweight RC plane camera for RC planes, helicopters, kites, park-flyers, and more!

Next-generation artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, and interactive technology create an environment that is nearly alive. Hylozoic Ground by Philip Beesley is an immersive, interactive environment.

Mia Schmallenbach and French cutlers Deglon spent over 150 hours fine tuning this highly visual, yet practical knife block set, entitled "Meeting".

VIDEOHeart of the Home: Electrolux presents the kitchen of the future. Imagine never having to use pans or pots again, never having to worry whether the ingredients are fresh or never having to look up a recipe in a cook book.

The Little Horn Speakers turn the audio world upside down. They posses a life-like soundstage unlike anything ever heard. With the Little Horn Speakers, the soundstage gets bigger, the instruments spread apart, the stage unfolds.

The Electrolux E:Motion Trivet provides induction through a curved surface, allowing for traditional Asian wok cooking on flat induction cook tops.

iiDA asked undergraduate and graduate-level students in Japanese and international universities to submit ideas for "LIFESTYLE PRODUCTS". This is one of the winning designs.

Rocket Car: A Coke and Mentos powered car.

Tim Byrne repurposes and rebuilds old industrial machinery into tables -- the wheel actually functions to adjusts the table top height!

Steffest Smart Phone Guitar

Billy Joel probably didn't have piano gloves in mind when he first crooned the song "Piano Man." A student at the Motion Design program at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle designed a pair of digitally enhanced gloves...

Fredrik Ohlén: 20 Square Meters of Floor. How can we create a kitchen that serves all the possible functions, takes up less space and is more flexible than kitchens designed today?

Happy to find out that Swiss car makers Mindset AG recently got the funds needed to push their zero-emission vehicle towards mass production. I think the Karmann Ghia look makes it quite attractive.

Herman Lijmbach and Jasper de Leeuw's 'WKKR speaker' created under the moniker Lijmbach, Leeuw & Vormgeving. The speaker system that takes on the shape of an alarm clock.

Scott Snibbe writes beautiful apps for iPads and iPhones, including Gravilux, Bubble Haro and Antograph. He combines painting, animation, art, science, and gaming. Gorgeous.

Created by UK artists Rob and Nick Carter, the RN754 is a unique color changing light box with 15 concentric circles of neon and a fully programmable color changing sequence.

"Elica" is a lamp created by Brian Sironi for Martinelliluce. Devoid of a switch, the user rotates the lamp to turn it off. The "Elica" won the iF product design GOLD award in 2010.

An instructional multimedia website dedicated to better understanding of DIY multi-touch devices. Hopefully helpful to designers, and encourage more of them to experiment with this new and exciting technology.

New Oyster 2 Wave Power Generator

Amazing retro illustrations of space travel from the 1954 book 'Speeding into Space' by Marie Neurath - a real snapshot in time.

Bonsai-inspired Electree by Paris-based industrial designer Vivien Muller charges mobile devices with solar energy.

FEATUREDA close up look at the 15 Limited Edition Cool Hunting x Speck PixelShields! Together they form an image! Also take a peek at the cool corrugated cardboard packaging...

Argentina celebrated 200 years of the May Revolution on 25th May with a 5-day parade. With 6 million attendees, it became Argentina's history most convocating event.

Macally's Bookstand for the iPad

Mercedes-Benz Advantage, puts the iPad into the hands of the their sales force in combination Mercedes' new sales tool app ~ interesting use of the iPad in business/sales!

VIDEO24 Hours in 19500 frames filmed with a Canon 5D MKII camera of the 2010 Nurburgring 24 Hour Race. Won by #25 BMW Team Schnitzer M3 GT2.

FEATUREDNike Golf Oven the Design Labs ~ for anyone with a fascination with machinery, prototypes, and what really goes into golf club design and testing...

This is PGA Prairie Hopper, a sustainable, portable, prefab education pavilion, designed by Anderson Anderson Architecture. Some green technologies are provided in this object.

FEATUREDNike Golf Oven ~ a close up look at the technology of the Putting Lab and the physics behind the perfect putt! And the details of the Method Putters... See the cameras and UI set up!

Hélio DAB Radio using colorful Grätzel solar panel that is transparent. LED panels and speakers complement the radio and in sync with the form.

VIDEOColumbia Sportswear's heated, rechargeable boot keep your feet warm for up to 8 hours.

Swiss studio Estragon have designed a camera for Swiss camera manufacturer ALPA. Called ALPA 12 TC, the compact square design operates as a 6×9 roll-film or 60 MP digital camera.

The North Face Docking Station makes for a fine base camp. The 97 sq. ft. component offers room for six, with roll up walls, a perimeter floor and color-coding for easy setup, durable steel stakes, all in a duffel-style storage sack.

Paris designer Patrick Norguet has designed Plain Air, a circular wall-mounted air purifier that sucks air in through vents in the top and expels it through a funnel on the front. Lalaunched by TLV in collaboration with Ahlstrom and Philips.

