They’re words often applied to new clothes or new cars – not phones. But that’s changing, and Motorola’s Razr V3 offers a good example. The ultraslim, lustrous metal cellphone, introduced in November, has created a cachet of cool so strong that it should rub off on the company’s entire portfolio of phones, observers say. A cool phone could make for […]

bTang reBlog: I love simple genius ideas. To sell small living plants for your keychain is a genius idea. Soroban Geeks reports about the latest fad in Japan. Tiny plants are placed in plastic domes to be carried around on keychains. They cost about $10 and measure 41x25mm. Japanese Keychain Mini Plants [bTang reBlog]

We Make Money Not Art: The HangOut is a 2.9 meters diameter housing module designed — by Vancouver-based Tom Chud — to be suspended from a tree. It comes with a double bed, counter, table, bench seats and storage lockers. Four attachment points on the top and four on the bottom carry the weight of the dwelling. The spheres are […]

We Make Money Not Art: Biojewelry, developed by Tobie Kerridge and Nikki Stott, combines biotech and design to give a new emphasis to debates concerning genetics. Biojewelry allows two persons to undergo a biopsy, in which each of them has a sample of their bone cells removed. The tissue is harvested in a lab, grown until a mass of bone […]

Gizmodo: Sega has released more USB controllers for PCs, available in a variety of new colors, including the always sassy pink. I’ve never been a Sega controller man, myself, preferring the SNES pad on the whole, but I think it’s fantastic that companies continue to release controllers from years past, despite a wealth of conversion dongles that let you use […]

BusinessWeek: During a long, 1,500-mile drive home from their son’s college campus, David Pippenger and his wife were talking duct tape. Not for plumbing, furniture repair, or even the rare heating-duct patch. No, they were discussing fashion accessories. Turns out Pippenger’s son, Jonathan, was sporting a duct-tape wallet his cousin had made for him for Christmas. That wallet was causing […]

MPIO has received the highly rated iF product design award from International Forum Design for its MPIO FL300 flash MP3 player. “Design is a focal point of our product development, so this success is a result of our heavy investment in product development,” said Marcelino Kim of MPIO. “The MPIO FL300 is just one example of how we develop fashion […]

Have you ever wanted furniture that are practical but yet have a whimsical element for your precious child? Besides wanting the furniture to be well made, you probably would also want something that is modern, edgy and has an emphasis on fun for your child. Well, you can find all those qualities in Italian firm MAGIS’s furniture designs that include […]

The days of driving into town, looking for a parking space, fighting with others for changing rooms, zipping in and out of new types of clothes, and eventually going home frustrated and empty-handed may be over. Now all you have to do is simply to pick up the phone and a personal stylist will appear at your home (or even […]