Electric vehicles are far less likely to burst into flames than internal combustion engine cars, according to Allied World Insurance.* The problem is if they do catch fire, they’re significantly more difficult to put out. …
Enclosed, Air Conditioned Lawn Mowers by Curtis Industries
A 1958 issue of Mechanix Illustrated featured this Wonderboy X-100, an air-conditioned lawn mower concept. The concept was by manufacturer Simplicity and, unsurprisingly, never reached production. Today, however, something very similar exists. Massachusetts-based Curtis Industries, …
Core77 Weekly Roundup (7-14-25 to 7-18-25)
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. The …
ToughBuilt’s High-Capacity Auto-Loading Utility Knife
ToughBuilt’s Auto-Loading Utility Knife is for tradespeople who go through a lot of blades in a day. Pull the spent blade out, jog the slide, and a new blade magically clicks into place. It’s got …
Four Design Tricks for Tight Spaces in RVs
One area where poor people and rich people’s problems overlap is with not having enough living space. For the poor, specifically with studio apartments and trailer homes. For the rich, specifically with mobile homes. Unsurprisingly, …
Industrial Design Case Study: Customizable 3D-Printed Lamps
The Dollight lamp is by San-Diego-based industrial design firm Official Use Only. Created under the motto “When personal design meets custom manufacturing,” the challenge was to reconcile mass production with individual customization. And the design …
Drew Tetz’s Crazy Animated Vinyl LPs
Graphic designer Drew Tetz has a fascinating gig: Creating animated vinyl records for clients like Disney Music, the Grateful Dead and the rights holders to the Peanuts soundtrack. “These ‘animated records’ are a modern form …
The Termitat, a Tabletop Termite Habitat
I live out in nature, and for the sake of ecological balance I don’t want to kill anything, which gets complicated. Two snakes live outside my house. I don’t like snakes, but I leave them …
A Nifty Solution to the Corner Kitchen Drawer Problem
Here we see some kitchen drawers where holes have been drilled for the handles, yet no handles have been installed. Why? Because whoever laid out this kitchen didn’t think it through. With the handles installed, …
An Eye-Popping Kinetic Representation of a Tesseract
As designers, we understand that a square is two dimensions. And that if we push it into three dimensions, we get a cube. What’s a little harder to grasp is what happens when we push …