Hasta La Ideas

Here’s what we looked at this week:

A remedial design object: Clicks is an elongated iPhone case featuring a physical keyboard.

LG Labs’ DukeBox is a vacuum tube amplifier behind a transparent, user-adjustable OLED display.

Woodshop Junkies designs and builds clever, transforming space-saving workshop furniture designs.

LG’s CineBeam Qube is a starkly modernist projector due to debut at next week’s CES.

Studio RAP, an architectural design firm, repurposed wooden offcuts to create robotically-assembled walls for a Dutch bank.

Here’s an incredible video of craftsman Mostopher Dnouch, who plies his trade on the streets of Marrakech, using an ancient lathe design to crank out chess pieces.

Moonwalkers X are robotic shoes for warehouse workers that allegedly double productivity.

This AR Interactive Vehicle Display is aimed at tour bus operators for now, but should find numerous applications in the future.

Lacking a bench vise, this craftsman built this simple jig for holding panels on edge. See how it works.

Clever package design: Mongolia’s Fusion beer comes in bottles designed with bottlecap openers in their bases. Click here to see a demonstration.

Image: Around the World and Back

These might seem strange to Americans: European roller shutters are a domestic version of rolldown gates.

Here’s a limousine made from a Lear jet, because America.

These fun, quirky concepts are by transportation designer Alan Derosier.

This concept for airplane seats that can rock and move is by industrial designer Subinay Malhotra.

Here’s a satisfying supercut of coping trim in tricky corners.

Ergonomic Partners makes custom ergonomic lifting devices, like this zero-gravity tool arm.

This NXTABL Coffee Table is actually a 43″ touchscreen monitor that runs Android. I’m not sold on the UX.

This unusual U-shaped power strip is by industrial design consultancy Kritzer.