Your standard paperclip has a design so perfect and so simple that it seems inevitable–and obvious. It wasn’t. The Gem paperclip is actually the last clip standing in a war over paper clip design that ...

It's the unspoken battle that takes place every day on flights around the world, between friends and strangers alike: deciding who gets the armrest. Now, a Hong Kong designer has found a simple, ...

Business-class passengers can fold down another seat to form an instant bed. Paperclip Design Limited A proposed new airline seat shares the exact same concept as the “Transformers” — except instead ...

You're sitting on a plane, cramped into the middle seat, and all you want to do is rest your arms. To your dismay the passenger next to you has already claimed the armrest. You glare at him trying to ...

Airlines could easily afford to retrofit all their seats with a $2 armrest fee that every flyer would be happy to pay. The biggest battle in the air isn’t between American Air and United, or British ...

There is no shortage of adjectives one can apply to airline seats: uncomfortable, bulky, cramped, outdated and – from an airline’s point of view – overpriced. It’s no wonder then that many carriers ...

Today we celebrate the paperclip. Yes, even the paperclip gets its day in the sun. You have to admit, it’s a pretty handy invention that helps keep our papers organized. According to the Early Office ...

Batavus, the Dutch maker of granny-bikes, has teamed up with designer Van Berlo to make the Batavus Utility Bike (BUB). The purpose of the bike is to make the Dutch City Bike a little more suitable ...