Cars

Ford Redesigns Car Dashboards To Be More Like Mobiles

Ford recently overhauled their car dashboards to make car interfaces less sucky and more like mobile phones. They focused on better usability and teamed up with design firm Ideo to create a consistent UI for all their cars.


September 22, 2010

Take Me To A Future Where Books Act Like This

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Books aren’t going to go away any time soon. But, like magazines have started to, they’re going to evolve. And if that evolution looks anything like these concepts, we’re in for a pleasant literary future.


October 30, 2008
Gadgets

IDEO Sets Up Ridiculously Large, Continent-Spanning Rube Goldberg Device

Sure, we’ve seen a number of fun Rube Goldberg devices in our day, but none with the scale and ambition of this one made by IDEO. I mean, how can you argue with a statement like this: