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Coming to every living room near you soon…

As much as I dislike IKEA, every once in a while they come up with something truly brilliant. This latest example appeals to both the neat freak and geek inside me.

The idea of integrating electronics into furniture is something that has always appealed to me, because, as the video illustrates, its hides the masses of tangled cable and multi-socket power adapters. The integration of devices such as the blu-ray player not only means that you’ll only need one remote control, but also aids in the clean aesthetic, and the LED TV also looks to be of a pretty high spec too.

If you want to see it in store, it will be available in the UK in Early 2013, or, being an IKEA product, you’ll probably see it in several of your friends living rooms.

iBoard isn’t iBoring

I’ll spare you the reasoning but I’m not an apple fan boy by any stretch and usually find anything apple related uninteresting, however, the iBoard is far from iBoring.

The concept is actually very cool, and as far as the design goes, I think it’s very well executed and embodies the Apple vision of thopughtful detail and quality very well.

Wooden Bike update: I’ve started modelling in solidworks.

Though the design itself is a simple concept, modelling it is proving more tricky as I try and figure out the physics of it and what features to use and how exactly to model it.

If you can see a glaringly obvious way to do it please feel free to share your thoughts.

This is the official trailer for ‘Design Thinking’. A documentary that explores the concept of design thinking and the impact of design on the world. Looks very interesting and I can’t wait to see it.

The designers behind this documentary are hoping to raise $15,000 dollars through kickstarter to help fund it. Donate here!