Ojue is an innovative lunch box design created by the Japanese design brand Metaphys.
The ojue is a small, vertically stacked lunch box that can fit smoothly into briefcases or small bags. The elegant design turns the lunch box into an easy to use accessory, and for an added bonus, each box is stocked with [...]

Designers from the Japanese design firm Gung have developed Kaoiro, an emoticon stamp. Kaoiro means facial expression in Japanese. Users can configure a combination of oft-used symbols to stamp emoticons onto paper. [via]

Above is a great presentation by Leslie bradshaw of JESS3 on why social media is important. JESS3 is a creative agency that specializes in web design, branding and data visualization [via]

Jelloware are disposable cups made entirely out of agar agar (a gelatinous substance derived from red algae) and cast in different flavors, such as lemon-basil, ginger-mint, or rosemary-beet, each specifically designed to compliment a corresponding drink, thus making it edible cups.

Jelloware is bio-degradable, so it can be thrown on to grass. Since it is made [...]

The Insect Hotel is the winner of the British Land (a British real estate company) architecture competition called Beyond the Hive for artists to come up with designs for urban habitats for insect species.
The competition was held in London and the winning design was from a London based architecture consulting firm, Arup [...]

The Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC) has launched an innovative and interactive mural campaign using Twitter. These murals pull content from Twitter to display real-time updates from and about Canada. These are installed on different streets of New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.
The murals feature touchscreen interfaces that centralize tourist buzz by displaying live tweets [...]

Prompt-It is a teleprompter that can be mounted in front of a camcorder or webcam to allow reading text which has been imported into an iPhone while looking directly into the camera’s lens.
Prompt-It contains beam-splitter glass that shows the reflected text directly in front of the lens, a platform to place the iPhone and [...]

OneDown mousetrap is an idea similar to the upstanding toothbrush we covered earlier but there is a twist. The trap will swing upright only if the rodent is trapped inside and it is an indication that it has been trapped. Clever design! [via]

Minority Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler demos g-speak spatial operating environment — the real-life version of the film’s eye-popping, tai chi-meets-cyberspace computer interface. Don’t miss the TED talk video above.