With the Nissan Leaf and GM's Volt hitting the streets in December, GE, BP, and a host of design stars are racing to install the gas pump's high-style replacement.READ»
"Bored with mass-production? Scared of cultural
globalization? Emotionally disconnected from what you consume? Designers
around the world are using technology to fight back and create a new economy
based on craft, individualization ...READ»
GE may be taking its time in launching designer electric vehicle charging stations, but Coulomb Technologies is already deploying free charge spots en masse. The startup, which is installing nearly 5,000 public and home charging ...READ»
If the electric car is to succeed, it needs charging stations that are both easy-to-use and well designed--a clunky infrastructure will quickly turn off potential drivers. That's why GE brought in fuseproject's Yves Behar to design ...READ»
Every now and then you read a book and wish you had about a hundred of them to give away to people who should be exposed to the insight contained within. "Baked In" is exactly that kind of book.READ»
Update: Since we published this piece, VersinnageTV has posted a nice interview with Behar, complete with an animation of the watch in action. Watch it below.
With its single hand, and pristine face, the Vue watch by Yves Behar for ...READ»
A year ago I told myself that social design would thrive in reverse proportion to the stock market. As soon as the Dow hit 10,000, I suspected, designers would abandon their humanitarian projects and resume work on $6,000 pendants. ...READ»
One can easily argue that Nicholas Negroponte's OLPC XO computer predicted the entire netbook phenomenon. Now the company's revealed its vision for the OLPC XO3 in 2012--Is it similarly visionary? You betcha.READ»
When Karen Armstrong, an author and former Catholic nun, won the 2008 TED Prize, she made a TED wish worthy of Mother Theresa: that a Charter of Compassion be drawn up with help from leading thinkers in Judaism, Christianity, and ...READ»
In case you missed it, the Litl Webbook is a unique "cloud-based netbook" with only 2GB of local storage, a presumably Linux-based custom OS, and a 12-inch display that bends over into "easel mode." Here's what it looks like ...READ»
I’m feeling particularly inspired today. The words are flowing. It could be knowing the October design issue is finally out the door. Or it could be my underwear.READ»
Yves Behar is set to unveil his newest creation this weekend at the just opened extension wing of the Art Institute of Chicago. It's a departure from his design work--as one in a series of "laboratory works," it's a ...READ»
Can products nurture the people and place that produced them? Ten signature designers taking part in the Design for a Living World exhibition show how it might be done.READ»
About a year ago, I happened to be at breakfast panel at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, where Tim Brown, CEO of Ideo, was speaking. At the time, the topic, "What is Wrong with American Design?" was much in the ...READ»
Plantronics fired across the bow of its high-style nemesis, the Jawbone 2, with its Voyager Pro headset, which goes on sale today. Now Jawbone--never one to be outmaneuvered--is firing back with the Jawbone Prime, which is ...READ»
