3D Printed Shoes

3D printing is the next big thing. There are a lot of people thinking of forms to use this technology. I like to share this one. These shoes are printed by a 3D printer. 

The shoes maybe look fragile but in fact they are very strong and lightweight. Lined with a patent leather inner sole and coated with a synthetic rubber to provide traction.

The futuristic web-like structures are composed chiefly from nylon, generated from continuously layering the material until the design is fabricated, allowing the outcome to be detailed and complex.

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This is the highway of the future

According to Studio Roosegaarde the highways of the future are safer, cleaner and more environmentally sound.

The Dutch design lab Studio Roosegaarde invents weird things. And now, the brains behind clothing that becomes transparent while the wearer is getting, ahem, intimate and a room that contracts and expands based on how hard you dance in it would like to redesign Europe’s entire system of highways and roads. So they did.

The lab has developed solar powered glow-in-the-dark roads that charge during the day to illuminate your evening drive, dynamic asphalt paint that transforms in response to road conditions like ice and sleet, and car lanes that double as electric car chargers by using magnetic fields under the asphalt. These ideas might seem far out, but they’re already being implemented in Holland. If all goes well during the piloting program, there are talks of implementing these upgrades across Europe.


Dutchman brings glow to night-driving: Reuters interviews designer Daan Roosegaarde from Daan Roosegaarde on Vimeo.

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Breaking: Skype replacing Windows Live Messenger

Microsoft will retire its Windows Live Messenger chat service, shifting its focus instead to similar functionality in Skype, a new report says. The changeover could happen as early as this week.

Citing “several sources,” The Verge reports Microsoft is planning to integrate Windows Live Messenger into Skype in the coming months and then retire Messenger.

On the back end, the merger of the two systems has been happening already. Skype now uses much of the Windows Live Messenger’s systems to make and receive calls (the calls themselves, however, still use Skype’s peer-to-peer system). Skype also uses Messenger’s systems for about 80% of instant messages exchanged on the service, the report says.

Source: TheVerge

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Thonet concept bike by Andy Martin

The Frankenburg, Germany-based company is looking to branch out (no pun intended) from furniture with none other than a concept bike.

At the end of 2010 London based-designer Andy Martin was asked by THONET to design and develop a concept road bicycle using their steam bending process developed in the 1930s. Andy Martin Studio developed three designs of which the final was selected because its beauty and modest connection with the heritage of the company. Andy says 'The challenge was to take on fairly low tech process of steam bending and then apply it to a 21st-century bicycle with highly complex engineering.' With the many restrictions of hand bending the beech frame the final jointing and contours would be cut and adjusted on a cnc machine. Andy Martin has also developed a series of connectors and sprung rods to reinforce joints and the major stress areas in the frame.

As some of you may have guessed from the images, it's a fixed-gear, which the press release duly declares to be "the tradition of cycling: one has a greater connection to the bike and the surface one rides on." Curiously enough, they also note that it has no brakes and "several interchangeable gear ratios"—implying that the Thonet Bike is indeed rideable.

At $2,900 (£1800), the HED H3 carbon wheelset pictured in the renderings denoted by the press release would typically be upwards of 20–30% of the total cost of a high-end track bike... but they're practically a bargain on this build: the limited edition Thonet bike will be available for £43,000 ($70,000).

Via Core77

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Clip-On iPhone Lenses

They’re clip-ons that fit perfectly over the camera on an iPhone 4 and 4S, and give you fisheye, circular polarizer and 3 image mirage filter. When done, just pull them right off and stuff them in your pocket. They’re $35 each

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ZOOKA - Wireless Speaker for your iPad, iPhone & Mac

From the Portland, Oregon-based design studio New, comes a portable Bluetooth speaker solution for computers, laptops, tablets, and even smartphones. The Zooka speaker is made of durable silicone and produces sound that is five times the volume of built-in speakers of the previously mentioned devices. 

Currently the firm is raising funds via Kickstarter in order to launch the product. Although the project has more than surpassed the fundraising goal, there is more time left to kick in some extra funds before the March 19th deadline.

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The Portable Handheld Scanner

This is the portable, cordless handheld scanner that preserves important documents, letters, or recipes, recording its contents onto a memory card for later retrieval on your computer. As you move the scanner over an area as large as 8 1/2" H x 50" L, its sensitive color image sensor scans at high (600 dpi) or standard (300 dpi) resolution, saving images as JPEG files stored on an inserted microSD card (sold below). A scan of a passport takes only five seconds. You can download your images to your computer using the included USB cable. Its built-in display shows the selected resolution, remaining battery life, and memory status.

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The Lumia 820, Nokia is back!

Nokia is back! With this awesome design. You can change your backcover very easily. It reminds me of the old Nokia time. It's only the question if Windows Phone 8 will get as good as android and IOS. We will see, at least it's the most beautiful phone at this moment.


The Lumia 820 is powered by the same 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 as the flagship Lumia 920, but will arrive with a smaller 4.3-inch display, only 8GB of storage, and a five-megapixel rear camera. The 8GB internal storage can be expanded via Windows Phone 8's extended microSD functionality.

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