Arts & Design

Hey, it’s a miracle. For once a phone design that isn’t a cellphone! The Quartz Tele concept uses large quartz crystals instead of the traditional button pad. Each quartz stands as its own number key with embedded LEDs, and illuminates when pressed. All of the quartz stand on a base with a central screen displaying all of the caller ID ...

New advances on the production of photovoltaic solar panels allow for them to be made in the style of roofing shingles. Instead of just a big clunky block of solar capturing, the solar cells can be integrated to look like normal roof tiles, making your choice of power not only inconspicuous, but more pleasing to the eye. The National Institute ...

The bond between a human and their tea is among the strongest that life has to offer. Whether it be herbal or leaf, if tea had a soul, we’d most likely marry it. For those who don’t care about your mug’s contents not carrying a single ounce of respiration capability, the Ring Mug unites you and your beverage in the ...

Not only electronics are moving fast into the future, even simple home utilities are moving ahead. The Fedora radiator concept makes the radiator more than just a radiator. Using a special built-in cubby, you can lay your feet right inside of Fedora, for an ultimate foot warming experience. Which is really great for people without a fireplace. Not only can ...

� While we don’t think we’d accept a mixed drink from someone named “Dirty Don”, we can’t help but love his creation of the Margarita Maker. Built over a trailer, the Dirty Don customed himself a 6 inch tall blender blade, mixed it with a small block 400 and other assorted parts, and created the fastest Margarita mixer ever created. ...

EADS Astrium is a new jet being designed that could make space tourism very possible by 2012. It would cost a staggering �200,000 per ticket for only three minutes of weightlessness. The four-passenger jet looks like a pretty conventional airplane from the outside, but will make take you all that much higher. The Astrium will take off from conventional airports ...

German programmer Bernd Hopfeng�rtner (say that 3 times fast) is one weird geeky cat. Using the visual code, data matrix (which was originally confused as Semacode), Bernd spells out “Hello, World” for all passerbys to see. As long as those passerbys happen to be flying. The 160 square meter coding artwork is encoded with a URL using the SDK provided ...

If you own a home, you most likely own some sort of lawn that needs to be maintained. And since everyone can’t afford landscapers to give their lawn the beauty treatment year round, the design concept could help many people save money in the long run. The 3-in-1 Lawn tool by Gustav Landberg is a lawnmower, leaf collector, and snow ...

Remember the light bulb we told you about that looks like it’s in the process of falling? Here is another crashing light inspired gadget. The FlapFlap Lamp is in a perpetual state of almost fallingness. And as you can see, the dog in the picture is very concerned. The lamps stand looks like a power cable in mid-flight and is ...

If you have child slaves, and they give you a hard time when you tell them to vacuum or get beaten, your ears might perk over this design concept. The Rideable Vacuum Cleaner design by Kristina Andersson makes cleaning somewhat interesting again. It’s kind of like buying your kid a toy vacuum that actually cleans. The child can sit in ...