Entertainment

Futuristic Jukebox Doesn’t Pretend To Be The Old Thing

I’ve never known the jukebox as anything but a beautiful relic of a musical past. For me, at least, the jukebox never existed to just play music. Instead, it did double duty: neat to have in a bar, clever, vintage, classic, ironic, hipsterish, whatever. I’m sure people who really used jukeboxes in the past didn’t care about that, they just wanted to play a damn song for a nickel. And that’s what the makers of the Virtuo Jukebox think people still want in a jukebox: to play music.


July 28, 2010
Cars

Blink Electric Vehicle Charging Station Looks Better Than Any Petrol Pump

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The fantastic folks of ECOtality and Frog Design have partnered to show us how we’ll charge our sleek electric vehicles in the future. Their design is called Blink and it looks almost as good as the cars it’ll power.


May 13, 2010

McDonald’s In 2020

Frog Design envisions what your Value Meal will look like in 2020 – ignoring my disappointment that the drink isn’t the size of a large movie theatre popcorn bucket, I can appreciate seeing my heart attack in real time.


January 23, 2010
Computing

A 27-Year-Old Apple Tablet Prototype

Meet Bashful, an older brother of the upcoming Apple tablet. Unlike the Newton, this tablet didn’t go past prototypes whipped up by an industrial design firm, but at least we have some pictures to sate our curiosity about the device.


October 23, 2009

Mobia From Nautilus Is The iPod Of Treadmills

The Mobia treadmill has a couple things going for it. Right off the bat you notice the clean and simple iPod-esque aesthetics from Frog Design. It also has an approach to fitness that could finally help get you in shape.


October 7, 2009
Gadgets

A Glimpse Into What’s Hopefully The Future Of Healthcare

You know Frog Design even if you don’t know Frog Design. Their ideas influenced companies including Sony and Apple. And in a recent piece for Fast Company, they presented a thesis on a tech-savvy future for healthcare that’s worth reading.


July 18, 2009

Frog Design’s Hartmut Esslinger On Design In 1979

Hartmut Esslinger’s Frog Design made WEGA/Sony’s electronics fetish items, and then designed the “Snow White” language the Mac used. He’s a design legend and an author. Here he tells us about the challenges of designing, then and now.


December 13, 2008
Gadgets

Silver-Painted Plastic Gadgets Must Die

If there’s one thing that makes me vomit in my mouth, it’s plastic gadgets painted silver.