KABUTO’s feature list almost sounds like it’s being read out by Q from the James Bond novels. Silent wheels, fingerprint lock, laptop-charging capabilities, detachable backpack, designed to last a lifetime. However, the KABUTO carry-on isn’t a work of fiction by Ian Fleming. It’s a confluence of good design and cutting-edge tech. The result is a bag that’s sleek, silent, can carry enough for a 10-day trip, and can segregate your items, giving you dedicated storage for your electronics in a detachable sleeve you can lug around in case you want to check your bag into a flight.

KABUTO has the undeniable swagger needed to accompany 007 on his missions. Its slick design ditches the cheap plastic caster wheels for actual tires with ball-bearing-hubs making them completely completely silent, allowing you to travel through the airport without any noise. The suitcase comes with a unique expansion system that allows it to grow vertically. The interaction is supported by a mechanism on the inside of the suitcase that lets it slide like a matchbox, expanding the inner compartments by 50% in a swift motion that takes less than 10 seconds. This effectively gives you enough storage for everything from a 3-day work trip to a 10-day holiday… with a dedicated compartment to store your shoes too, because who wears the same footwear through a week long trip??

On the backside of KABUTO lies perhaps its most impressive innovation. The back of KABUTO features a detachable sleeve to store your laptop, tablet, phone, wallet, passport and other essentials. Designed to separate your luggage from your valuables, this sleeve snaps on and off the main carry-on, giving you an instant messenger-bag that you can carry around separately with you. It even helps you speed through your security-check by simply detaching the electronics from the regular storage, as is customary. KABUTO’s main storage also comes with its own removable 10,000 mAh battery-pack to charge your electronics. The battery pack charges not only your phone and tablet, but your laptop too, and relies on an innovative mag-safe-style contact charging pin that connects the main-storage to the detachable sleeve. Think of it as a mag-safe charger that begins working the minute you snap the sleeve to the carry-on, and stops it from charging when you detach the sleeve. All the charging happens while your device is INSIDE its dedicated storage unit, so you don’t need to be worried about plugging and unplugging charging cables.

A bag that’s fit for Britain’s top spy should also be able to perform in the security department, you’d probably say. KABUTO comes made from tough polycarbonate and is practically unbreakable. In fact, the guys who create it even provide a lifetime warranty on any damage, and will either fix or replace the carry-on in the off chance that something ever happens to it… and for the rest of the time, KABUTO’s anti-theft YKK zippers and biometric lock should give you the most secure experience for this futuristic, state-of-the-art carry on. However, the future isn’t too distant. The creators of the KABUTO guarantee shipping before Christmas of 2019, and even offer a refund if they renege on that promise. Sounds like double-O heaven, doesn’t it?

Designer: KABUTO Luggage

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KABUTO Carry-on: Your Valuables, Always with You

The KABUTO includes a removable back pocket for valuables, silent wheels, fingerprint lock, laptop charger, is 50% expandable and comes with a lifetime warranty.

Get Rid of Your Travel Headaches

A Magnetic Charging Connection

Magnetic charging connection between the back pocket and the suitcase – Imagine it like a Magsafe®, on your carry-on! Your devices will come back to charge automatically when you lock the pocket back in.

Drop your KABUTO and Keep Your Valuables With You

In the Plane

At the Hotel

Your Valuables Always with You

The Fastest Airport Security Check

Integrated Laptop Charger

Integrated a removable battery inside the carry-on, you will NEVER need to remove it:

– to charge your devices
– to charge the battery
– to go through airport security.
– If a TSA agent ask’s you about the battery, simply pull it out in seconds and show thats it’s TSA approved.

To charge the battery, simply connect your USB-C laptop charger to the carry-on. Don’t even open it. A 10,000mAh battery to charge up to:

– 5 times your smartphone
– 2 times your tablet
– 1 time your MacBook Pro 15″
– 1.5 times your MacBook Pro 13″

You can charge your devices …. WHEREVER YOU ARE !

Only 2.5kg / 6.4lb

KABUTO is made out of 80% recycled polycarbonate. It’s so strong that your suitcase is almost unbreakable.

The team have sourced the most efficient Fingerprint sensor on the market currently used on smartphones. Your suitcase will unlock in 1/100 second. The team have developed our own electronics for enhanced security, you can save up to 10 fingerprints for friends & family.

