TV "khủng" cho Home Cinema!

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Light Gap Energy Efficient Clock

This energy efficient clock uses light and a single gap on its surface to tell you the time. That’s why it’s called “Light Gap”. Light Gap is a simple clock that has nothing but a gap on its surface. You need to place it near glass windowin order for this clock to draw solar energy from the sun. This energy powers its rotation. During the...

C-X75 Elegance kỷ niệm 75 năm Jaguar

Lần đầu ra mắt tại Paris Auto Show và gần đây nhất là Los Angeles, mẫu concept Jaguar C-X75 ra đời để khẳng định thiết kế, sáng tạo và đẳng cấp của “chú báo” Jaguar.Mỗi bánh xe của C-X75 được lái bằng một động cơ điện 145kW, tất cả lấy điện từ ắc quy lithium ion 19.6kW/h. Hệ thống này dẫn động tất cả các bánh xe và hứa hẹn tạo thêm lực bám...

Xe đạp hàng 'độc' đắt ngang xe hơi

Mỗi chiếc mất tới 3 tháng chế tạo với giá bán từ 12.000 đến 35.000 USD và có thể trang bị động cơ 80 phân khối.Hãng xe Mỹ Josh Hadar chuyên sản xuất những mẫu 2 hoặc 3 bánh với thiết kế đặc biệt theo yêu cầu, sở thích và từng vóc dáng khách hàng.Theo VnExpr...

Power Lending

You’ve got something important to do but your batteries are almost out of power. We’ve all been there and each of us has discovered ways to milk every ounce of power out of our devices. I’ve found power cycling my iPhone gives it a few more minutes, but what if someone could give your device a jumpstart? The Jump-Start CARD lets one device...

Bag That Iron

Irons are either streamline and sleek or compact and portable. A handful are retro but the Ironbag goes one further and borrows from a woman’s handbag. It’s not the latest Balenciaga but the curious bag-like shape ingeniously tucks everything into one fashionable unit. It’s up to you to decide whether or not it’s sexist. Irons, women’s handbags?...

Tjeerd Veenhoven's air-powered iPhone and more

Designer Tjeerd Veenhoven took a cue from his native Holland to create the iFan, an iPhone case with a built-in fan for charging. Pop the phone into the case for your bicycle commute to work and let the juice flow. The design is still in the beta phase:[It takes] 6 hours to charge my phone, rather long I think...but it works. I can shave...

Why Design Now: Solving Energy and Healthcare Challenges

The Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt's recent Why Design Now conference held this past October brought together an optimistic collective of bright and ambitious designers whose efforts are shaping how we solve some of today's most challenging human and social problems. The dominant conference theme which openly questions design's relevance in a time of expanding global crisis, gave speakers and...

Smart Design is Seeking an ID Associate Director in NYC

Industrial Design Associate Director Smart DesignNew York, NYAs an Industrial Design Associate Director, not only will you deliver the highest quality design solutions while respecting a project budget, you will guide a multi-disciplinary team to help realize a project's goals. You will work with some of the world's best known brands in categories...

IDSA/NY with Richard Saul Wurman - Dec 8th 6-9pm

Calling all NYC designers...Spend your Wednesday evening with Information Architecture's godfather, Richard Saul Wurman. The IDSA NYC chapter hosts this exciting event at the offices of Smart Design from 6-9pm. We enjoyed Richard's keynote at The Cooper Hewitt's Why Design Now conference this past October, and couldn't give this any more...

AU 2010 Exhibition: Infinite Z's insane 3D display

Sadly, folks, the most mind-blowing thing I saw at AU cannot be adequately conveyed through words or video (though I get paid to try). A company called Infinite Z was demonstrating their Z-Space display platform, a 24-inch monitor laid nearly flat on a table. You put on a special pair of glasses--no bulky headset, they're like a super-light...

How Not to Listen to Yourself

This post is part of the Inspiration series, made possible by Veer.com.This article is the last in the Veer series and it's appropriate to wrap up our series of rather wordy articles with a counterpoint. So far the Veer series has engaged the verbal parts of the brain by talking about concepts accompanied by visual images. The neuroanatomy...