04.22.10
Chris Burns

Categories:
Gadgets
Living
Technology

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GPS in a Hand Disk

GPS in a Hand Disk

This one’s for those of you who have low or no visibility with the eyes. Blind, sometimes people say. This is what’s known as the “DROP” GPS system, and it’s all hand-held. It uses the 3D dots you might be used to calling braille, here known more as Tactile Display technology, and it all works in conjunction with things such as a cane or seeing eye dog sometimes used by the blind. Smooth sailing on an abstract device.

0 Designer: Allan Sejer Madsen and Lukasz Natkaniec

04.22.10
Chris Burns

Categories:
Furniture
Living
Seating

4 Comments

Dead Wood for Books

Dead Wood for Books

For books to sit on, that is. Not to be. Although when you think about it, all real books are made of dead wood pulp. Unless it’s… LIVING DEAD PULP! Ahhh! But that’s not what we’re here about today. Today right here now we’re talking about the “Zen Bench.” This bench / bookshelf amalgamation is the tops when it comes to looking amazing while holding either books or butts. Designed by an intensely named Latvian, Raimonds Cirulis.

0 Designer: Raimonds Cirulis for Studio Maffam

04.22.10
Chris Burns

Categories:
Architecture

4 Comments

Frozen Unit for a Frozen Unit

Frozen Unit for a Frozen Unit

Allow me to get cold hearted with you for a moment. Let me warm your brain up with some lovely Industrial Design of the conceptual sort. This might also be called architecture, if you be so inclined to be specific. An ice-tastic structure designed by the 2-B-2 crew, one by the name of “Arctic Mobile Unit.” It is a solution to the problem of existing in such a climate, a climate not suitable for human beings, an environment that will freeze your tootsies off.

0 Designer: Andrey Bondarenko for 2-B-2 Architecture

04.21.10
Long Tran

Categories:
Lighting
Outdoor
Product Design

11 Comments

Walk Among The Stars

Walk Among The Stars

I swear if any city builds street lamps like the LED Galaxy – I’m there. Designer Sungkuk Park has a well thought out idea here guys. Using advance LEDs, carbon fibers, reverberators, and bio-resin coatings, he’s created a street lamp that casts a carpet of lights, showering the streets with glittery specks like stars. Space enough of these bad boys apart and you could literally blanket an entire street with far less energy than traditional lamps. Twinkle Twinkle y’all!

0 Designer: Sungkuk Park

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04.21.10
Long Tran

Categories:
Medical
Product Design

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Breathe In, Breathe Out

Breathe In, Breathe Out

Asthmatics should regularly monitor their airways to determine if there’s any deterioration, but checking in to see a doctor that frequently is time consuming so designer Felix (love that name) created Blue Flow. The system combines a peak flow monitor with mobile phone software. Information is wirelessly transmitted to the phone for your doctor to monitor. The information gathered can be used to determine the best course of action since the condition is finicky and changes based on a number of health and environmental variables.

0 Designer: Felix Steinhardt

04.21.10
Anthony James

Categories:
Product Design
Technology

14 Comments

Hey Everybody! It's the iPad Pad!

Hey Everybody! It’s the iPad Pad!

You knew this was coming. Tired of “false input” when drawing on your new iPad? Neither am I but designer Johan Basberg sure is, so he designed “The Artist’s Pad” for Apple’s latest tech fetish. This very simple palm (no, not PALM) pad prevents “false input” from the hand when using the iPad. And as a bonus, this nifty rag doubles as a passive screen wiper. The iPad pad is machine washable, it contains wool and polyester (the inside) and is wrapped in 100% pure cotton.

0 Designer: Johan Basberg

04.21.10
Chris Burns

Categories:
Furniture
Living
Seating

4 Comments

All for the Nook

All for the Nook

Lemme show you this bit of furniture that goes by the name “Nook.” It’s a stool object made by award winning dude designer Patrick Frey, who has chosen here to use a kind of high-tech plastic never before used in furniture design. This plastic is called VarioLine®, and it’s totally slick. Each stool is folded out of a single sheet of VarioLine® and fixed with an aluminum catch on the flip flop side. Weather proof, weird, wild, and comes in array of colors.

