February 4, 2010
General Design, Product Design

This ring is a perfect marriage of function and style. Gear Ring goes for $165 and comes in limited sizes, and wow, is it ever cool! It boasts that it is designed as a highly durable piece of jewelry that is resistant to tarnishing, fading, scratching, and rusting, and backs it up with a lifetime warranty.

January 27, 2010
Product Design, Product Innovation



Fresh pictures from the Apple event live. Thanks to Gizmodo for live blogging, nice reporting!
January 21, 2010
Product Design, Upcoming Inventions

Check out this video showing how Perplexus works by twisting, leaning and shaking your way to winning. It’s like an Amish toy meets a pinball machine.
January 20, 2010
Product Design, Product Innovation

Take another look. That’s not a sandwich, that’s a cake. This cake pan creates a thick, bread shaped form that you can slice in half and dress as your favorite sandwich, PB&J in this case. A great culinary toy for your favorite baker.
January 18, 2010
Product Design, Product Innovation, Upcoming Inventions


Marketed as a vice-free alternative to keeping your projects in place as you work, Bench Cookies are a slip-free, non-marking, high friction support.
You can sand, rout, cut and carve without worrying about marring up the surface of what you are working on. (They look to be a great way to manage furniture on wood floor surfacing too).
January 13, 2010
General Design, Product Design, Product Innovation, Upcoming Inventions

With cold weather all around us, we are having to stack on layers of clothes to stay warm. And when you make your way back indoors and shed them, what do you do with all of those damp layers?
Created to circulate air throughout all of your damp garments, DryGuy has designed Gear Tree, a coat rack of sorts. Hang any of your coats, gloves, boots or scarves and they’ll be dry and toasty the next time you need them.
January 12, 2010
Product Design, Product Innovation, Upcoming Inventions

Dual function to everyday items is a good approach to design. Switch plates are found in every room, and someone has taken the liberty to create a product which utilizes that prime real estate that exists around every doorway. Smart design, for sure.
January 11, 2010
Product Design, Product Innovation, Upcoming Inventions

The days of structurally weak, dangerously pointed umbrellas are numbered. This new umbrella design, called Blunt, takes a different approach in the redesign of an inclement weather necessity.
With rounded tips and a flexible design that withstands up to 72-mph winds, safety is the first objective, for both you and the people you walk past when holding it.
Blunt’s muscular, lightweight skin appears to look like something that has fallen from the ceiling of a convention center exhibitors booth. The vivid blue helps to visually soften each rounded point, while separating itself from the standard boring, black umbrellas. Simple, smart design wins again.
January 4, 2010
Product Design, Product Innovation, Upcoming Inventions

It can’t be any clearer than this: “no more great ideas down the drain.” Aquanotes cedar pencil and water resistant pad set is an ideal way to keep your new ideas and great thoughts from washing away.