FEATUREDA look into the testing facilities of Nike Golf ~ The Oven. From a fridge full of balls, to robotic golfers, to a garage like putting green that opens into a driving range and short course with water features!

Ultra-light (and see-through!) carbon fiber frame bikes using IsoTruss® grid structures. Amazingly strong, light, and cool looking. From Delta 7.

Ferrari Art.Engine speakers from the DW Collection are gorgeous. The 47" speakers use dual speaker arrays composed of 18 drivers, four 200 watt digital amps, wireless signal input and a proprietary digital processing.

Freitag goes iPad sleeves in their signature truck tarps ~ coming in August 2010

Cool Hunting have been giving away iPads in incredible cases made in collaboration with Speck. The custom PixelShields sport a Cool Hunting green-gray palette, though each piece looks a little different.

Wisconsin native Kenton Sorenson [#26808]cuts and sews each natural leather piece by hand in his workshop. His iPad Portfolios are oiled and conditioned with beeswax and finished with a heavy linen thread side stitch.

Pirata London keep coming up with the goods. Their new Pirata Boat Race app lets up to 10 players use their iphones as controllers using QR codes to row in two teams against each other.

FEATUREDJenny Holzer's massive scrolling text display across the Aria Parking lot in CityCenter in Las Vegas... loaded up with 200 Truisms like “It’s not good to operate on credit.” See the video!

A UK-based company called Studio Myfirst has created a flat-pack DIY rotation molding machine called Myfirst RotoMoulder.

In celebration of Pacman's 30th anniversary, the Google logo appears as a playable game of Pacman.

Industrial Upholstery, a project by Gilli Kuchik from Bakery Studio, explores new ways of upholstering furniture.

Designed to conceal a water reservoir within it, the solar powered media skin developed by ag4 is a stunning fusion of moving images with the extraordinary architecture of the building.

Stas Doyer’s L’Hydromel floating bed promises a deep relaxation experience.

Google and Logitech team up for GoogleTV

FEATUREDJawbone ICON's packaging ~ there's something so lovely about how they actually gave credit to the effort of the packaging designers on the package! And it is truly incredible! See the details! Also the bendy cable...

After the fabulous Patrick Jean's shot film "Pixels", here comes a short documentary on Pixel Art made by Australian animator Simon Cottee. From A to Z, discover this stunning art.

A journey into sound...RFID enabled speaker systems

The Hexawheel concept is a design study of an extreme off-road vehicle which combines a six-wheels layout and a flexible frame with a Mercedes-Benz-inspired design language.

Laden with no less than 7,000 plants, the NSCC's exterior living wall will be a breathing canvas that changes with every season.

Introducing a new case based on an old idea. BOOK is a hand made hard cover book jacket on the outside, with a sleeve tailored to the iPad on the inside.

HP assures cow manure, digested farm waste could power a 1,000-server data center. (Design in a picture)

In these pieces I hope to document the energy of raw graffiti like 3D structures tearing apart visual space and reclaiming urban environments.

Probably the most beautiful bike tools available are the ones from Crankbrothers.

ULTRA LEAD by Georges Moanack: a new, and original, modular extension lead…

bitMAPS is a custom tile system created by vacuum forming over a variable mold. This application integrates many of the functional elements of the bathroom.

This is a very surprising campaign. To promote the Kellys french fries microwave-baked, they transform a bus shelter, integrating a microwave, allowing for the distribution of free hot samples.

Bookbound external hard drive by Swedish designer Linus Berglund.

Muti Randolph is one of the world's top audio-visual artists. In this video he shares what's behind some of his most famous creations, which meld architecture, industrial design, music, and engineering.

Where the cursors come from? Finally, a good explanation, coming us from artist Nathan W. Pyle.

In the 18th district of Paris, Philippon-Kalt Architects have designed the first social housing with solar paneled frontage.

Science lessons from They Might Be Giants. Complete with psychedelic illustrations, it includes a song about our relationship to monkeys and another on the functions of blood cells for example.

Davone continues the ‘Rithm’ legacy with the new ‘Ray’ speakers. The Ray was showcased at the Munich High End show 2010.

Photopaddles are super low-tech, pocket sized camera-phone accessories from designer Steven Haulenbeek. A limited number of these paddles were given out at the beginning of Design Week here in NYC.

ClamCase - The all-in-one keyboard, case and stand for iPad.

London Design Festival commissioned Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram to design this year’s Trafalgar Square installation. OUTRACE is a mechanical octopus assembled from six industrial robotic arms on loan from Audi.

Pulse News reader, previously #30460, went live on the App Store today. It has already broken into the top 5 iPad news apps. Developed by two Stanford graduate students, Akshay Kothari & Ankit Gupta.

Your Pebbles from Korean company DesignMAXX are stackable silicone pebbles to prop up your electronics. They also have hollow backs for storage. Only available in Korea for now.

Erich Ginder’s new "Materialized" vase is the first in a series of products created by scanning heavily adorned forms with laser scanners, resulting in jewel like abstractions free of the designers hand.