The iPhone takes 8-megapixel pictures. For anyone who snapped pictures with an early digital camera, that’s an astounding leap in quality. And yet, forgetting that just a few years ago smartphones didn't even have a photo option, we ...READ MORE›
Sometimes an idea is so obviously good, it's hard to know what to say about it other than "that's clever" while grinning ear to ear. Last year's unbelievably successful Kickstarter darling LunaTik, designed by Scott Wilson, was one of ...READ MORE›
I visited the Brooklyn offices of a prominent technology influencer last week and was surprised to see that the man worked at his desk on a MacBook Air. That minuscule screen is great for computing on planes, trains, and ...READ MORE›
Not too long ago, when it came to hi-fi systems, bigger was better. But now that we can squeeze our entire music collection into a device that fits into our palm, why would we want hulking black boxes for speakers? Rather, these days, ...READ MORE›
The iPad has some amazing writing applications designed for it, like IA's Writer. But unless you want to tote a bulky Bluetooth keyboard along with your tablet--or enclose it in a special case--the touch-typing experience on the ...READ MORE›
There are, of course, many aspects of Black Friday that are unseemly and unsavory. (Trampling other humans comes to mind.) But this doesn't mean that, like most people, we aren't regularly seduced by fantastically designed products. ...READ MORE›
If I were 8 years old making my Christmas list, I'd wish for a toy that was a robot, a car, a camera, a weird flashlight, and a video game all in one. Amazingly, such a thing exists: It's called Sphero, and it looks like little more ...READ MORE›
Attention indie music video directors: Your next retro-beautiful visual trend has arrived, courtesy of a little $79 film camera called the LomoKino. Stuff a roll of drugstore-bought 35mm celluloid into this thing (provided your ...READ MORE›
"People know more about their iPhone than they do their own health," points out Travis Bogard, Jawbone's VP of product development. "So how do we make them consumers of their own wellness?" Today Jawbone is finally unwrapping their ...READ MORE›
You know those dudes who walk around with hands-free Bluetooth headsets jammed into their ears all day? Maybe their twittishness isn't a character flaw, but an unintentional emergent effect of poor product design: let's face it, those ...READ MORE›
Remember David Edwards, the Harvard professor who gets paid to make zany gadgets like smokable chocolate and plant-based air purifiers--stuff that’s both totally cool and completely useless? He’s back, only this time he’s ...READ MORE›
As an outdoor adventurer, I’m no Jon Krakauer. But if I had more of a penchant for roughing it, I’d want this clever LED headlamp from Snow Peak among my gear.
The Snow Miner performs dual functions. When worn as headgear, ...READ MORE›
Here’s something that oughta come in handy now that Occupy Wall Street has officially transformed into Occupy Everywhere: a toolkit for making your own protest signs that covers an indiscriminate raft of causes--and in multiple ...READ MORE›
Oki Sato, the low-profile principal of the Japanese firm Nendo, is the design world's James Franco, a man who can seemingly do just about anything. We’ve covered a sliver of the architect’s body of work at Co.Design: material ...READ MORE›
We've opined before about the pain of cord overload that makes our messenger bags look more like a vat of electronics spaghetti. But we still haven't found a winning solution for making our headphones behave while keeping them close ...READ MORE›
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