Good Night Lamp

Lighting the way home for distant friends and family

Spotted this week at the CES trade show in Las Vegas, Good Night Lamp is a project that aims to bring people together through a neighborhood of networked lamps. The concept is simple: each large lamp is paired with a smaller one, which can be given to friends and family anywhere in the world. Pressing down on the chimney turns the light on and off …

OD-11

Swedish design firm Teenage Engineering returns with the world's first cloud speaker

The enfants terribles of the industrial design world return with yet another potential banger of a product, hot on the heels of the OP-1, the synthesizer that made it cool to tickle the ivories. This time Swedish firm Teenage Engineering plundered the license cabinet of Stig Carlsson, the Swedish engineer who dared to challenge the audio establishment with his speakers meant for use in a …

Flower Power

Parrot's bluetooth-enabled gardening gadget keeps you and your plants in sync

Most notable for their high-tech toys and innovative electronics, Paris-based Parrot takes a step off the beaten path with Flower Power, a sensor-driven gardening gadget that aims to help thumbs stay green on the go. Resembling a plastic plant stock, the small indoor/outdoor device gathers soil information and uses Bluetooth 4.0 to transmit it to your phone or tablet. Parameters monitored include the amount of …