Design Intervention - Modern/Contemporary Design and Architecture

How about a cooktop that uses the efficiency of natural gas, along with the convenience of a solid surface top? The Izona CookSurface allows your culinary creativity to flourish at a whole new level, combining the superior performance of gas cooking with the convenience of an easy-clean ceramic cooktop. The CookSurface incorporates three sets of hidden pan supports for different sizes of pans within the ceramic surface. When not in use, the burners sit virtually flush with the sheer ceramic surface, giving you large and easy-to-clean work surface.

(from Izona via The Applaincist)

This is some excellent Industrial Design. I used to work for a music hardware company, and I have an appreciation for milled aluminum, and this is some of that. Couple the great design with the ease of USB and a programmable driver, and you have a great product. Not to mention gorgeous.

From the web site: PowerMate functions beautifully as a convenient volume knob and mute button for music listening on your PC or Mac. But that’s just the beginning of PowerMate’s possibilities. Edit movies just like the pros with PowerMate functioning as your very own Jog/Shuttle wheel. PowerMate makes editing anything from home movies to your next demo a breeze. It even comes preset to work with iMovie, FinalCut Pro and GarageBand right out of the box!

But the real power of PowerMate is its programmable driver. You can quickly and easily program it to execute any Key Command, in any application.

(via GriffinTechnology.com)