We’ve all seen the headline figures slapped onto those big internet business deals. Remember when Facebook acquired Instagram for a hefty $1 billion? Or when the Draw Something app sold for $250 million, just a matter of weeks after it was launched? Of course these fade dramatically when compared to Facebook itself when it was floated on the market at […]
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Mixed Reality Living Spaces
When it comes to forecasting the future, there are two schools of thought: one that sees our planetary cup still half full, the other alarmingly half empty. You can cast Bernardo Schorr, MFA candidate in Parsons’ Design and Technology program and Creative Technologist, with the camp predicting a gloomy dystopian future… a future where a great many of the world’s […]
How to Make Your Office Cool
Office designs have come a long way in the past 100 years. In the early part of the 20th century, office spaces – as they were then – were seen to be restrictive and impractical. The idea of the open plan office was conceived out of a need to promote more interactivity in the workplace. This ideal quickly became just […]
Scribble Colour Pen
Scribble is the first coloring device of its kind that can take the world of color around you and transfer it directly to either paper or your favourite mobile device. The Scribble pen and stylus pairs with Scribble+ mobile app to instantly sync every color you scan directly onto your iPhone, iPad or Android mobile device. Your colors become more […]
Lumoid Photography Rental
Lumoid helps you try before you buy expensive (or not so expensive) gear. Lumoid offers a daily trial price – pick a start and end date, and pay exactly for the days you’d like to keep the items. No hidden costs, no hassle. Love the gear you just tried from Lumoid? Here’s more good news – every time you try an item, […]
Upright for Bad Posture
UpRight, a small, comfortable wearable device and app to improve posture and well-being, is today launching a 60-day Indiegogo campaign to begin production and distribution. The UpRight posture device uses multiple sensors and advanced algorithms to achieve unparalleled accuracy. The UpRight unit will also come with a mobile app to control the device. Unlike similar devices which require an uncomfortable strap or […]
TIK Lightest Keychain
The keychain: your daily companion. If it’s a bulky piece and you keep it in your pocket, it might be an unpleasant cargo. Your keychain is a personal statement: it is a fix item among your everyday carry. Our phones, wallets, watches, pens, notepads are all sophisticated designs but keychains are still ugly and primitive objects. They shouldn’t be. TIK […]
Volumetric Printing Looking Glass
Looking Glass is the world’s first volumetric printing service over the past year so that we could bring any 3D scene from digital space into the real world in magazine-resolution color. A bioluminescent jellyfish. An amoeba magnified 100X. A boa constrictor consuming an elephant. This isn’t likely something you’ve seen in 3D object printing or holography before. Volumetric 3D scenes in millions […]
Flavoured Gourmet Toothpick
PhoodStation is launching its new product via the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. Welcome Castor, the double flavored gourmet toothpick. “Not only are we completely reinventing the toothpick giving it a new design and a perfect pocket-sized packaging, but we also managed to create a unique method for applying a double flavor all-natural aroma and powder on the stick. There is no […]
Community Shop for Less Affluent Customers
Opened in December 2013, Community Shop is a British supermarket that sells discounted branded products to families receiving government welfare. The project is supported by high street chains and brands such as Marks & Spencer, Tesco, Asda and Tetley, who provide stock for the store from surplus products that don’t meet their standards. Typically this stock would end up in landfill or be […]