Almost 6 years after launching on Kickstarter, WobbleWorks has announced some new product lines, and an iOS/Android app that will have 3Doodlers creating 3D pen art directly on smartphone or tablet screens. The free-to-download 3Doodler App comes with more than 10 tutorials at launch, with more projects added weekly. The idea is for the app to provide everything needed for […]

Although manufacturers are constantly trying to make smartphones thinner and lighter, they’re limited by the phones’ curved glass camera lenses. Now, however, researchers have developed a flat lens that’s one one-thousandth the thickness and one one-hundredth the weight of a conventional model. Ordinarily, digital camera lenses work as a single cohesive unit, with the entire lens bending incoming light to […]

Design agency Tangerine worked with British start-up Bluebell to develop a smart monitor, which uses a device attached to the baby’s clothing to send alerts to parents through a wearable wristband and app. Bluebell approached the London-based studio to help it create and market a system that makes it more straightforward for parents to improve their baby’s routines and sleeping […]

  Founding Archigram members Peter Cook and Dennis Crompton will create a digital installation exploring the future of cities at the Design Trust Gala 2019 in Hong Kong. The installation will draw from the influential British architecture collective’s extensive archive investigating urban design, which was acquired by M+ Museum in Hong Kong in March 2019. Cook and Crompton will work […]

Google’s already very impressive ARCore is about to get even more impressive. At Google I/O 2019, the company announced a series of changes to ARCore that should make it a little more stable and helpful when images are moving around and when it comes to how ARCore handles the movement of light. Perhaps the biggest update to ARCore comes in […]

Dutch social enterprise Fairphone has released a new version of its “ethical” smartphone that is designed to be easily taken apart for repairs. The Fairphone 3 eschews glue in favour of screws and a unibody handset in favour of a modular design, in a bid to cut down on e-waste and improve the life cycle of electronics. It sets itself […]

Horses aren’t like dogs. Whereas the one is always around the house, the other spends much of its time off in a pasture. So, how is a horse-owner supposed to keep track of what their animal is doing? Well, a group of Swedish entrepreneurs believe that their HoofStep system is the answer. Mounted within a head harness, the actual HoofStep […]

Learning to play any instrument is hard work, but Roland believes that it’s taken some of the strain out of the process with the release of the Aerophone mini digital wind instrument. It may look like a toy, but it’s a capable instrument where complicated fingerings and difficult breathing control have been eliminated, and six onboard sounds are offered out […]

Google Photos has long been the go-to cloud photo service for many, and it’s now getting a new feature that makes it even better. The service already allows you to tag aspects of an image so that you can find images later and group them together, but now it’ll allow you to search for photos based on text in those […]