Piano Mode For MP3

Most digital players come with an array of bizarre functions, some essential and some of them frivolous. If bizarre is the name of your game, then I’m sure you will appreciate the Piano Silhouette, an MP3 player that comes with a roll-out piano keyboard. So you can listen to music and make some too! For now it only allows you to play along...

Ford Mondeo 2011 xuất hiện trong tháng tám tới

“Gã khổng lồ Detroit” Mỹ, Ford Motor, vừa tiết lộ những hình ảnh và thông tin ban đầu về mẫu Mondeo phiên bản mới, 2011.Ford Mondeo 2011.Được giới thiệu tại triển lãm Moscow International Automotive Salon vào cuối tháng 8 sắp tới, Ford Mondeo 2011 đổi thay với lưới tản nhiệt mới, nắp ca-pô được thiết kế lại, cụm đèn hậu LED.Nội thất của Mondeo...

Book Review: Box, Bottle, Bag, by Andrew Gibbs

It's a pity that photos aren't edible, because Andrew Gibbs's Box, Bottle, Bag contains a lot of tasty looking packaging, which unfortunately contain soap as often as food. Taking the best designs from his website the The Dieline, Gibbs has produced a lovingly photographed book of packaging accompanied with copy about the agency that designed...

Book Review: Inventors and Innovations, edited by Duncan McCorquodale

A gentleman named Charles Fredrick Wiesenthal was the first to realize that putting the eye in the middle of the needle could aid in rapid mechanistic stitching in 1775. Later, Elias Howe perfected the lockstitch sewing machine, but it was Isaac Merritt Singer who would ultimately become synonymous with the sewing machine, even though he...

An aerodynamic concept bike

Simon L. (aka Ess) is a designer who is working on an interesting aerodynamic frame design. His blog is chronicling the development of the bike, which features openings in the head and seat tubes to allow air to pass through.In one of his posts, Ess lists a few of the design details that help to minimize the bike’s frontal area:1. The frame...

Designer Mark Sanders uploads his original Strida bike student thesis

You've seen it in the window of Design Within Reach, or cutting through traffic down Broadway; but now you can take a very different look at the iconic, folding Strida bike.Mark Sanders, who designed the Strida while he was an Industrial Design Engineering student at London's RCA 25 years ago, has now uploaded his original graduate thesis...

Get it right, people, it's "Coroflot" for chrissakes

I was just reading this article speculating that Microsoft may bring the Courier project back online. To refresh your memory, the Courier was a dual-screen tablet concept that the boys in Redmond had been floating around, but pulled the plug on shortly after the iPad began making waves. (See also: This morning's story on killing the Kin.)Here's...

iPhone 4: "We're working on it..."

The iPhone 4 has received it's fair share of criticism (and lawsuits?) due to a design flaw where holding the phone a certain way causes dropped calls and lowered reception strength. Yesterday Steve Jobs supposedly said,"We're working on it..." and today, the "Death Grip" problem is being acknowledged on Apple's site as a "software calculation...