Paris Turntable
Design: Jacques Riendeau
Client: Oracle Audio
Date: 2010
1 comment January 23rd, 2012
Electronics
Tellscope™
Design: gsmprjct°
Client:
Date: 2011
An augmented reality device that replaces the traditional coin-operated telescopes. “By simply aiming the telescope at landmarks in the surrounding landscape, users have access to fascinating facts at the push of a button. It also contains previously saved images which enable users to view sites as they were on a sunnier day or by night. Its first deployment took place in January 2010 at the 124th floor observatory of the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa.”
Add comment December 9th, 2011
Musical Paradise MP-301
Design:
Client: Musical Paradise
Date: 2011
Designed as a serious audiophile level headphone amp with all tubes for that warm sound. This product is another cornerstone in the well populated world of Canadian high-end audio.
Add comment December 5th, 2011
Vertical Axis Wind Turbines
Design: OHM
Client: Aquilo Power
Date: 2005
3 comments October 24th, 2011
Laptop Cooling Stand
Design: Adam Berson
Client: ChillBed Industries
Date: 2011
Add comment June 23rd, 2011
AQUA2 Underwater Robot
Design: Dr. Gregory Dudek, Junaed Sattar and Anqi Xu
Client: McGill University
Date: 2011
The AQUA2 robot is unique, able to move on land as well as swim and dive in the water, it offers advantages that competing for underwater video footage and contact. The robot uses a compliant thrusting surface that does not harm wildlife, or environments, and allows it to land or take-off with minimal impact. AQUA2 is lightweight and can be easily deployed from two standard shipping containers, and transported in commercial aircraft as luggage.
Add comment May 20th, 2011
Subsonic Chair
Design: John Greg Ball
Client: self-initiated, Designboom
Production: prototype
Date: 2011
Greg Ball’s Subsonic Chair is a teenage dream come true. When connected to an MP3 player or video game console, the chair’s two 16″ sub woofers turn music or gaming into a truly physical experience.
Originally created in 2005 for Designboom’s Teenage Furniture competition, the concept earned an honorable mention, but remained unbuilt… until now.
Add comment April 26th, 2011
Gap 828 (custom finish)
Design: Eli Gershman
Client:
Date: 2011
Another addition to Canada’s growing reputation as the world’s top producer of premium audio equipment. Gershman Gap 828′s may look odd (and something from the 80′s) but their appearance is all about the sound. The scale of the speakers deliver the sound waves “faithfully and in their most natural and pure form”, and the pyramid shape eliminate cabinet vibration and deliver the music into a three-dimensional sound stage.
I loved the review from the Gershman site describing the experience of listening to the speakers. “A hedonistic fruit bomb…big, lush, powerful and almost sinfully rich. The Gap is one of the smoothest, most voluptuous and least fatiguing audio components I’ve heard…the Gap will show you plenty of a recording’s inner detail and character”.
1 comment April 25th, 2011
Skwarim Portable Hard Drive
Design: Karim Rashid
Client: LaCie
Date: 2009
Its name is partly derived from the name of its designer and partly from its square shape. In any case, you won’t need a degree in design or linguistics to figure out what this drive is shooting for: everyone’s attention.
Source: Macworld
1 comment April 20th, 2011
First External Cardiac Pacemaker
Design: John Hopps, Dr. Wilfred Bigelow and Dr. John Callaghan
Client: Toronto General Hospital & National Research Council
Date: 1951
Following considerable global research and a strong desire to fight back at a major killer, the first pacemaker was created at the Banting Institute at the University of Toronto by Dr. Wilfred Bigelow and Dr. John Callaghan, and Dr. John Hopps at the National Research Council of Canada. This pioneering work led to the use of cardiac pacemakers, and established the importance of electronic devices in medicine.
Add comment April 18th, 2011
Bryston SP-3 preamplifier/processor
Design:
Client: Bryston
Date: 2010
Designed as the ultimate surround sound amplifier, this $10,000 piece of gear will make any audiophile drool. The press release has the details (a little technical) but here goes…it has full audio processing and advanced video processing with upconversion and deinterlacing courtesy of an on-board Gennum video processor. There are eight HDMI audio/video inputs with two independent HDMI outputs (each supporting different output resolutions). Of course, the SP3 will decode all of the advanced codecs including PCM, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD High Resolution Audio and DTS-HD Master Audio. In keeping with its audiophile heritage, the SP3 will include balanced audio inputs and outputs as well as traditional RCA inputs and outputs.
1 comment April 11th, 2011
Mountain View iPhone 4 Skin
Design: We Kill You
Client: GelaSkins
Date: 2011
Add comment April 6th, 2011
Model 250 Magnajector
Design: Sid Bersudsky
Client: Kelton Corporation, Toronto
Date: 1950
Add comment March 31st, 2011
