educational power supply wall stickers

The title sounds dorky I know… but trust me these things are pretty cool, especially if you have kids… or are just a big kid at heart.
Hu2 Design has created stickers that show the inner workings of regular day-to-day devices that we may take for granted.  Although the power to your light switch is not [...]

9H: capsule hotel

Well I hope if you travel to Japan you are not claustrophobic!  The 9H hotel is a 9-story “luxury” capsule hotel in Kyoto Japan that provides the minimum amount of amenities you need for a night’s rest.
The tiny capsules (there are 125 of them) look pretty futuristic with their clean lines and their Panasonic environmental [...]

electric car will sound like blade runner

On September 2nd I wrote about the Nissan Leaf, the first zero-emission vehicle that will be mass produced.  Great news for the eco-warriors out there as another step has been taken to clean up the roads a little bit… However, this is bad news for blind people.
You see these new hybrid and electric vehicles don’t [...]

put a bag on your head

Normally when someone tells you to put a bag over your head it’s a bad thing.  It either means one of two things:
1. You’re ugly so cover it up with a paper bag.
2. You suck and I hate you so put a plastic bag on your head and see what happens.
Yikes! Those really are terrible [...]

nissan leaf

In mid July I had mentioned that Nissan was working on the first ever Zero-Emission-Vehicle or ZEV that would include wireless charging.  Well that car has been released.  This first version of course will require you to plug it in to a charging station, but it’s still exciting because it is the first fully electric [...]