We’re sure you remember your days as a tot, when crossing the street meant a manly woman dressed in crossing guard garb and a suicide run across a yellow ladder pedestrian line. School Zone is a concept crosswalk that hopes to improve on safety and design for both children and drivers. The School Zone has an elevated platform design which ...

As the rate of obesity grows, so does the number of people with diabetes.� After watching an 8 year old clunking around a bulky insulin pump, designer Nicole Schmeidel figured there had to be an easier way to administer the life-saving fluid. The fruits of her labor yielded this Insulin Watch concept, which not only keeps the insulin pumping, but ...

A GPS is a GPS is a GPS. Most GPS devices are seemingly carbon copies of each previous one. Mio plans to change the 2D road schematics of in-car GPS platforms and add in a 3D twist, featuring topographic maps and 3D displays of landmarks. The new Mio C620 and C620T devices both offer a 4.3 inch display, based around ...

Soomi Park’s Digital Veil Project works on one of the major world wide epidemics…plastic surgery. Covering the face with an LCD device which displays black and white animations in conjunction with the human face, the screen takes the focus off of facial beauty, while incorporating dynamic animation. That is sure a mouth full, but doesn’t it look really cool…whatever it ...

External HDDs are about as varied as cloned sheep when it comes to their blocky form factor. Despite the fact that the IVY doesn’t do much for changing the all around shape of a HDD device, the concept does add in a really cool OLED display which creates a visualization of how the data on the device is being used. ...

Snowboarding and skiing are pretty ancient on the whole scheme of things. While we’ve seen some interesting uses of snowboard integration, this is a first for a totally new snow ride concept. The Brenter Snobike C4 adds in the functionality of bicycles for the slope. Even though it’s called a Snowbike, don’t expect to see any wheels. The system uses ...

Damn, this is one impressive project. This dude put together an incredible mod which allows you to control a camera phone through SMS messages. Pretty much making your cellphone a remote control for the hacked camera phone. When a message is sent to the hacked device, a set of relays activate the phones interface, navigating to the camera application. After ...

The ETree Lamp uses gorgeous electroluminescent tubes to produce an organic moving light piece. ETree comes off as more of an interactive sculpture than a lamp, just because it’s one of those pieces that are so artsy, it just has to be exclusive. ETree’s 10 bluish-green �branches� can be bent into about any shape you desire, allowing the user to ...

Think about how much space on your kitchen table is taken up by having two seperate shakers for your salt and pepper. Ok, well probably not that much, but every inch made free is extra we suppose. The SwitchMe conceptual salt and pepper shaker integrates the two condiments into one gadget. You can switch between the salt and the pepper ...

I Call Me plans to help a problem that plagues millions, perhaps billions of people each year. The panicked craze of losing ones keys. I Call Me is a special keychain which you attach to your set of keys, which can be called by your phone, at which point the device will start beeping, and chirping (and perhaps blinking). If ...