Fun, Colorful Tableware Designed For Alzheimer's Patients
From malnutrition due to dementia to the inability to eat with dignity, patients with neurodegenerative have a lot of problems at meal times, difficulties Taiwanese designer Sha Yao saw first hand when...
View ArticleThe Talon Is Like A Wii For Your Ring Finger
Almost a decade ago, Nintendo unveiled the next big thing in game controllers: the Wiimote, a gyroscopic Bluetooth wand about the size of a ruler that allowed you to control video games across the...
View ArticleApple's Marc Newson Designs A Space-Age Fountain Pen
Now that he's joined Apple, famed industrial designer Marc Newson seems like he'd be more likely to design an iPad stylus at this point than a pen. But there's no rubber tip to be found on Marc...
View ArticleThis Snatch Of Code Can Give Any Website Better Typography
Good typography on the web is pretty rare, because it's hard. Consider quotes. Books use smart quotes, or quotation marks that mirror each other both horizontally and vertically on either side of the...
View ArticleFloating Above London, This Invisible Pool Lets You Swim Laps In The Sky
Infinity pools are lame. Sky pools that stretch between buildings like transparent overpasses of water? Infinitely cooler.The developers at the Embassy Gardens, a new luxury apartment complex opening...
View ArticleHalf Ive, Half Rorschach, Behold The Ferromagnetic Lava Lamp!
If you're obsessed with ferromagnetic fluid—and hey, who wouldn't be?—it's a good time to be alive.The Ferroflow is an interactive desktop sculpture by designer Matt Robinson, who describes it as a...
View ArticleViridi, A Game About Succulents
Most video games are based upon stress: the stress of timing a jump, solving a puzzle, or beating an enemy. Viridi by Seattle-based developer Ice Water Games is different. It's designed to melt the...
View ArticleEnter The Matrix! This iPad App Lets You "See" Wi-Fi Signals
The invisible world around us pulses with radio waves, an electromagnetic tide that washes over everything. If you could see it, everything around us would ripple with information, like dropping a tab...
View ArticleThis App For Kids Makes iPhone App Programming As Easy As Lego
Tinybop founder Raul Gutierrez was frustrated. Compared to the Apple II computers he grew up programming on, the iPhones in his kids' hands were unknowable black boxes: silicon sandwiches of wafer-thin...
View ArticleThese Totemic Sculptures Are The Ultimate Bookends For Your Lustig Library
Even if you don't recognize his name, Alvin Lustig was one of the great graphic designers of the 20th century. Although he died of diabetes before he was 40, Lustig created dozens of abstract,...
View ArticleWhat Makes Vintage Video Game Art Great
Cool Box Art is a Twitter feed that dedicates itself to classic video game box art: the timeless, the surreal, and the sometimes woefully misrepresentative designs that have been used for decades to...
View ArticleSqueeze This Stress Ball Tourism Map To Zoom In
Navigating through a strange city can be stressful. It can also be dangerous, especially if you don't know where you're going: nothing makes you look more like a tourist than wandering around squinting...
View ArticleWaste Your Day Away With This Gold Mine Of Games Made Specifically For Designers
We love video games for designers and design lovers. Like this one. And this one. Or this one.That's why Games for Designers is like an early Christmas gift. It's a treasure trove featuring games about...
View ArticleHow Ammunition And Apple's Ex-CEO Plan To Disrupt The "Design Center" Of The...
Both John Sculley and Ammunition Group's Robert Brunner left Apple before the iPhone era. Sculley, the former CEO of Apple from 1983 to 1993, is perhaps best known as the man who pushed out Steve Jobs;...
View ArticleFrom The Creator Of "Spelltower," A Version Of Solitaire That Actually Works...
Most mobile games are shame-plays. Angry Birds and Clash of Clans might be your favorite time wasters, but only when no one's watching. They're not "fit for life," says iOS developer Zachary Gage,...
View Article6 Tips For Designing An Awesome Rube Goldberg Machine
If nothing else, 3M is an impressive company for the sheer breadth of products it offers. According to Wikipedia, it makes more than 55,000 products, "including adhesives, abrasives, laminates, passive...
View ArticleBallantine's Space Glass Lets You Drink Whiskey In Microgravity
It sounds like the ultimate way for an astronaut to kick back after a space walk, but whiskey in space is weird. If you make it in space, it tastes funny; and if you ship it from Earth, astronauts have...
View ArticlePendleton's Wool "Star Wars" Blankets Are Perfect For Geeky Lumbersexuals
Since 1863, the Pendleton Woolen Mills in Portland, Oregon, have been producing high quality wool blankets, warm enough to keep you as toasty as a tauntaun's tummy even in the frigid wastes of Hoth....
View Article#Smilegate! Adobe Demos How To "Fix" Resting Bitch Face During iPad Pro Event
At today's Apple Event, Apple brought a couple of conquered tech enemies on stage to pay tribute to the new iPad Pro, including Microsoft and Adobe. But it was Adobe who made the biggest splash on...
View ArticleApple's Big Plan To Transform Your Photos Into Videos
One of the singular features of the new iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus is Live Photos. The new default way to take a picture on next-gen iPhones, Live Photos brings every photo to life when you hard tap...
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