Product designers who have found success using the iPad as a sketchbook are a rare breed: it takes patience and pre-existing skill to successfully communicate your ideas with large nubs nearly the size of your pinky finger. Could Wacom’s newly-released Intuos Creative Stylus be the answer to finally being able to sketch (more) naturally on an iPad?
Founded in 2006 by Bono and Bobby Shriver to engage the private sector in raising both awareness and funds to help eliminate global diseases such as AIDS, (RED) has been a popular fundraising model that allows companies to offer unique products within their own brand that also help support the initiative. It would take a lot to get Jony Ive out of 1 Infinite Loop but it looks like (RED) and Leica have pulled it off and along with Marc Newson, the two have created a futuristic take on the Leica M that is expected to raise as much as $6 million USD. Let’s take a look.
French designer Eugeni Quitllet has barely taken a breather since winning a Red Dot Award this year for his Masters Chair, and has proved once again that he is a master when it comes to working with plastics. In this new set of ‘TSA-safe’ airline cutlery for Air France, Quitllet proves that you’re never too old to still play with your food.
Have you ever dreamed of what it would be like to live in the dark, popcorn-scented and smoke-filled acoustic glory of a 1950’s movie theater? If you have somewhere between $18,500-$175,000 to spend on a stereo system, then your 1950s-nostalgia dreams could come true with a custom, handmade audio system from Oswalds Mill Audio, which are built with drivers from vintage theaters. (You might have to contract out the popcorn smell and pay someone to smoke in the corner in order to complete the ambience, but that’s totally worth it to experience Keyboard Cat in his full glory).
It’s no secret that ex-Apple designer Tony Fadell has found great success in his revolutionary Nest Thermostat design. The device has simplified the room temperature adjustment experience for thousands—and was one of the first smart home products that showed us a glimpse into the future of home living when it first came out. Riding on the heels of the Nest Thermostat’s success is Nest’s next adventure into solving another problem in the world of home devices: The Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm.