Ever tried operating a door handle with occupied hands? Nightmare! No matter what you use, your elbow, feet, mouth, you’re never going to get it open till someone has some mercy and opens it for you. The Joystick door handle throws light on how inaccessible conventional door knobs/handles are for the disabled. The new design just needs a nudge in any direction to unlock the door. We’re just o...

U.K. survey finds 57% are OK with sponsored articles.With more marketers putting their eggs in the native advertising basket, it's always good to hear that the tactic might actually be working.According to the infographic below, based on interviews of 1,000 U.K. residents ages 18 to 33 by native ad platform Adyoulike, 57 percent are willing to check out sponsored online content, as long as it's...

Design has become a game changer in Silicon Valley. Last year, John Maeda joined KPCB as the firm’s first Design Partner, joining from his role as the President of the Rhode Island School of Design.Now, in his inaugural #DesignInTech Report, Maeda highlights the rising importance of design in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Drawing on extensive research and his own conversations with hundreds o...

3D printing isn't short of advocates in the design and engineering world, because of its ability to easily produce prototypes?but it can be slow. A new company called Carbon3D hopes to change that, though, with a new 3D printing method that claims to be 25-100 times faster than other resin printing techniques.The start-up has just emerged from stealth, 3Dprint reports, announcing its new techni...

The keyboard has more or less remained unchanged from its original design at the advent of the personal computer, itself essentially an update of the typewriter keyboard. Although some companies have tried over the years to update the design, most laptops and computers?and some tablets?still sport the same space-consuming design. Google, however, may have hit on a new solution: no physical keyb...

NBBJ has used a custom algorithm to help design towers that the firm says will reduces shadows on the ground by 60 percent.With over 230 new towers planned for London, the UK's capital could soon be left in the shade ? literally. Though shade has always been a concern for architects and planners, London's dramatic increase in tall buildings will mean more darkness than before for those at stree...

Turkish startup Lopeca enables users to ‘see’ the world via remote smartphone video tours from locals.The tourism industry has been fundamentally transformed by peer-to-peer platforms such as Airbnb, which enable travellers to book accommodation more directly from each other. There are also numerous services, such as Kate’s Goodness and Scouted, which enable visitors to get tips about their...

The number of annual outbound Chinese tourists visiting coastal U.S. cities such as New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco will triple during the next decade, and their spending will quadruple, InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) predicted, citing a study it commissioned from Oxford Economics.Almost 1.2 million Chinese tourists will visit New York in 2023, up from about 395,000 in 2013, accord...

LEAFXPRO is an elegant way to cycle through the elementsEven as the weather gets more hospitable for bicycling through city streets, it doesn’t mean it’s always easy to get from point A to point B. One ongoing problem is rain: bicyclists just don’t get the luxurious protection that motorists do and often have to make do with raincoats and plastic bags thrown over their person.The LEAFXPRO, a...