Like-A-Hug is a wearable social media vest that allows for hugs to be given via Facebook, bringing us closer despite physical distance. The vest inflates when friends ‘Like’ a photo, video, or status update on the wearer’s wall, thereby allowing us to feel the warmth, encouragement, support, or love that we feel when we receive hugs. Hugs can also be […]

Doing it the Apple way, Air Camera strips away all the unnecessary aspects to a digital camera design. It leaves us with a Bluetooth enabled camera lens and a motion-sensor shutter button mounted on two rubber bands. Precious moments are captured with a simple click gesture and the images get transferred to your synced smartphone immediately. Two Finger Camera! [Yanko […]

The Celluon MAGIC CUBE Virtual Keyboard is a startling fresh alternative to using a standard keyboard and mouse with your mobile device or computer. The MAGIC CUBE projects a laser onto a flat opaque surface to provide you with a virtual keyboard. You can type on top of the surface of your desk and you can also use the MAGIC […]

A monitor, developed at the University of Strathclyde, to help prevent over-exposure to the sun is set to go on the market as part of a new spinout company. The wristband device helps to indicate to users when they have been exposed to a certain amount of UV (ultra-violet) radiation  by changing colour as the risk of over-exposure progresses, giving […]

Meetings are a quintessential aspect of business. Work must be divided between employees, and meetings are necessary to ensure that everyone is working toward the same goal. Meetings also provide a valuable opportunity for those in a business to propose suggestions about better means to reach a goal, and they allow staff an opportunity to forge connections with each other. […]

Stabil-i Case is the world’s first, pocket-sized, precision balanced, video stabilization phone case that truly eliminates shake. The case shares its roots with large, high priced camera stabilization systems used in the film industry. Its patent pending design allows the iPhone camera to remove 90% of the hardware along with the costly bearing system. This is a unique and ultra-compact […]

Even the most advanced mice often feel a bit clunky, so we’re not surprised that researchers have been working on a much more intuitive experience designed so that you can move around the screen with ease. The Airmouse is almost like a glove that generates movements from the user’s elbow, not only does this mean it’s comfier and easier to […]

Mimi Zou is an American product designer and recent graduate of the Royal College of Art whose graduate project is a biometrics enabled camera called IRIS. Controlled by your eye, IRIS understand what you’re looking at through your iris signature and tracks your eye so it can capture exactly what you see. I feel like this could be the future […]

E. chromi is a collaboration between designers and scientists in the new field of synthetic biology. In 2009, seven Cambridge University undergraduates spent the summer genetically engineering bacteria to secrete a variety of coloured pigments, visible to the naked eye. They designed standardised sequences of DNA, known as BioBricks, and inserted them into E. coli bacteria. Each BioBrick part contains […]

Vodafone’s Booster Brolly is an umbrella that uses on-board solar cells and a micro antenna to charge your phone and boost its 3G signal. The umbrella, which is sadly just a prototype at the time of writing, is the result of a collaboration between Vodafone and University College London. There are 12 silicon solar cells integrated into the canopy; together […]