The Nest. A New Smart, Savvy, Sensing, Stylish Thermostat For The Home.

This modern looking, smart thermostat, the Nest, has been getting a lot of coverage on design blogs and in the news recently - and with good reason. In addition to being great looking, the technologically advanced thermostat saves energy, learns from your behavoir and is wi-fi connected so you can even program it from a downloadable mobile app when away from home.NEST PROGRAMS ITSELF AND SAVES

Funky Find Of The Week: The iGrow Hair Rejuvenation System.

This hands-free hair rejuvenation system for both men and women, the iGrow by Apira Science, is so hilarious looking it's hard to believe it's a real product. But for $695, it had better be. Developed by industry professionals, the funny looking helmet provides you with the ability to listen to music while employing low level lasers along with high output LEDs to promote thicker and fuller

iPhone Photo Cube Printer. No Software, No Computer, just pop in your iPhone and Print.

Despite the fact that most of us are digital photo people and share many images via cyberspace, they do still make picture frames (remember those?) and people still like to place an actual photo upon their mantel or shelf. For those folks, the iPhone Photo Cube Printer by Vupoint is the perfect gift for this holiday season.The iPhone Photo Cube Printer.This is the first printer that produces

TouchFire - A Flexible, Featherweight Screen-Top Keyboard for the iPad!

Many people I know simply do not like attempting to type on the iPad for the same reason that several iPhone owners turned back to their Blackberry. They miss the ease of using a keyboard as you normally would. That's precisely why Steve Isaac and Brad Melmon of Seattle have come up with a thin, feather-weight device that puts the "touch" back into typing - TouchFire.TouchFire makes typing on

QR Code Greeting Cards Become the New "Mix Tapes" and Send You to Spotify Playlists.

above: A series of greetings cards that when scanned with a QR code reader direct people to themed music playlists within their Spotify Premium smart phone app. Once upon a time, the "mix tape" was an overture of intimacy, of sharing, a gesture to show you cared by sending someone your own personal musical playlist as a message. Now, Stupid, a collective of young creatives in the UK, have

A Power Pig with 17 Snoutlets (and the Design Process behind it.)

Russian design studio Art Lebedev is always designing clever items, some as concepts, some as produced items. One of their latest concepts is something I wish would come to fruition. Check out the design process and final protoypes of their Power Strip Svintus with 17 snout-plugs (or Power Pig with 'snoutlets' as I like to call it.)Task: to play up a conventional piggy. Svintus power strip is a