The Span Watch from Box Clever: A blend of analog and digital in the SF design studio’s smartwatch concept

The Span Watch from Box Clever


With their new proposed timepiece, design firm Box Clever offers up a refined amalgamation of what we love in analog watches and what we’ve come to expect from modern technology. A jump hour, quartz-driven timekeeping…

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Baselworld 2014: GPS Driven Watches: Three new releases tapping satellites for precise global timekeeping

Baselworld 2014: GPS Driven Watches


Regardless of where you are in the world—be it an unexpected adventure or a quick layover—GPS watches can be a huge help; naming your location and automatically adjusting the time on your wrist. By coordinating your location based on multiple satellite signals, these three watches seen at Baselworld 2014,…

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Charged: inFORM, a Revolutionary Design Tool: New technology from MIT’s Media Lab presents a game-changer for designers and architects

Charged: inFORM, a Revolutionary Design Tool


Virtual reality has made huge strides over the past few years, but for pioneers like the scientists at the MIT Media Lab, digital simulations have begun taking actual, material shape….

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SOLS: Using 3D-printing technology to make the much-avoided subject of orthotics relevant and attractive

SOLS


In an age of technology during which eye vision can be corrected in 10 minutes, prosthetic limbs are breaking ground in sensory feedback and computers can be controlled by brains, we’re surprisingly lacking in the orthotics department—an area that’s in high demand but…

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Charged: The Smartest Home: A look at the future of intelligent home tech by way of five standout devices currently available

Charged: The Smartest Home


In recent years, the ways in which we as culture interact with technology has shifted. Much in the same way the iPhone completely changed how cell phones, cameras and music players are considered, devices like thermostats…

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Playtype + Côte&Ciel Laptop Sleeves: Copenhagen design meets Parisian quality in a durable neoprene case that’s perfect for typography lovers

Playtype + Côte&Ciel Laptop Sleeves


Typeface is for more than books, signs and posters, as the Copenhagen-based Playtype (the more “fun” younger sibling of the Danish brand agency e-Types) shows, instilling their love for…

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TED 2014: Earth and Space: A closer look at Planet Labs’ earth mapping project and the Large Synoptic Sky Survey

TED 2014: Earth and Space


In years past, the topic of space has remained a constant theme at TED conferences, and at last week’s 30th anniversary series of talks in Vancouver, BC, the expansive and always awe-inspiring topic remained on the table. While much talk has centered around a certain legendary singing Canadian astronaut,…

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Interview: Roger Linn: The iconic drum machine designer on the limitations of today’s musical instruments and what he’s invented in response

Interview: Roger Linn


Without a multi-million dollar budget, high-tech research lab or an engineering degree, Roger Linn created the LM-1 Drum Computer in 1979, the first programmable drum machine that used digital…

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Mod Notebooks: A service that digitizes handwritten notebooks and syncs to the cloud

Mod Notebooks


Writers and illustrators often fill notebook upon notebook with ideas, wordplay, sketches and doodles. Many are then lost to a drawer or a shelf, and the creativity stays locked away. Mod Notebooks has a brand new solution…

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