Hasta La Ideas

Here’s what we looked at this week:

A look inside NBC’s insane Olympics war rooms.

The Owlet: A new form factor for the e-bike.

Smart design: The Allpacka One is a collapsible cargo box for bikes.

Stanley vs. Sigg’s classic metal storage tin offerings.

The FlipDie: Dice with a coin form factor.

Skip’s MO/GO “Movewear:” Powered pants with exoskeleton technology.

Clever design: A jack-free tire changing solution for dual-axle trailers.

Industrial design case study: SeymourPowell tackles Brompton bike rental stations.

Jim Dimond invented and sells this Tigers Teeth oscillating tool blade sharpener.

The Sneaker X, designed by JMDF, is a gaming PC designed to look like a sneaker.

Explaining what the Olympics shooting competitors are wearing on their faces.

Finally, a wheeled robot dog that can escape enclosures.

The do-it-all Modular Bottle.

Industrial designer Paul Cohen’s hingeless eyeglasses.

This Mobile Block Factory turns rubble into Lego-like blocks for disaster relief housing.

The Fairfield Parent + Child Carrel is library furniture designed to make childcare easier.

Oakley’s WTR Icon is a helmet for surfers.

The simple, elegant Iota door handle, by industrial designer Sebastian Bergne, has a family on the way.

Industrial design case study: Formation Design tackles an off-road suspension controller for Fox Factory.