In five brilliant colors and just $79, the 1GB iPod shuffle lets you wear up to 240 songs 1 on your sleeve. Or your lapel. Or your belt. Clip on iPod shuffle and wear it as a badge of musical devotion. You know what they say about good things and small packages. But when something 1.62 inches long and about half an ounce holds up to 240 songs, good and small don’t cut it.
A new tower rises at the heart of Business Bay. O14, a shining icon of cosmopolitan life where commerce and culture converge in an unprecedented new architecture. Rising above an exclusive site on the shore of Dubai Creek O14 is a tower formed around a new philosophy and space. The tower’s concrete shell not only is the structure of the building but also creates a lace-like faade open to light, air, and views.
Architect: Reiser & Umemoto Via: Inhabitat
It is comfortable to hold, nice to look at, and removes the cap in a simple, easy operation. It is just small enough to fit into the hand, the round shape and material make it pleasant to the touch. Place the opener over the cap, push gently on the aluminium bracket, lift up and let go. The bottle is open.
Designer: Jacob Jensen
Create your own individual living room sofa from a choice of designs, fabrics and cover combinations. The result a sofa that reflects its designer. Fashion feature: swap the covers to match your moods or choose a new fabric to fit in with your new dcor. High quality floral patterns or plain fabrics; mix and match not only from a variety of patterns but also materials. Long-lasting: if you fancy a change, you need only replace the cover and not the complete sofa.
Designer: Kati Meyer-Bruhl
The Laundry Wall is a fully integrated wardrobe system which brings washing and clothing maintenance to a walk-in closet. Designed to optimize the working process between multiple appliances, it provides solutions for storing, cleaning, caring and refreshing of clothes. After presorting the wash load on top of the washer, the machine’s interface suggests an adequate program. Then users simply choose additional settings they would like to use.
Yoho is JVC’s new 2.0 multimedia speaker system for young and lively spirited people. The product in use paints the scene of a club where a DJ is playing music. Today, many new generation PCs do not just serve a single function; they have become multifunctional workstations. The computer takes the center place of a person’s room, as well as his or her life.
Designer: Jade Yoo
On January 25, 2007 Aspen/Snowmass hosted the official unveiling of Red Bull Illume Photography Exhibit, providing the most dramatic compilation of action and adventure sports imagery ever assembled. Fullaluv Creative was asked to design an experience for a mind-blowing outdoor exhibit in which the 50 finalist images were to be showcased as never seen before, 25 massive mirrored and metallic cubes serve as the display and allow the exhibit to be arranged in any manner.
Designer: Fullaluv Via: Josh Spear
A kitchen made out of wires which was coated with a plastic layer afterwards. What makes a kitchen a kitchen In essence it has to have a sink, working space, a stove and space to store things: to dry, wash, cut and cook. The products that belong to the module determine the shape.
Designer: Jan Jannes Dijkstra Via: Core77
The “with a pinch of salt shaker” emulates the gesture of putting “a pinch of salt” in a meal. The user simply slides the halves of the shaker, as if handling the salt directly. As the halves slide past each other an opening is formed, out of which the salt is disposed. This gives the user a lot of control over the amount of salt released. When the shaker is not being used, the salt is protected from moisture – and as such the salt remains dry and crisp, as is waits to be used in the next meal.
Designer: Matthias Lange
The Forte is a carbon fibre bodied, front-mid engined urban sports car powered by a bio-fueled V8 engine mated to a 6-speed manual, or 5-speed automatic transmission driving the rear wheels. Access to the engine compartment is easy thanks to an aluminium bonnet hinged on both sides and opened from the left or right. Helping to keep the Forte’s engine cool are hidden air vents underneath the protruding front arches which also hide the slit-like LED headlights.
Designer: Andrew Varnish
Kinesis Personal is a piece of fitness equipment like no other. Built into a wall, the virtually flat structure is 3.5 square metres in size and allows over 200 resistance-based exercises using a system of grips, cables and weight stacks which together ensure absolute fluidity of movement.
Designer: Antonio Citterio [ Manufacture: Technogym ] [ Via: Cool Hunting ]
Due to a flapping-mechanism the “FLAPcam” provides many features of existing cameras in a completely new way and even adds new ones. If it’s folded up, the lens, display and buttons are protected against dirt and scratches. Depending on how much the camera is flipped opened the user can either make photos of himself or take photos from above (e.g. at live concerts).
Designer: Matthias Lange
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On 25 January Asymptote Architecture, a New York based architecture practice led by principals Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture, has been awarded the Millennium Tower World Business Center (WBCB) in Busan, Korea through an international competition organized by the Busan International Architectural Culture Festival (BIACF) and sponsored by the Municipality of Busan City and the Solomon Group.
Architect: Asymptote
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