The SawStop is a table saw with an amazing safety innovation: the blade automatically halts and retracts if it comes into contact with flesh, all within milliseconds. This video demonstrates the feature.
Tag » clever
It’s amazing what you can do with ordinary forks. Remember: there is no spoon.
Update: Added the link! Thanks to Matthew Bartik, the artist, for pointing out this omission.
Some examples of clever packaging over at Pulse Laser.
Sketch furniture may not have any practical applications (yet), but the idea of drawing furniture in thin air and printing the physical objects is just amazingly cool.
Markus Hofer has some really fun pieces. Along with the above pictured Room Corner, Light Cone and Juice are personal favorites. The site’s in German, but the pictures speak for themselves.
Disco, a new OS X app, quite literally burns your CD. A brilliant touch.
The printer as social letterbox, or what if you could print stuff for your friends. As much as I hate wasting more paper, there’s something about getting a physical printout (also, this could be a great way to recycle all the one-sided printouts lying around your office).
The BenQ Black Box is a beautiful design for the ultimate mobile device. BusinessWeek has some insightful commentary. So simple, so versatile — will someone please build this?
I love Giffin’Termeer’s Containership Powerstrip. It changes the object from something you want to hide away to something you want to show off on your desk. Can someone please produce this? More work from the same designer.
The Stain cup uses coffee stains as decoration rather than degradation. Diego Rodriguez has written before on designing with aging in mind.
