It’s almost impossible to think about soft drinks without thinking about Coca-Cola. The brand has managed to stay on top for nearly 130 years, and a lot of the success may be based on its contour bottle design.
If you sit a computer all day, you likely have a speaker sitting there next to you, and if you like to take that speaker with you, it’s likely a portable, Bluetooth speaker. The sound quality among these is typically so-so, good enough to get you through the day. Most wouldn’t know the difference in the sound unless all the options were compared side-by-side. So, when I heard about the Astro ‘Pure Audio’ Bluetooth speaker, I was curious. And when I saw a side-by-side comparison, I was blown away. I’ve now used it for a few weeks and it is, without a doubt, the best portable, Bluetooth speaker I’ve experienced. I wanted to find out more behind this speaker, so talked with founder Alexis Corval about everything from the concept and industrial design to the audio design and manufacturing.
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Who doesn’t love a trip to Ikea? (10 hours and 5 plates of Swedish meatballs later… nobody.) Yes, while you’re browsing through the warehouse munching on those delicious café goods, you may want to take every piece of furniture home, but once the shopping high ends you’re faced with the agony of assembling and arranging everything you didn’t go there to buy. Wouldn’t it be great if there was something that did all that for you? ASMBLD aims to make those dreams come true. Project Dom Indoors is a robotic system that reconfigures a room within minutes. Sound too good to be true? Well, here’s how they plan to make it happen.
Interdisciplinary innovation is expanding and Derek Hugger believes art and engineering should be no exception. The artist and woodworker uses intricate engineering designs to put nature and mesmerizing kaleidoscopics of abstract shapes into motion. We found out more about everything that goes into this process and how each piece goes through hours of development, so you can make them too.