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Design
Sperm-Shaped Snowmobile Concept Would No Doubt Finish Fast
4:30AM Jack Loftus | Apparently British designer Evangelos Gicas took one look at those old, bulky snowmobiles we’re riding around on today and said to himself, let’s go faster, shall we? More »
Games
11:20AM Nick Broughall | Apparently the guys at Zoo Weekly were chatting with industry insiders from Japan, Hong Kong and America to find out what we can expect from the next generation gaming consoles from Microsoft and Sony. The rundowns they give, while entertaining for their fantastic nature, will never, ever happen in the real world. But the designs sure are nice… More »
Zoo Weekly’s Xbox 360 And PS4 Designs Will Never, Ever Happen
11:20AM Nick Broughall | Apparently the guys at Zoo Weekly were chatting with industry insiders from Japan, Hong Kong and America to find out what we can expect from the next generation gaming consoles from Microsoft and Sony. The rundowns they give, while entertaining for their fantastic nature, will never, ever happen in the real world. But the designs sure are nice… More »
Phones
Samsung Demonstrates Folding OLED Mobile Phone, Vindicates Thousands of Ridiculous Concepts
7:49PM John Herrman | Buried amongst the piles of Newer! Bigger! Better! TVs, pico projectors and paper-thin, flapping OLED screens at FPD in Japan was an absolute gem: a folding OLED phone concept from Samsung. This isn’t some half-assed, flat-to-sightly-bowed demo either: this thing folds over on itself completely. In its folded mode it looks quite similar to the D900, but the phone opens like a book to reveal a massive, bright OLED screen, creased down the middle. While we’ve got this luscious, luscious video, we don’t have much in the way of specs, and it goes without saying that this stuff is probably a long way from making it to market. [OLED Display] More »
Computers
Designing the New MacBook: Why It Couldn’t Have FireWire
8:40AM Matt Buchanan | Rainer Brockerhoff’s studied dissection of the new MacBook’s design—how certain design choices intersect with the realities of components to produce real notebooks—perfectly explains how they are not simply a wishlist of parts and features that magically come together. There are always compromises. More »
Design
Habitat Machines: Tomorrow’s Architecture From Yesterday’s Appliances
12:00PM Wilson Rothman | At first you see buildings of tomorrow, set on bleak plots of land against bleak skies. But then you notice the coffee pots. And the bathroom scales. And the meat grinders, the electric razors, the cake tins, the cheese graters and, well, you tell me. This is not a Photoshop contest, these are actual sculptures wittily erected by artist David Trautrimas for an exhibit entitled Habitat Machines opening next week at Toronto’s Le Gallery. There’s another haunting image below, and a few more over at Dezeen. Now I gotta go hack open my Kitchen-Aid stand mixer, to see if I can’t just show the world Wilsonberg 2028. [Dezeen] More »
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