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Video: Concept Symbian UI Blends AR Maps, Social Networking With glass doors it’s not always immediately obvious which direction the door swings. Is it towards you, or away from you? And making the wrong decision can be disastrously embarrassing. So we like these arrow-shaped handles that provide a subtle hint whether you need to push or pull.
Pringles might be delicious, but its unique can-shaped packaging makes it difficult to enjoy an entire stack when your hands can’t squeeze down the tube. Not exactly an Earth-shattering problem, but we’re still glad there are young designers willing to tackle the issue.
By adding a triangular patch of fabric to the crotch and a strategically oriented pocket on the side, the geniuses at Aquacalda have created these Pic Nic Pants — the perfect jeans for a complete dining experience wherever you choose to plop down.
As if everyone walking around with a DSLR pretending to be Ansel Adams wasn’t bad enough, a research group in Japan has developed the Ubi-Camera which lets you compose a photo by looking through your fingers. Just like an old-timey director. OK, that’s actually cool.
If you’re tired of your toaster just sitting around wasting counter space after the breakfast rush, you’ll appreciate Quirky’s Crisp toaster concept. Like playing an accordion, it can be squeezed down to a mere 2.5 inches wide so it’s easy to store.
Any kid knows how to produce an entire foley library worth of gross sound effects from a bowl of jelly, but Raphaël Pluvinage and Marianne Cauvard’s Noisy Jelly kit produces more pleasing sounds using gelatinous shapes and a special playing board.
A little-discussed fact about the Nokia-Microsoft partnership is that Nokia has permission to create custom Windows Phones skins for its own devices. And while they have yet to do anything, these alleged (and stomach-churning) mockups from a Nokia senior designer in the R&D department not only show what a custom Nokia skin might look like, but also provides the strongest argument for why Nokia (or anyone, really) shouldn’t lay a finger on the Windows Phone UI.
Today in grandiose space ambitions that would make even Newt Gingrich baulk: a $US60 billion, 1600km long, 20km high, 32,000km/h maglev train that starts on the ground and arrives in low Earth orbit. The minds behind the Startram project think it could reduce the cost per kilo for cargo from roughly $US10,000 to just $US50.
Imagine an iPad with an edge-to-edge retina display and NFC capabilities. Know what you could do with that thing? In the minds of those at Aatma Studios, you could connect two of them together and create a giant Franken-pad.
I’ve seen countless attempts to tackle the problem of tangled headphone cables, but this approach — which uses thicker less-flexible sections to make them easier to bundle — looks like it has a lot of potential.
