Celsius – Fridge of the future

Miss Angeline Meloche from Australia has done a great job with her concept fridge. Check out the details

Citizen Schools + Altitude

Eleven Boston Public Middle School students recently won the “Innovation” award for their redesign of their middle school classroom.  Through Citizen Schools, an non-profit organization that creates after-school programs to help enhance the education of young adults by engaging them in hands-on learning projects, volunteers Evan Gant, Industrial Designer, and Alex Tee, Mechanical Engineer of Altitude, Inc., introduced the students to the design process and tasked them with redesigning their own classroom. To learn more about Citizen Schools go to www.citizenschools.org

Jeff Han On A Better Interface Design

Inventor of the multi touch talks to technology review. Click image to open player

How Kids React To A Robot

Researchers at the University of California studied how kids react to a Sony QRIO Robot for a long period of time. The kids seem to bond with the robot as one of their own.  Check out the video and the article on Newscientist.

How Things Are Made.

Want to see how an Adidas soccer ball is made…visit this link static.iftk.com.br

Université de Québec à Montréal

UQAM’s Bamboo projects had design students explore elastic qualities of a very renewable resource.  Fun yes, functional maybe, educational damn right. Source from mocoloco