Once known primarily for design piracy, Chinese companies are finally moving towards true innovation and original experimentation. Companies that made smartphones ten years ago are now making electric cars. Anker, which once made phone chargers …
Handsome 3D Printed Vessels by Succuc
These handsome vessels, 3D printed on Bambu Lab machines, are by European company Succuc. To my eye they’re a wonderfully restrained application of the technology: Simple, visually arresting, doesn’t wear their 3D-printedness on their sleeve. …
Smart Design for a Dog Toy: Frank the Dogtopus
As a dog owner, I’m lucky I live in the country. Any excess energy my dogs have is burned off running around outside. Dogs in urban or suburban areas aren’t so lucky, and a $4 …
An Ultrasonic Chef’s Knife
We’ve seen ultrasonic cutters before, for craft applications. These are basically powered X-Acto knives that use ultrasonic vibrations to do the cutting for you. Now the technology has been applied to kitchen knives. A startup …
Core77 Weekly Roundup (9-22-25 to 9-26-25)
Here’s what we looked at this week: The Roborock H60 Hub Series is a stick vacuum that automatically empties itself. This Brazilian invention straightens scrap rebar for reuse. Industrial designer wins 2025 Ig Nobel Prize …
Industrial Design Case Study: A Performance-Boosting Device for Athletes and Firefighters
Palm cooling is a technology developed by researchers at Stanford University. The idea is that due to the unique vascular structures in the palm, artificially cooling the palm lowers the body’s core temperature during bouts …
The Elegant Kinetic Driver, Designed by Giacomo Di Muro
This elegant Kinetic Driver was designed by Giacomo Di Muro, the YouTube maker and de facto product designer. It’s produced by Di Muro’s Placed Atoms brand, and they make no bones about the fact that …
Experimental Interactive Lighting: The Tangent Lamp, by Industrial Design Studio Relvãokellermann
Relvãokellermann is a Munich-based design studio, run by industrial designers Ana Relvão and Gerhardt Kellermann. (They’re the ones who did those handsome, stackable cork storage boxes.) In addition to doing client work, they have an …
LDF 2025: Royal College of Art – Tender Revolution
When looking for new ideas from talented young minds, The Royal College of Art exhibition at London Design Festival is always a good start. This year, Tender Revolution showed what RCA design graduates from various …
GoPro’s New Max 2, with 8K 360 Video, Adds a Few UX Improvements
The Antigravity AI, which we wrote about here, is a drone that captures video in 360°. It uses software to remove any view of the drone and rotors itself, yielding pure capture. Antigravity A1 However, …