This "Pebble" Fad

What is with everyone and designing products to resemble a beautiful river stone?

Presovar by Martin Necas

Created by Czech designer Martin Necas, Presovar represents the next generation of designer coffee makers which not only perform to the tee but also add a hint to glamor to the kitchen space. The graphic design features an irregular silhouette that instantly lends it an identity as a work of art. Read more

You Could Use a Power Nap

10 sleeping bags for a power nap anytime, anywhere

from The Design blog by Naresh

My Favorite is the Sleep Suit:
Inspired by Buckminster Fuller’s practice of Dymaxion Sleeping, which involves four 30-minute naps over a period of 24 hours, the “Sleep Suit” by Forrest Jessee is a sort of portable sleeping bag that lets the user have a power nap anywhere, anytime. Interweaving structural pleats made in EVA foam, often used as padding in sports equipments and sleeping bags, the Sleep Suit ensures optimum comfort even in hard surfaces. Read more

The Five Most Annoying Kinds of Internet Scolds

Let's face it, there are some annoying people out there who live by critiquing other people's mistakes. The online world of social media does not escape it. In fact, people could argue that it is easier to be a complete scumbag online than in person. Here are the Five Most Annoying Kinds of Internet Scolds according to Nick Douglas of URLesque.


This week, the Times covered the "Twitter Patrol," users who point out other people's misspellings and grammar mistakes on Twitter, "whose constant yipping at their victims gives a bit of an edge to the free-for-all dialogue on the site."

One of these guys has sent over 130,000 automatic replies to people who twitter in all caps. He says he does it to teach people about etiquette.

The Twitter Patrol is the worst type of online vigilante -- except for the four other types listed here.

The Facebook Politico
He saw your opinion of the health care reform bill and it is wrong. He has this other, opposing belief, supported by an article he read somewhere that you really need to read now or else he can't be bothered to argue with you about a thing that in fact he has just started arguing with you about without being asked to.

Granted, you sort of asked for this crap when you shared your opinion of a political matter on Facebook, but the Facebook Politico made sure to go beyond polite discussion of opinions and tried to humiliate you on your own profile page. Because the internet is just another place to hold his tea party or let his freak flag fly and your social circle is his new flock to be preached at, whether they care or not.


The Internet White Knight
Guys, stop ragging on that poor girl who posted photos of her half-naked body! Internet White Knight is here and he wants to tell that girl that she really is cool and beautiful no matter what everyone else says. Now, girl, won't you proclaim that White Knight is your hero and thank him for saving you from the internet mob? White Knight needs acknowledgment and gratitude or else he'll rescind his kind statements and call you a c*cktease. Because Internet White Knight is just another sad manipulator, just one that fancies himself a more sensitive dude.


The Seen-it-all
Oh, that animal doing that people thing? Seen it. The animated gif of things of every size from molecule to human to planet to galaxy? SO LAST YEAR. This kid belting out a Beyoncé hit is so ancient that Abraham Lincoln saw it and he was all "Old!"

The seen-it-all probably already read this on Boing Boing and she definitely already saw it on Digg. And because nobody should ever talk about anything that anyone else has ever ever possibly barely heard of, she is going to wipe your "news" in your face because you are so damn last season, you poor luddite slob. Did you ever see that episode of Ghostwriter where Julia Stiles was a hacker? The Seen-it-all is that. She's also seen that episode a million times so oh my god stop posting it on Reddit.


The Blogger Out of Nowhere
You're checking your Google alerts and heyyy, there's a mention of the blog post you wrote! Cool, someone had something to...say...about...your...oh. This is just some angry blogger who misunderstood your point and took one line out of context to make a totally different point. He also misspelled words you spelled correctly and someone in the comments mocked you for the typo.

You know how pointless it is to have any emotional reaction at all to this little mistake happening deep in the bowels of the web where no one outside of this guy's trailer park will ever see, but you rage. You rage so hard, you post about it back on your blog, taking him out of context and that is the circle of life. The cirrrrrrcle of liiiiiife, and it mooooves us allllll.

Another Pebble Design..

The majority of users keep a cellphone to contact people and nothing else, therefore multimedia functions of contemporary mobile phones become futile for them. Conceived by British designer Jamie Lawrence, the “Pebble” is a simple yet stylish mobile phone that removes all the multimedia capabilities to keep its use easy for common users. Sliding apart from the middle to reveal a touchscreen, the Pebble presents reduced functions for easier use, while its reduced size and weight coupled with a curvy shape enables the user to carry it comfortably for a long period. Though the Pebble removes most of the complex technical aspects, it maintains a sleek and contemporary design for the trendy users.

Literally stepping to your own beat.

You have to love Nike. They recently created a prototype for a "musical shoe" that makes musical sounds however you move your foot/shoe. Here is a behind-the-scenes look at how the Japanese DJ duo Hifana performed with their musical shoe.

posted by Design Boom and wieden + kennedy

Fruit of Life

Fruit of Life

Hieu Tranngoc and Hao Tran have designed a balanced kitchen that fits the lifestyle a geek, for sure. Ideally sized for one or two people, Fruit of Life is an open concept that gives the user the freedom to move the kitchen with ease. A fruitful apple tree has been the source of inspiration for the designers and they have literally shaped the whole setup like a tree with two fruits hanging from branches on either side. Read more

the Original "Tweet"

Now your favorite clock can really tweet for you.

Social networking on the internet is possibly the best way to remain in touch or updated with friends and happenings going on across the world. Making internet networking simple and swift, interface and interaction designer Haroon Baig has modified an old-fashioned cuckoo clock that connects to the internet wirelessly and looks for new updates or search results from the Twitter API regularly. Entitled the “TwitweeClock,” the clock displays the latest tweets in near-real time on the built-in display, while a mechanical cuckoo popping out of the clock gives it a conventional touch.