Thanks to the relatively compact nature of LED technology, lighting designers have been able to create some truly unique designs now that they don’t have to accomodate a bulb. Like Peter Stathis’ Symtra lamp that turns the fractured shade into the source of illumination.
Fortune has a lengthy profile of Tim Cook on tap in this week’s issue, compiling reports of the CEO’s performance through the first seven months and how that has affected Apple. Mostly there’s nothing new; Cook is an accessible, efficient CEO who is putting his expertise in factory production to good use. But there are a few bits of interest, including murmurs of Apple’s future products.
The classic hanger design is fine for button-up tops, but the ergonomics are all wrong when it comes to t-shirts and sweaters. They have a tendency to stretch delicate garments, an that’s what prompted an industrial designer at design shop Ziba to rethink the hanger.
Known more for crafting well-designed, well-engineered products more than being on the cutting edge of technology, it’s no surprise that Tivoli has been hesitant to join the streaming audio party. But the company just announced the availability of the Pal BT and Model One BT radios, which both come equipped with Bluetooth streaming capabilities.
If you’re Katy Perry, you’ll look dumb wearing the Google Glasses — at least in their current prototype form. And unfortunately, being a Google billionaire won’t make it any easier to pull off the look, either. Larry. Larry…
As Laptop Mag’s Avram Piltch explains, if you want to reach a state of true techstasy, you may need to repress your desire to buy a new gadget today and wait for the next version to come out.
When you think of Star Wars fans, you probably picture an overweight individual sprawled out on a couch reaching for Cheetos with a plastic lightsaber. But apparently that image isn’t entirely accurate, since you can now buy Star Wars-themed climbing wall holds.
As we mourn the passing of Eugene J. Polley, it’s worth taking a look back at his seminal invention that changed how we all lounge about watching TV. But when the first commercial wireless remote control appeared way back in 1955, it bared little resemblance to the remotes we use today.
Getting ketchup out of a bottle is a massive unsolved engineering problem. Plastic squeezy bottles, upside down bottles, tapping the 57, just shove a butter knife in there — none really does the job. But the wonderful nerds at MIT might have done it with their new non-stick LiquiGlide bottle.