Using the package

Who needs turntables when you have cardboard? GGRP Sound has come up with a brilliant way to play records: with the record sleeve. The needle-embedded carboard package folds up to hold a 45rpm in place, making sound while you spin it with a pencil. Instead of outputting to a speaker, the vibrations go through the needle and into the cardboard. Thats what I call using the whole package.

Gloves For your Feet?

Vibram Five Fingers has to be one of the weirdest products. I have to concur that I do like running naturally and bare foot. As I'm a person who likes to exercise I might have to try these sometime. But I don't think they have much protection against a falling weight at the gym

Researchers teach liquid to flow, uphill?

Another day, another experimental CPU cooling method that may or may not come to pass. We've seen "thermal paste" from IBM and polyethylene from MIT, and now researchers at the University of Rochester have developed a method for coaxing water along nanometer-scale grooves carved into silicon. So hydrophilic are the patterns that water will even flow against gravity (and we've got the video to prove it). Not only are the structures so precise and nondestructive that the surface feels smooth to the touch, but they also trap photons, according to The New York Times, "so the grooved silicon appears pitch-black." And who knows? Maybe your next PC will be cooled by streams of water flowing freely inside the case. It's a nice image, anyways. Peep the video after the break to see it in action for yourself.

Rudy Heeman puts a new spin on the Hover Craft

I was wondering if the hover craft would remain in the past. Good thing we have people like Rudy Heeman. Thank you for giving the hover craft a new way to get around. Maybe a new water on land sport could come out of this conceived concept.

Some weird and unusual products brought to you by Japan.

One surely can't miss their eyes when putting in eye drops.
What if you blink? another feature that they'll have to think about.


I don't know whats worse walking around with a red nose and a pocket full of tissue paper or with a roll of toilet paper on my head.


Because regular water has those unnecessary nutrients.


I think I would get arthritis by the time I'm done eating.


What about those big puddles?


Apply to the fore head.


Don't you dare enter my space.


Warning I have narcolepsy.


Where's my Darth Vader toaster?


Gee I wish I had the other half to hug too.

Why reinvent the wheel?

Have you ever heard the expression "Why reinvent the wheel"?
I have to say it is one of the most annoying sayings ever.
But in this case the question serves a great purpose.

Sponsored by Michelin, Brian Russell, the creator of the "Tweel" has done just that, he has reinvented the wheel.





From now on the question will state "Why reinvent the Tweel"

Where engineering plays a helpful roll in industrial design

Design products isn't all just drawing and making thing look pretty.
It also involves thinking and a great imagination.

I'm sure everyone has a had a time where they have had too many visitors at their house and need more table room for them to sit at. Well, in this video it does just that. This small table expands pretty big to accommodate your large party.

I'm sure it took a while to not only making the tables but also laying out the tracking system for each panel.

Combining Objects to get a New Product

So, what do you do when its friday and work is over. You look at your watch and crack open a beer. Here is a great example of combining two different products, a bottle opener and a watch. When combine the two together you get a product called the "Happy Hour Time Piece."

Rendering a Concept

Here is great example of how a designer gets his/her idea out on a page quickly.



The main thing to think about while drawing your concept is how to convey it in a way that anyone who looks at it can understand what function or purpose the product serves.

Thinking of products.

When I was kid I had many thoughts and ideas, some of which were pretty good and some that were just plain stupid and dangerous. Some of those ideas would always start with the words "Would it be cool if":

• wheels could pop out from shoes


• a flash light doesn't need a battery


• to put a match in an empty gasoline can


• to digging a whole to china in the back yard


• there was better way of picking up dog poop


• theres a way to shoot a potato gun farther


• to see how fast a scooter can go with two kids on it with no brakes


• I had a robotic eye


• to see how big of a flame can get when using W-D40, hairspary or any other aerosol can


• we could see fireworks in the fog


• I could able to see in the dark

The list can keep on going. My ideas today are a more reasonable and safer. Thinking of products that can people in their everyday lives. In this blog I'll be searching for already existing products that I think are an improvement or great concepts that we can use.