Massive Health iPhone App Gets You To Eat Better, Using The Crowd’s IQ

Massive Health iPhone App Gets You To Eat Better, Using The Crowd’s IQ

Trying to eat better? You’re not alone. You and your fellow travelers spend tens of billions a year on diet-related products and services. It’s a big industry with an extremely questionable track record. Take a step further back to look at health care and we jump a few orders of magnitude more, with annual U.S. expenditures up in the trillions.

It is here that Massive Health, led by CEO Sutha Kamal sees a design opportunity. "Your body is the ultimate interface problem," says the company’s website.

Whoops! Studio Job Sparks Outrage With Holocaust-Themed Gates For A House

Whoops! Studio Job Sparks Outrage With Holocaust-Themed Gates For A House

Studio Job is widely hailed as a design-world provocateur, whose strange, occasionally sinister objects straddle the divide between design and art. We count ourselves among its fans. But in a couple new projects themed around the Holocaust, the Antwerp pair went too far.

Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel developed a fence that evokes the entry gate and crematoria of Buchenwald, where more than 50,000 people died during World War II.

Simple Genius: A Radiator That Works Like A Portable Campfire

Simple Genius: A Radiator That Works Like A Portable Campfire

Radiators are unsightly, sometimes noisy beasts unbefitting a refined domestic space. But heating technology has advanced to the point where that no longer needs to be the case. For his Rethinking the Radiator concept, the New York–based designer Rochus Jacob used cutting-edge technology to transform the heater into a standalone object resembling a sculptural campfire.

“In the past, radiators had to be placed underneath the window to establish a heat wall and create a natural circulation of warm air,” Rochus Jacob tells Co.Design.

Coming Soon To Canada: Igloos That You Spray On

Coming Soon To Canada: Igloos That You Spray On

Winnipeg, Manitoba, gets so cold in the winter--minus 20 degrees F isn’t unusual--they have to cobble together warming huts so folks skating along the Assiniboine Credit Union River Trail don’t freeze their tushies off in mid-layback spin. Good news for the skaters. Bad news for the poor, frosty saps who have to build those huts. So Mjölk Architekti, a Czech studio, has designed a shelter that could melt away construction times. That’s because you spray it on.

Yep, just like a fake tan.

Infographic of the Day

Infographic Of The Day: America’s Strange Attitudes Toward Food

Infographic Of The Day: America’s Strange Attitudes Toward Food

Your average American eats more calories per day than people in any other country in the world. No surprise there! But once you start delving in the data, the picture does indeed get a little weird: We don’t eat that much more than Europeans. But their obesity rates stand at 15%, while ours are double that, at 34%. What the hell?

Food Service Warehouse created this nice interactive chart showing how many calories people around the world consume each day, and what portion of their income goes towards food. Obviously, the U.S.

A Musical Floor That Cures The Boredom Of Walking In Airports

A Musical Floor That Cures The Boredom Of Walking In Airports

Walking through the endless airports halls to your departure gate can bring on terminal ennui. Shouldn’t there be something more fun to do along the way besides shopping the duty-free? Design to the rescue! Jeriël Bobbe, a recent Eindhoven grad, has devised a musical floor that you play by dragging your suitcase across it.

Bobbe was inspired by something he noticed during his weekly train trips from Eindhoven to Amsterdam.

Do Innovation Consultants Kill Innovation?

Do Innovation Consultants Kill Innovation?

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Are companies more innovative than ever before? Judging from the vast number of Fortune 500 companies professing their commitment to innovation, the answer is yes.

But we sense that the more a company talks, thinks, and strategizes about innovation, the less real, big innovation it produces. Take the electronics maker Philips, which introduced one of the world’s first electronic razors, the compact cassette, the CD, and many other game-changing inventions.