Consumers have been familiar with foldable bicycles for a while now thanks to brands such as Brompton. Now, eco-friendly Hungarian automotive firm Antro, has taken the logical next step and has created the Moveo, a lightweight electric scooter that can be collapsed and carried like a rolling suitcase. The company has spent the last five years refining the prototype, getting the weight […]
Portable Scooter
Virtual Mannequins
When shopping in a rush, having to spend time in a dressing room can feel like an unreasonable annoyance. Japanese apparel store VANQUISH has integrated teamLabHanger digital mannequins into its ikebukuro Parco shop to give customers an instant visual of how clothing looks on their bodies. Each clothes hanger is equipped with a unique ID. When a hanger is removed from a garment rack, the teamLabHanger […]
BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 154
Mobile Espresso Bar Combining their three loves — coffee, cycling and sustainability — inspired two London Royal College of Art product design students to create a mobile espresso bar, the Velopresso, that operates on pedal power. No electricity, no tethers. A truly free-wheeling carrier of caffeine.. Continued in BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 154 >>> – Wooden Jeans – Transformer […]
Zip Tie
You probably know Actual from seeing their UM Pack made out of industrial felt that we’ve featured before. Josh Jakus, the head of Actual, never ceases to amaze us with his ingenuity and with his latest, the Zip Tie, he’s done it again. I don’t know about you, but a lot of the dudes I know haven’t perfected the art […]
Multifunctional Desk
If you live in New York, you probably know that apartment space is worth its weight in gold. Therefore any furniture that is compact, yet stylish is always welcome. With that in mind, designer Athanasia Leivaditou of Studio NL has created the “1.6 SM Of Life”, a desk that turns into a compact bed, which was inspired by her “experiences […]
Patterned Paint Rollers
Clare Bosanquet, the artist behind “The Painted House“ Etsy store, found patterned paint rollers in a market in Romania and got so excited about this inexpensive wallpaper alternative that she now sells her own. The rollers give walls a look that Bosanquet describes as “like old, forgotten, sunbleached wallpaper“. What a brilliant idea!! Patterned Paint Rollers by Clare Bosanquet [ChicTip]
Valkee Light Treatment
The Valkee bright light headset makes the treatment of SAD (or general glumness) as effortless as popping in a pair of ear buds. Traditional light therapy treatments typically require the subject to sit in front of a light therapy box, which bathes them in simulated sunlight. Valkee, however, directs this bright light through the ear canal to the light-sensitive portions […]
Worth A Shot
Tea Cup SlingsHOT, a design concept by Samir Sufi, seems like a smart idea. A built in groove lets you pull the teabag tight against the edgeof the cup to squeeze liquid out of the bag and keep it out of the water when you think your tea is ready. Hope this will go into production! SlingsHOT [SwissMiss]
“Wooden” Jeans: A Soft and Silky Alternative to Cotton
The denim industry has a phenomenal impact on the environment. Traditional cotton jeans carry a substantial carbon footprint with each single pair requiring 42 liters of water, along with up to 15 dyeing vats full of harmful chemicals to produce. But Dawn Ellams, a PhD researcher at Scotland’s Heriot-Watt University believes she has come up with a less destructive and […]
Designed for Kitchen Lovers
How much would you pay for an extra pair of hands? Forty-five dollars sounds low. That’s the price for this awesome set of cooking utensils whose notches make them rest on the side of your saucepan, freeing up your hands for more multitasking in the kitchen. And hell, how many times have you dropped a spoon or a spatula into […]