Finally acknowledging that very few people actually sit in an office chair the way it was designed to be used, Steelcase has created a new chair that caters to all the wacky poses we strike when using various devices. So while the new Gesture can still be used with a traditional keyboard and monitor setup, it’s also just as comfy for use with phones and tablets too. More »
Paola Antonelli stopped by the Colbert Report earlier this week to talk about Applied Design, an exhibition currently running at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, where she is senior curator of the Design and Architecture department. In case you missed it, she has some great insight on the future. More »
Unless you’re completely snobbish about only consuming bottled water, this cute silicone cup—crafted in the shape of a leaf—will let you enjoy a drink without having to get your mouth anywhere near a tap, faucet, or bubbling spring. And it’s just $12 and washable, so you’ll never have to feel guilty about asking for a disposable cup again. [Connect Design via Holycool] More »
“Comfortable” is definitely not a word I’d use to describe airport seats. They’re fine if you only have an hour or so to go before your flight. But if your flight gets delayed, it’ll feel more like hell with the hard seats digging into your butt while you sit there for the next eight hours and try to juggle your laptop and your lunch on your knees.
And then came Kwon Jin-Seok’s Comfort Airport seating.
It’s a modular, easy-to-adjust seating system that lets weary passengers hold impromptu meetings (by converting it into a table with opposite seats), do some last-minute work (by converting it into a desk with chair), or take a nap (by converting it into an extended bench.)
Power sockets with USB hubs are also conveniently placed on junctions connecting the tables so you can charge your device while you work or play.
Comfort Airport is a convertible chair that can be easily transformed into a table on which people can use computers and mobile devices. In a grouped table configuration, it can also serve as a place to converse with friends or family. With its backrest and table folded down, it can be transformed into a daybed on which passengers can lay down for a nap
Comfort Airport is a 2012 red dot award: design concept winner. Let’s hope some airports (and other public transportation hubs) wise up and start to install something like this in the near future.
[via Yanko Design]
Ever reached into your bag to grab a packet of chewing gum to find that it had been squashed? Ever bought a lollypop and wanted to eat it later but couldn’t find any where to put it? Ever wanted to eat that packet of chocolate balls but have been too embarrassed to let people know what you are eating?
With wooden product-specific candy cases from Sweet D Life you’ll be able to keep your snacks intact and eat them in style.
Pocky Case
Designed for classic candy brands like Mentos, Mintia mints, and more the cases protect your sweets and gum from damage and present them as more than just something quick to eat, though that may be more of a Japan-specific need since the whole packet isn’t being consumed at once.
Fits Chewing Gum Wallet Case
Made from African Mahogany using traditional Japanese wood craft techniques Sweet D Life offers a range of cases for smartphones, business cards, coins, wallets and candy.
Chuppa Chup Carry Case
Each wooden candy case has been specially designed to hold the packaging size of specific confectionary brand, and is also designed to work beyond just packaging and accomodate graphics as well.
Case for Morinaga Chocolate Balls
Meiji Choco Baby Case
By working with classic brands that don’t change packaging often, this works with the popularity of a handful of confectionary brands in Japan and assumes a high level of brand loyalty among the buyers of these cases.
Mintia Case
With prices ranging from 3000 to 8000 Yen (US$32 to US$87) for one case they aren’t cheap, but for devotees of a particular product it’s not unreasonable either.
Meiji Chocolate Case
Smarties Case
In a way Sweet D Life are endorsing frequent confectionary consumption and loyalty to a specific brand of sweets, but also the lifestyle of having the products and showing them off. It goes beyond the quick eat and dispose mentality.
Tube Case
Offering such elegant and stylish wooden cases for confectionary that usually costs less than 2oo Yen (US$2.5) is an interesting concept, but perhaps that’s exactly what makes the cases a bit cray to begin with. Protecting your cheap sweets with a $40 case is something you only do for style.
Is all your bad-ass clothing just too much for those flimsy, plastic, run-of-the-mill hangers. Do your pants or shirts, weighted as they are with pounds of pure awesomeness, need something more structurally sound to keep them in order? The “Man Hanger” suits your very strange needs. More »
The Aurora Lamp is simple. It can either sit on a table or hang from the wall with just one screw. More »
Oh Universe, you will never cease to amaze me, with all your galaxies and your pulsars and supernovas and your planets and your alien civilizations that never show up and all that starstuff we love so much. You know, like the fact that you draw perfect spirographs in the sky all the time. More »
With real-world dolls getting LEDs installed and embedded into their gowns, it was only a matter of time before Barbie upgraded her own wardrobe to include these futuristic digital threads.
Barbie might have taken a back seat over the last few years, but she’s fighting to get into the spotlight once again. Keeping up with the times and with her Hollywood counterparts, Mattel has decided to dress Barbie up in a digital dress that’s as futuristic as dresses can get.
The dress incorporates the latest in LED and touchscreen technology, allowing girls to choose which digital designs they want to appear on the front of the dress. They can either choose from pre-programmed graphics, draw their own designs, or watch designs respond to sound and music stimuli.
The Barbie Digital Dress doll will be available this August for $49.99 (USD).
[Mattel via Pocket Lint]
Just like many of you, I dread dropping my phone. It happens from time to time, but I’ve never had a drop damage my phone. That being said, there’s no way that my phone could survive a 6,000-foot drop, or could it?
The people behind mentalKase have developed a case that’s supposed to be capable of surviving a drop from up to 6,000 feet – that’s more than a mile, folks.
The styling of the mentalKase isn’t that hot, but the foam rubber that it’s made of is ideal for protecting electronics. This means that you could probably throw your phone around and it would never be a problem, if you can get used to the size and bulk of the case.
With less than a day of funding left in this Kickstarter project, and more than $40,000 in funding missing, this case will probably not be funded by Kickstarter, but it might be released for retail nonetheless. You’ll have to pledge $45 for an iPhone 4/4S case or $50 for an iPhone 5 case.
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