Thousands of customers are using the fingerprint lock on KABUTO Luggage’s first suitcase, and they guarantee 100% TSA compliance. They are providing a back-up key to unlock your carry-on and TSA has one as well.

The bearings are the same used on electric skateboards. Where first priority is long and effortless spinning, these are metallic bearings and not plastic.

With the expandable system, you’ll need below 10s to get 50% more volume. Great for shopping or traveling longer!

A mechanical system to let you sit on your luggage, even when expanded. The flexible fabric designed is similar to Kevlar, it’s called Cutlon®. You cannot even cut it with a knife. Don’t forget, KABUTO is almost unbreakable and has a lifetime warranty.

Fast Access Compartment

A Pop-up Button

Three Different Colors

Specifications

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Over the past few weeks many schools have been listing available positions for faculty in a variety of design departments, as well as department chairs and other leadership positions. In addition, some schools are seeking in-house creative professionals for their communication and marketing teams.

If you’ve been thinking about working in academia, now is a good time to get yourself out there. Below are some of the most recent postings:

Associate or Full Professor and Chair of Industrial Design – Iowa State University

Clinical Assistant Professor of Industrial Design (Two positions) – Arizona State University

Assistant Professor of Industrial Design – Arizona State University

Senior Designer – University of Maryland

Assistant Director, Multimedia – Harvard University

Assistant Professor of Interaction and Media Design, Graduate Design Program – California College of the Arts

Assistant Professor of Design History and Theory, Graduate Design Program – California College of the Arts

Assistant/Associate Professor – Product Design – Tenure Track – Western Michigan University

Full-time Faculty Positions – Hongik University

Department Chair & Professor, Interactive Media Studies – Miami University

Advertising Creative Copywriting Instructor – The University of Alabama

Graphic Design | Assistant / Associate Professor – University of Tennessee

Open Faculty Positions at Parsons School of Design, Multiple Disciplines – Parsons School of Design

Visiting Faculty- Interaction Design – Columbus College of Art and Design

Assistant Professor – Industrial Design – San Francisco State University

Assistant or Associate Professor – Industrial Design – Kansas State University

Tenure-Track Assistant or Associate Professor – Design and Environmental Analysis – Cornell University

Faculty Positions in Visual Communication and Design Management – American University of Sharjah

FT/Tenure Track Instructor – Graphic Design – Santa Monica College

Coordinator of Pre-College Programs – North Carolina State University

Find these and more jobs in our full list of Design Jobs at Coroflot

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A Japanese competition called Jimi Halloween, which roughly translates to “mundane/sober Halloween,” welcomes costumes that illustrate the foibles of modern life in a capitalist workaholic society. Here’s Part 2 of our favorites from this year.

Guy Who Blows on the Bottom of a Videogame Cartridge Before Inserting It Into the Console

Person Who Appears to Be Menacing But Who is Also an Animal Lover

Guy Who Ran Out to McDonald’s For Coffee and Returns With Spontaneously-Purchased French Fries that Everyone in the Office Can Smell

Person Waiting in Line for an Autograph When Someone Cuts in Front of Them

Person Who Cannot Find a Seat in Crowded Food Court

Guy Who Doesn’t Have the Right Batteries for His Remote Control

Junior High School Student Who Had to Stay Home Sick and Asked His Mom to Pick Up a Magazine For Him to Pass the Time

Recycling Bin That Has Annoyingly Been Clogged With Large Bubble Tea Cup

Guy Who Was Dancing Playfully, Accidentally Hit Hand on Corner of Table, and Learned the Resultant Injury Will Take Three Weeks to Heal

Unhelpful Person Who Shows Up at a Barbecue to Partake, But Offers No Assistance

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What the Block received a Notable Design Education Initiative Award in the 2019 Core77 Design Awards.

It’s not that designers Cyrus Clarke and John Ferreira were necessarily sick and tired of the inundation of requests they’d been receiving to explain what the heck Blockchain is. Rather, the requests made them curious. They were struck by the frequency of hearing the same questions over and over. They quickly recognized a need to get to the root of the misunderstandings of Blockchain in an efficient way – that is, to design a system for its explanation.

Thus, they designed What The Block. Clarke and Ferreira developed the board game and workshop as a more effective, accessible way to introduce people to the Blockchain concept and technology through tangible tools and systems they are already familiar with – cards, tokens, and Legos included.

