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By Coroflot Jobs - Dec 22 New
Design Job: Design For Change! Artefact is Seeking a Lead Industrial Designer in Seattle, WA
Channel your creativity to make a difference
At Artefact, we believe industrial design cannot exist in a vacuum. Each connected device – from your couch to your fitness bracelet, the hospital room to your wallet – demands we think about connected experiences. The shape and form of our design impacts the object’s meaning as much as the
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By Emily Engle - Dec 21
Small Transparent Speaker Transcends Beauty
The premium speaker alerts you when it needs fixin'
PEOPLE Products (a spin-off of PEOPLE PEOPLE) is back on Kickstarter, this time with a downsized version of their cleverly named Transparent Speaker—the even more cleverly named Small Transparent Speaker. Designed to look fabulous in any environment, the—icy—Small Transparent Speaker only comes in white, is wireless and is able to
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By Robert Grace - Dec 20
Sponsored Post: Colored Glass Clearly Has its Benefits
Structurally strong & colorful laminated glass expands the architect's portfolio
Laminated glass panels made with layers of colored films create panels with a wide range of structural properties. Tens of thousands of transparent, translucent, or solid color options are now available to help make architectural dreams reality.
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By Rain Noe - Dec 19
A Look Inside China's Gargantuan Electronics Marketplace in Shenzhen
The city boasts "400 industrial design houses, 150,000 working industrial designers"
Shenzhen has been called the Silicon Valley of China. But as a manufacturing powerhouse we feel it's also the 1950s Detroit of China, just with electronics, not sedans, rolling off of assembly lines. Shenzhen's staggering tech and production capacity has yielded the Huaqiangbei mega market, a sprawling, open-to-the-public marketplace that
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By Rain Noe - Dec 16
A Device That Lets You Charge Your Phone Using Your Body's Own Energy
HandEnergy requires nothing more than elbow grease and some time
There are several devices on the market that will let you charge your cell phone independent of a power socket. But this one is significantly different: Inventor Michael Vaga has created HandEnergy, an apple-sized device that lets you charge your phone using nothing more than your own personal energy.
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By Rain Noe - Dec 16
Cute Anime Holograph Digital Assistants are Mildly Terrifying
This is what Tron would design if he had an internship at Braun and was obsessed with "Robotech"
I get what they're trying to do here—and I don't like it one bit. Take a look at this "Gatebox Virtual Home Robot" out of Japan: The character's name is Azuma Hikari (her "personality profile" is here) and even after accounting for cultural differences, I find her downright disturbing. While
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By Rain Noe - Dec 15
From Japan, a Wonderfully Overcomplicated System for Self-Packaging Groceries
Panasonic's Regirobo rethinks the shopping experience
How would you tackle the following design problem? Here's the desired user experience that the client, a convenience store chain, wants its customers to have: 1. Customers walk the aisles, physically selecting items for purchase.2a. They check out via machine.2b. They check out without physically handling the goods.3. Their goods
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By Rain Noe - Dec 15
How Did Factories Get Power to Their Machines Before Electricity?
OSHA would not have approved of the line shaft system
The Industrial Revolution and the world's first factories antedated electricity. How is it possible that a machine shop could run, in an age when you couldn't just plug a machine into a socket? The answer is, miles of leather (or cotton) belts. Factories had their power source, whether it
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By Core Jr - Dec 14
Firm Project: Get "Closer to Your Music" With This Funky Headphone Design
Lola is a completely reimagined headphone that brings new levels of detail to your listening experience. It’s a headphone the true music listener—designed to help you get closer to your music, not just make a fashion statement. Everything from Lola’s revolutionary form and fit to its massive custom drivers was designed to help you rediscover your favorite music.
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By Kat Bauman - Dec 12
Singularity Watch: An AI Wrote A Holiday Song
Yes, of course it's terrifying
Just in time for the chilling winter months, here's a computer's idea of a cheery festive song. It was penned by an AI developed at the University of Toronto, which builds on deep learning capabilities like those of Google's DeepDream. Instead of turning images into hallucination nightmare dogs, this project
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By Core Jr - Dec 12
Firm Project: TempehSure 2.0 Removes the Mystery From Making Tempeh
TempehSure™ is designed to make making tempeh, a traditional soy product originating from Indonesia, much easier. The device is a patented system that removes the mystery and guesswork from making tempeh. Pulse developed both the product design (consumer and professional models) and the user interface.
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By Rain Noe - Dec 12
Which Types of Jobs Will, and Won't, be Replaced by Robots & AI?
