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Timezones and Ticketime

Ticketime is a boarding card and a wristwatch all in one. The fringe of the ticket is made of electronic paper that could be torn off and worn as a wristwatch during the period of your travel. Before your departure, the airline company would preset the watch to the time zone of your destination. It is returned to the airline counter during your check-in upon your return flight, whilst still serving the purpose of a flight ticket.

Designer: Jacky Wu

Ergonomic Cushion for some Pushin…

Want to give your lap that extra little lift without resorting to Viagra? Now the perfect angle you are looking for is just a few pumps away. The “Airboard” pump action laptop surface by designer Ki-Seung Lee is intended to adjust your laps productive area to best fit whatever activity you are engaged in.

Designer: Ki-Seung Lee

Sweet Gadgets to NOT die for…

Diabetics have it pretty rough. Aside from the constant life threatening condition, seriously restricted diets and painful monitoring of glucose levels in their blood, diabetics often have to suffer the indignity of carrying around some seriously ugly industrial design. Taking monitoring and treatment systems into his own hands, designer Sascha Morawetz has created this pair of Diabetic tools that should alleviate some of the pain and shame usually associated with this illness.

Designer: Sascha Morawetz

A little light security…

Gosh I love objects with a multi-purpose! Some things in our lives really should be multi-purpose eg. the TV, it really is just a screen with speakers. Why can’t it be a microwave oven as well? or a wireless router for my internet? It just sits there taking up space, and taking my attention. But I digress and ask you to cast your eyes on this multi-purpose bicycle lock / bicycle light by designer Adrian Weidmann, he calls it “Loc+”… uh, ok.

Designer: Adrian Weidmann

Cowboy Gourmet

Cigarettes have long been a source of power for song writers and brooding actors. For years, these cancer stick starlets have lit up the silver screen and play a major role in countless movies and pop culture. They are used as a universal currency in prisons around the world, as post sex rituals, as part of magic tricks, as conversation starters.. ” got a light?”, as a last right before execution and even as timers on bombs.

Designer: Myan Duong

Universal Scale Makes Weighing Easier

It may not be something we often think about but scales aren’t exactly universally friendly – that is to say people with disabilities and handicaps. The Universal scale unfolds to all shapes and sizes to make weighing easier and less intrusive and helps patients retain a bit more dignity. A huge improvement over the slings hospitals currently use.

Designer: Shu-Hung Yeh

Easier To Pick Up Coins

Coins haven’t really changed their function or core design since their inception. For the most part, they’re all flat and round – two characteristics that make it difficult to pick up. This coin by designer Hyun Woo Kim has a beveled edge. Apparently it’s angled just enough for easy pick ups. Hey, anything to shave a few seconds off from bending over to pick a coin up is aces in my book.

Designer: Hyun-Woo Kim

Design Digest Vol.10

1. iCover by Nick Ross.
2. Foliage Table by Letao Tao.
3. Fried Egg Candle by Jaehyung Hong.
4. Cycle Bag by Iohanna Pani.
5. Burberry Mixer by Peter Andersson.

I need Help!

I hate having to go to the pharmacy and go through aisles and aisles of medical products to try and find the best one suited for my needs at that particular moment in time. With the new Help branded products designed by ChappsMalina Studio, the ability and simplicity in finding a needed product is now readily available.

Designer: ChappsMalina Studio

Origami Crockery

Praise the heavens! Next time you’re hosting a party you won’t have to buy those disposable plastic cups and plates. Designer Oksana Bazanova has provided an alternative. It’s cheap, environmentally friendly, and looks great. Inspired by the Japanese art of Origami, It’s envisaged that these crockery pieces are all purchased from the local supermarket as flat sheets of waterproof paper and folded by the user on an as need basis.

Designer: Oksana Bazanova

Mirror Mirror in my hand? Who’s the fairest in the land?

Ok, so we aren’t talking about Snow White and how the wicked woman having to fill her ego by hearing from a talking mirror, but we are talking about a mirror that can give us a change in how we see ourselves. These “one of a kind” hand mirrors which are so properly named “The Mr.” and “Thug Life” allow you to choose who you want to be for the day.

Designer: Julie Ruiz

Gaming with Style

Often overlooked by product designers, casual non-digital bar games like darts, billiards and foosball, have always been good for intellect avoidance, drunken challenges and ice breaking awkward dates. Sadly, most of these games have seriously lacked aesthetic presence and look like they were designed by retired auto salesmen living in log cabins.

Designer: Gro Design

Your Fridge Sucks, This One’s Better

We all know CFC and HFC’s damage the ozone layer, and it’s only a matter of time when HFC’s will be banned just like CFC’s were in 1996. But what our freezers? There’s been much debate regarding passive eco cooling and thermoelectric cooling – now Oceania, designed by Tez Patel brings both technologies together in his eco fridge design.

Designer: Tez Patel