Here’s what we looked at this week:
Scooter design continues to evolve with China’s OMO X. Will Honda’s designers take notice?
The U.S. military’s robot coyotes. Not exactly terrifying, but they do the trick.
Bentley’s experimental assymetrical EXP 15 concept car.
A utilitarian design classic: The Scaleo folding ladder, by industrial designers Roberto Lucci and Paolo Orlandini, 1974.
An innovative UX detail: Peak Spec’s GhostClip pocket knife has a clip that retracts.
LG’s StanbyME 2, a portable 27″ TV and external monitor.
Adidas’ new 3D-printed Climacool Laced sneakers.
Artists/designers Julius von Bismarck and Benjamin Maus created “Round About Four Dimensions,” an eye-popping kinetic represenation of a tesseract.
The Termitat, by museum exhibit designer Christopher Poehlmann, is a tabletop termite habitat. Turns out the “pests” serve an important ecological function.
A nifty solution to the corner kitchen drawer problem, and one funny fail.
Industrial design case study: Official Use Only’s Dollight lamps spawn a new company.