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  • Infectious presents community-designed iPad skins that you’ll actually like

    Infectious presents community-designed iPad skins that you’ll actually like

    Posted on June 15, 2010 | No Comments
    Infectious ran a contest for cool, community-designed graphics and came up with a set of iPad skins the I actually like. My fave? Probably the Gameboy model, shown above, or the pink Vader model that proves your manliness without being too overbearing. Infectious runs a number of design challenges, asking great designers to come up with [...]

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  • Hey, what about OS X?

    Hey, what about OS X?

    Posted on June 7, 2010 | No Comments
    It’s interesting that this WWDC keynote was all about mobile. Obviously he had a big reveal this year – last year was all about the 3GS and Snow Leopard – but there was a decided lack of desktop talk this year. iOS looks like the horse Apple is betting on, at least this year. The uptake [...]

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  • Sony releases Piiq headphones for skaters, kids who want to be skaters

    Sony releases Piiq headphones for skaters, kids who want to be skaters

    Posted on June 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Sony just released the Piiq line of headphones ranging from $99 to $14. They claim they are full of "skater fashion" and "high-concept urban awareness," which means Sony's designers in Tokyo watched some MIA and Lady Gaga videos.

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  • Microsoft Stores coming to Denver and San Diego

    Microsoft Stores coming to Denver and San Diego

    Posted on April 1, 2010 | No Comments
    Right now there are only two Microsoft retail outlets, one in Phoenix, AZ and another in Mission Viejo, CA. These locations opened last year to much singing and dancing, but soon there will be two more. According to a job posting on Microsoft's site, Denver and San Diego will soon be home to their very own Microsoft Stores.

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  • Shadow eBike makes spokes and wires a thing of the past

    Shadow eBike makes spokes and wires a thing of the past

    Posted on March 25, 2010 | No Comments
    While not the first bike to do away with spokes, the Shadow might be the first to see mass production. And its certainly the first to be wireless. Yes, that’s correct. Wireless bicycles. The Shadow’s designers determined that most eBike malfunctions occur at connection points or due to loose wiring. So hey! Why not just get [...]

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  • COOL LEAF: Mirror-like, button-less, flat input devices

    COOL LEAF: Mirror-like, button-less, flat input devices

    Posted on March 3, 2010 | No Comments
    A Japanese company called Minebea has announced [press release in English] a series of input devices, namely a keyboard, remote control and calculator, that have three things in common: They are stylish (with a mirror look), offer no physical buttons and are really flat. Based on a "next generation" input system Minebea has dubbed COOL LEAF, the designers did away with all key tops.

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  • Tokyoflash shows off concept devices from the far future

    Tokyoflash shows off concept devices from the far future

    Posted on February 10, 2010 | No Comments
    Our buds at Tokyoflash are running a concept contest and asking designers to send in their best renders. To date they've had some pretty interesting ideas like this odd-world one called the Time to Streamline:

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  • SmartFish concept aircraft swims in the air

    SmartFish concept aircraft swims in the air

    Posted on January 24, 2010 | No Comments
    SmartfishThe SmartFish aircraft is a concept vehicle created by an engineering firm in Germany, based on the aerodynamic shape of a fish. So far, they have only built a remote control version of the aircraft, however a prototype is in the works. The prototype will be built from kevlar and carbon fiber, however the designers expect the vehicle to be relatively inexpensive to build.

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  • Gruber on the Tablet

    Gruber on the Tablet

    Posted on December 31, 2009 | No Comments
    Good old John Gruber. While the rest of us are panting, he sits in the corner, calmly stroking his luxurious beard. He thinks the Tablet is real, I doesn't know anything about, all of his best sources say Apple's best designers are incognito, and that Steve loves the project.

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  • Outside Puts The iPhone Weather App To Shame

    Outside Puts The iPhone Weather App To Shame

    Posted on December 30, 2009 | No Comments
    Outside iPhone I typically use the Weather iPhone app maybe once a week, if not even ever. The only reason I would ever use the application is if a friend asked me the weather for a certain day of the week. Outside is trying to change the way we see weather applications on the iPhone with their new iPhone app developed by Robocat.

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  • New device for home-use analyzes sleep disorder patterns

    New device for home-use analyzes sleep disorder patterns

    Posted on November 13, 2009 | No Comments
    Measuring and monitoring brain waves to analyze why people have problems with sleeping isn't an easy task. Normally, patients need to be examined in special laboratories and wear head sets with up to eight electrodes over a certain period of time. But now Osaka-based Siix Corporation and the Osaka Bioscience Institute Foundation have developed a simple device that makes it possible to measure and monitor sleep-related brain waves in the comfort of your own home.

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  • Maemo 6 UI concept revealed to include portrait mode, capacitive multitouch

    Maemo 6 UI concept revealed to include portrait mode, capacitive multitouch

    Posted on October 9, 2009 | No Comments

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    Today at the Maemo Summit -- which we like to imagine happens in a lavish, remote mountain fortress somewhere in Finland -- Nokia dropped some interesting hints about what we can expect from Maemo 6. Look for both portrait and landscape support, multitouch, capacitive touchscreens, an "iconic user experience and integrated internet services in one aesthetic package" (as opposed to a user experience that lacks icons, integrated internet services, or aesthetics, we suppose), and a desktop significantly larger than the display, which can be navigated either vertically or horizontally: Nokia is calling this "the canvas principle," although we'd call it "possibly quite confusing" unless the design is particularly well implemented. But the designers have plenty of time for that: Maemo 6 probably won't see the light of day until late 2010. Hit the read link for plenty more mind-blowing slides.

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  • Rumor: Android will power Barnes & Noble’s eReader

    Rumor: Android will power Barnes & Noble’s eReader

    Posted on October 8, 2009 | No Comments
    With the success of the Kindle clear, it's no surprise that other booksellers want in on the action too. Barnes & Noble already launched its ebook store and the iRex DR 800SG will be the first device to run it. However, a WSJ report is suggesting that Barnes & Noble is prepping its own, self-branded device. And get this, it might run Android.

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  • Fallout Holocaust: Experiments in ultra-violence

    Fallout Holocaust: Experiments in ultra-violence

    Posted on September 22, 2009 | No Comments
    Sandbox games are nothing new, but in general, most players try to play the game in the way the designers intended: be good, complete quests, and reach the eventual end of the game in an orderly fashion. Sometimes though, you just have that urge to be bad. Gamer and writer Alexander Gambotto-Burke has written about his descent into madness, and how purely visceral and difficult it is to play a psychopath. He talks about wandering the streets of Megaton using a sledgehammer like a slaughterhouse worker, killing the residents in their sleep. The interesting part is that he starts to really feel bad about it.

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  • Leaked Samsung S3650 Corby pictures indicate designers might have been colorblind

    Leaked Samsung S3650 Corby pictures indicate designers might have been colorblind

    Posted on August 24, 2009 | No Comments
    corby What's black, yellow, red, and just a wee bit ugly all over? If you guessed the Samsung S3650 Corby, good job! We also would have accepted "Clint Howard wearing a bumblebee suit and a red fedora."

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