Here’s what we looked at this week:
Timothy Wilmots’ self-designed Multi-Function Tool Cart is a superior, and earlier, design than Systainer/Festool’s MW 1000.
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This wonderful cow puzzle is a simple, yet complicated toy design. Japanese manufacturer Yamanaka Kumiki Works has been making animal puzzles like these for decades. Click the link to see how it goes together.
For high-precision sketchers: Uni’s Jetstream Edge pen is rollerball-smooth, but with fast-drying ballpoint ink in a crazy fine 0.28mm point.
BMW’s 7 Series Protection vehicle is the Ultimate Driving Machine, for driving through a hail of bullets and exploding grenades.
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The Atari Gamestation Pro offers a fresh take on the Atari joystick. It only took 46 years to upgrade the design.
Simple design: This plastic gizmo turns 5-gallon buckets into dustpans.
The Duex Float is an extra laptop screen that folds with your laptop.
Industrial designer Rodolfo Bonetto designed these fun TV sets in the 1960s/’70s.
The 21st Middlecott Sketchbattle, “the Fight Club of Design,” pitted 20 transportation designers against the clock and each other. The theme was “Flying muscle cars.” Here’s an image gallery of the event.
