Monday, February 9, 2009

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Future Cars Best Served Cold Hearted

Posted: 09 Feb 2009 01:30 AM PST

Imagine yourself on that lukewarm desert highway. The year: 2020. The time of day: dusk. You’re cruzin USA, thinkin nothing can harm a hombre like you in a place like this. Just then you see the flashing lights of a RT20 police mobile. You lay on the gas, thinking noone can catch you, “el Mexico!” But you just got served. Served up cold. Because you just got passed. By the RT20 highway patrol.

Holy crap who gets passed by the police? You lamer!

But down to business. Designer Mathieu Lewis on the high-hat with the RT20 future car. The RT20 is a car of many faces, so I’ll paraphrase. It’s got a Liquid Hydrogen Injected Twin Turbo V6 engine. Super-Insulated fuel storage tank to keep the Liquid Hydrogen in a liquid state. Electromagnetic shock absorbers with the spring rate adjustable by charge sent to magnets.

Adjustable seat for either track or public road use (see below). The seat and controls are all contained in a movable pod. This pod can move to the center, left, or right of the car, making it able to easily adjust to any road system in the world.

The RT20 Highway Patroller. Police configured RT20 vehicle. Special “Fear Striking” paint job. Other features upon request. (Gonna have to ask Lewis, very secret!)

Finally, the key. Place in dash to activate car. Stored in key is drivers license, medical vitals, and vehicle date. If a crash should occur, the key flashes and yells and screams until someone on the accident scene picks it up. The key then gives them all the info they need - on the car, on the person, on the crash - it records the last 10 minutes of the car’s activity at all times.

So no racing! Little brother is watching.

Designer: Mathieu Lewis

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Nigella Would Love This Ornate Blender

Posted: 09 Feb 2009 01:04 AM PST

"What is this, 1958? Give the little wife a blender?"
Famous quote from the iconic Father of the Bride, but I'm sure little Annie wouldn't have flipped so much had she received anything as ornate as this gilded beauty. This is just one of those eye-candy things that you get to decorate your kitchen with, not really industrious or something. Simple, elegant, leaf-inspired; you get the drift. Enjoy gilded pureed pea soup tonight Nigella!

Designer: Sang-Jang Lee

Decoding The Cries Of A Baby

Posted: 09 Feb 2009 12:02 AM PST

Who said that maternal (or paternal) instincts come in naturally when you hold your precious little bundle! I went trough a lot of trial and error with my crying baby. I didn't know if he was crying for more milk, was unwell or wanted more affection. Wish I could re-do those days with something like this BabySays. It's a device that kinda deciphers the baby's crying and gives you, the parent an idea of what might be bothering him.

According to the designer's research:
"Baby's cries have a general pattern for its needs: hunger, discomfort (wet diaper, for example), sickness, sleepiness, and tiredness. This pattern enables BabySays to translate baby's language into adult's language as well as monitoring the baby, and help parents respond to baby's cry appropriately and promptly."

Now I can't vouch for this claim, but if it were true, then it will probably save a lot of crying and weeping from both sides. Yea, try staying sane when your baby is hollering and you can't calm him down!

This is how the BabySays works: there is a transmitter placed in a baby pillow that receives the baby's signal (crying) and analyzes the pattern. It then sends a message to the receiver, which is a bracelet that the parents can wear. It displays the appropriate message (like hungry etc.) accompanied with either the actual sound of baby's cry or a silent vibration.

Designer: Hansook Lee
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