MySpace's fashionable Child launches new Designers

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By Jane Lee

LONDON (Reuters) - Young designers competing to get noticed by fashion labels can now launch their careers online through the fashion world's answer to the social networking Web site MySpace.com.
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Posted on Thu, 8 May 2008 09:39:21 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Parrot Introduces Digital Frame from Designer Andree Putman

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If you need something to get for mom that is sophisticated and good looking, but serves a good purpose in the home as well the new Parrot digital photo frame by Andree Putman may be just the thing. The digital frame has a sophisticated black and white design that looks very nice.

The frame makes use of Bluetooth to allow you to send photos directly from your mobile phone to the frame and the LCD is 15cm and has 262k colors. The frame will automatically rotate and resize images on the fly. Read more

Posted on Tue, 6 May 2008 08:26:31 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Edifer E3350 Designer PC Speaker System Review

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The test lab at our review partner Digital Trends published a review of the stylish Edifer E3350 PC Speaker System.

Quote from the review: "With so many computer 2.1 speaker systems on the market today, it’s easy to be turned off from anything starting at under $100. But at the Consumer Electronics show earlier this year, the buzz was all about Edifiers new E3350 lifestyle speaker systems. Read more

Posted on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Mesiro Merium PC Designer PC for your Living Room

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Norwegian Mesiro offers a stylish silent small form factor Home Entertainment PC dubbed Merium.

The clean design of the Merium PC combined with changeable covers makes this PC media furniture you do not want to hide. Read more

Posted on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:14:32 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Designer of Laptop for poor Kids starts Company

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BOSTON (Reuters) - The scientist who designed a notebook computer for poor children that is being produced and sold by a nonprofit foundation has set up a company to commercialize the technology with a goal of producing a $75 laptop computer. Read more

Posted on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Zoozen OXO 360 Designer Case for Xbox 360

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If you do not like the shape of your Microsoft Xbox 360, Zoozen has an alternative for you dubbed OXO 360.

The Zoozen OXO 360 full case replacement for the Xbox 360. It is white and has round edges that try to create modern look. Zoozen sent out a short video highlighting some aspects of the OXO 360 case. Watch the video below. Read more

Posted on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:08:14 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

LG Shows Designer Edition Shine Mobile Phone

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LG recently introduced a new mobile phone line dubbed Shine in parallel to the Chocolate line.

The Shine Designer's Edition pretty much looks like the original Shine, but has engraving all over the backside. I cannot make out anything else from the translated Korean announcement. I still hope LG will let it Shine outside of Korea soon.

LG is more and more becoming a major player in the mobile phone biz. The new Touch screen phone KE850, which will possibly be the basis for the LG Prada phone are exciting new developments for 2007. Read more

Posted on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 05:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Scoot - Designer Electric Scooter Concept

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Scoot, Scoot her comes the future. GRO Design, TIM and Korff & van Mierlo from the Netherlands developed a cool design for an electric scooter.

The design focused on simplicity and style. The technical aspects of the scooter include: 40-50km range, lithium ion battery, 30km/h max speed, 6 hour recharge. Price point would be 1,500 Euro. Read more

Posted on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:29:37 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Airpouf Designer Chair is also a Vacuum Cleaner

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Why always put the vacuum cleaner in a closet. Integrate it in a chair and it can be left in the room.

The little spheres on the big Airpouf cover the vacuum elements like draft tube and air escape. The Airpouf is designed by Lorenzo Damiani. Read more

Posted on Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Panasonic FOMA P701iD Designer Mobile Phone

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Panasonic announces that the P701iD mobile phone for the NTT broadband mobile phone network FOMA is now available.

The Panasonic P701iD features a very reduced and stylish design. It has a cool blue illumination light to indicate incoming calls. The new FOMA mobile phone comes in six colors, if you call white and black colors.
The P701iD measures 100x49×19. 7mm and features a 2.2 inch TFT screen and a very retro 0.6 inch monochrome STN display. Read more

Posted on Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:22:15 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Designer iPod Dock made from a Tree

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US based House Special has a couple of inspiring product designs on their site. One of them is the story log a iPod Dock made from a tree.

Inspired by the pod casting trend and memories of sitting around campfires as a child, Ben Durrell created an iPod dock and speaker set. The story log is crafted from a 2 foot section of tree.
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Posted on Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:47:55 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Street Culture Designer Toy Figures Take Over

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They are called CiBoys, Smorkin Labbit, Dunny, Trexi or Ugly Dolls, to name a view. Those toy figures are a growing trend from Asia that is now taking over the rest of the world.

