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| Posted: 12 Dec 2008 01:00 AM PST A device to see without sight, adding distinguishable sound to objects that can’t be identified by sound. Dubbed “Info Jewelry” by designer Ryoji Takahashi, this ring and earpiece combo are used to scan products in stores. Once scanned with the ring, the signal is sent to the earpiece which conveys the product name and expiration date, where applicable. What other use could such a thing be? Perhaps many things could come of it! Ko Yang’s intent is to add the joy of the fifth sense to the meal experience for blind people. I’ve seen similar scanners for book merchants who go to flea markets to scan for books that are worth the purchase. I’d like one of these to tell comparable prices around the city! That would be wild. And uneconomical! Designer: Ryoji Takahashi
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| Posted: 12 Dec 2008 12:00 AM PST If you thought “Freshness Labels” were a trip, wait till you get a load of this cheese. What designer Ko Yang’s got for you is the difference between a liquid and a solid. Milk. Dairy products. Shop owners everywhere can make use of their bad milk by putting it on the cheese self now! And the graphics are really nice, right? Good design gone bad! This concept aims to describes nature’s natural cycle of returning ashes to ashes and dust to dust, this is milk into cheese. Ko Yang calls this project “Expiry Date / The Things Far Away Beyond Numbers” and it wont be seeing shelves soon! Designer: Ko Yang
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| You and Me, Sitting in a Tree, K I S S I N G. . . Posted: 11 Dec 2008 08:41 AM PST Mua was designed with lovers in mind. The organic shape invokes the idea of two people intertwined, embracing each other. Wicker wrapped steel on the outside, red for love in the inside. Mua dangles from a tree suspended for all voyeurs to see and at the perfect angle - looks like a giant heart shaped pendant. Implying love in a design can border the esoteric to the ridiculous but I think the Mua strikes the perfect balance. I just hope those red covers are washable because. . . well, I’m not gonna go there. Designer: Victor Aleman
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| Even an Hourglass Goes High Tech Posted: 11 Dec 2008 08:34 AM PST The Hourglass Lantern works like traditional hourglasses but turns the thousand year old tech upside down (literally) by using LEDs instead of sand. You can even adjust how long it takes for the light to flow from top to bottom by twisting the two halves like a dial. As time passes, luminance decreases on top as it increases on bottom. I like the idea but there’s something more accurate about the sand based version since I can precisely see how much sand is left where as with the Hourglass Lantern, there’s no gauge when both top/bottom are lit. Designer: Young Bok Kim
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| The World’s Brightest Swizzle Stick Posted: 11 Dec 2008 08:32 AM PST While not explicitly intended as a swizzle stick, the Mahoo light from Stefano Pistilli uses the conduction of water to complete the circuit and power the light inside. Utilizing an interesting environmental trigger, these could also be great night time pool toys or even help see and identify other scuba divers on a night dive. Nevertheless, I’m drinking alone tonight and I’m hoping scotch and soda has enough electrolytes to power this friendly light on. Designer: Stefano Pistilli
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| Hello World, I’m Drowning in the Ocean Posted: 11 Dec 2008 08:10 AM PST Another nifty project from Lysandre Follet, his Hello World camera takes wide angle shots of your worldly adventures and wifi’s them to friends (like the lovely blonde seen after the jump). Also tagging the photos with GPS coordinates, the camera keeps a sort of geopositional image log of you trip, allowing others to connect in and watch your progress. A great Idea that I’m sure is on the way by at least one manufacturer, that said I don’t think my image log would be very interesting: hotel room, hotel bar, hotel toilet, repeat. Designer: Lysandre Follet
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