This is the first piece in our new 10x10 series written by the innovation firm Method.
There is no doubt that the Internet is changing the retail experience, and with it how we shop. Beloved stores are feeling the pressure of the prices and convenience e-commerce retailers offer.
Last year, we introduced you to Nervous System, the Boston design pair prettying up necks, wrists, and fingers everywhere with naturey jewelry based on un-naturey computer algorithms. Now, drawing on the same techniques, Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg have turned their hand to housewares, and the results are stunning.
![A Magical, Gestural Remote for Controlling Web-TV Content [Video]](/multisite_files/codesign/imagecache/642x368/MagicGestureMouse_0.png "A Magical, Gestural Remote for Controlling Web-TV Content [Video]")
The Gesture Remote is the coolest TV remote control you never knew you wanted. Channel surf, adjust volume, putter around on Facebook -- all without ever pressing a button. It's the perfect thing to lose in your couch cushions.
If you were to pick the single greenest possibility created by smartphone apps, it might be the chance to make car-sharing easy.
One need only look at how empty most HOV lanes are to see how much carbon-dioxide we belch simply by driving alone. And while car-sharing used to be a pipe-dream at larger scales -- taken up and discarded by many do-gooders over the years -- it's finally possible now, thanks to simple apps that pair people who are taking similar trips.
We live in in the post-human world augured by William Gibson. Need proof? Look at all the freakish examples of plastic surgery on TV. Does Heidi Montag look human to you?
So why can't prosthetic legs become the next must-have fashion accessory? Like, tonight I’ll take the Birkin bag, the Tiffany bracelet, and the sexy black pull-on leg (complete with sexy black attachable high heel).
Ingredient lists on food, once thought to be a benefit to consumers, are a joke these days. Take the Gatorade sitting on my desk. Just some sugar water, right? It contains monopotassium phosphate, glycerol ester of rosin, and sodium citrate. Huh?
![Artist Turns Ikea Junk Into Firestarting Kit [Video]](/multisite_files/codesign/imagecache/642x368/3477.jpg "Artist Turns Ikea Junk Into Firestarting Kit [Video]")
It's the fantasy of anyone who's ever bought an Ikea couch so uncomfortable it feels like sitting on a Judas cradle: Burn it. Burn it all to hell.
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