Find Your Bike

Have you ever paced up and down a rack of bicycles trying to remember where you locked yours up at? The Acousto Optical Lock is a steel ripe style cable lock that sends out an audio signal and lights up when you press a key fob. Great idea!Designer: Liu...

More Than a Cyber Café

I’m embarrassed to admit it but I was one of the first people to criticize the concept of cyber cafés and even bet they wouldn’t last. To cut the story short, I had to swallow my words and I’m here to make amends. What we have here is the Biz Café – a concept targeted towards the jet-set workaholics who need gadget ready environments even...

Dear Diary on The Table

Remember the Watch Diary, yes the very one that pointed out your current chores with a bright red pointer and sheepishly reminded you of ones you missed, plus the upcoming ones? Well the hardbound diary has now been upped to a Whiteboard Cutout. You can plan your daily timetable on its face and maybe even attach pictures using the magnet....

Inventive Design Concepts from Monocomplex

Here are some simple and neat concepts from South Korean design collective Monocomplex:The Free Form Ruler is a measuring device that works like a pencil. The simple idea is that you'd drag the sensor tip along whatever curve or line you need the length of and the numbers are displayed via LED. Rotating the dial lets you choose the unit of...

The THEN-NOW Show 11th March - 24th April 2011

The THEN-NOW Show11th March - 24th April 2011Jane AtfieldSebastian BergneAdam BrinkworthKonstantin GrcicThomas HeatherwickVictoria Jessen-PikeDavid KeechWakako KishimotoTom LloydKevin McCullaghCorin MellorPeter NaumannBen PanayiLuke PearsonSonya WinnerThe THEN-NOW Show is an exhibition of 15 designers who were originally amongst the graduates...

Dr. Michael Braungart on Material Shortages and Designing a New Material World

Recent events around the world expose the heightened uncertainties of a growing demand for materials that are both precious and in limited supply.With China exporting as much as 96 percent of the world's supply of rare earth metals, the country's drastic reduction in exports sent ripples around the world. Simultaneously, governments such...

Bucky Fuller Challenge Semi-Finalist: The Global Village Construction Set

Last month we mentioned Open Source Ecology's Global Village Construction Set, an extremely ambitious project to bring industrial tools to areas that cannot afford them. We were thrilled to learn they've beenselected as a Semi-Finalist in the Buckminster Fuller Challenge.To refresh your memory, the GVCS team has narrowed down thousands of...

Dạo Triển lãm ô tô Bangkok 2011

(Dân trí) - Bangkok Motor Show 2011, triển lãm ô tô lớn nhất Đông Nam Á, đã chính thức khai mạc vào hôm 23/3 tại Thái Lan.(Ảnh: Bangkok Post) Đây là năm thứ 32 của Bangkok Motor Show, được tổ chức tại địa điểm mới - Khu Challenger của trung tâm triển lãm Impact, Muang Thong Thani, Bangkok. Trước đây, sự kiện này diễn ra ở Trung tâm triển...