This British inventor has taken his digital camera to new heights; 21 miles up to be exact. All it took was a polystyrene box with a GPS tracker, a halfway digital camera, an extra large helium balloon and a parachute.
Ding dong, iChime, the programmable door bell is here. Made to play any recorded sound or MP3 that you choose, you can customize any greeting you want. It even works as an automated door bell to sound when someone enters a home or business.
So the next time you hear the door bell ring, you don’t really have to hear the door bell ring.
Yet again, another ingenious student-designed package from UQAM. Readers may have visited their design site from our previous post. If you didn’t check them out then, check them out now.
For those of you who don’t know what an LP sounds like, check this out. This cleverly designed vinyl record was packaged in its own record player. Pop out the record, unfold it, place the pin on the record and spin it to hear it. Ahh, so simple, so unique.
I recently took a look at all the different ways I can buy Coca-Cola. I was surprised to find that it comes in 3 liters, 2 liters, and twin pack 1 liters. 24, 20 and 16 ounce bottles. 12 packs, 20 pack cases and 24 can cubes. 8 ounce cans and 12 ounce cans. Plastic, aluminum and glass containers. I can even get a fountain drink filled up to 64 ounces.
Packaging has been approached from every angle and the branding has blended into every medium possible. Coke has done wonders, taking their product to consumers by packaging it in every size and variation conceivable. So which package do you pick?
Send it, seed it and water it. Have your own scaled-down version of a backyard garden in about a week. Cityscape, rural greenhouse or botanical palace; you can choose to grow your green wherever you want.
With spring only days away after a record snowfall this February, I think cabin fever has set in for many children and adults. As a kid, building a place to play was a seasonal event – forts in the summer, chopped wood cabins in the fall and snow igloos in the winter. Now that warm weather is right around the corner, here are my top 10 cabins I’d rather be in (if I could fit) when spring has sprung.
Use this blade of grass page marker to keep tabs in your favorite read. At first glance, I thought this was a cleverly disguised planter, styled as a book.
If tossing, stashing and piling up used hardware has become a bad habit for you, take a look at this organizer. Cut-out shapes of common parts on the top of the box and a pull-out drawer underneath for each part to drop into.
Crafted by hand, this box can be stylized for many things that you never feel inclined to sort and store, like toys, tools, jewelry or batteries.
Art Lebedev’s Segmentus Clock is a new spin on keeping track of time. Watch the video demonstrate its mesmerizing spinning feature. The successive digits appear in fluid motion, with the 1 and 7 created using nontraditional designs. Check it out for yourself.
