We’ve seen it before, the universal sign of “I have company, go away” signal. Often taking form as a tie around a doorknob or the potted plant flipped over. There’s got to be a more high-tech way. The Doorknob Condition uses an innovated pulley system that makes the knob on the exterior recess inwards when pulled from the inside.
Designer: Arnaud Lapierre
TimeCap came out of the need to update burial rituals to the 21st century. Instead of placing someone’s ashes inside an urn, a small USB device holds photos, sound bytes, videos, and any other type of digital media. The device is small enough to wear around your neck and since it’s flash memory based, should last a lifetime if not more.
Designer: Cherif Morsi
Since notebooks tend to go for sleek and shiny, here’s an alternative for all you traditionalists out there. The S-series notebook concept is made of wood. Yes that’s right, WOOD. Nevermind the weight and horrible heat insulation characteristics of the material, it’s supposed to look refined and sexy, at which it does.
Designer: Simon Enever
Doesn’t that sound like the name of some fairy tale reject? I digress, the Tavi Table combines the functional attributes of a coffee table and magazine rack. The table is supported by standard legs on one side, and modeled velum on the other. The velum leg is where you stow away your magazines which can be sorted thru from the transparent glass top.
Designer: Adele Rotella
The vast majority of existing training shoes end up in landfill sites as they cannot be recycled due to the adhesives used in their construction. ‘Think’ is a modular trainer concept that uses mechanical locks instead of adhesives or cements. This means that each part of the trainer can be removed, recovered and recycled.
Designer: Ben Chappell
The concept Samsung SS700 designed by Jin Woo Han takes the two great things about digital photography and simplifies them – quickly snapping pictures and showing them off. The slim profile is undercut by a large round barrel for easy gripping.
Designer: Jin Woo Han
Waste basket shooting (and sometimes dunking) has become an age old activity in the office. It quickly separates the noobs from the pros. The Roly Poly Bin encourages this activity by making it a little more difficult to shoot into.
Designer: Rachel Li
The ‘Meeraboo-2007 ST-1’ side table, with its built in light source and storage compartment, explores the notion of integrated systems where its components having contradicting qualities. There is a dichotomy between the curvilinear lower portion of the table (Q-Tips), and the hard edge linear shape of the tabletop.
Designer: Victor Vetterlein
Roller printers have come a long way since the 80′s but they fell out of favor in the consumer market for being loud and slow. However they’re becoming better alternatives nowadays since the paper is cut custom to your needs.
Designer: Jin Woo Han
This coffee table is composed of six copies of Domus magazine intricately woven together in a way that creates a stable and strong 3-D structure. There is no cutting or glue so it can be taken apart at any time. In order to transform the magical sculpture into a functional object, a glass top and metal base were added. Talk about inspiring and good looking.
Designer: Vered Zaykovsky
I don’t know what it is but slippers seem to fall victim to the same invisible monster that makes socks disappear. I try to keep organize and leave them in the same spot but sooner or later, they mysteriously vanish. Daniel Meyer surmised that to treat them as a mobile object more akin to carpet, you wouldn’t lose them and so he created a small bedside rug with porthole cut outs for your matching slippers. Now you’ll always know where they are before you get in and out of bed.
Designer: Daniel Meyer
Some of us like to entertain but it’s not feasible to have 12 chairs laying around all the time. So designer Stefano Bigi designed a collection of furniture that cleverly hid extra seating inside its body. The fruition of which he calls the Globos Collection.
Designer: Stefano Bigi
Oryx is an innovative time trial bike with a one-sided fork and chain-stay. Due to its Y-frame shape, it’s comfortably shock-proof without loosing ground contact.
Each bike is custom-made which guaranties the perfect fit for every rider and simplifies manufacturing; handle bars, stem and fork are made from one piece. The ergonomically shaped seat post and saddle are integrated into the frame with a hole to cool your bum even!
Designer: Harald Cramer
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