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Not Your Average Party Boat Posted: 24 Oct 2008 07:35 AM CDT If by chance there is a scuba diving scene in the upcoming James Bond flick, then I can only imagine his government issued yacht would look something like this. With its lines and form inspired by orca whales, “Nav” feels like a breaching whale ready to fall back into the depths. The designer, Charles Kalpakian, likes to think of his work as dreams that inspire briefly but allow us to endure on. Considering the amount of good work that will never get to production, that’s probably a solid philosophy for a lot of the designers on Yanko. Designer: Charles Kalpakian No Tags

A Paint Pallet with a Modern Twist Posted: 24 Oct 2008 06:42 AM CDT Have you ever heard someone say that they would love to learn to paint and create beautiful art, but have no clue about mixing colors or what brush creates which effect? Maybe you are one of those people who would like to get more in touch with your inner artist. Canadian designer Yana Kilmava has developed a conceptual product that would help the novice artist have more confidence in learning how to paint. Virtuo looks very similar to the traditional paint pallets used by artists for hundreds of years, with the added bonus of modern technology. There are no wasted paints, no confusing mixing of colors and you don't have to be an experienced artist to create really beautiful pieces of artwork. Virtuo includes an art pallet, a charger, 5 different art tools and works by electromagnetism so no worry about quick battery loss. Even though it was designed with the inexperienced artist in mind, Virtuo can also be used by the more professional digital artists who are also experienced in the traditional forms of creating art. At the present time, Virtuo is only in concept form, but I can hope that it is made available to the public sometime in the near future. Designer: Yana Klimava Texts from the designer: The palette uses Bluetooth technology for communicating with the computer. It mimics real paint mixture techniques with LED lights. The user can also mix dark colours due to the special coating on the palette's surface. The amount of paint "picked up" by the tool is determined by the amount of time the tool spends on the mixed colour. The tools, consisting of a pencil, paintbrush, palette knife, airbrush and pastel, use sensors to translate the user's gestures into visual information. Taking a palette knife as an example, it would use pressure and accelerometer sensors to translate its position and pressure on the screen into an appropriate stroke. Virtuo comes with software that is based on the real painting process: minimal, leaving the user free to experiment. Most of the time it would look like a blank piece of canvas, with a simple drop down menu showing only when the user wants to start a new digital painting, save, close it or open a previously started one. The really cool thing about this software is that it would treat all the digital materials used on the canvas as real ones. Ex. You would not be able to erase paint, only paint over it. It would also have only a limited number of "undo" steps to encourage the insecure user to practice by correcting rather than erasing. Yana Klimava

Slot Cars for the Post-Gasoline Generation Posted: 24 Oct 2008 04:40 AM CDT When I was a wee lad, I had all the energy I wanted. Not any more! Energy costs money. And it’s running out (fuel AND money!) “Go Go Electro” is a toy for children who will make make Earth a post-fuel and totally post-worry planet. Morna Gamblin has designed a tool for the children of the post-green generation: “Go Go Electro is an educational toy for children (age 8 years and over). Its purpose is to give children an experience of how energy is generated and transferred through play and creativity. The form of the toy is an expandable three-dimensional track made out of modular components that can be assembled into different configurations. It integrates the implementation of electronic technology with the physical activity of play, imagination and creative thinking.” I say post-green because at some point in the future, [I hope,] we’ll be at a place where Green is a lost term. A lost term like “Globalization” or “Gymnasium.” Kiss energy costs goodbye! Designer: Morna Gamblin No Tags

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