I’m MAD!

Not in the Mothers Against Drunk Driving type,, but mad nonetheless.

This weekend for some weird reason, my palm pilot crapped out on me and though my contacts and memos still exist, I completely lost all distinct events listed in my calendar (my 4th pilot since 1997, love them for their simplicity, kinda frustrated right now).

Maybe I’m just dumb (don’t worry I hit the revert button right away,, nothing), but I’ve been thinking a lot about planning and scheduling apps. I have access to far too many of them, let’s see, Palm, Outlook, Yahoo, Gmail, MSN, Scrybe (yayy the beta is rocking, more on that later) and Evite (yes, I count Evite, it’s a great service that does a specific job very well, but lacks in my main complaint here).

On to my whine (and no, I’m not drinking any @#($* merlot!)

Why has no one created an email-able calendar event notification that is insert-able in ANY scheduling program?!

This has driven me mad for far too long. Half of my events require some other human to be there. I don’t want to “run their life” but I do want them to have a reminder available, no matter how they prefer to schedule their life. The issue we’ve all run into is simple, WE ALL PLAN DIFFERENTLY. However, we all do plan (sort of ). Read the rest of this entry »

If you are one of those persons that keep constantly checking your email at all times of the day, wasting your time and patience, I’m sure you’ll find this Email Clock concept to be very helpful. The clock was designed by Tom Igoe, a teacher and researcher at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University that suffers from the same email checking obsession.

Read the rest of this entry »

Okay so I’ve got no idea what the point of this is but it does look kind of cool, the hoodie chair, part furniture part clothing.

Designed by Broberg Ridderstrale found via Crib Candy.

How many of us have wished upon a star to be able to control electrical appliances at the snap of our fingers? I am sure we love to be able to take the “point and click” concept to the next level by “point and activate”. This could be the activation method of the future that will replace the all-powerful universal remote control - an electronic glove that is capable of manipulating your home appliances at the snap of your fingers. Researchers at Engineered Fibre Structures (EFS) have worked long and hard to bring us a working prototype of this soft-fabric electronic glove that remotely controls equipment thanks to Bluetooth connectivity.

Read the rest of this entry »

When you mentioned the word PC, most of us often think of something rectangle or square. Never in a million years would the layman think out of the box to create a multi-functional computer that does more than just crunching numbers on a spreadsheet. The Microsoft Next PC Design affair managed to produce some pretty quirky concepts, and among them is the Pussy Cat robot. It can be either a robotic feline or a normal computer, but never both simultaneously. Read on to find out what the Pussy Cat robot can offer in either modes.

Read the rest of this entry »

Even though I made a pun in the title of this post, this is a very serious subject. With value of the land increasing in deeply populated areas, it seems even the place for the final rest is getting more expensive every year. Cemeteries are getting more crowded, and no wonder, since people have been dying all the time. Korean architect Chanjoong Kim, founder of the System Lab has a great solution for this problem. He designed “Columbarium - The Last House”, a vertical cemetery tower that’s 110 meters high and has a design inspired by the vascular system in the human body.

Read the rest of this entry »

This has got to be the ultimate stool for the geek bachelor pad, the sit key.

Made from injection molded polyethylene the sit key stackable stool comes in black or conventional PC beige, so should match 90% of PC’s today.

I found this on normal design who say it’s available from Duende but I couldn’t find any prices or ordering information.

Previous Patent Series:

• Number 1 – The Smokers Hat
• Number 2 – The Baby Cage & Be The Bike
• Number 3 - Anti-Eating Mouth Cage & Doggie Umbrella
• Number 4 - Air Conditioned Shoes & The Big Ash Bib
• Number 5 - Birdman of Alcatraz & Boatless Water Skiing

Today we have the following absurd patents:

The Baby Patter

For all the parents that can’t get no sleep because their baby starts crying during the middle of the night, I have just found the perfect solution, or not… it is called the Baby Patter, which is a motorized machine to fake the patting that parents are suppose to be doing.

The good:
- More sleeping time for the parents and for the baby
- Less work and more free time for parents

The bad:
- Baby must be in position for the patter to work properly, this can be kind of hard…
- No strength adjustment
- No timer
- The child might grow up with bad memories of his babyhood because of the machine
Read the rest of this entry »