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This is the Penelope Shibuya Phone, made in Tokyo’s famous downtown district.

When I pass phone boxes these days I wonder if anyone still uses them. Cellzone however still see a purpose, particularly if you take out the phone leaving a quiet chamber for personal mobile phone calls.

From Giffin’Termeer at P32:
Designed to accommodate the many power adapters cluttering our living space, this ship powers our electronic devices with their cords in its wake. It also makes apparent the infrastructure behind all those power cords.
Most electronic devices in use everyday are manufactured in one province in China and are delivered to us by [...]

It’s quite interesting to see how “planned obsolescence” has managed to permeate nearly every product since Brookes Stevens coined the phrase fifty years ago. Perhaps it’s now time to reverse the trend.
Another of Stevens’ many “claims to fame” was to coin the phrase “planned obsolescence.” in 1954. Stevens was due to give a [...]

HULGER were given a container at 100% TOKYO by ICON and asked to do something under the theme of this year’s event ‘LOVE.’ So we made Love Locked, a prison meeting room where people can feel what it’s like to see, hear (through HULGER HANDSETS), but not touch. You can find us in the container [...]

These paintings see some kind of beauty in all the technical mayhem we usually find an irritation. With wi-fi permeating every known device, we’ll soon look on wires with the nostalgia already present in these images. I met Miltos Manetas briefly at a Neen show a couple of years ago.
from ikiniki

Michaeljpro collection of old radios. Not so long ago technology wasn’t just silver and grey.
via make

David Moises created this controllable matrix of cigarettes. The brightness of the burn is controlled by suckers so any shape can be displayed.
from vvork 

Very very small. Too small?
from Ubergizmo

As ‘progress’ walks us closer to the eventual goal of invisibility, the innovation community are throwing up some bizarre solutions along the way. Rather than transmit sound into the ear conventionally, this little vibrator drums it straight through your skull. We will soon be able to talk to people with absolutely no sign that we’re [...]