Reading Time: 2 minutes ID professors, here's a potential assignment for your students that they can develop and test while still stuck at home.Urban Clotheslines is a website dedicated to selling hideaway laundry-drying contraptions. While it's kind of fun to browse through ... Core77
Reading Time: < 1 minute Nancy Coyne is a New-York-based licensed wildlife rehabilitation expert. She takes in young animals whose parents have been killed, and who cannot yet fend for themselves. "Wildlife rehabbing is complete volunteer work," she writes on her website. "You... Core77
Reading Time: 2 minutes It's currently freezing where I am, but with many Texans still out of power, I'm not gonna complain. I will, however, pine for one of these old-school radiators:Yes, it seems that in Victorian times, manufacturers of cast-iron radiators offered models ... Core77
Reading Time: 2 minutes Pop Chart is a company that gets commissioned to create infographics for the likes of The Today Show, The New York Times, Bloomberg and The Economist, to name a few. But their main business is creating and selling fantastic posters that document the fo......
Reading Time: 3 minutes The raw, artist-constructed DUMBO loft I lived in in the '90s had a pocket door for the bathroom. The "handle" was simply a hole drilled completely through, and capped on either end with a small metal piece that looked like the smaller of these:That...
Reading Time: 3 minutes The other night we were watching Gosford Park, a 2001 murder mystery set in an English country estate in the 1930s. There's a scene where a kitchen maid is tasked with collecting knives, and she pulls out a trio of knives that were sticking...
Reading Time: 2 minutes Someone spotted this at a brewery in Germany, and posted it to the What is This Thing subreddit.Image source Turns out it's a speibecken, basically a sink designed just for vomiting into. It's even got its own page on German-language Wikipedia, which s... Core77
Reading Time: 3 minutes Check out this 6:1 toaster concept by Peter Morgan, done when he was a Product Design student at Ireland's National College of Art & Design, Dublin. Morgan asked: "How much of our appliances are actually essential? By weight, one sixth of a convent... Core77
Reading Time: 2 minutes These Latchlok food storage containers have a lot more design thought put into them than your average Tupperware or Glasslock.There are recessed finger pulls on either end of the lid, giving you some leverage to pop the seal and make the lids easier to......
Reading Time: 3 minutes Fascinated by yesterday's look at objects designed for prisons, I started looking at furniture and fixtures in the category. Whereas the objects must be designed with anti-smuggling features, furniture and fixtures must focus on anti-harm while fulfill... Core77
Reading Time: 3 minutes It never occurred to me that you could once smoke in prison (and still can in some regions), but that you don't necessarily want prisoners walking around with lighters and matches. Thus prison supply companies still sell wall-mounted cigarette lighters... Core77
Reading Time: 2 minutes From Germany comes the Qool, a vacuum-insulated cooler that can keep its contents at temperature for up to 10 days. Ice cubes, the Qool company says, will last even longer at 21 days.The secret sauce is the company's "Temperature Elements," which are s... Core77
Reading Time: 3 minutes If you live in a hot climate and grew up watching Cleopatra movies, you might wonder what it's like to be fanned by someone holding a bunch of feathers on a stick.In South Asia, a similar fan existed for centuries and was called a...
Reading Time: 2 minutes Over on the endlessly entertaining "What is This Thing" subreddit, user babblbubblr posted this object:"Does anyone know what this might be for? This is mounted on the stairwell side of our basement door frame. The arms can be pushed up to expand the g......
Reading Time: 2 minutes Meljac, Jung and Juheko might sound like a Baltic law firm, but they're just the names of three companies we've covered that manufacture unusual switch designs.Switches by Meljac Switches by Jung Switches by Juheko Now we've come across a fourth compan... Core77
Reading Time: 2 minutes Eyewear company Vinylize makes their eyeglass frames from vinyl, harvested from an unusual source: LP records. The frames are cut directly out of pressed LPs.Company founder Zachary Tipton developed the technique roughly 20 years ago, and today oversee... Core77
Reading Time: 2 minutes By now you've seen headlines like "Biden Removes Trump's Diet Coke Button from Oval Office." As the story goes, Trump had a red button mounted in a wooden box sitting on the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. Pressing it signaled a servant to...
Reading Time: 2 minutes From Germany comes the Noligraph, this unusual pen:Why five lines? Because those are staff lines, i.e. the template on which one writes sheet music. While you can buy such sheets, or make and print them yourself, the Noligraph is for when you don't hav......
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian artist Jeff Bartels creates absurdly hyperrealist paintings, like this rendition of a Leica:I'd argue that no one can see the truth more clearly than a hyperrealist painter. And as most of us recognize, the truth has repeatedly been twisted, o... Core77
Reading Time: 2 minutes It's almost as if Linksys' designers read that "Why are WiFi Routers So Darned Ugly?" post. If you look at what their routers used to look like……and the stuff that's on the market these days……the design of their new AXE8400 Wi-Fi 6E System, just...
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