"England derives more revenue from rock music than coal"
Self-driving Teslas and beer delivery trucks are cool. They will also contribute to the obliteration of an entire class of jobs, with a cascading effect; if truck drivers disappear, there's no need for the things truck drivers spend their money on between points A and B. "Truck stop waitress" is
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By Coroflot Jobs - Dec 09
Design Job: Turn Up the Heat! Nest is Seeking an Industrial Designer in Palo Alto, CA
Apply your thoughtful mind to designing thoughtful home products
The Nest industrial design team is looking for a talented Designer. We are passionate about reinventing unloved but important home products by redefining human interaction and its aesthetic quality with strong attention to detail. The Work: At Nest you will collaborate closely with
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By Core Jr - Dec 07
Firm Project: You Used to Call Me on My Home Phone: Layer's Home Phone Revival for Panasonic
A major Asian consumer electronics company approached us to support their European and Asian design teams with a new perspective on communication tools. We developed a series of co-working workshops with a focus on rapid concept generation through an iterative process to find new solutions for the home phone.
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By Rain Noe - Dec 05
POV of Tesla Driving While Equipped with Autopilot Full Self-Driving Hardware
See the Tesla version of "Terminator Vision"
When Tesla announced that every car they produce is now coming out of the factory with full self-driving hardware, I was a little stunned. I figured the relatively easy highway stuff was one thing, but that navigating towns, cities and crosswalks would be another. Nevertheless, while it's true that they'll
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By Emily Engle - Dec 02
The Revolutionary Steadicam Turns 40
Here's how you can celebrate, along with a look at the device's different uses over time
One of the most important film-related inventions of all time, the Steadicam, turns 40 this year! The original camera stabilization device is known for its prominent role in capturing iconic film moments including the hallway in The Shining, the stair climb in Rocky, the Copacabana scene in Goodfellas and the
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By Rain Noe - Dec 02
An App that Improves Your Vision?
GlassesOff claims they can improve your vision and allow you to stop wearing reading glasses
The conventional wisdom is that staring into screens will eventually worsen your eyesight. But a company called Innovision Labs reckons they can improve your vision with their smartphone/tablet app, called GlassesOff. Train your eyes for three 10-minute sessions per week, they claim, and in a matter of months you can
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By Emily Engle - Nov 30
Will June the Intelligent Oven Ease Stress in the Kitchen?
It's too early to tell, but its/her design is very promising...
Meet June, the intelligent oven that really wants to enhance your meals and baked goods. It/she (?) aims to erase the popular AI 'taking over the world' stigma brought to us by the likes of our friends LipNet and the painting AI system. Even though June is in fact an
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By Coroflot Jobs - Nov 30
Design Job: Design the Future! MakerBot is Seeking a Senior UX Designer in Brooklyn, NY
Be an innovator in the world of 3D printing
MakerBot is growing its internal design team to help define how people bring new ideas into reality. With touch points across hardware, desktop applications, mobile applications, and web based solutions, the design team at MakerBot is very uniquely seated between the physical and digital worlds. Let’s design the future, together.
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By Kat Bauman - Nov 29
A Cheese Glue Gun Backed by... Buzzfeed?
Fiddle while Rome burns, on a budget
The social and political landscape may be murky these days, and the hectic holiday season is only just underway, but here's a glimmering greasy beacon of hope: the Fondoodler. This slightly heinous contraption takes your grated cheese of choice and melts it into a spreadable stream. It's like a hot
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By Rain Noe - Nov 29
Breakfast's Kinetic Flip-Disc Display System
Physical pixels, plug-and-play simplicity
Tired of boring ol' LED displays? Check out this kinetic variant: That's prototyping company Breakfast's new Flip-Disc Display, which uses physical discs colored black on one side and white on the other as "pixels." Flip-disc displays, also called flip-dot displays, aren't new; they've been around since at least the early
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By Robert Grace - Nov 28
Sponsored Post: Materials Matter: Innovating in the Third Dimension
Eastman, Carbon, HP & others are among those advancing the additive manufacturing sector
Innovation is taking many forms in the 3D printing industry. Companies are furiously working to develop new materials and processes that leverage the amazing capabilities of this technology. A few years ago, the hype around 3D printing became overheated, with promises of it triggering a new industrial revolution, and obsoleting
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By Emily Engle - Nov 23
Self Conscious of Your Thanksgiving Cooking Skills? You're Probably Better Than a Drone
Watch the X-Star Premium Drone struggle and excel at various cooking techniques
Thanksgiving is a time to prove your cooking skills to you friends and family—this can cause anxiety when you've either never cooked a Thanksgiving meal before or if you suffer from self doubt in the kitchen. Feeling like your cooking skills are a few tablespoons below average? Watch this drone
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By Kat Bauman - Nov 22
Singularity Watch: This AI Taught Itself to Read Lips Better Than Humans
Awesome assistive tech or harbinger of the robot apocalypse?
