check out these pics for Delta’s Boeing Dreamliner aircraft (2010).

from Thompson Solutions

check out what some forecasters from the 1930’s predicted women would wear in 2000. (video below) [thanks, ambidextrous]

Check out the cords under my desk - before and after my solution.

BEFORE

AFTER

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Carolin Horn has created a flash-based visually compelling email interface, which uses the metaphor of microbes. [thanks, Frank]

Designer Christina Tapp has designed this speculative concept phone. Her portfolio is here.  Source link [ubergizmo].

Designer James Zhang has designed a transforming mobile phone that morphs its form to fit various applications, including mobile phone, wrist watch, mobile computing, and multimedia player functions. [thanks, Yanko design]

Business Week has a feature about an MIT Media Lab city car concept, which is inspired by stackable airport luggage carts.

For more information, click here.

I also discovered a Popular Science feature of cool concept vehicles.

A 400 horse power, all electric vehicle with an extendable payload bed:

A 4 seater, high performance, electric vehicle, with hub motors, and aerodynamic design, which takes advantage of high-speed airflow:

A modular family car:

Interesting online UI research study - Don’t Click It - developed by the Institute of Interactive Research.

Flash-enabled rollover functionality is relatively pervasive these days, but most fundamental website and desktop UI’s still require clicking for navigation.

Scientists and engineers and a Cornell design student are developing clothing that has the potential to eliminate viruses before giving you a cold, eats smog, so you can breath cleaner air, and never have to be washed. Microscopic nanoparticles coating the garments can actively eliminate viruses and bacteria.

For more information, click here.