Sir James Dyson, inventor of perhaps the most recognisable consumer vacuum on the market today, is completely comfortable with failure. He’s good at it—failure I mean—but most great inventors are.
Watching a movie on a media player during a flight takes skill: You want it propped up but you don’t want to touch it. iFlyz removes the joy challenge from this delicate dance.
Mixing suction-cups with the chance of a high-speed death: sounds like fun, and exactly what designer Robert Nightingale has come up with in his “Hitch” concept. It’s a smidge like the free-ride skateboard Kouriers in Snow Crash and a smidge like bad building-climbing gear from B-movies. The idea of Hitch is simply to sucker onto a vehicle that’s about to move off, using the belt and hand suction cups, thereby gaining yourself a free journey. But Robert also suggests aircraft hangers as a good hitchhiking location, which I’m pretty certain is a one-way ticket to a Darwin Award. [Yanko Design]
