The rapid rise of Letraset Limited in the 1960s and 1970s is one example of how a company carefully evolved its new technology into a profitable manufacturing and worldwide export trade business. This began a DIY typography revolution that made it…

Sony Corporation is a designer, developer, manufacturer and marketer of audio, video, imaging, game, communications, and information technology products. It sells products to the industrial, consumer, and professional markets. This "Sports…

Canon provides imaging, optical, and industrial products, such as lenses, cameras, scanners, medical equipment, printers, and semiconductor manufacturing equipment. In April 1964, Eastman Kodak announced a new 8mm film standard: Super 8. This…

Research in Motion is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. Research in Motion Ltd is primarily known as the maker and provider of BlackBerry wireless devices…

Handspring was an American electronics company founded in 1998 by the founders of Palm after becoming dissatisfied with the company's direction under new ownership. Handspring's Visor is the best PDA to come down the pike since the Palm…

Konica Minolta is a provider of business solutions, offering technologies and performance materials. When the company was first founded they were primarily engaged in manufacturing cameras. Filters screw onto the front of lenses, still allowing you…

The Automatic Slide Projector was the first Braun product to be designed in its entirety by Dieter Rams. One of the design features that make this projector unique was its die-cast textured finish, which combined with the black details and bright…

The ET calculator series began when Braun obtained Omron's calculator design, starting off with the ET 11 Control model in 1975. Over the next decade the design would continue to change, showing the interactive nature of design, and how it’s…

Modus Design creates alternate proposals in the area of domestic ceramic products, focusing on the development of new forms and possibilitites of the arrangment of the landscpae of the table. Ceramic artefacts created by Modus Design form background…

Jieyang Changrong Industry is a professional manufacturer of home appliances and has developed into a large enterprise integrating mold design and development, production and diversification of personal hair styling appliances and kitchen appliances…

Apple designs, manufactures, and markets smartphones, tablets, personal computers, as well as portable and wearable devices. The company also offers software and related services, accessories, and third-party digital content and applications.…

Charles Hoberman is both a trained sculptor and mechanical engineer, and both of these accredations come through in his body of work. His career has focused on self-transformable objects, playing with concepts of unfolding, expantion and contraction…

Sony Corporation is a designer, developer, manufacturer and marketer of audio, video, imaging, game, communications, and information technology products. It sells products to the industrial, consumer, and professional markets. Sony Dream Machine was…

Hotpoint is a British brand of domestic appliances. After a few years of trial and error, George Hughes created the electric range what would revolutionize the way we cook in our home kitchens, and Hotpoint launched many appliance industry firsts.…

Sony is a designer, developer, manufacturer and marketer of audio, video, imaging, game, communications, and information technology products. It sells products to the industrial, consumer, and professional markets. The WM-F5 was the first “Sports”…

The ToastyMUG is a design that makes you say DUH! The concept focuses on the natural tendency to hold our cold hands close to a tea mug in order to warm them. The ergonomic, enveloping form of the handle keeps the heat in so both your drink and your…

Teappot is from an exhibition that consisted of 200 items curated by Micael Ernstell, for Sigvard Bernadotte's Coffee pots of stainless steel and red anodized aluminium, handles and knobs of plastic, produced by Moderna Kök in 1954. His aim was…

Modus studio has been developing alternative solutions in the field of functional, decorative and artistic porcelain for US and European market. Random series is a concept product providing additional meanings for an ordinary utilitarian object.…

RadioShack was the place to learn about new technology for the home, such as videophones and high-speed Internet services. Radio Shack's Armatron is a robotic toy that works like a real robot designed after robotic arms that were used in…

Collaborating with renowned designers from around the world, Alessi Designs produces an incredible range of tableware, silverware, bowls, and cutlery. Called 'Kettle with a Singing Whistle,' its sophisticated brass whistle produces the SI…

Vivitar is a leading provider of photographic, audio and optic devices and related accessories with a rich heritage of technology innovation and affordability dating back to 1938. Building off the success of its legendary Series-1 lenses and flashes…

Aspenware Inc. was a company started by two high school shop teachers from BC, who resigned their from jobs to start a company that would make single-use cutlery made to biodegrade. Their product, named WÜN, appeals to environmentalists and can…

Sony develops, designs, manufactures and sells electronic equipment, instruments, and devices for the industrial, professional, and consumer markets. Sony developed a revolutionary magnetic video still camera that can record 50 still colour pictures…

During the merger of Palm and Handspring, Palm regained its founders and the merged company focused strictly on hardware. Handspring executives Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky founded Palm in 1992, following Hawkins' invention of Palm OS, the…

Designed to be compact and lightweight so that it can be easily put into your pocket wherever you go. The third hand helper can enlarge fine print, jewelry, maps, newspapers, directories, legal documents, coins, stamps, antiques, and can be a…