More awesomeness from Yves Béhar – World’s Fastest Electric Motorcycle. Mission Motorcycles…..oh….theyll be at the CPX 2010 too. BOOM!
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February 9, 2010 • 1:08 pm 0
want. now.
February 5, 2010 • 8:31 am 0
dry erase with grace.
I’m totally drooling over Three by Three’s dry-erase bamboo wall panels. I just spent yesterday morning covering a wall in acrylic panels so that I could have dry erase walls without feeling like I’m in a bathroom stall, but I may just have to rip them out for these.
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January 20, 2010 • 6:27 am 0
endlessly pimpable ride.
Trexa’s new automotive platform is an endlessly customizable electric car. On top of a simple base, users can dictate wheel width, ride height, and select from a series of body types. Even performance can be dialed up or down by adding or removing features, granting the ability to buy anything from an eco-friendly clown car to an electric monster truck.
Pretty neat.
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October 20, 2009 • 5:46 pm 1
the FlexVaas by Vij5.
Yeah, not even going to try to pronounce that one.
Last Saturday, the FlexVaas won the Best Consumer Product at the Dutch Design Awards. The four-component vase system has three different tops that can be swapped to accommodate different types of flowers. Simple, slick, and looks good.
High five to Vij5.
Filed under: Design , housewares, ID
• 5:21 pm 1
chopsticks + one
So simple.
French designer, Aïssa Logerot, has finally found a useful solution for all those Asian soup spoons I have clogging up the crannies of my utensil drawer.
It’s pretty straightforward, Chopsticks Plus One is a combo chopstick caddy, soy sauce bowl, and wonton spoon without the long angled handle. Now if he only made them stackable.
Filed under: Design , combo, food, housewares, ID
May 3, 2009 • 11:14 pm 3
3 bricks. Many users.
Design protoypes in Myanmar. Which is cooler?
One of our 2009 CPX exhibitors, 3brick Design, created an affordable, better stove for rural villagers in developing nations. They’ve just launched a blog sharing their thoughts on applied design thinking.
…This interview reminded us that when designing for the developing world, it’s still important to create irresistibly cool products that people will want to own and use. To understand what makes a product cool or uncool for our user, we must be mindful that coolness changes across cultures, genders, and user groups.
Cool in context. We like it.
–Tom
Filed under: 2009 Exhibitors, CPX, Design
• 11:01 pm 0
Doing More With Less, and Bigger than Ever
Thank you to all of the amazing exhibitors, attendees, and organizers of the 2009 Cool Product Expo. This year, the CPX welcomed its largest attendance so far — nearly 1300 people came to the Stanford campus to the see the remarkable innovations demonstrated by our 51 exhibitors. All of us at the Stanford Product Design & Manufacturing Club were thrilled by the enthusiastic response from the community. It was fantastic to see executives, entrepreneurs, students, artists, engineers, designers, and families exploring the expo together, seeing firsthand how design expands what’s possible.
We’re already jazzed thinking about cool in 2010. See you next year!
For a recap, check out coverage from CNET, Stanford Business Magazine, FindMBA.com, and the Stanford Report.
Filed under: CPX
April 8, 2009 • 3:37 pm 0
Xhibitr – On-Site at Stanford’s CPX!
As you know, we’re on-site at Stanford’s Cool Products Expo (CPX), showing off (what else?) Xhibitr!
We’ve been meeting so many intelligent, dynamic and creative individuals and teams at CPX today. We’re incredibly proud to be a part of this conference, and we’d like to extend our gratitude to the organizers of this conference.
Below are a few photos of some of our favorite companies that showed their stuff at CPX. Enjoy!
Filed under: 2009 Exhibitors, CPX
April 4, 2009 • 8:25 pm 2
Cool in 51 Ways: The 2009 Cool Product Expo Exhibitors
We’re thrilled to announce the remarkable exhibitors that will be presenting at this year’s CPX. Each will be showing off a cool product that you won’t be able to find on the market — yet. Even in difficult times, smart design is helping them do more with less.
See what cool design looks like, from plug-in hybrids to prosthetics for the developing world to telepresence robots. It’s free and open to everyone. Tell your friends and come by the CPX at the Stanford Arrillaga Alumni Center this Wednesday from 12p-6p to play with the future.
23andMe
3Brick Design
3Prong Power
Adolph Consulting Services
Aerobie, Inc.
Alite Designs
Anybots
B.Minima
Blackbird Guitars
California Cars Initiative
Catapult Design
ConXtech
Cooliris
Cyclute
D.light Design
Dante Beatrix, Inc
Development by Design
D-Rev
Driptech
Elliptigo Inc.
Embrace
Evernote
Green Gears
Green Harvest Technologies in cooperation with Ziba Design
HandMe
HighLite
Jaipur Knee Project
Joby
Karven Holdings LLC
Klutz
Logitech
Lunar Design
MagnoGrip Inc.
MINIWIZ S.E.D. Co., Ltd
NeuroSky
Nila
Obscura Digital
Pianistica
PlantSense
Plug-In Supply
Psyleron
redmark
Speck Design
Stanford PRN
TacDial
Taco Lab
Think Gum LLC
Tieks
Visible Energy
Volkswagen
Xhibitr
Yahoo! Inc.
Filed under: 2009 Exhibitors, Business, CPX, Design
March 23, 2009 • 5:46 pm 0
Powerpiggybank
Industrial design magazine Core77 recently held its Greener Gadgets Design Competition, asking designers from all over to submit their designs for green products. And, as anyone who has followed Xhibiting knows, we love green products.
While the Top 50 entries are all to be admired for their style and their ability to make a positive impact in the world, one in particular caught my eye in terms of sheer ingenuity – meet the PowerHog:
This adorable concept, which took second in Core77’s contest, was developed by six designers (Mathieu Zastawny, Mansour Ourasanah, Tom Dooley, Peter Byar, Elysa Soffer, Mathieu Turpault) and is very simple – teach kids about the cost implications of energy use by requiring them to put money into a piggy bank for their energy consumption. Not to mention, it gives parents some level of control over how much their kids use their electronics.
Very cool – I hope they’re successful in marketing it!
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