Trees are always vivid and friendly. So how about bringing a tree into our living room The work TreeTell, as an interactive center, wants to express the homelike feeling. Users will get a brand new, but also kind of familiar experience of communication.
Designer: Shanfan Huang
The Muji Coffee Maker’s starting point is its landscape of use. Its form is a perfect cylinder, making the product non-directional something that has not been done previously. This allows it to sit well in a corner of a kitchen or equally in the center of a table, and was achieved by technically by ‘wrapping’ the water reservoir around the filter. The coffee pot is made of vacuum stainless steel.
Designer: Kazushige Miyake [ Muji Online Store ]
The RainDrop’s spherical design gives the sprinkler a tight turn radius, allowing it to follow any path of garden hose laid down by the user, winding around trees, flowers, lawn ornaments, etc. The plastic design keeps the products weight down while the centrally located counterweight lowers the sprinkler’s center of gravity, affording enough weight to keep traction on wet grass.
Designer: Bob Lewin
I like the idea of a lamp which doesn’t have the same shape when it’s on or off. When it’s off this lamp looks like a little box. And when you open it, the lamp lights up thanks to a contact switch. Compared to the other desk lamps, this one can almost disappear when unused.
Designer: Edouard Larmaraud
DeVillain Guitar Co is proud to introduce Centerfold the world’s first folding electric guitar. Come on, bring the noise! Let’s make one thing clear. This is not your usual “travel guitar”. Centerfold is as good as it gets. Made for rocking your heart out on stage, it just gets you there faster. Fits easily in a backpack, but unfolded it’s just like your favorite guitar.
Kronos is a men’s analogue wrist watch that incorporates a USB flash drive in the wrist band latch. Integrating a USB flash drive into the wrist watch accomplishes three things. 1) Allows the manufacturer to capitalize on the popularity and functionality of a standard USB Flash drive. 2) Eliminates consumer pocket clutter. 3) Extends traditional usability by adding a practical function.
Designer: Andrew Wilkerson
Today, Nokia revealed the Nokia 5700 XpressMusic, an accessible 3G smartphone augmented by a dedicated audio chip for enhanced music performance. The Nokia 5700 XpressMusic features an iconic twist design that easily switches between four modes at the flick of the wrist – music player, 2 Megapixel camera, video call and smartphone.
Design: Nokia
Introducing the wrist MP3 player designed for runners. Designed to be everything you wanted in an MP3 player, with the benefit of you not even knowing it’s there. On the surface of the player, an OLED is housed underneath a layer of polycarbonate. On the outer edge of the player is a jog wheel (with bumps), which is a tactile sensitive ring that can be rotated in either direction.
Designer: Nathan Davis
There is a large market for replacement handbrake covers, especially among young drivers who wish to customize their vehicles. BrakeLok is a handbrake cover which also offers a security solution, whereby the brake cannot be released without the removable button. Once fitted the user simply removes the button from the end of the cover when parked, and the system locks all linear movement, preventing the original button from being able to be pushed.
Designer: Chris Ward
A GPS watch has been integrated into a snowboarding jacket. The integrated watch which displays information such as Time, Speed and Distance upon the sleeve of a snowboarding jacket. The product uses fabric switching technology and flexible screens to allow the watch to be fully integrated with the jacket allowing flexibility that does not compromise the performance of the user.
Designer: Nick Ellrich
A new interpretation of the desktop coffee cup, this white ceramic mug holds an MP3 player and has a built-in speaker. Simply insert the mini plug into an MP3 player’s earphone jack to serve up quality sound. The MP3 player provides the power source, so no additional batteries are needed. Cannot be used for drinking.
Designer: Masato Tokuno [ Product Page ] [ Via: Apartment Therapy ]
Many people in western Pennsylvania who use gas and electricity to fulfill their cooking needs are also concerned about the costs and consequences of energy consumption. Solar cooking is a viable alternative to gas and electricity in some aspects dependent on place and economical culture, and is environmentally sustainable, also.
Designer: Koo Ho Shin
You know how boomerangs are supposed to come back to you when you throw them You know how they never do Well, the Wooferang always returns – in faithful Fido’s mouth! Playful pups can’t resist the allure of fetching this colorful boomerang made from vivid orange reinforced rubber. Peggable frosted-plastic headercard.
Designer: Atypyk
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