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01.29.10
Radhika Seth

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Portable Freezer With Lights

The Eco Freezer is a small picnic-hamper-sized freezer unit that uses a unique method to keep your beverages and salads chilled and fresh. The cover of the freezer features two led lamps with photocells. These lamps produce the energy for working the freezer and dispense the current via magnetic induction. If you haven’t over-stuffed the box, you may want to opt for the one lamp function, where the freezer goes into a “low mode” and gets power from only one lamp; the other lamp can be used of illumination.

Designer: Ruben Iglesias

01.25.10
Chris Burns

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Outdoor

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Keep on Peddlin

It was the great philosopher Tupac Amaru Shakur who once noted the beauty of a rose growing up from between the cracks in the concrete of an urban sidewalk. Even though it might be in a place where it shouldn’t be, it makes the person who experiences it love it for what it went through to get there. It makes the experience of seeing that rose more fantastic and unreal than it’d be seeing it in a garden, by a whole lot, even! That’s what these fabulous benches are about. The fantastical nature of human creation.

Designer: Je Sung Park

01.22.10
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Green
Outdoor
Product Design

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Noise Is Cool For Power

One of the places that suffers due to the decibels is the airport runway. Aircrafts really make some mean sounds, and the question is, should we let the expended energy go waste? Nope, we should not and therefore designer Hung-Uei Jou has designed the Green Noise, a device that traps & converts the sound energy to electricity for the runway lights. It features a conical speaker-form to endure the elements and the modular structure stands on a tripod base for easy maintenance. Neat idea, only if we could get some tech-specs to it.

Designer: Hung-Uei Jou

01.21.10
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Outdoor
Product Design

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Beach Bum, You Need To Use This

We know the drill about keeping our beaches clean, but most often the problem is that we have these stationary bins placed few and far between. And people being people, may suddenly decide to populate a secluded section of the beach, where no bins are handy. Solution: Dustbin 4 Beach. It’s this streamlined bin that can be pitched into the sand and is portable. The tapered base digs deep into the sand for stability. Line them with disposable bags and place them where the public is today!

Designers: Ji-in Byun, Cho Jung Seok & Oh Seul Ki

01.20.10
Long Tran

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Outdoor
Reviews

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Yakima QuickBack is Bike Rack Easy

James Owen is well known around these parts for his stunning cat scratching post so when I found out he designed something as utilitarian as a trunk mounted bike rack for Yakima, my cat ears perked up. I’m not an avid bicycler but as the owner of a smaller car, a removable portable rack is perfect to getting me to and from trails around Los Angeles. Hit the jump for my review of the Yakima QuickBack.

Designer: James Owen (Buy it here)

01.15.10
Chris Burns

Categories:
Lifestyle
Living
Outdoor

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Armadillo Head Protection

A helmet that’s made to protect your head with the intelligent design of thousands of years of animal evolution. The armadillo (aka the Tatoo) has not one large shell, but many little plates for protecting it’s hide from danger. The Tatoo helmet uses not one giant piece of plastic and foam to protect the head, but many little ones, protection provided courtesy of EPP : expanded polypropylene.

Designer: Julien Bergignat

01.15.10
Chris Burns

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Outdoor

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Compass, Show Me The Light

Stop right there! Why make a compass digital? Couldn’t I just find north using a real-deal analog compass? Why yes! But this compass right here doesn’t tell you north, south, east, and west, it tells you the direction you want to go! No more maps for you. No more reliance on the magnets of the world! No more even relying on the electricity of the world, this little puck right here has a dynamo for hand charging. How about that?

Designers: Francisco Lindoro and Regimantas Vegele

01.12.10
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Outdoor
Product Design

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Skip To Make Some Light

With all the energy you expend while jumping rope, imagine using some to power a handy torchlight fitted within the skipping rope handles. Torchlight in any form is a good idea, but the cool quotient in this Jump Light comes from the fact that you won’t need any batteries to power the bulb. It simply runs by converting the kinetic energy from your jumps to electric energy. Now if that isn’t motivational enough for you to skip just a bit more!

Designers: Hyun Joo Lee & Eu Tteum Lee

01.08.10
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Bathroom
Green
Outdoor
Product Design

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Poop Bucket With A Mission

We are all well aware of the various sanitation issues that developing countries are facing, the biggest one being poop management. It’s easy for the kids (and in some cases adults) to take to the open fields and roadsides, without realizing the implication of health hazards like disease outbreaks and food contamination. One of the solutions addressing this issue is the Poosh. This is a bucket-mounted toilet for the developing world.

Designer: KAIST, Industrial Design Dept

01.08.10
Chris Burns

Categories:
Lifestyle
Outdoor

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Double Headed Watering Can VS Godzilla

Oh no! Watch out you wilty-wanting flowers, you will be GROWN by the not one headed, but TWO headed watering can! Yes! It is “Symmetrican,” the watering can that is symmetrical! You can put water in on either side, the water flowing freely because of the hole on the other side. Then carry it where thou wilt, for it is simple to carry! Then, pour! It’s so simple, it’s just madness!

Designer: Saebyul Lim

01.07.10
Chris Burns

Categories:
Lifestyle
Outdoor

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A Pack O’ Heat-Em-Ups

And just when you thought you were going to have to use that pesky park-grill again. Or start up a fire that’d burn down the forest. No way! Here’s what you’re gonna do: whip out one of these! “Stoov!” It’s basically what amounts to a magnet you program, stick to your pot, and let heat up. Sounds reasonable enough?

Designer: Mathieu Baele

01.07.10
Chris Burns

Categories:
Accessories & Fashion
Fashion
Outdoor

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Skate Hard in Destructos!

These shoes right here are called “Destructo Sports Action Shoes!” Oh my goodness. I know, and you know, that if you do a lot with your feet, your feet shells explode. And when I say feet shells I of course mean shoes. Your shoes are worthless! They come apart at the flick of a knife! But not anymore, now you’ve got these amazing piece-by-piece strong shoes, by Thomas Balaguer.

Designer: Thomas Balaguer

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01.05.10
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Outdoor
Product Design

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Have A Safe Hump

No room for naughty thoughts here, but the explanation for a design simply called the “Safe Hump.” This is no ordinary speed breaker, the system within allows it to harness the mechanical energy (of cars passing over it) into electric energy so that it can power the LEDs. Two reasons why we would want this: 1) LEDs lined speed breakers at night are easily visible from a distance 2) The design of this hump is such that your car glides over it smoothly.

Designers: MicroDream

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5.	Hanging Books Are My Buddies
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8.	Printouts In A Jiffy, Anywhere
9.	Everchanging Wallnado
10.	Lighter Side Of Sketching

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Portable Freezer With Lights

Keep on Peddlin

Noise Is Cool For Power

Beach Bum, You Need To Use This

Yakima QuickBack is Bike Rack Easy

Armadillo Head Protection

Compass, Show Me The Light

Skip To Make Some Light

Poop Bucket With A Mission

Double Headed Watering Can VS Godzilla

A Pack O’ Heat-Em-Ups

Skate Hard in Destructos!

Timeless Designs

Have A Safe Hump

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