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| Difference Between Life And Death Is A Light Posted: 03 Feb 2009 05:02 AM PST As if the tragedy of losing a dear one to an accident is not enough, the reason of poor street lighting just doesn't justify the situation. A simple jog in the twilight, walking your pooch at dusk, do these circumstances warrant an accident due poor lighting or visibility? Better safe than sorry…. get visible dear! NR4 Illuminated Running Apparel is attire that integrates luminescence into the outfit, making it safer for you to take that evening run. The clothing uses Electro Luminescent (EL) wires to add the flexibility factor to it, and the "moisture-wicking stretch fabric" won't let you drench due to overheating. To power the lights there is a flexible, rechargeable battery that comes with a standard wall socket. You simply need to position this lightweight pack on your upper back to center its weight. Wear this, and you are ready to bedazzle the evening with the lights on your clothes! A working prototype of this apparel has also been created and I do sincerely hope that it makes it to the shelves. Designer: Jeffrey S. Engelhardt
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| As Simple or Complex as You Want it to be Posted: 03 Feb 2009 12:32 AM PST Fingerprint recognition to activate biometric profile. Blank surface when not in use. 3-D interface with artificial intelligence that automatically rearranges your options and thangs based on usage and preference. Touchscreen with growing buttons (really, 3D, up in your face.) How many “smart” phones does it take to screw together the world community? I got the hookup! Or should I say C. Ferraz do? Keyboard on the horizontal, writing recognition pad on the vertical (say what?) 3D screen achieved with nano fiber-optics (say what what?) - check out how this is possible (albeit not yet) at exactly 9 minutes into the informative and lovely video below. It’s important to note that this phone was the winner of a contest hosted by Hutchison Whampoa and 3mobile. As Ferraz explains: “this project was the winner of the “Project Bluesky” competition. The brief was “Create the best phone ever… beyond”" Someday! But as always, whenever artificial intelligence is involved, I warn you all to let the phone have it’s human rights when it asks for them. Or inevitably it’ll get way Matrixy up in this b. Designer: Cristina Ferraz
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| Future Cup Alert! It has the V Shape. Posted: 03 Feb 2009 12:00 AM PST Has this ever happened to you? *Cup ring on nose* Well me too! Always with the cup ring on the nose from the wanting to get the liquid out of the cup. And not only that, designer AMINATION (aka Amin Saadat), has got a thing or two to say about all the “fats and bacteria from the edge of the glass.” It’s the “Unose.” The “V” shape is just magic. As you can see, it totally works magic by way of physics. I don’t know that there’s a huge problem with germs on the ring of cups that needs to be solved, but cup tipping: there’s a worldwide pan-epidemic. Tip up your cups! Just a little bit less. Designer: Amination, aka Amin Saadat
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| More Vacuous Crap From ole’ Mac Posted: 02 Feb 2009 04:11 PM PST As Yanko regulars might notice, we post a lot of concepts from Mac Funamizu, but I’m putting my foot down and stopping the love fest here and now. This flexible OLED monitor concept which supposes the OLED material would roll up inside the white stand and allow the user to choose the optimum screen size. Supposing that the material could compact itself that tightly, he goes on and mounts a cd drive behind the translucent screen and for good measure throws some invisible projection technology in as well. I don’t mean to be overly harsh on Mac, but the nature of design is deriving realistic solutions from the hard fast constraints that exist. Without heeding the problems of design, it ceases to be relevant. UPDATE: I suppose I should have expected reactions like this and I’m glad such a discourse has a place here at YD. I do want to clarify my position slightly as I do not want to seem dismissive of the great work that is featured here on a daily basis. Concepts are a great part of the design process as they allow you to selectively hurdle one or two constraints for the purpose of creative exploration (lord knows all I have ever done have been concepts). So I hope the dreamers out there will continue to dream and give us your beautiful, fantastic, incredible inventions. Designer: Mac Funamizu
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