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Color Picker Pen

Jan-27-10 By Kristeen
Color Picker is an innovative concept design of a pen that scans colors and instantly uses the color for drawing. Simply point the pen at an object to scan its color, then use the ink end to write with the color you just scanned. The color is detected by the color sensor and the RGB cartridge of the pen mixes the required inks to create the target color. With color picker, the possibilities are endless.

Innovative Air Umbrella

Jan-15-10 By Kristeen
One of the most unconventional designs to hit the market comes in the form of air, yes an air umbrella offers protection from rain by shooting a steady sheet of air to create an invisible canopy. Designed and engineered by Je Sung Park and Woo Jung Kwon, the air umbrella works by sucking air through the bottom intake and blowing it out the upper outlet to form an air curtain. The size of the air umbrella air curtain can be adjusted to accompany multiple users at once. Amazing!

Bring 3D Home

Jan-07-10 By Kristeen
Toshiba is the first to announced a new line of Cell TVs with super fast Cell chip processors, like the ones used in the Play Station 3 console and advanced PCs. The pricey yet groundbreaking home entertainment technology can take any 2D show and present it in 3D, but will require the use of 3D glasses. Still, this is a huge step forward in dimensional  technology. The active shutter glasses will come bundled in the yet-to-be-priced television.

Is This What We Have To Look Forward To?

Jan-04-10 By Kristeen
The new Audi concept cell car boasts a sleek aerodynamic design, but its passenger functionality is a whole other question. Sure, it has an independent axle and center turning drive shafts, and yes, electric motors inside the wheels to promote a kinetic energy recovery system. Actually the whole car is made of a combination of recyclable polymer materials and progressive strong carbon fiver surfaces, which are all pretty incredible.

Lit from Within

Jan-01-10 By Kristeen
You can now upgrade your home or office with energy efficient light emitting wallpaper. Innovative interior designer Jonas Samson created the two-dimensional light source out of light emitting diodes (LEDs) to conserve energy and save money. While in the off position, the wallpaper is indistinguishable from any other surface covering, but while on, the wall emits a warm glow to illuminate your room through individualized designs.

Micheal Jackson’s patent

Oct-13-09 By Paul Wagorn
Not all inventions are new cars that run on strange fuels, new drugs that cure cancer or novel methods of digging wells in the third world.  Sometimes, patents are issued for devices that simply entertain us.  This leads us to Micheal Jackson:

Literally Cool Inventions

Aug-26-08 By Peter
In an earlier post, Old invention deserves a new life, I dug up the Crosley icy ball--a way to refrigerate without electricity. Since then, I've found some even cooler approaches to refrigeration. They also deserve some life.

Science News reports a Chip-size refrigerator that could fit inside future laptops. It still runs on electricity, but a lot less, and it removes a lot more heat than the current fans system in your laptop. How it works:

Old invention deserves a new life

Aug-20-08 By Peter
In 1858 Ferdinand Carré invented a cooling device, based on the work of Michael Faraday, that can work without electricity.

More recently an enterprising Adam Grosser proposed re-introducing his redesigned version Carré's invention to parts of the world where refrigeraion is not available and where it could save lives.

Added-Function Funnels

Aug-19-08 By Peter
Have you ever wondered why it takes so long to come up with some inventions? The kind that make you go, "Duh! Why didn't I think of that?"

Why did it take so long to put wheels on luggage? Why did we have to go through so many seat-belt contraptions before we settled on the current, easy-pull, easy-stow version? Remember passive restraints?

Photography for the Blind

Aug-19-08 By Paul Wagorn
Sometimes the ideas that initially sound the most absurd are the most brilliant ones. Suppose for a moment that someone told you that they were going design a camera for blind people. Well, a design team at Samsung has done just that.

My first thought was "Why?" ... My second thought was "ok, but...How?"