ThermoReal lets you feel heat, cold and even pain in VR and AR

Posted on 02/07/2017 by Engadget RSS Feed

While some companies are trying to make AR and VR more immersive via haptic feedback, one startup decided to focus on the thermal aspects of the experience. TEGway, a spin-off of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, has created a s...

The Salt-bae Shaker!

Posted on 03/04/2017 by Sarang Sheth

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He’s clearly 2017’s meme of the year! The Turkish chef took everyone by storm with the way he salted his meat steak with dripping swag. The Pinch salt and pepper shakers are designed to be gripped in a similar fashion, as compared to the way we grip regular salt and pepper shakers. These shakers pay tribute to the classic way of sprinkling a ‘pinch’ of salt on your food, but we can’t help but reference Salt Bae! Now it’s stuck in your heads too!

Designer: Luke Mastrangelo

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Instagram Supports Pinch to Zoom on Photos and Videos

Posted on 02/09/2016 by ians

Facebook-owned Instagram has rolled out a new update to its iOS app where users can pinch to zoom on photos and videos in feed, profiles and on "Explore" tab."Over the past six months, you've seen...

Happy Birthday America, and Long Tran!

Posted on 03/07/2014 by Radhika Seth

Happy 4th of July! Bet you have planned a great party and are looking forward to an evening of spectacular fireworks. We have our party planned too, mainly because we are celebrating a birthday our Creative Director – Long Tran’s birthday over the weekend. We are stuck and need your help… after the jump is a list of goodies and we can’t figure what to get him as a gift. Perhaps you can help us decide? Leave your suggestions in the comments.

Chargekey

The ChargeKey besides being a USB charging cable, also allows for syncing devices from any USB port.

Auris Skye

Skye is a WiFi receiver for your music dock that allows you to stream and control your favorite tunes from your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Android, Windows Phone or iTunes (Mac or PC) in your WiFi network with AirPlay and DLNA support.

Switch Bluetooth Speaker

Designed like a giant Lego block, the Switch allows users to wirelessly enjoy an unmatched sound quality experience as well as easily pairs wirelessly to your Bluetooth devices.

Pinch Salt Shaker

The Pinch brings the visceral act of adding ‘a pinch of salt’ to the dining table.

Pulpop Speaker

Other than its unique donut shape, this USB rechargeable MP3 speaker is made of recycled pulp. It is ultra light despite its look and size. The sound is amplified by the vibration inside the hollow space of the speaker.

T – Block Watch

T – Block re-defines time through an original quality timepiece and has a very futuristic look.

Keyboard Coasters

Made to look like a keyboard, these drink coasters add a nifty touch to your workstation.

Envelope Bag

A simple yet stylish design for a cross body bag. It evokes a paper envelope with a tie but unlike paper, this bag is durable and strong.

Digital Destruction Watch

Time marches on. The old must make way for the new, but sometimes it does not go willingly as with the Digital Destruction Watch. Set in an analog body, the traditional mechanical dial seems to have shattered to make way for the digital LCD screen.

My birthday is next, should I get myself this –

Stix & Stones

The Stix & Stones Necklace is part of the Perhacs Signature Series and each piece has been hand made by the designer, and is personally signed.

Full Stix & Stones

Stix+Stones is a line of jewelry that enables the wearer to create a wide variety of unique sculptural looks, using two fundamental elements. The innovative design potential of Stix+Stones is hidden inside the hand-brushed stainless steel stix, with invisible magnetic stops positioned precisely at 8″ intervals.

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A Pinch of Life

Posted on 18/03/2014 by Radhika Seth

Salt – the one ingredient that can make or break your signature dish! Understandably, this is why the Pinch was the first product ever launched via Kickstarter. It is the drama and experience of adding ‘a pinch of salt’ to the dish that makes it exciting. In its conceptual stage, we loved and supported the Pinch; now when it’s the real deal…we want to share its story with you.

Inspired by the use of coarse and flaky seas salts that chefs use while cooking, designer Craighton Berman wanted to bring these amazing salts and the visceral experience of pinching to the dining table, and so he designed the Pinch.

The salt cellar holds a portion of sea salt, and the top sphere is a traditional pepper shaker, which acts as a cover for the cellar when not in use. The act of ‘closing’ Pinch results in the satisfying slide of two pieces of ceramic against each other—reminiscent of using a ceramic mortar and pestle.

Apparently salts are kept in open containers called “salt pigs” and are placed next to the stove. While cooking, portions of salt are “pinched” and applied liberally to the food. This entire drama of adding salt to food gave birth to the Pinch. Designed in Chicago, made in Thailand, this unique salt and pepper holder has its roots tracing back to a design competition in Chicago, circa 2007. Ever since its October 2010 Kickstarter success, the Pinch has been an object of desire, a classy product that you want spicing-up your dining table.

Designer: Craighton Berman Studio [ Buy it Here ]

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Tokyo University of Technology’s Pinch interface creates ad hoc video walls from mobile devices (video)

Posted on 02/11/2012 by Jon Fingas

Most video walls would be just a tad too large for the average living room, but the Tokyo University of Technology might have a clever technique to make them travel-sized. Its new Pinch interface joins mobile devices (currently iOS hardware) into a single display simply by making the namesake gesture between at least two gadgets: WiFi keeps them in sync and recognizes the relative size and orientation. While we probably wouldn't resort to a wall of iPads in place of a large TV, there's clear practical uses like extra-large creative apps, communication and very local multiplayer games. The best news may be that the university isn't keeping the technology to itself. It wants developers to borrow Pinch for their own apps, which could lead to a legion of smartphones and tablets getting extra-cozy.

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