Interactive, illuminated sofa

I wonder what it may take to get all the fantastic ideas created around ‘living’ materials into consumer products. Here is an example I found on the www from designer Danielle Sobik, a...

Luminescent Raincoat lights up the rainy days

Rainy days are usually grey days and if the rain stays for too long, the grey reflects on our mood as well. Late autumn is such a typical time of the year where grey and rain are often dominant. To...

Hugs send from my pillow

Fitting pillows with technology goes back to 2001 as far as I could find out when Annie Lovejoy made an ‘exploration of emergent and redundant technologies, the proliferation of components/ hardware...

Solar charging phone pouch – Nokia style

I found a photo on Flickr from blogger Yuhui showing a very elegant looking Nokia concept of a solar charging phone pouch he has seen during his visit to the Nokia Open Lab 2008 event last...

iPod charging shoes?

Right after the military sponsored Wearable Power prize was announced, Japanese innovation and telecom giant NTT comes up with a (kind of) consumer version of wearable power in form of a power...