Eight Of The Best Student Designers In Israel [Slideshow]

Eight Of The Best Student Designers In Israel [Slideshow]

Israel isn't known for churning out great flocks of designers like, say, the Netherlands or Switzerland, where design is something approaching a national religion. But that's starting to change, as an excellent exhibit at Milan Design Week makes crystal clear. Thinking Hands is a stockpile of more than 40 design objects that shine the flood lights on some of the most promising talent in Israel today.

We Need Windshield Displays In Cars, But Big Challenges Remain

We Need Windshield Displays In Cars, But Big Challenges Remain

Meet Margie. She's 36, married, and works as a career counselor at a professional school. With two boys, ages 7 and 10, Margie's mornings are hectic. After a quick breakfast, she loads the boys and her gym bag in the car. From the car, Margie does a quick check of the family calendar to make sure the boys have everything they need for the day. While her younger son runs back inside for his cleats, Margie orders pastries to pick up as a treat for her morning staff meeting and maps the route between the boys? school and the pastry shop.

Stunning Steampunk Office Furniture For Hiding Corporate Secrets

Stunning Steampunk Office Furniture For Hiding Corporate Secrets

The suite of chairs, a table, a lamp, and a cabinet you see here is stylish office furniture for the design-minded corporate lawyer who has something to hide, which is to say, oh, every corporate lawyer. Kidding! (But not really.)

Designed by Slovenia's Nika Zupanc, the so-called Selfdiscipline series features built-in storage that can disappear in an instant beneath the edifice of a tres-hip, steampunk aesthetic (brass organ grinder levers and all).

How Adidas Designed The World’s Lightest Basketball Shoe For Derrick Rose

How Adidas Designed The World’s Lightest Basketball Shoe For Derrick Rose

Derrick Rose is already one of the fastest players in the NBA. But when he met with designers from Adidas two years ago to discuss creating a new shoe, Rose, the white-hot point guard for the Chicago Bulls, had one request: Make me faster. Since then, Adidas has already given Rose the lightest jerseys ever constructed; on Thursday, the company unveiled the adiZero Crazy Light, which Adidas touts as the lightest shoe in basketball.

Wanted: Logitech’s Ingenious Case Turns iPad Into A Tough Laptop

Wanted: Logitech’s Ingenious Case Turns iPad Into A Tough Laptop

When Apple unveiled its Smart Cover for iPad 2, the reaction was deservedly rapturous. But what big Steve doesn't seem to notice (or care about) is that people still really, really want to use keyboards with his "magical, revolutionary" device. Apple's own offerings on that front are pretty ho-hum, so Logitech and ZAGG have stepped up with a steely, stylish all-in-one case that contains its own keyboard and iPad stand. It also looks like it could stop a bullet if you needed it to.

Infographic of the Day

Infographic Of The Day: If You Sell Your House, Will You Get A Good Price?

Infographic Of The Day: If You Sell Your House, Will You Get A Good Price?

Our economy is slowly getting back on its feet, but the real estate market remains weak. But how weak is it, exactly, where you live? If you're selling a home, how likely is it you'll have to cut your offer price? And will you have to do it more than once?

Those are difficult questions, which were basically impossible to answer until today, when the launch of a remarkable interactive map created by Trulia, a real-estate listings website, makes them much easier to answer.