SolidDrive: Invisible Speakers

SolidDrive allows you to turn most solid surfaces into speakers allowing you to utilize walls, glass, or countertops already in the room to create a virtually invisible sound system. Hooked up to an amp, the device can be installed behind walls and by converting audio signals into vibrations the entire wall can be turned into a speaker with omnidirectional sound covering most frequencies. Not really …

Symbol Caddy and Corporate Ipsum Widgets

Brian Haslanger is a designer who has created two handy freeware widgets for Apple's OSX. Corporate Ipsum creates placeholder text according to your length and paragraph specs. Symbol Caddy is a widget I use all the time when writing posts—a click on a symbol or letter copies the HTML code to your clipboard, making quick work of posting symbols, accents, em dashes, etc.

Rebound Notebooks

Brought up in "book–ish households" surrounded by the likes of children's classics such as Paddington Bear and Trixie Beldon mysteries, Aussie duo Natalie Crupi and Ben Mason quickly realized their mutual appreciation for well–designed classic book covers. The pair came up with the concept of using the covers to create blank notebooks after sifting through piles of texts at thrift stores, the couple stumbled upon …