Solar Roads

So many great conceptual ideas with a chewy nougat center. You can vote for these guys to get a grant and make this a reality through GE ecomangination challenge.

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Office To-Go

So this doesn’t look very inspiring, like a coal mine office, but it’s a cool idea… just needs some further investigation on the ergonomics side of the design. There are a lot of other areas on the main portion to punch holes and allow room for a printer and other office equipment. By Tim Vinke: [...]

Samsung Slam

This video shows not only the power of a great idea but the ability to make it an effective marketing tool.

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iPhone Taxonomy

This is a beautiful info diagram of the iphone’s taxonomy. Created by Ben Millen over the course of four weeks.
From Ben’s Site:
These are not maps in any conventional sense, but rather diagramatic representations of the interconnected space of technology, capital, instrumental value, exchange value, social and environmental impact that surround the device. The first diagram [...]

Siftables

We saw this TED a long time ago. These cookie size blocks are miniture interactive screens that sense one another. Looks like they are going to be on the market soon. Also looks like the product has been redesigned slightly, excited to see these in person.

First Impression

We have seen a lot of business card designs and among them there have been a lot of what we like to call “design masturbation” (for lack of a better word, or not). Cards that the owner can only carry two of because of the thickness, or cards that are quite obviously from moo (yes [...]

TEXT VS. TICKET

Honest Bros. with the help of Denver company ID345 put together a free campaign to remind you of street sweeping dates by text message. Users can log in at Text VS. Ticket and set up multiple days (i.e. first Monday, second Wednesday… etc.) then choose to be reminded the night before or the morning [...]

Movistar

Interesting cross-sections of video to bring visual metaphor across…

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Postcarden

Fun, cool & different idea.

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Fitness First

Ambient bus stop installation, can’t imagine the cost involved. This loses it’s impact in the US because it’s in kilograms.

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