A Midwestern Maytag industrial designer who was famous for designing the first white appliances, Harold Van Doren, FIDSA, liked the term “planned obsolescence,” coined by real estate broker Bernard London in 1932. The idea was to make style changes to convince owners they needed to buy new replacements each year in order to stay in fashion and keep up with the Joneses.
Milo is the walkie-talkie reimagined. It enables hands-free multi-way group voice conversations, allowing adventurers to communicate while on the trails, slopes, or water. Users simply clip on their Milo and go. When a user speaks, Milo picks up their voice and transmits it to others without needing to stop to push a button. Unlike turn-based push-to-talk radios, users can respond
Access to eye care is taken for granted in the first world. But for over 2.5 billion people living in smaller communities in developing countries, little help is available. Many nonprofit organizations provide free or affordable glasses to developing countries, but among the population, there is little awareness about vision correction and, therefore, little demand for the glasses. Vision screening
The Stagg EKG is an electric water kettle designed to live on your counter. The designers removed all superfluous elements, focusing on simple, functional details that are visually clear and easy to use. The goal was a kettle that could transition from the kitchen to the table and feel right at home. Coffee and tea require a wide variety of
The AlphaEgg SmartPen Q3 is a language-learning tool that can help children quickly scan and query Chinese and English words. It has two main functions: scan written translations and scan voice translations. Compared with similar products, it offers a faster query speed, higher accuracy, and a more comfortable human-computer experience. It uses a multimedia teaching approach. Books alone are slow
The Nebia by Moen is a highly customizable spa shower system that delivers twice the coverage while using about half the water. This shower system upgrades existing showerheads and the shower experience without having to undertake an expensive remodel. It consists of a showerhead, an adjustable slide bar, and a hand shower that magically snaps to the wall via a
This device helps teachers collect student homework and grade it. Using AI technology, it organizes and analyzes mistakes and assesses the students’ learning quality.
Featuring a smooth, elegantly rounded ergonomic design, Palm Pre Plus is engineered to feel natural in your hand and comfortably small in your pocket. It fuses exquisite design with the revolutionary webOS software for fast access to content on the device or web. When closed, Palm Pre Plus is ideal for web browsing, music, photos and videos; when open, it’s
