Janet Cooke Hansen is President and Chief Fashion Engineer of Enlighted Designs, Inc. that create an excellent line of hats under the name EFHED. She founded the business to create her own “dream job” as a light-up clothing designer. Janet’s eclectic designs combine her lifelong interests of fashion,art, and technology. She learned to sew at [...]
TRAXON, a leading manufacturer in the LED based lighting industry, combines state-of-the-art technology with award winning design concepts to create unique and innovative lighting products and solutions. From an easy to use remote-controlled display in the lobby of a building to complex DMX-controlled lighting scenarios illuminating the ceiling of a casino, they are constantly evolving [...]
Recently, designboom had a “house party” design competition, and after looking at 3070 designers from 89 different countries, they decided on the top 3. Wen-Haur Yen from Taiwan took first place and in his own words describes his invention: COOLIGHT combines a handle and a steel cylinder filled with cryogen. When you need an ice [...]
Design meets technology in this collaboration between Philippe Starck and Oregon Scientific. The Starck Time and Weather Station is a new combination of style and function. It includes innovative functions such as precision timing with a clock that automatically sets itself to the official U.S. atomic clock, accurate to one millionth of a second. Its [...]
Panasonic Mobile Communications Co., Ltd. (President: Yoshiaki Kushiki) announced that it has begun shipments of its FOMA P702iD mobile phones to NTT DoCoMo, Inc. Developed in collaboration with Mr. Taku Satoh, a graphic designer, NTT DoCoMo and Panasonic Mobile Communications, the FOMA P702iD enables the user to enjoy 4 variations (Square White, Square Black, Round [...]
Like KOTOHANA, the SHOJI system consists of a pair of terminals placed at separate locations. Each terminal is equipped with a full-color LED array, a microphone and five sensors (developed at the University of Tokyo) that detect light, temperature, humidity, infrared radiation and ultrasonic waves. In addition to constantly measuring the room’s environmental conditions, SHOJI [...]