Go on, admit it — your day in the early 90s was never complete without reaching down in public and giving those Pumps a solid squeeze. In all honesty, we can’t say that Ki-Seung Lee’s Airboard is quite on that level, but it’s certainly got the potential to be. This laptop stand was designed to reside in your lap or on your hotel room table and give each individual user the ability to elevate it as he / she sees fit. Of course, the usefulness would really take a hit if this Read more… »
Posted on 2008 under Design, Miscellaneous |
25
Apr
Designed to use a minimum of materials and components, the “Pole” lamp just looks very, very cool indeed. Designer Paul Cocksedge was trying to create the illusion of bending light, so made the acrylic and concrete design “to send rays of light on a journey of internal reflection.” Simple: the bulb is in the base and light emerges from the giant fiber-optic at its top, providing a bright directional beam and an ambient glow. It’s available from Established and Sons a Read more… »
Posted on 2008 under Storage, Design, USB Devices |
24
Apr
We never get bored of the tons of USB flash drives that come past our way here. They come in tons of shapes and sizes with various capacities. This latest comes from Imation and is named the Atom Flash Drive. The Atom is a tiny thumbdrive which is about the size of a paper clip and measures 30.5 x 13 x 5.6mm in size. Capacities for the Atom range from 1GB all the way up to 8GB which is a fairly decent size considering how tiny the thing is.
On the technical side the drive is embedded with SIP (System in Package) which uses Read more… »
The Intelligent Forms SOLo is a lounge table (can we call it a coffee table?) and is simply designed to soak up the sun, turning it into stored power so you can charge your gear. Apparently left for a year in a “typical outdoor setting,” it can store enough power in its internal batteries to charge up your cellphone 6,800 times or your laptop 168 times. Its got USB sockets, a car-style 12V socket and even a standard 3-pin mains plug, and the whole thing is weatherproof.
Better yet: the SOLo has LED lighting built in for subtle evening lighting effects, you can check on its charge status on its built-in LCD monitor, and it has a large device drawer so you can safely pop your phone, iPod Read more… »
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