I just scoured Better Living Through Design for some kitchen gadgets and hit a goldmine. Touted as the direct link to the “best products in the design world that are available immediately for purchase online,” I think they accomplished it. Hit the links, and take a look at some really unique solutions to preparing and serving food from the kitchen.
Kitchen appliances never cease to impress me, especially when you see one of these gems every once in a while. To me, this is like a 3D waffle cone, maybe for a dessert, or for breakfast on-the-go. Perhaps you can batter dip it and fry it for fair food with a fruit dip. This is a great waffle iron design!
I was amazed to see this early invention of the GPS (1932). It used a rolling key map to gauge where you were as you drove. Not so much global positioning, but it was a clever way to track your location around the neighborhood.
As for newspapers, reading in real time hasn’t always been as easy as picking up an iPad. Check out these kids in 1938 reading the children’s page of a Missouri newspaper as it is fed out of an early fax machine.
Even life vests have evolved into a state-of-the-art device, as compared to bicycle inner tubes wrapped around the upper bodies of these young Germans in 1925.
Thinking outside of the box has been used so many times to describe an approach toward design. I really do think that the designers who worked on this touchpad case were thinking outside of the box. When slipped onto the bottom of an iPhone, this tactile guide gives boundaries to your fingertips, allowing for more than just a visual line between pressing a ‘D’ and an ‘S’ on your QWERTY touch keyboard.
Simple ideas are the best, and this is an example of one – a reusable lid for plastic bags. Buy in bulk, or cut open a bagged package of food and then use this to snap it closed without a twist tie or chip clip. Copoc Bag Clips can be used on big bags of M & M’s, bulk grains, sugar; the possibilities are endless.
