Disco, a new OS X app, quite literally burns your CD. A brilliant touch.
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The printer as social letterbox, or what if you could print stuff for your friends. As much as I hate wasting more paper, there’s something about getting a physical printout (also, this could be a great way to recycle all the one-sided printouts lying around your office).
The BenQ Black Box is a beautiful design for the ultimate mobile device. BusinessWeek has some insightful commentary. So simple, so versatile — will someone please build this?
I love Giffin’Termeer’s Containership Powerstrip. It changes the object from something you want to hide away to something you want to show off on your desk. Can someone please produce this? More work from the same designer.
The Stain cup uses coffee stains as decoration rather than degradation. Diego Rodriguez has written before on designing with aging in mind.
De-Pong: pong played on the facade of a building with windows as obstacles. Fun stuff.
Regular household objects cleverly repurposed. Very creative!
Updated to link to the actual website of the book, rather than a blog.
Remember the Gyrobike I blogged about a few months back? Well I happened to meet Nathan Sigworth, one of the designers, while recruiting at Dartmouth. Turns out they’ve just won a Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award! Sweet.
A couple of good commercials: solar power and human katamari. And as a bonus, a little something about truth in advertising.
The new Ford F450 comes with a very clever bed extender. Unbelievably, the Ford F-series is currently the best selling car in the world — even though its only sold in the US. More about the world’s best selling cars.
