Unless you've been on a desert isle for nearly four decades, innovative designs from industry icon Hartmut Esslinger and his team at Sunnyvale, Calif.-based frog design have likely caught your eye.

Alternative energy and the promise of clean, reliable power has an allure, but power meters and electric vehicle chargers aren’t all that exciting. Frog design wants to change that. Alternative energy ...

"Designing for human survival will become the new necessary field of design." How Radical Empathy Can Improve Employee Performance and Morale Really listening to someone's personal story of belonging ...

For most of us here in Gizland, technology and gadgetry have become central to our very existence. Given the huge advances seen in recent years, where will be ten years from now? Frog Design has been ...

Coulomb Technologies isn't the only company that's announced some new electric vehicle chargers at this week's Plug-In 2010 conference in San Jose -- ECOtality has also taken advantage of the show to ...

Five years ago, Frog Design founder Hartmut Esslinger envisioned a technology that “could influence notions of community, identity, and connectivity with minimal impact on the physical environment.” ...

The folks from Frog Design have been throwing the official SXSW Interactive kickoff party for ten years. First it was just a chance for a few nerds to get drunk. Then it got so big, the fire ...

Jan Chipchase spent a decade circling the globe as a trendspotting anthropologist for Nokia . His beat-up MacBook, its cover crisscrossed with strips of black electrical tape, stores the thousands of ...

In a day and age when everyone seems to have their own seed-stage venture fund, it’s hard to stand out. But Tuesday Capital, the San Francisco-based outfit formerly known as CrunchFund, thinks it has ...

Much has been written about the cultural revolution being wrought by computer gaming. Game consoles are in 150 million homes and counting, and the pending release of Xbox 360, PS3 and Nintendo ...

Phatic communication, a term first coined by anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, is the international linguistic phenomenon of small talk; that is, exchanges meant to provide a social connection ...