Toyota recently added three new concept cars to its growing line of futuristic vehicles, the Hi-CT, the Future Toyota Mini Van, and the Crown Hybrid Concept car. All three vehicles have a unique, environmentally friendly design and many innovative features. ...

LaCie recently introduced a new hard drive designed by Neil Poulton. The device is very small considering its relatively spacious 500GB capacity and has a unique design. The subtle black exterior is meant to blend easily with dark workstations and ...

Mr. Du Tran Nguyen, from the Monash University in Australia, is one of the students competing at this year’s Australian Design Awards contest. His concept of an innovative sports glove, called Vie, is designed to take human performance to the ...

“Pebble” is a solar food heater concept created by Laura Pandelle, a French design student, who is one of the finalists in the Electrolux Design Lab 07 Competition. The Pebble is designed to operate by using spray-on solar cells, a ...

Jonas Samson, an innovative interior designer from the Netherlands, has created a new kind of wallpaper that also serves as a light source. Samson’s wallpaper will enable us to use two-dimensional light sources instead of the 3D lighting fixtures currently ...

Leonardo Amerigo Bonanni, a Ph.D. student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has designed a device that makes and recycles plastic dishes in various shapes. His “Dishmaker”, which is about the size of a regular dishwasher, can make plates, cups ...

Festo, a German-based company, has developed a novel mechanical arm, using advanced techniques in automated movement. Their “Airic’s Arm” was created after a close study of the “design principles of nature”, and the scientists believe the achieved model comes as ...

The Lite-On Awards 7th annual ceremony was held earlier this month, under the theme “Foreseeing the Future”. This large-scale industrial design competition, hosted by the Taiwanese “Lite-On” company, awards inventions in various industries, which put new technologies into use in ...

The Slovenic company Gorenje Design Centre recently unveiled this innovative design claimed ideal for the home or office in the age of pre-prepared food and drink. The large, circular Smart Table can be built using customer-specified materials, including stone, glass, ...

A team of scientists is currently working with NASA to develop a new form of space propulsion technology based on positrons. This revolutionary antimatter engine will require only a few milligrams of positrons to send a spaceship to Mars. Facing ...