Early Prototyping
– An early prototype of the game, testing with students

What The Block Game Board – This is the game board designed for our workshops.

What The Block Cards – The full set of cards, including tokens, scenario cards, and smart contracts.

The designers lead the What The Block workshop, but consider it only one element of a larger, cohesive program of education and introduction, which is largely oriented around a board game. We “settle[d] upon a structure of a four-round game, with each round building upon the knowledge of the previous,” say Clarke and Ferreira. The game “covers all the major concepts of Blockchain, from blocks and mining, to tokens and smart contracts.” The physical game’s cards, then, represent Blockchain tokens; Legos signify transactions and a Lego plate is the “ledger,” which is the immutable and secure Blockchain record of transactions; stickers represent digital signatures, and the board itself is the “hub of activity,” all recorded on the Lego ledger.

The game allows teams to become acquainted with Blockchain’s digital technology and to experiment with the social interactions that drive it. In its third round, the workshop leaders deliver a brief lecture on the “future of value,” as they call it, “to expand concepts of value from money to more abstract and less pecuniary measures.” The capability for experimentation on the board continues, as the players are given more autonomy to prescribe values, mimicking the operations of Blockchain.

Facilitating the Game – Here we see John from What The Block, helping facilitate a trade during round 2 of the game

The Magical Mining Box – Winners of the mining game enter a golden ticket into this box, and receive a payout of Tokens. This mimics the rewards miners receive in reality.

Workshop in Kochi
– Participants playing the game in Kochi, India

Care Token – Here a participant has created a new idea of value – a “Care Token” whose value increases as people provide more care to others. From Round 3 of the game.

Overall, what the program is facilitating is an education. The designed system relies on the understanding that tactile engagement aids knowledge retention, and uses tools like lectures, slides, and stories to support the engagement with the exploratory and explanatory board game.

Its workshops range from half-day to five-day, the longer of which culminates with participants being tasked to map out their ideas, publishing them online in a standardized What The Block template for future reference. This finishing touch grants the whole program an iterative and open source genuineness, true to its educative principles.

A Lego Blockchain – Image from a workshop during round 4, showing participants trading and building up a record of their activity on the Lego Blockchain

Ideation Phase
– A shot from a team during the ideation phase of the workshop

Lego Melodrama – Teams use Legos to demonstrate the narrative behind their Blockchain concept

Presenting Ideas
– Workshops culminate in a presentation of concepts, deploying Blockchain to tackle a design challenge

Interacting with a Blockchain
– A member of the presentation audience holds one of the created Lego Blockchains

We’re “seeking to use design to engage with people’s pure curiosity,” say Clarke and Ferreira, to “demystify a topic which many have found confusing.” Since What The Block’s inception, the designers have engaged people’s innate curiosity all over the world, hosting the program out of various countries and communities.

What The Block ultimately offers us a much more approachable Blockchain – not to mention dreams of a world in which Legos are used to demystify the rest of the universe’s obscurities. Designers, get on it!

Read more about What The Block on our Core77 Design Awards site of 2019 honorees

Whether you’re all set to go camping, on a fishing trip or on a picnic to a park, a handy cooler is always a necessity. However, slugging giant coolers around can become quite cumbersome, and a downright pain on your mini-getaway! Pelican’s Dayventure Sling Cooler promises to be anything but that. A staple in any explorer’s entourage, the Sling cooler as its name implies comes with a lengthy padded shoulder strap, allowing you to carry it everywhere with ease. With a wide opening at the top, it lets you fish out your favorite beverage in a matter of moments. As lightweight and portable as it may be, the Cooler can hold up to 4 wine bottles, 12 beer cans or 8.5 total liters! If you’re afraid of a bit of beer dripping out, fear not, it comes along with a leak-resistant waterproof zipper, eliminating all possibilities of a minor or major leak! A high-density closed-cell foam ensures your drinks stay chilled throughout your trip. The cooler works with ice, though it was designed to be used with it’s trusty sidekick, the Pelican Ice Pack.

Available in a beautiful Coyote Tan and Light Gray, the Pelican Dayventure Sling Cooler is sure to be the perfect accompaniment on any outdoorsy trip. I’m sure all the adventurers cannot wait to get their hands on it!

Designer: Pelican Cases

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