I am not talking about a new Transformer Robot, but about a new design concept from Artemy Lebedev. The Optimus Tactus is a touch surface keyboard- Think ipod Touch, but as a keyboard. This little beauty is programmable to be a keyboard, a video player or can be programmed for what you would like for it to be for you.
Designer: Artemy Lebedev
Happy New Year – I hope that you’re having a good one. I’ve got a day of shopping planned (Winter Sale starts today in Japan) – but wanted to leave something here on the blog for those of you with a little more time on your hands.
I thought I’d take this opportunity to reflect back on the year. This post contains some highlights for this blog and the top 10 design from the last 12 months of archives.
It is now officially the Holiday Season and I am quite sure many of you will be going to parties, and enjoying fun times with family and friends. So why not invite Peggy to your home for the Holidays? Peggy is not a person, but a design created by Chetan Sorab. Peggy is a wonderfully functional tool to help make parties the best on the block. This design is both a can opener and 30ml mixer that can open bottles of beer or mix the perfect drink for your holiday festivities.
Designer: Chetan Sorab
In a somewhat unusual design by Derrik Wang, the Piggybank is one where you want to keep your money safe. This design is to help people save money and not spend it. The piggybank has a clever way of keeping you out and guarding your stash of money.
Designer: Derrick Wang
In a day where portable music devices are a must have, and the desire for “chill-out” time is even more crucial, designers are hearing what we need and making those needs a reality. Designers Per Arlander, Madlene Linstrom and Ozgur Tasar have created the MPillow which uses both light and sound to create those moments of relaxation and calmness. The pillow can be used as the consumer sees fit.
Designer: Ozgur Tasar
Raise Me Up is an electric powerstrip designed to make it easy for one handed operation. Normally you would have to brace a powerstrip with one hand while pull the plug with the other. Raise Me Up uses a simple lever switch to connect and disconnect plugs.
Designer: Yoo-Kyung Shin
We all know Hansel and Gretel left a trail of breadcrumbs and pebbles to find their way back but what happens if life ever imitates art? Would it work? Breadcrumbs would obviously degrade so designer Mi-Sook Lee focused on pebbles that light up. The butterfly shaped rocks would light the way back to civilization for any wood be travelers lost in the maze of trees.
Designer: Mi-Sook Lee
With the advancement of technology, we have become very dependable on so many cordless devices- cordless phones, cell phones, laptops, PDA’s and the like. Monica Förster has created a unique design that we can add to our favorite cordless collection. Load is a cordless and portable light. You can charge the light up and receive lighting for up to five hours.
Designer: Monica Forster
Black Hole is a rubbery elastic bag that folds flat when unused but can balloon up to gargantuan proportions when you stuff all your crap it in. The unique material is super strong, light, and flexible yet it’s thin enough to leave impressions of what you have inside. In a sense your hidden junk transforms into an art piece that can be proudly displayed.
Designer: Nodesign Studio
Growing up my parents would often make promises they had no intention of keeping. Usually these empty verbal contracts were just a ploy to get me to do something or more likely – to stop me from doing something. Whenever I tried to collect on those promises, they would suddenly acquire an acute case of selective amnesia. I wish I have the Credit Seal.
Designer: Arthur Xin
1,000 feet you say? That’s the claim made by hField Technologies, makers of the Wi-Fire; a wireless device that extends the reach of a standard Wi-Fi signal. Big question is does it work?
Buy It Here: Wi-Fire
Those of you who know something about raising fish know that fish need plants to help them feel in their environment. Most plants found in a fishbowl or aquariums are just green and boring. Not the case with the new design by Joe Doucet. In Doucet’s new design that creates a combination of fish bowl and plant holder. The two are joined together as one but separated at the same time.
Designer: Joe Doucet
I love hammocks, really I do. But I do not like the fact that my leg or foot falls through the ropes and the fear of sitting down and falling out causes me. If you have had the experience of lying in a hammock and just relaxing from the daily stressors in life, you know how enjoyable of an experience it can be. Pinar Yar & Tugrul Govsa have designed a newer version of the hammock.
Designer: Pinar Yar & Tugrul Govsa
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