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  • ViXion01

    ViXion01 glasses reduce eyestrain by doing the focusing for you

    Japanese startup ViXion showed off its auto-focus eyewear, the ViXion01, at CES Unveiled 2024.

    Richard Lai
    01.08.2024
  • The slide-phone concept by Oppo and Nendo.

    Oppo and Nendo's 'slide-phone' concept unfolds into three screen sizes

    It unfurls into a clock and notification display, a selfie mode and a wide screen.

    Kris Holt
    12.14.2020

  • This paper rolls up into an adjustable flashlight

    The latest capsule collection from Design of Things (courtesy of design firm Nendo and Softbank) is just as fascinating as its 3D-printed, prune-able Bonsai trees announced last year. The Paper Torch is equal parts designs, patterns and heritage of Takeo paper (est. 1899), and electronics know-how from a startup that specializes in flat components and printed circuits (est. 2014). The results might be... illuminating. If only I could see it working in person...

    Mat Smith
    10.14.2016

  • Trim this 3D-printed bonsai tree by hand, just like a real one

    Bonsai trees are cool. But Nendo is cooler. Pair the Japan-based design studio with a future-centric baby tree, and you've got something. As phone carrier Softbank launched its own crowdfunding site, amid a sea of products we've already heard about, the design firm's Creative Director Oki Sato took to the stage with something actually intriguing: a plastic bonsai tree that you can prune -- or even print a finished article.

    Mat Smith
    03.31.2016

  • Nendo's ceramic circuit board speaker gives the rest of the audio world body image issues

    We've seen slick hand-crafted ceramic speakers in the past, but this one millimeter-thick collaboration between potter Mitsuke Masagasu and design firm Nendo is in a different league. An entirely different league. The set is result of the so-called Revalue Nippon Project, created by Japanese footballer Nakata Hidetoshi to revive traditional Japanese art forms. Nakata selected five curators -- in this case the director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazaw -- who were then tasked with pairing a ceramicist and designer to collaborate on a one of a kind form. Not satisfied with simply being 31 times thinner than the emaciated Mythos XTR series as a sole basis for artistic impact, the speaker's ravishing circuit design is also made without a human touch. Instead, a computer-controlled process cuts thin slices from a ceramic substrate slab, fixes them with mercury vapor, and then mounts them via a robotic arm. Amazingly, sound quality is still also touted as being top notch. There are no plans however for these speakers to ever be mass produced, so if you were hoping to snag one as the ultimate accessory for your über-modern flat... well, let yourself down easy, alright champ? %Gallery-108170%

    Ben Bowers
    11.26.2010