Neuropathy in the extremities--a loss of sensation--is an effect of diabetes. When a person with this condition loses sensation in the soles of their feet, they experience increased falling risks. Design Boom reports tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/11/28/Smart-Socks-Help-People-with-Diabetes-Feel-the-Ground/Design Boom reports that engineers at Northwestern University have developed a haptic feedback device that allows users to interact with digital environments with high resolution. The VoxeLite functions like a bandage th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/11/20/Bandage-Device-Lets-Users-Feel-Digital-Devices/Weird Universe tells us that Joseph Pilates (1883-1967), the developer of the popular exercise program that bears his name, invented numerous pieces of exercise equipment. He had a holistic approach to fitness, which pru...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/09/10/Pilatess-V-Shaped-Bed/It's attached to a window and is found in Scandinavia. What is it? The answer is below the fold. It's a skvallerspegel. That's Swedish for "gossip mirror". Bjork Brodern says these can be found on some older streetside h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/07/10/What-Is-This-Thing-4/Fast Company reports on an epoch-defining technological development: the self-propelled zipper. YKK, the Japanese firm that is the largest zipper manufacturer in the world with possession of about 40% of the global marke...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/04/Invention-The-Self-Propelled-Zipper/Blowing out the candles on a birthday cake is a grand tradition to celebrate the passage of life and hopes for its future. But it's also somewhat unsanitary. It's done with the breath of the celebrant and therefore conta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/29/Patent-for-Birthday-Cake-Spit-Shields/The design blog Core77 shares this clever invention. The set (single?) of eyeglasses has a single lens that flips back and forth on a hinge. This feature allows a person to put on eye makeup while seeing clearly through...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/23/Single-Lens-Magnifying-Glasses-for-Eye-Makeup/About a fortnight ago, we showed readers the innovative dishwasher developed by the STS 3D robotics firm and YouTuber Plumber John. That dishwasher cleaned dishes more brutally and effectively than any other dishwasher o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/18/Supercharged-Dishwasher-Made-Only-More-Powerful/STS 3D is a robotics and software design firm that, as a modern Prometheus, is advancing everyday technologies beyond the finite imaginations of other product designers. Its crew most recently teamed up with YouTuber Plu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/07/Supercharged-Dishwasher-Cleans-Dishes-Extremely-Quickly/Spoon & Tamago, a design blog that informs English-speaking audiences about design developments in Japan, introduces us to the ZZZN Sleep Apparel System. Yes, it's a futon that you wear. But it's even more than just...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/02/08/Japanese-Government-Promotes-Wearable-Futon/
