A Futuristic Mobile Device Mockup

The idea behind this concept is exploit the internet ability in a mobile device. Touch screen, built in camera, scanner, WiFi, google map (hopefully google earth), google search, image search all in one slim device.

10 (More) Pieces of Clever Transforming Furniture: From Tetris Tables to Rooms in a Box

Why is transforming furniture so alluring? Does it appeal to our sense that innovation is progress?

Building the Perfect Laptop

The superslim ThinkPad X300 is Lenovo's bid for leadership in the high-stakes world of laptops.

Cutting Edge Designers

If you want to see what’s really hot in design, check out this new series on the Innovation & Design channel on Cutting Edge Designers.

Function Dysfunction

Allison Arieff, the former Editor in Chief of Dwell magazine, is Senior Content Lead for the design and innovation firm IDEO. In this article she discusses that in the never-ending quest to provide consumers with the newest, fastest, sleekest and most-highly-functioning-est stuff, technology companies (and their designers and engineers and marketers) often lose sight of the original purpose of the thing they are selling — not to mention the environmental and functional impacts.

Design Inc.

Want to know what the world of interior design is really like? Tune in to design inc., the show that takes you through the real elements of the interior design process — from the trials to the tribulations, to the triumphs.

Breaking the code

Frog recognized that the primary interface for the application, that which links the user with Lawson’s M3 application server, offered only limited interaction capabilities. The learning curve for frog was steep, with a huge number of codes and parameters to navigate, and an overwhelmingly comprehensive application scope.

Phone with fold-away screen launched

A Dutch company has squeezed a display the size of two business cards into a gadget no bigger than other mobile phones -- by making a screen that folds up when not in use.

Joint Venture

Foot-ankle prostheses can be tiring to wear and produce an awkward, ungainly stride, but the PowerFoot One is the first with battery-powered springs that propel the wearer forward and create a more natural gait. Its built-in microprocessors and environmental sensors enable it to negotiate slopes, stairs and level ground with ease. Invented by Hugh Herr, a double amputee and MIT professor, the PowerFoot also recaptures the energy produced with each step.
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Venturi Eclectic charges via solar or wind power

Having transformed themselves from a low-volume sports car manufacturer to a twenty-first century "CarbonNeutral" car-maker, Venturi is showed a pair of very interesting concepts at the Paris Motor Show.

Aquaduct: Mobile Filtration Vehicle

The Aquaduct is pedal powered vehicle that transports, filters, and stores water for the developing world. A peristaltic pump attached to the pedal crank draws water from a large tank, through a carbon filter, to a smaller clean tank. The clean tank is removable and closed for contamination-free home storage and use. A clutch engages and disengages the drive belt from the pedal crank, enabling the rider to filter the water while traveling or while stationary.

Apple Introduces the world's thinnest notebook

Apple introduces the world's thinnest laptop, the MacBook Air.

Big Ideas, Better World

Popular Mechanic's third annual innovation celebration, honor eight inventors (with video from the lab) and 10 products with one IQ-packed party and three discussions for our future.

Businesses have designs for the poor

As anyone who's fallen in love with an iPod or Wii game console can attest to, good product design matters. It can matter more, in fact, than how many (or what kind) of features are crammed into a device.

Birth of a Gadget: Inside the Industrial Design Process

Gadgets aren't immaculately conceived, in spite of what seems like lightning-speed development.

Kindle

CNET got one of the first review samples and had a chance to put the Amazon e-book reader through its paces. Here's what they think.

Jeff Bezos unveils Kindle

Minority Report becomes reality

Here's Jeff Han on TED Talks

A phone that's a pen

The product is not finished yet but you may want one. Take a look here.

The Best Inventions Of The Year

From the phone that has changed phones forever, to futuristic cars, to a building made of water, to a remote-controlled dragonfly, and a dazzling display of ingenuity. Check it here.

A Table Designed to Walk