Yet another design blast-from-the-past outside of cars and Hollywood movie: TDK is bringing back the boombox. Gone of course is the tape deck; both their 2 Speaker and 3 Speaker models will play directly from USB flash drives or an iDevice, or you ca…
Category Archives: Object Culture
In-car computing for the luxury set
Something I’ve seen a lot of on my nocturnal Manhattan dogwalks: Idling ambulances and parked Lincoln Town Cars with the drivers in them, heads always inclined downwards at the same angle, eyes open, faces lit from a bluish-white source below. Get clos…
The (online) bestselling Japanese object in China is…a cheap pen set? Why?
China is so often thought of as the World’s Factory, it’s easy to forget they’re also a major, and growing, global purchasing force; producing all those inexpensive products and items of clothing has swelled their income by amounts that might seem sm…
iPads make kiosks so easy, it’s practically cheating
Sooner or later businesses were bound to figure out that the iPad makes the perfect low-cost, low-maintenance kiosk; all that’s needed is an app developer to encapsulate your content and a physical form to drop the iPad in.
If you wanted to skimp on…
Edition20: Design classics still in production
Edition20 is a new online research platform to help designers, decorators and aficianados locate 20th century design classics still in production under their original license.
Organized by product group, theme, style, designer and manufacturer, the…
Humanscale’s sexy M2 Monitor Arm
At the dentist’s office I never pay much attention to my dental charts or even the cute dental assistant; my eye is always drawn to that kick-ass swing-arm Dr. Goodteeth has got the lamp on, which despite being huge seems capable of incredibly precise …
