Think of all the gadgets that you own. Now think of all the different types of memory cards that you have for those gadgets: Sony Memory Stick Pro, SD Card, Mini SD Card, Micro SD Card, MMC card, and so on. How do you store and/or organize all these different cards that can easily be lost?

Designer Tom Kenworthy has come up with the design for a Sustainable Flash Memory Card Holder, which is a sustainable 3-tier sliding holder made from recycled vending cups. Remarkably, it only takes 7 plastic cups to make one holder. It’s lightweight, small, and can be colored to suit your tastes. I’m not sure if you can use any possible color in the rainbow, but why not?

I think this would be perfect for not carrying your memory cards around with you, but as a place to store all of your cards in one convenient place. No more “where’s my Mini SD Card?” and “crap, I lost my Memory Stick Pro again!” Read the rest of this entry »

Could it be Thunderbird 7? Well no, but it sure does look like Brains consulted on it’s design. It’s the Focus 21 from France and it can not only sail the seven seas, it can fly over them as well. The Yacht’s design is one of a giant wing with engines - a flying wing for the water.

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If you’re still confused about which container holds salt and the other pepper, why not solve that problem with the Switch Me concept? This innovative idea allows the befuddled diner to switch between salt and pepper at the press of a button, where you will be sure to get the right ingredient (unless someone fills up the two chambers within incorrectly, of course). Would the idea actually translate to sales should it roll off a manufacturing line? Only for the eccentric and curious, I guess.

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1971. Apollo 13 almost didn’t make it back home. We’ve all seen the movie. But it wasn’t the explosion that nearly killed the astronauts, it was rising levels of CO2 which would kill them within hours. They had plenty of oxygen, but the filters that scrubbed the atmosphere in the lunar model (now a lifeboat) were quickly becoming saturated and the filters in the dead command module wouldn’t fit. So, NASA Engineers had to quickly find a way to make a square peg literally fit into around hole. Now, why am I tell you all this? Glad you asked. NASA learned their lesson and based upon that exerperience came the Bel-Air Air Purification System which uses plants to clean the air. Here’s how it works.

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The Nail Cushion concept if definitely something every avid DIY enthusiast should have - it is a rubberized plate that holds various nail diameters, allowing you to hit an easy and safe strike without causing any pain or injury to your good self. Designed by Arthur Se, I’m surprised that nobody has come up with this concept before. Hopefully we’ll be able to see this arrive in hardware shops sooner rather than later.

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Remember that great scene in Aliens 2 where Ripley wants to help and hops into a exoskeleton loader and picks up a pallet of military equipment that weighs hundreds of pounds? The Catepillar style exoskeleton does all the work, but Ripley’s controlling the arms and legs like they’re extentions of her own. Well, with the Sarcos Military Exoskeleton, that day is here.

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Personalizing gadgets isn’t something new, in fact more and more folks seem to want to stand out from the masses. This customizable faceplate for a clamshell handset is a concept that will definitely challenge your creativity skills, featuring a grid lattice structure that holds colored pins which mimic precious jewelry. I foresee plenty of 8-bit love with this, and those with a little bit of extra dough to throw around can always deck theirs out with precious metals and gems. Too bad there won’t be any cellphone manufacturer embracing this concept - just yet.

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Apple has just filed a trio of patents slightly over a month after the iPhone debuted in the US, bringing the world of curved multi-touch surfaces that will be capable of recognizing more than just plain old fingertips. These new patents, when pieced together, will result in a sensor layout as well as those for mobile sensors and compliant conductors, whereby the collective technology used will bring improved touch input notes which accurate enough to create a sensor image of different parts of the hand without being bound to any particular size, shape or resolution.

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