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Yesterday, I wrote about the Electrolux Design Lab concept for 2050, Heart of the Home .  To give you an idea of how out there Heart of the Home is (and I mean that lovingly), the kitchen’s pots and pans are traced into existence with an index finger, and they don’t need to be washed or stored, just erased!  Now, wait until you see what Philips Design has cooked up for 2050! 

What a clever and fun design is the Chop Stick Wardrobe.  Not created by an Asian, but by Swiss designer Andreas Saxer, who happens to be a design professor at the Chang-Geng University Taipei in Taiwan.  I’d say Saxer’s Chop Stick Wardrobe just may have been influenced by his stay on the Chinese island.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is holding a moon-sized art contest for high-school and college students.  The challenge is to submit an original work on the theme: Life and Work on the Moon. 

Though Slowcooker by Margriet Foolen doesn’t exactly fit easily into interior design categories, it did happen to win Wallpaper’s Best Domestic Design 2010.  Personally, I think it’s great that its good looks are matched by its utility and I can’t wait to purchase one!

Buying a tasty Valentine’s Day gift for the mechanically minded man need not be a wrenching decision, just order up these cool chocolate tools from Frantz Kobe Sweets!

It’s hard to resist Dima Loginoff’s designs; they’re so conceptually rich, drawing in so many aspects of history, art, and social commentary.  Perhaps none of Loginoff’s creations to date are as evocative as his concept chair, Dounyasha .

On January 31, 2010, as a first-of-its-kind interactive fan experience, the 52nd Annual Grammy Award Show will rank the popularity of nominated artists.

Don’t get me wrong; I’m crazy about the Barstool from Supernatural Studios.  There’s just something so alive about it, that if that big duck-footed base were split in two, I would half expect it to walk away, or around, or dance maybe!

The big news at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas (January 7-10) was 3-D TVs. While Steve Ballmer’s introduction of his new Microsoft Tablet is expected to compete head-on with Apple’s launch of their new iSlate/Tablet in March, it appears that the influence of the movie Avatar’s 3-D technology is stretching from the large screen to the small screen.

I’ve covered a cardboard cafe and a cardboard office, but this is the first time I’ve seen the entire interior architecture of a guest house designed in cardboard. And, if that is not novel enough, the guest house is part of a villa that is literally carved into a mountain.