Online store My Plastic Heart has a mission to bring those fun and cool figures to the western world. The store features an amazing number of those figures, although most of them are sold out. The current pre-orders are for instance figures of the band Gorillaz.
The photo above shows one figure from the CiBoys line. The photo below shows the smorkin labbit designed Frank Kozik.
Visit he My Plastic Heart site to find your designer toy figure. (Thanks, Tom for the Tip).

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Posted on Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:52:45 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Designer Digital Cuckoo Clock

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The traditional Black Forrest Cuckoo Clock has come a long way. The Cuckoo has retired and a digital display replaced the loud bird.

Designed by London based Thorsten van Elton design agency, the modern day Cuckoo clock is called digital stag.
The clock sells for 175 Pounds.
More details on the Thorsten van Elton site.

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Posted on Fri, 27 May 2005 12:19:18 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sony PSP Fashion Designer Accessories

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Sony organized a fashion show dubbed Pret a PSP to feature Sony PSP accessories designed by Marc Jacobs, Diane von Furstenberg, Henry Duarte, Coach, LRG and Jennifer Lopez (who is pregnant by the way if you must know).

The photos of the Sony PSP accessories featured in the Sony Press-Release (via Engadget) are quite boring to say the least. I guess Sony contacted Marc Jacobs a week before the show and then one of the interns got the job to find a handbag in the storage room where the PSP fits in. Oh well, it is a good thing that the Sony PSP by itself is good looking.

The press-release mentions Courtney Cox, David Arquette, Hilary Duff, Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson as celebrity guests. Guess who has a PSP now in LA.

Sony PSP Accessory Deals!

The Sony PSP is in stores in 8 days.

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Posted on Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:28:49 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Designer Lamp Toaster

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German Product Design Company Sternform designed a Toaster that also is a lamp and lets users watch the toast process.

The switch for regulating the power is separated like a cable remote. The Toaster Lamp is making toast a stylish thing todo on the kitchen table.

More details on Sternform's site.

More cool Kitchen Gadgets.

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Posted on Thu, 24 Feb 2005 12:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

I4U Builds a High-End PC for a Graphics Designer

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So last Saturday I build since a long time a PC together from components. First of all it was fun again to-do. I aimed to build a high performance Windows XP workstation for a Graphics Designer running Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Fireworks, Adobe Illustrator and so on. Most custom computer guides are for gaming computers. In this case focus was on a workstation that is optimized for massive data throughput throughout the whole system and 2D graphics performance. Another factor was noise, although performance took priority. Cost is also a factor and I did not select components where the price is not worth the additional performance. Overall the PC I specified cost me 1,600Euros. In the US the components will cost about $1,820 and in the UK it will run for about £1,120 (see table below).
The PC I put together is a winner so far. The graphics designer can't stop grinning when working with her new PC. Application load times dramatically shortened for instance. If you ever started Adobe Photoshop you know how long Graphic Design Applications can take to load. The fast hard-drives and the fast bus architecture pay here off dramatically.
I built the PC in about 4 hours with Windows XP Professional up and running at the end.
Below I list the components I selected to build this fast machine. The savings compared to buy such a high-end PC at Dell (saves about 40%!!) or similar vendors are quite dramatic.

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Posted on Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:15:51 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Luxury Fashion Designer iPod Cases Round-Up

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Fendi iPod Bag Verbose Coma reports an exclusive on a forthcoming CITY magazine spread collecting Luxury iPod cases from high fashion designers such as Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Dior, Paul Smith and more. Find a photo of the magazine spread and more details on Verbose Coma.

See also the story about the Fendi iPod bag designed by Karl Lagerfeld.

The market of iPod owners is big enough for big-shot designers to offer expensive accessories for the Apple music player.

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Posted on Fri, 13 Aug 2004 02:16:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

KDDI releases ANNIN Infobar Designer Mobile Phone

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Japanese carrier KDDI announces new ANNIN (White) INFOBAR designed by its au Design Project.

INFOBAR employs a casing made of magnesium alloy that is 11 mm thick and weighs 87 grams.
The INFOBAR Mobile Phone comes in the following designs:
NISHIKIGOI, a Japanese pond fish, featureing a vigorous red background, with colorful tile keys,
ICHIMATSU featuring a black and white kimono pattern, and
BUILDING, featuring silver tiles gleaming against the dark blue of the night sky.
ANNIN, featuring a fresh and creamy white Annin Tofu almond jelly -like covering.

Manufactured by Sanyo the INFOBAR phone features a 0.3MP Digital Camera and 3MB data storage.
More Details in KDDI Press-Release and KDDI au Homepage (japanese).

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Posted on Tue, 2 Mar 2004 10:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr