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The Enicycle: One wheel, a motor, and balance assistance

By Rain Noe - Aug 20, 2009

This is so fresh: Slovenian inventor Aleksander Polutnik's motorized Enicycle is one wheel of fun, with gyroscopic stabilization-assistance helping to keep it upright. Watch as The Gadget Show's unicycle-challenged Ortis Deley learns to ride one in just under five minutes.

Polutnik originally built the thing for fun and to ride alongside his unicycle-riding girlfriend, but the popularity of the device has prompted him to seek mass manufacturing. via product design & development

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Rain Noe

Rain Noe is a writer and industrial designer based in New York City.

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By Rain Noe - Aug 20, 2009

Product design: Prototypes, patents, patience...then profits

That there is the PopNet, a collapsible fishing net with a flexible outer ring that the user can twist into a figure-eight and fold, reducing the diameter from 30" to a conveniently carry-able 10".It was devised by Phillip Campbell, who observed fishermen struggling with packing away bulkier nets. Campbell, who...
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By Rain Noe - Aug 20, 2009

Matthew White's amazingly thorough police cruiser interior re-design

Massachusetts-based Matthew White displays some impressive re-think skills and thoughtful, intelligent design touches in his project re-imagining police cruiser interiors. In preparation for the project, White went through interviews with members of the Boston police department on how cops really use their cars.Although policemen are the ones who write us...
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By Lisa Smith - Aug 20, 2009

Giant rainbow made from Pantone color chips

To celebrate the immense range of color in the Pantone Color Guides (and to promote the book to college students in Jakarta), Basheer Graphic Books commissioned a giant rainbow from Bates 141 Jakarta, spanning 8 meters and made from 5,000 chips. The rainbow was designed and built by Bates 141...
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By Rain Noe - Aug 19, 2009

SunFlower LEEDS

[All photographs by David Newsom.]These awesome, 12-foot-tall, sunflower-inspired solar panels are part of a permanent (and functional) art installation in Texas. When the Mueller Development, a 10,000-soul New Urbanism community in Austin, signed off on the development of a large retail lot within their confines, part of the agreement was...