The news that Hitachi is going to install a super fast life begs the question of how fast we really want these things to travel at. The new lift is going to be fitted in a skyscraper in Guangzhou in China. It is going to be capable of flying between floors at a hair raising speed of 45 mph. It would take only 43 seconds for it to zoom from the first floor all the way up...

Have you ever seen a goldfish circumnavigate the globe in your living room? Sounds cryptic we know but is feat which is now totally possible thanks to this coffee table designed by Takuro Yamamoto Architects. The project is called World Trip aquarium and was an entrant at this years Designboom’s TIFF awards. It’s an ultra modern table with clear shatter proof glass...

Apple Inc. is expected to unveil the iPhone 5 any day (or week) now and Case-Mate, a mobile accessory maker, have accidentally put up a page on its website that features new iPhone 5 cases. Case-Mate immediately took the page down, but not before Apple news site Boy Genius Report and others documented the six colorful case designs and posted the images for all to see. According...

It has been rumored that Apple’s upcoming iPhone 5 will sport a new, more rectangular home button, a huge change from the circular one that was used in the current and previous models of the smartphone. Now, a purported part leak suggests that the iPhone 5’s home button design will remain the same. How To Arena found the “iPhone 5 Home Button Flex Cable...

Molo, a design firm in Canada, has created a comfortable and cheap housing innovation designed for disaster relief situations. The Softshelter is a system that was designed to create personal space in a communal shelter. It provides people or families with privacy during hard times. To demonstrate how useful the Shoftshelter is, one member of the Molo design team has volunteered...

Apple may have unintentionally leaked the design for its upcoming iPhone 5 smartphone in a patent application in Australia, reports say. According to Australian tech site SmartHouse, the Cupertino tech giant has prematurely filed patents for its iPhone 5 smartphone in Australia after the company’s bad experience with its government. According to the application filed...

When Jakub Szczesny, an architect from Poland, saw a mere 60-inch gap between two buildings in downtown Warsaw, he felt that it needed to be filled. Though expanding foams would have done the job, Szczesny instead came up with a design for a house that will become the narrowest property in the world. The house – complete with a lounge, a bedroom, a kitchen and bathroom...

For the past ten years, Michelin has challenged designers from around the globe to make their own innovative vehicle concepts. The best concept vehicle designs are then put by the company before some judges and display the best at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS). Michelin’s 2011 “Plus 10: The Best is Yet to Come” challenge asked designers...

Over the past few months, we’ve been hearing rumors of the number of features that will be included in Apple’s new iPhone 5, now designers have put together some of these rumors to show us what the new smartphone may look like. Designer Michal Bonikowski has put together his own concept design for the new iPhone 5, which honestly, looks very stunning. The...

If Ford could design cars like this, why haven’t they done it before now? This beast is called the Ford Cobra Snakehead, a concept car designed by Andrus Cyprian that looks as if it could bring super car styling to the masses – if only Ford would put into production. The Cobra has been styled so the bonnet dips and then rises at the nose, with a huge air dam at...