The Dapper Alchemist

Can you tell me a joke using math? No? Don’t feel too bad, neither can I, unless you count that why is 6 afraid of 7 joke. New Math, a site from the genius mind of Craig Damrauer, strives to explain common concepts using humor and math. While not every entry […]

DiabetesMine recently announced their 2009 Design Challenge, an online competition encouraging the development of creative new tools for improving life with diabetes.
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This competition is open to any individuals or organizations passionate about diabetes and product design – whether you’re an enterprising patient or parent, a startup company, a design student, an […]

I’ve spent my fair share of time hunched over vials of acids and bases, concocting acetaminophen and watching chemical reactions explode. There’s definitely a part of me that regrets not pursuing chemistry, not so much for the science, but because of the glassware. Soxhlet extractors, Friedrich condenders and even commonplace Erlenmeyer flasks are […]

After seeing some horrendous product design on Gizmodo inspired by parts of the female form, I’ve been on the look out for good bio-inspired design. Luckily the team at Pure Austrian Design has pointed me towards Renate Hattinger’s Human Interior collection. The pieces from this collection are ceramic containers modeled after the two […]

I spent this past weekend in a surprisingly wet Chicago, damn you hurricane Ike. I was luckily spared the brunt of the torrential downpour thanks to my recently purchased Mackintosh (Mac), but I’ll be posting on that later in the week. The resiliency of the Mac got me thinking about how technology has […]

Dezeen recently posted a story on Natural History, an exhibition of biologically inspired jewelry at Selfridges & Co. The work presented by Tobie Kerridge, in particular, caught my eye. Dubbed Biojewellery, Mr. Kerridge, in collaboration with designer Nikki Scott and bioengineer Ian Thompson, has created jewelry out of human bone cells. For […]

Drink Design [Bombay Sapphire via Wallpaper]
As if you needed an excuse to go to Athens [Green Design via NOTCOT.org]
Groovy Green [Inhabitat]
Word of the Day: Materiality [/Mtrl via Dexigner]
Design Like You Give a Damn, a must read [Architecture for Humanity]

Properly administering drugs to children is a continuing problem in developing nations. Often, health care professionals in these areas only have adult doses of medication, which are then incorrectly prescribed and can lead to increased child mortality. To answer this call Nectar Design has designed a new adjustable medicine dispenser that allows health […]

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It was in that old commercial where we found out how Mr. Lee got his clothes so clean, “Ancient Chinese secret,” or as we later found out from Mrs. Lee, it was just Calgon. Well times have changed, that Calgon commercial doesn’t fly anymore and we may not even need […]

Prosthetics were introduced to me pretty early in my biomedical engineering (BME) education. They were at one point, all we, as BMEs, were supposed to concern ourselves with — luckily the field has expanded. Prosthetics have two purposes, functional recovery of the limb lost, and aesthetic recovery of overall body shape. One […]