A lot of modern life seems to have to do with controlling your environment. Either for your bedroom or your office, the options are all over for you to adjust temperature, humidity, noise levels, and especially lighting. The best of these options are the most beautifully designed.

The Hue Bulb series from appliance standard-bearers Philips paired with Apple to create a completely personalized lighting experience. Continue reading →

Never do we listen to the radios in our hotel rooms looking for impressive sound. The industrially produced clock radios function just for alarms, really. The Model XS by Geneva Sound System is a tiny portable audio system that might motivate you to toss the standard clock radio out of a window. Continue reading →

I don’t know if it’s my life-long love for the James Bond franchise, or my general attraction to tiny gadgets, but the Nikon Coolpix S100 satisfies so much of my design pallet. It looks like it’s the size of a credit card, its squared shape with slight rounded edges simplifies the camera to the point where taking a photo seems like a very gentle action – there’s no furious and frantic adjusting of lenses with this camera. Continue reading →

As our televisions seem to be turning into huge computers, or our computers are magnifying to become all-connected televisions, it’s difficult to find an affordable middle ground. It seems like that’s why the Roku box was designed, to give us an affordable, functional streaming media device. Continue reading →

Internal tablet speakers fall more than short of an impressive sonic experience. Out of an iPad, Netflix film audio tends to sound like it’s struggling to even present character dialog let alone translate impressive explosions or emotive soundtracks. Inevitably, you end up jabbing the volume-up button as if you were scaring the device into pushing out louder, more definitive sound.

To sooth this impatient tendency, and to transform the tablet into a professional audio-visual device, Belkin created the Thunderstorm, a so-called home theater system that fits around your iPad, delivering the much-needed sonic boost. Continue reading →

First, a tremendous search engine. Next, a spam-free e-mail service. Then, a freely distributed smartphone operating system. Now, “glasses.” Google seems to be everywhere, but apparel accessories might be the strangest product department for the Internet giant. But Google Glass is here, and sooner than people might think, pedestrians will sport the bizarre looking eyeglass-computer-camera combo. Continue reading →

Nowadays, people begin to appreciate the benefits of bamboo as a wonderful Eco friendly renewable resource. It’s been used for various applications such as flooring, building materials and furnishings, and now it can also protect your smartphone. Joe Mansfield and Ken Tomita, founders of Grove, decided to make the best iPhone case possible, and everything else would take care of itself. Check it out, isn’t it gorgeous? Continue reading →

This time we opted for something a little different as the Toyota stand design, in the last Paris motor show, has been brought to our attention. With its interactive visual experience, constant motion and large gesture-controlled surfaces, Toyota’s European motor-show appearance really packs a punch. Continue reading →

Today, regular checkups don’t mean you need to see your doctor – all you need is your iPhone or iPad and a touch of your finger. Meet Tinke by Zensorium, a tiny monitoring device that will help you track your fitness and wellness anytime anywhere. Continue reading →

Have you ever heard that Bill Gates installed sensors in his home that will adjust a room’s environment when someone walks in – registering his or her body temperature, stress level, or age… This might be mythical, or Gates’s computer-controlled home even more impressive, but either way, few of us can share this experience, considering that we’re not all electronics billionaires.

But there is a tiny white cube that can report temperature, humidity, noise, light, air quality, and barometric pressure to it’s accompanying iPhone app—providing us everyday people with something close to the Gates House experience. Continue reading →