Rich Haridy points to a new item on Kickstarter called "Nakefit". Rather than wear flop-flips on the beach or at the pool, wouldn't you prefer foot-shaped stickers for the bottom of your feet? The makers of Nakefit think so.
As Rich points out, this idea seems to be in tension between "why?" and "of course!".
Katherin Schwab has written an interesting piece on FastCompany about a new utensil called the Goûte. It is basically a wand with a tear-drop shaped end. Users dip the thick end into viscous foods like yogurt, swirl to get the food to stick, and then put it in their mouths to eat.
Emma Tucker at Dezeen writes about a new feature of the "Angel" electric bicycle by Noordung. The Angel is a high-end electric bike clearly meant to appeal to an exclusive market, at the exclusive price of €9,760 each.
One theme raised in our STV 202 class is that acquisition of information may precede practical knowledge of what to do with that information. This issue is especially noticeable in health, where it has become very easy to track people's vital statistics but not so easy to know how to use the results to benefit them.
Think of any commercial fitness tracker you can name.
Rima Sabina Aouf describes a "minimalist" door bell in Dezeen. Just launched on Kickstarter, the "Ding" door bell provides a wireless door bell ringing and answering system.
The system consists of a button, which is hung on or near the door in question, and a speaker, which emits the chime. Both components have been simply styled, appearing as almost featureless rectangles with circular ends:
In his article "Technological innovation", Benoît Godin provides a history of the term innovation and its adoption in discourse about technological change.
The history of the expression begins as a translation of a Greek term that referred to subversive novelties and was invariably negative in tone. Early Christian authors used the new word, innovo, to refer to regeneration, a return to a better state of affairs from the past, clearly a positive connotation.