Our first ever collaboration on a Kickstarter project just went live. We’ve been working with Dylan Mishan, a young inventor/entrepreneur for the last couple of years to help him develop the Lynx cleaning dock. In a nutshell it’s a modular cleaning system which comprises of one pole plus multiple cleaning heads all housed in a teeny,tiny stand which takes up hardly any space in your closet. The magic moment in the project was when we developed a new quick connect mechanism which allows you to easily add or remove a cleaning head without having to touch it or bend over. Check out the video on the kickstarter site to see it in action.

Dylan’s a great guy who really believes in this project and I really hope he gets the backing he’s looking for – so go on over and give him a pledge.

Now that the power is back on for many of us in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy we find ourselves faced with another common problem – how to reset the blinking digital clocks all around our homes ?

We’d been thinking about this issue before the storm but it seems even more pertinent now, especially today where we all have to remember to put our clocks back an hour  because of the end of Daylight Savings Time.

Many user interfaces gravitate towards a standardized, if not official, solution – think of music players where a square signify’s stop,  2 dashes mean pause, 2 arrows mean fast forward or skip. This interface has survived the leap from a physical interface (buttons on a CD player) to a graphic interface (the on-screen controls of iTunes or Pandora).

Why hasn’t this convergence happened with the simple action of setting the time of a digital clock ? We decided to do some investigation….. Read more…

I’m loving the letschipit tool from Sherwin Williams. It allows you to link to any image and then provides you with a color palette based upon Sherwin Williams paint colors. Great for moodboards.