The Forearm Forklift are lifting straps that are worn around the forearm, giving you additional leverage when carrying heavy items. When worn, each pair of the 9-foot-4-inch straps will support weights of up to 700 pounds, allowing two people to carry heavy items that would normally take four or more people. It’s made from heavy-duty nylon and are adjustable up […]

Opaque search, blind bookings – models which have found their way in to the travel lexicon in recent years. GetGoing, a San Francisco-based startup, aims to capitalise on such trends with its own take: The service asks consumers to pick two flights to two different destinations that they might be interested in (eg. someone who wants to go to Europe […]

Sompo Japan Insurance Inc and Nipponkoa Insurance Co Ltd co-developed a smartphone application that helps auto drivers drive safely. Safety Sight has the “Approaching Forward Vehicle Warning” function, which emits a warning sound when a vehicle ahead is approaching. The smartphone estimates the distance to the vehicle ahead by analyzing the image of the scene in front of the user’s […]

Hop is a suitcase that follows the user. The suitcase contains three receivers that are able to receive, identify and triangulate different signals coming from the user’s cell phone. A microcontroller interprets these signals calculating the phone’s position regarding to the suitcase. The same microcontroller operates a caterpillar system based on compressed air, which follows the user at a constant […]

Electric vehicle design aims to respond the need of intercity low speed cars. Fitting to the concept of slowed cities, Phaeton eco-vehicle can be classified in an intermediate layer between automobiles and non-motorized vehicles. Designed in accordance with international vehicle norms defined as under 250 kilograms and 40 km/h speed, Phaeton is a lightweight, low cost and safe eco-car that […]

The Stuffa Jacket takes the idea of travelling light to a whole new level. Resourceful travellers can pack a weekend’s worth of clothes into the lining of this sleeveless jacket. Created by UK-based designer Sandro Cafasso, the Stuffa Jacket has 12 elastic pockets, roomy enough to store several changes of clothes. UK: Stuffa Jacket doubles as wearable luggage [Iconoculture]

For those of you who find it too troublesome to paint your own bicycles, Pure Fix Cycles has designed a bicycle which glows in the dark to ensure your safety during night rides. Called ‘The Kilo’, Pure Fix Cycles claims that it is the very first glow-in-the-dark bicycle—with highly reflective, glow-in-the-dark-paint that requires just an hour of sunlight to activate. […]

Stockholm’s Clarion Hotel is doing away with the notion of the starving artist by accepting artwork as payment for hotel rooms. In order to qualify for the deal, artists simply need to submit any signed piece of artwork which fits on an A4 sheet of paper, along with a Room for Art form describing the artist and artwork. The hotel […]

Japan’s Modi-Corp has just unveiled a new electric car called the Pius that you can actually build yourself! The Pius, not to be confused with the Toyota Prius, is a single-seat electric car that will be released next spring as a class-1 motorized bicycle in Japan. Modi-Corp expects to sell the Pius primarily to colleges and mechanic schools, where students […]

Designer Pierre Stéphane Dumas‘ celebrated BubbleTrees have been used to comprise a full-scale camping hotel, ensuring that visitors to France’s Bouches-du-Rhône region feel pampered while still getting the best views possible. The transparent, globe-shaped tents are made from UV-reflecting, recyclable materials. Due to their geometry, the acoustics reduce outside sounds, while an echo within the sphere encourages inhabitants to speak […]