New LaCie Starck Designer Hard Drives Launched

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Today LaCie, in collaboration with world-famous designer Philippe Starck, announced the LaCie Starck Desktop Hard Drive and the LaCie Starck Mobile Hard Drive.
The new LaCie drives combine the known clean design with a dramatic sculptural magma touch.

Complementing Starck's design philosophy is an intelligent surface that responds to your touch. Exclusively featured on the LaCie Starck Desktop Hard Drive, you can customize the touch-sensitive surface to open an application of your choosing with the touch of a finger. It's an easy, efficient way to streamline your digital life. Read more

Posted on Tue, 6 Oct 2009 12:33:17 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

ATI Designer Moves to Apple.

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It's just come out on AppleInsider that Apple has hired one of the most important men in the graphics community. ATI designer and former graphics chief Bob Drebin is back in the industry after a one year furlough, and it looks like he's going to be working as a senior director for Apple.

This news would be more surprising, were it not for the roll Apple has been on lately. Their profits are through the roof, and they have some really interesting developments that have attracted a lot of attention lately. Apple has multiple new iPhones in development, as well as a mystery shrouded series of Netbooks.

Posted on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:45:25 CDT | by Robert Evans

Designer Isaac Mizrahi to Design Free Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes

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Microsoft announced today that it would be teaming with renowned fashion designers to produce a series of free themes for Windows Mobile 6.5 handsets. The first designer to produce free themes will be Isaac Mizrahi.

Mizrahi will design themes that include color palettes and wallpaper. Additional designers will be announced in the coming months. Windows mobile users will also get a new Theme Generator to allow personalization of their phones. The applications will be available later this year and let users choose the color for the nav bar, scroll bar, and highlighted text along with background images. Read more

Posted on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:29:06 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

LG Designer DVD Player DV4S and DV4M unveiled

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LG unveiled two stylish DVD players showing that DVD players are still not dead. The new LG DVD Players, DV4S and DV4M are very slim and shiny.
The LG DV4S features an automatic sliding door, Touch Sensor Button and various installation options. On the technical side it offers DivX-HD Technology, Full HD Up-Scaling and USB port. Read more

Posted on Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:30:58 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Parrot SPECCHIO mirrored Designer Wi-fi Photo Frame

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Parrot offers a designer photo frame that pairs high tech with a unique look. The Parrot SPECCHIO Photo frame is a mirror and when switched on the digital photos are displayed.
The Parrot SPECCHIO is designed by Martin Szekely.
Besides its unique design the SPECCHIO is feature packed. Parrot SPECCHIO offers Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and NFC capability. You can share and transfer your photos from your PC, Mac, mobile phone, and so on. Furthermore, the SD card slot and USB port make it easy to transfer the photos stored on your PC, USB flash drive or digital camera. Increase the frame's memory by storing your photos on an SD card and maintain the original dimensions of your photos. Read more

Posted on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:27:21 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

HP and Fashion Designer Vivienne Tam Introduce Digital Clutch

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HP and fashion designer Vivienne Tam announced today that they are teaming up to produce a special edition notebook computer. The notebook will be positioned to be the ultimate tech fashion accessory. The design was unveiled at New York Fashion Week.

Tam also worked with HP to design the notebooks packaging and accessories. The notebook itself is red with peony flowers on the outside and inside under the keypad. An embroidered storage sleeve is also included to protect the notebook when carried as a clutch. The notebook is expected to be available next year at an undisclosed price. Read more

Posted on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:46:04 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

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

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.
More details on House Special site. Read more

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