DesignBytes

Converse sued 32 companies for trademark infringement. Now, Ralph Lauren has entered a settlement agreement with Converse.

Detergent pods look like candies and attract children. Already 17,000 have ingested, inhaled or touched the content. Can design solve this problem?

Apple released its first watch back in 1995 and it was completely analogue. It existed as an incentive to get people to upgrade their Macintosh systems.

Beyond the Kinect there is Microsoft's holographic world where there are no wires and no external cameras. Window's new holographic software will work in tandem with the their latest hardware.

Very soon, every visitor to the Cooper Hewitt, the Smithsonian’s recently reopened design museum, will receive a giant pen. This pen is not really a pen. On the table, it looks like a gray plastic crayon the size of a turkey baster. In the hand, it feels pleasing, chunky, hefty like a toddler’s rubber ball. And at the museum, it does something magical.

IDEO has a 90-year-old designer on staff. Barbara Beskind says her age is an advantage.

The MD&M West conference and exposition, Feb. 10–12 in CA, will feature a plethora of technologies and an impressive lineup of speakers discussing everything from wearables to innovations.

At least it is in its present form. The company insists it is still committed to launching the smart glasses as a consumer product, but will stop producing Glass as it is currently.

The Strati is the world's first 3-D printed car and it was printed live at the Detroit Motor Show.

The design team at Curved/labs used components from current Apple devices, including an 11 inch display from the MacBook Air, to design their 2015 Macintosh concept.

In the eight years since the iPhone was first unveiled, overthrowing Apple’s hold on the “cool” factor has often seemed impossible.

When it comes to design, nothing beats a model. But it's also hard to overstate the importance of being able to draw while you develop an idea—whether by hand or computer.

It started with a tweet, like all breaking news. "Kanye’s at CES!" someone yelled looking at an embedded photo. "That looks like the Sony booth."

GM officially debuted a $30,000 plug-in electric car concept, at the North American International Auto Show, aimed at middle America, with a range that's said to hit 200 miles per charge.

Searching for a way to combat the challenges coastal cities face with rising sea levels, a Japanese firm called Shimizu Corp. is presenting aquatic architecture as a possible solution.

After a decade-long slump, Lego has rebuilt itself into a global juggernaut. FastCo offers an exclusive look inside the company's top-secret future lab.

Yves Behar is Swiss but speaks fluent English. Yun-je Kang, Senior Vice President of the Visual Display Design Group for Samsung, understands English well but is far from a native speaker. It sounds limiting, but the pair seem to have hit it off. “We don’t share a language in the traditional sense, but we meet all the time and we go see environments, stores, we take walks together,” explains Behar. “We communicate by drawing, essentially the design language—drawing and interactions with each other’s teams.”

The Nike sneaker, originally designed for Back to the Future II, is rumored to be in production and will have a self lacing system, aka Power Laces.

The headphones line, which Monster helped develop, was "fraudulently acquired" through a "sham" transaction, according to the lawsuit.

Nest announced 15 new partners for its six-month-old “Works with Nest” program.

Pratt ID student William Root has designed a new process for creating customized prosthesis for lower extremities. He offers that this process could reduce costs, improve access and create better compatibility.