AirPlay Speaker or Surround Sound System? With This Speaker, It’s Your Choice [Video]

You might live in a small apartment now, and really only need a single wireless speaker to handle your music needs. But then you move into a bigger better apartment, with a big, beautiful TV and need more audio power. Instead of relegating your trusty AirPlay speaker to second-class status and starting ove on the audio front, you could take a speaker like UnMonday’s 4.3L and repurpose it into a single satellite as part of a 5.1 dolby digital surround sound system. More »

Installing This Axe Shelf Looks Incredibly Easy and Dangerous [Wish You Were Here]

With a brilliant design incorporating two axes, Köln International School of Design students Yanik Balzer and Max Kuwertz have created a shelf that makes installation an absolute breeze. You just need to find an open space on your wall, wind up, and hope that at least one side of the axe heads makes contact with a stud. More »

Control Your Smartphone—Not Your NES—With This Bluetooth Power Glove [Wish You Were Here]

It may not have been a runaway success for Nintendo, but a company called B.i.Tech is hoping there’s still some interest in the Power Glove concept. Its BEARTek gloves wirelessly connect to your smartphone or MP3 player over Bluetooth providing full control of your device with simple fingertip taps. More »

We Could Control Future Computers and Video Games Using a 3D Motion Tracking Wristband [Video]

The Wii Introduced the masses to motion-based gaming. The Kinect took things one step further and all but eliminated controllers. Microsoft’s latest innovation, an infrared tracker which is worn on the wrist, could make gaming and UI controls even more immersive than before. More »

This Perforated Bill Would Make It Super Easy To Literally Split the Check [Wish You Were Here]

You may be at a point in your life where splitting the bill comes off as tacky, but everybody’s been in that position where it’s totally necessary. For those times, like college, the Go Dutch Bill would come in super handy, if it actually existed. More »

This Beautiful Design Finally Fulfills the Washer’s Round-Machine Destiny [Wish You Were Here]

Could sharp, pointy corners and box-like form factors join faux-wood finishes in the industrial design graveyard? Bauknecht, Whirlpool’s European brand, has collaborated with German designer Arman Emami to create this stunning round washing machine that looks like it belongs front and center in your living room—not your basement. More »

This Jacket’s Faraday Cage Conveniently Silences Your Phone [Wish You Were Here]

Switching your phone off for important meetings or trips to the cinema can be a pain in the ass. Victor Johansson has a solution, though: he’s designed the Escape Jacket, which features a Faraday cage in the inside pocket to immediately take your phone off the grid. More »

These Shoes Guide You Home Using GPS, However Lost You Are [Video]

We’ve all been there: drunk, flat phone battery, lost and unable to find a cab. While usually the only solution is to sit on the sidewalk and weep, if you were wearing Dominic Wilcox‘s new No Place Like Home GPS shoes, you’d be able to make it home by just looking at your feet. More »

Voice Activated Popcorn Cannon Blasts Kernels Directly Into Your Mouth [Video]

Popcorn can be a fantastically healthy potato chip alternative, but always ends up playing second fiddle. So in an attempt to finally claim snack world supremecy, a company called Popcorn Indiana has created the Popinator, a voice activated kernel cannon that promises to be the perfect weapon to finally dethrone chips—at least if it ever becomes a reality. More »

A Full-Size Folding Bike That’s a Joy to Transport [Wish You Were Here]

Most folding bikes make a big compromise: they’re either incredibly portable with tiny wheels, or offer normal proportions but prove a pain in the ass to transport. Mikuláš Novotný’s solution, however, seems to offer the best of both worlds. More »