If you’re an Apple user, you’re probably familiar with Mobee’s technology already. Mobee makes inductive chargers for all sorts of gear, but really blew up when they made an inductive charger for Apple’s Mighty Mouse, which always was kind of a pain to recharge. Mobee solved that problem, and now they’re about to make life even easier for Apple users.
There’s an arms race going on in displays right now. Samsung and LG are competing with each other to create the biggest, brightest transparent screen possible, complete with touch capability. They look awesome, they perform exactly how you’d want them to, they are full HD, and you will never be allowed to own one.
Why?
Keyport was founded on the idea that keychains are among the last refuges of clutter. This is because the founder of Keyport has never seen my apartment. Anyway, the idea is actually pretty brilliant: just the blade of the key is stored in a small box, which you pop out when needed and keep stored when you don’t.
And now, there are more colors! Because what a gadget needs is more colors!
I drive my girlfriend crazy in the kitchen, because I’m a perfectionist. She tolerates it to a point, because I have good knife skills, but she hates it when I try and cut things to precisely the measurements required by the recipe. I can’t help it: I’m very picky and I take instructions literally.
It’s like Fred, the greatest products store ever, knows me or something.
It’s a problem with even the greenest products: packaging. How do you package the product so that it’s protected, but without destroying the environment or creating unnecessary waste? Paloma Agliati, a designer in Chile, is tackling the problem with the revolutionary Plamp! lamp design: the lamp isn’t encased in the packaging. The lamp IS the packaging.
Look, we’re not going to mince words; it’s easy to make your gadgets look ugly. Tacky faceplates, hideous phone protecting cases, godawful engraving…bad things happen to good gear all the time. But, equally awful is when somebody spends an enormous amount of money to look classy on a case that either misses the point or announces to the world that you just have way too much money. In other words, just as one extreme is gauche, so is the other.
Meet the ne plus ultra of that concept, from De Bethune.
Say what you will about Android, the phone operating system, and the multiple issues it’s faced as it has entered the market and Google learned the hard way that “open source” to phone manufacturers means “Ooooh, we can break it in new and interesting ways like monkeys throwing stemware!”, but man, that is an incredibly cuddly mascot.
And, if the plushies, t-shirts, and other memorabilia aren’t enough for you, you can now get an Android headset jack. Well, sorta.
Back when dinosaurs walked the earth, Polaroid was an enormous company bringing people what other photography companies couldn’t: simple, instant photographs. Pictures were shaken, memories preserved, proto-MySpace photos were taken, and the cameras sold by the millions. Technology marched on, but these cameras didn’t, and they looked doomed to become landfill fodder…until Dan Riordan came along.
Hey, remember the theremin? That creepy instrument that was a staple of bad ’50s sci-fi films and occasionally featured on a good rock album? That theremin? Wouldn’t it be great to combine that high-pitched sound with the risk of electrocution? Well, it exists thanks to, who else, the Japanese!
