Smule Ocarina is first of its kind application transforms iPhone into expressive musical wind instrument. The Ocarina synthesizes sound in real-time, just like a regular instrument.

As Quantum of Solace gets ready to roll out, there’s the usual glut of derisory articles about the extreme levels of product placement in the film. Contemporary furniture manufacturer B&B Italia have pieces from their Maxalto collection featured in scenes of the new James Bond movie Quantum of Solace.

Google has a released a custom, multitouchy version of Google Earth for the iPhone. Mobile Google Earth users can also access commentary on any locale via Wikipedia, or more than eight million geo-tagged photos via a partnership with Panoramio.

iBar is a system for the interactive design of any bar-counter. Integrated video-projectors can project any content on the milky bar-surface. The intelligent tracking system of iBar detects all objects touching the surface.

Swany has developed the first hands free cell phone glove for skiing and snowboarding. The g.cell Bluetooth glove has a fully integrated Bluetooth system, which synchronizes with your cell phone to give you hands free mobility in a functional ski and snowboard glove.

With the imminence of 55DSL’s 15th anniversary in 2009, 55DSL is ready to celebrate the unique mix of attitude and aesthetics it has made all its own. To do so, 55DSL has turned to the input of design company Cut&Paste’s own culturally diverse, design-savvy, and urban-centric global audience through the 55DSL Logo Remix contest.

British design website mydeco.com, French designer Philippe Starck and Belgian 3D printing company Materialise.MGX are launching Pure Creativity, a new competition that offers young design students from all over the world the chance to create innovative and practical objects for the home using the latest 3D printing technology and win £1,000 also the chance to feature in an article in idFX Magazine with Philippe Starck.

Having designed buildings in many forms from schools and houses to the Beijing National Stadium, the Swiss architects, Herzog & de Meuron are now attempting to stamp their architectural footprints in New York City with their 57-story luxury residential tower in the heart of Manhattan’s busy Tribeca 56 Leonard Street.

ABC3D is an innovative and exciting new alphabet pop-up book designed by Marion Bataille. It’s a three-dimensional, interactive, cinematic treat for the littlest fingers right on up to the oldest eyes, most unique book presented in a most unique way.

The first permanent sub-freezing ice lounge of its kind in the U.S Minus 5 Experience is coming to Las Vegas at Mandalay Bay in September, where you can touch, feel, and explore handcrafted ice sculptures and ice architecture made from 100% pure Canadian ice. Named for its constant frosty temperature of minus five degrees (twenty-seven degrees Fahrenheit), thousands have flocked to experience this unique concept.