Peepoo
This is the coolest product I’ve seen in a long time. It’s a very inexpensive plastic bag that is basically a disposable toilet. Here’s the genius part: Once used, the bag can be knotted and buried, and a layer of urea crystals breaks down the waste into fertilizer, killing off disease-producing pathogens found in feces....
Frustration Free Packaging Certification from Amazon
A year ago Amazon announced Frustration Free Packaging; no more impossible-to-open-without-slicing-your-hand-open blister packs or pain-in-the-ass steel wire ties. Now they’re stepping it up with a certification, encouraging manufacturers to follow suit. Amen to that, Amazon.
Lego: The Frank Lloyd Wright Collection
Yet another for the I-wish-they-made-this-when-I-was-a-kid: {img: CNET}
Jet Pack
Just forget about the umbilical for moment and think about how much fun you could have blasting jet skiers with those water jets.
Caffeine
I’ve been away from my DVR and getting my Jimmy Fallon fix via Hulu this week. The only problem is that most computers don’t care that you’re running Hulu (or Vimeo, or Youtube, or … ) at fullscreen and they’ll kick into powersave/screensaver mode. That’s why you should grab Caffeine, a simple app that prevents...
Baby Mop
This is real innovation; fitting a need with an opportunity in a novel way. If I had hardwood floors I would have bought a few of these when my baby was crawling. Unusual Clothing Baby Mops
IDEO/BUG Concepts Posted
Yesterday IDEO posted some very well presented in-process concepts for BUG UI design opportunities. They started by presenting some Mid-Project Concept Sketches. Download the PDF. Seriously, it’s inspiring. They followed up with a post on each proposed concept: Concept 1 – e-Ink over Tactile Switches Concept 2 – Color LCD w/ Capacitive Touch Concept 3...
IDEO Product UI Design Process Will Be Public
The modular DIY gadget platform, BUG, has teamed with IDEO to redesign the BUG user interface. IDEO has agreed to BUG’s request to do the project in the open, soliciting feedback from the user community along the way. I’m not aware of a design effort of this magnitude, with a firm of this stature, happening...
More “I Love Sketch”
The first video was inspiring. Autodesk’s answer was encouraging. This one is amazing. ILoveSketch No-Cut Demo: Spacecraft from Seok-Hyung Bae on Vimeo. Bonus interview with I Love Sketch creator Seok-Hyung Bae on The Circuit/SpaceTV. More at ilovesketch.com
Simplify Media
Judging from the response to yesterday’s post about iConcertCal it seems I have quite a few music fans in the audience. Here is another application that my friends and I love. Simplify Media lets you access your media library from any internet-connected computer or iPhone (even works over EDGE). I know there are other apps...
iConcertCal
Wouldn’t it be awesome if someone went through your iTunes library and found all the album release dates and concert dates for all the artist in there? Wouldn’t it be better if they did it for free? Instantaneously? iConcertCal does just that, which is why it’s a great idea. iConcertCal is a free iTunes plug-in...
