Pulp

I've always wanted to do something wothwhile with pulped paper. I've never managed it but Fortunately David Gardener has. This uses the idea of making the packaging the product. nice. more.

toys/art?

Cool article over at Creative Review about Wilfrid Wood. You may recognise his style as he's the guy who did the Howies Dough Boy. enjoy.

'retro in inspiration but modern in design'

Really sweet motocycle helmets from Ruby. The attention to detail is immense.
Check out the range here.

JUGIT milk packaging

Developed by Dairy Crest in association with the Sainsbury`s supermarket chain, JUGIT offers consumers a pouch-based format that uses substantially less packaging material than conventional plastic milk containers, allied to the convenience of an easy-to-pour, reusable jug manufactured by RPC Market Rasen.

The secret to JUGIT`s success is an innovative two-part lid featuring a hollow spike attachment, which perforates the pouch as a natural consequence of assembly. After the pouch is dropped into the jug and the main body of the lid closed, trapping the top of the bag using secure clips, the spike is inserted to perforate the pouch. The top of the attachment then flips open to provide a handy, recloseable pouring spout.

more info here and here

Eco Elise

The new Lotus Elise concept uses natural materials in its construction. It has hemp in its seats and body panels, water based paints, wool and sisal carpets.
Its an interesting concept but what I want to buy is a even smaller, even lighter Lotus with a smaller efficient engine (perhaps keeping in the Toyota family and using the 1.0 VVT-i or 1.3 VVT-i).
That would be the perfect replacement for my Smart Roadster.
http://carenthusiast.com/news.html?mode=article&id=2724
for a fuller explanation

Gordon Murray T25

Autocar have further details of Gordon Murrays T25 car. I've been excited about this car for so long along with what he was happening with the Smart Roadster with Project Kimber. It could easily to be the next car in my drive. All I want is a small, nippy, super light weight car. Just look at the workshop Murrays set up.
Whatever he produces hope it's more appropriate than the €450,000, 218mph, windsreenless 2 seater McLarens working on now.

nesh+yorskshire=trouble

Being nesh and being from yorkshire don't go together well. This jacket looks like an awesome solution. via.

AME bike club

AME bike club is in full swing again. So when I saw this fixed speed magazine I instantly thought of our own single speed pioneer, Red. Enjoy the read. via.

Skin Deep Beauty

The Kindle product is no oil painting but thankfully this has not carried through to the packaging. Imagine the dissapointed feeling when you discover what is inside...

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These are nice tiles from some guys in Finland called Osuma (not Osama). The tiles are inspired by topography of the Toolo Bay area of central Helsinki. Their website is here.

Essential Industrial Design Blogs

Here's a handy link to some quality ID websites. Click me.

HDDVD Murder Mystery

HDDVD passed away just over a week ago and what is interesting now are the various postmortems that are being conducted in the blogosphere:

"The PS2 may well have been a success without DVD, but DVD did not need the PS2.For the PlayStation 3, the issue was a lot murkier. While US sales of standalone -- that is to say, excluding PS3 -- players for Blu-ray and HD DVD were almost dead even in 2007, Blu-ray titles consistently outsold HD DVD titles. Part of this may have been due to Toshiba's heavy bundling of titles with HD DVD players, but PlayStation 3 owners seem to have bought Blu-ray movies in droves. While Sony consistently promoted Blu-ray's game and movie capacity as a PS3 selling point, the PS3 -- specifically its owners' embrace of Blu-ray movies -- was the major consumer factor in swinging the fate of the high-definition video disc for Blu-ray."

Engadget play the issue with a straight bat (above) but I prefer the conspiracy theories that are beginning to circulate. A recent discussion on the TWIT podcast took the line that Microsoft was never really interested in winning the HD war but it needed to clip the wings of Blu-Ray to maintain it's own interests. It suited Microsoft to have Sony expend huge amounts of time and money fighting a war over a movie format rather than pushing PS3. It also threw some doubt over Blu-Ray as one of PS3's key selling features (although if you believe one recent stat 60% of PS3 owners don't even know they have a Blu-Ray drive). Crucially the format war bought Microsoft time to wait for the Movie download business to take off, which naturally serves it best in the PC market. Far fetched maybe, but typically underhand nonetheless...

Good and Evil

Man this is so cute, I saw this on fffound.com and there's no link to where it came from, nooo!

mini camera

Was looking at Core77 blog yesterday and saw this tiny USB camera. It's from a Korean students portfolio here. I wish it was a real product! I love how its shaped like a camera and has the bit at the top where the viewfinder should be but it doesn't even have a viewfinder or a screen.

I can't wait!

Nice poster for the next bond film, I'm not going to comment on the funny name, its been done already. If its as good as Casino Royale, I'll be happy. More gritty realism please (and chicks - thanks robbie).

Got $12,000?

Check out this new infrared pointer for a 50 calibre machine gun I saw from the Las Vegas gun show. It can identify targets from 67 km away. Great for killing more people faster than you ever could before.

Killing Internet Explorer

Here's some great news, Firefox is on the rise and making ground on bent IE7. Firfox is massive in Finland would you believe where its up to nearly 46%. Nice

SpaceShip Two

Virgin unveiled a model of Spaceship Two yesterday. Less freakish than Ansari X prize winning
Spaceship one - you can see it nestled here on the launch craft White Knight (it's that bit in the middle). $200.000 will buy you the chance to see what it looks like on the inside.

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Apple Flops

Often trumpeted for it's product successes (Newton aside), it's refreshing to see WIRED publish it's list of Apple flops. Featured here is my fave - The Pippin. One of the most feeble video game consoles ever launched. As if this thing was ever going to take down Nintendo.

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New MacBook!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Typical - I go and buy a macbook just as a new one is launched. To be fair, this has been rumoured for some time. An Apple source has given Wired the low-down on the superskinny "MacBook Air". These are sadly just photoshop visuals you'll have to wait for Big Steve's keynote at MacWorld for the real thing.

Foam Weapon

I just saw this on Toolmonger. It's a heavy-duty B&D carving tool, designed to take out the toughest Turkey. ID types might also be interested in the suggestion that it would make short work of carving foam.

Is that a sack or a laptop?

Hello. Those clever people at Fujitsu have come up with a concept for a fabric laptop seen here.
Great... but why?

A Stitch in Time

I stumbled across this great Sewing Machine concept on Core and felt it was worth a mention, it was designed by Kristine Brückner, an industrial design graduate from the Munich's University of Applied Sciences.

The sewing machine not only takes on a new modern aesthetic but also incorporates some modern technology. To load the thread you just drop in your spool and it automatically feeds it through the machine. It also has a touch screen control and displays the type of stitch you are going to create.

I like it, what about you Red?

Carved Crayons

Check this out! I'm not sure whether to be impressed or disgusted at the waste of time this is! How much loving detail is in the one with the honeycomb circles, its amazing. Saw it here

Logo trends for 2008

I love a good logo. Here is a article at the logo lounge, I only just found it thanks to swiss miss but its definitely getting bookmarked. I'm going to say something people in the office are going to hate but I really like the Zune logo. I'm sorry.

Super hot blackberry case

Check this beast out! I bet you're wishing you had a Blackberry Curve right now so you could put it in this. Wish I was at CES right now (no offence Tim)

150" Telly!!

Yo Yo Yo! It's a bloody huge TV! 150" of viewing joy from Panasonic as unveiled at CES. Imagine the size of the living room that you would need for this bad boy xxx
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