0 Designer: Patrick Frey for VIAL

04.21.10
Chris Burns

Categories:
Garden

11 Comments

Growing Pot

Growing Pot

What a fool I was for not posting this yesterday! Now it’s 4/21 and I’m making a joke about marijuana. But in fact, it’s only a play on words. The project you’re about to take a peek at is called “Growing Up”, and in fact it is, truly, a growing pot. It is a pot that is adjustable for a growing plant, getting bigger as the plant it houses gets bigger, allowing for a longer stay for the plant, and less pots used.

0 Designer: JunBum Park

04.21.10
Chris Burns

Categories:
Living

172 Comments

Never Miss the Key Hole

Never Miss the Key Hole

Lost in the dark! That’s usually what happens when you get home from a long day of working, skateboarding, drinking, whatever! It’s dark outside, you wanna get into your house, but by golly if it isn’t the most difficult thing in the world to get that key aligned with the key hole in order to insert and turn! Here’s the key to this problem. The “V Lock.” It’s got a v. You put the key in the v. You open the door. Perfect.

0 Designer: Junjie Zhang

04.20.10
Long Tran

Categories:
Packaging

158 Comments

UPACKS, Fold It, Tape It, Ship It

UPACKS, Fold It, Tape It, Ship It

It seems a box is always too big or small so designer Patrick Sung came up with flat sheets of recyclable corrugated cardboard called the Universal Packaging System or UPACKS. The patterns make it easy to fold and conform to almost any shape while maintaining structural rigidity and protecting the contents. Love the idea of saving on packaging but will this actually work? I suspect each sheet would have to be sufficiently padded; not too thick, not too thin, but just right said Goldilocks.

0 Designer: Patrick Sung

04.20.10
Long Tran

Categories:
Lifestyle
Product Design

24 Comments

USB Roll-on

USB Roll-on

Check out this USB flash drive designed for Adidas to give to their clients and friends. Color me jealous because I want one! It looks like a miniature roll-on suitcase with the eponymous three stripes. I’m not one for novel flash drives but I know there are collectors out there so do me a favor. If you somehow come across these flash drives, go ahead and grab an extra one for me will ya? Thanks, Love you.

0 Designer: Arthur Xin

04.20.10
Anthony James

Categories:
Portable Audio
Product Design
Technology

66 Comments

Nice See Cups! (Fashionably Loud Headphones)

Nice See Cups! (Fashionably Loud Headphones)

Great Accessories in Music History: Mozart’s powdered wigs, Elton John’s sunglasses, The Ramones’ black leather jackets, Tommy Lee’s “third” drum stick, Kevin Federline. Now designers Min-guk Ji & Hong-joo Kim & In-oh Yoo & for Metatrend Institute have invented what could be the greatest music accessory since the groupie. The “Transparent OLED Headphones” (working title I’m assuming) are made from flexible OLED panels that allow the user to custom design a lighting show or patterns across your cranium.

0 Designers: Min-guk Ji, Hong-joo Kim & In-oh Yoo

04.20.10
Anthony James

Categories:
Interiors
Product Design

25 Comments

Hangers On You Actually Want

Hangers On You Actually Want

Don’t look now but you are about to be invaded by tiny white ninjas. No wait, it’s just a bunch of stick figure pirates taking over your hallway..whew! Whatever they’re mission is, they need to first hold up my damn rain coat! Designer Massimo Battaglia has created this little army of ambiguous acrobats to service all your hanging needs. Calling his design “MagicBeans”, an homage to the Jack and the Beanstalk story, this clever design will be featured at this years Milan Design Week and will no doubt go into production shortly there after.

0 Designer: Massimo Battaglia

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