A team of researchers at Oxford University have coaxed an artificial intelligence program into an impressive leap forward and towards our own obsolescence. The program, known as LipNet, is showing particularly promising ability to read lips in video clips, thanks to machine learning and a novel way of approaching the
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By Kat Bauman - Nov 22
The New BMW Concept Thinks Motorcyclists Shouldn't Need Helmets
In the future, all we'll need are smart glasses... and a fully predictable world
BMW recently rolled out the Motorrad Vision Next 100, an aggressively futuristic concept motorcycle that aims to "digitize", "simplify" and "totally free" us from the traditional riding experience. The design's biggest claim to fame isn't its high efficiency electric power, self-balancing gyros, or even the wacky Tron uniframe. Its creators
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By Stuart Constantine - Nov 21
BioFabricate 2016: Growing the Materials of the Future
A day-long exploration of how biotechnology is facilitating a new material revolution
Attracting over 500 attendees, the third annual BioFabricate conference drew a crowd of scientists, academics, designers, entrepreneurs and artists for a full day of presentations, discussions and exhibits exploring innovations in contemporary bio tech. The presenters and panelists showcased a wide range of technology with a focus on the value
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By Rain Noe - Nov 21
Beer Shipped by Autonomous Tractor Trailers
Uber's new self-driving trucks are like "a train driving on software rails"
Ubers may not move any faster than taxis, but the company overall is moving a lot faster than its competition. In addition to launching self-driving cars in Pittsburgh, they've now successfully performed a test run of a self-driving tractor trailer loaded up with beer. Back in August Uber acquired Otto,
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By Rain Noe - Nov 18
What Happens When AI Starts Designing Things? Autodesk CTO Sounds Off
AI vs. ID, or will we work together?
Autodesk University is a massive annual conference aimed at "those who design, build, make and create." It's where industrial designers rub shoulders with architects and makers, engineers and construction foremen, scientists and entrepreneurs from all over the world. Part of the reason to attend is the excellent classes, which we'll
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By Rain Noe - Nov 18
They've Taught an AI to Compose an Original Rembrandt Painting
Not a copy: The Next Rembrandt project's 'bot created a unique painting in Rembrandt's style
Earlier this year there was an unprecedented collaboration between ING, Microsoft and TU Delft, with the willing participation of Dutch museums Mauritshuis and Rembrandthuis, to teach an artificial intelligence to paint a Rembrandt. Not to duplicate an existing Rembrandt, but to paint an original one, with a unique composition and
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By Core Jr - Nov 16
Firm Project: An Intuitive Audio Control Unit for Gamers
The Tournament Audio Controller (TAC) is the ultimate weapon in a gamer’s arsenal. Designed by the team at Ink, the TAC had to allow gamers intuitive access to audio controls often in low or no light environments. The iconic wedge shape acts as a funnel of information putting most essential controls towards the user and less essential functions away from accidental actuation. Rich textured knobs and sliders allow gamers haptic feedback in low light conditions while LEDs light up customized setti
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By Coroflot Jobs - Nov 16
Design Job: Chill Out—Puffco is Seeking an Industrial Designer in Brooklyn, NY
Revolutionize #vapelife designing for the leading cannabis tech company
About Us: Join the fastest growing industry in the world. Puffco is the leading cannabis technology company, with awesome business practices that are reflected by an award-winning 2015 & 2016. We are proud to represent innovation and dedication to the consumer’s needs and interests, and we constantly strive to bring the best technology and experience to the vaping community.
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By Rain Noe - Nov 14
New "Mental Canvas" Drawing App Looks Freaking Amazing
Together with the Surface Studio, it provides a wicked way to go from 2D to 3D
Good on Microsoft for not only dreaming up the Surface Studio, but finding app developers that totally get what it's capable of and understand how designers sketch. In the last entry, we caught a glimpse of what appeared to be a flythroughs of 3D spaces that had apparently been sketched,
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By Core Jr - Nov 14
Firm Project: A Hoverboard Upgrade
"A powerful premium product amongst cheap competitors"
KIWANO was a revolutionary product designed to take a good idea to the next level! The "hoverboard" craze grew intensely over the last year and we wanted to elevate the possibilities and design a powerful premium product amongst cheap competitors. We created the All-Terrain Smart Scooter with APP from the initial pencil to paper first step into full execution and product launch through use of our highly successful Pre-Order Launch Campaigns!
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