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Tea Bag Lights Up your Night, Literally Posted: 05 Mar 2009 03:00 AM PST Surely you caffeine addicts will agree, coffee truly is the sexually oriented drink - It picks you up! It illuminates your world, if I may say so. Designer / Bookmark Maker Wonsik Chae takes this concept to an elegant level by making the drop-in tea bag light up your environment chemically. For those whose eyes are sensitive to brightness in the mornings, I recommend a different cup. For those who love lamp(s), drop it! As the tea bag empties its taste into a tea cup, so does the “Lighting Bag” empty its light into any fluid-holding container. What Wonsik hopes to accomplish with this project is to tear down the idea that creating forms from which light can be projected must be a difficult task - he wants light forms to flow easily. Having a manifesto for your industrial design project can be a dangerous rope to walk - what do you make of Wonsik’s liquid light concept? P.S. I must say, I LOVE the URL of Wonsik’s portfolio, as it plays on the pronunciation of the name: http://www.onesik.com/, and be sure to see the Contact page - it’s beautiful! Designer: Wonsik Chae No Tags

Is That Whiskey You Talking To? Posted: 05 Mar 2009 02:14 AM PST The weirdest of things can inspire designers and this one really takes the cake. Either Juyoung Kim really loves his drink too much or he is simply trying to impress us with his imagination. Whiskey, yes whissskeyyy, the malt that makes men go woozy in the head when they tank up too much, is the inspiration behind the Whiskey Cyon Phone. Low on tech-specs (fully touchscreen, 8-mp cam) but high on looks, the device is almost like a chameleon! You read it right; it may as well be a chameleon! Let me explain, depending from where the incoming call is from, the phone changes its color to reflect that distance. Like if you were to get a call from NYC while in NYC, then the phone would sport a mild color. But if that call was coming in from our Japan office to you in NYC, then it would turn to a deep matured whiskey color, displaying how much we love you! Distance makes the hearts grow fonder ya know! Designer: Juyoung Kim No Tags

Eureka! And The Tale OF The T-Man Posted: 05 Mar 2009 12:33 AM PST When a naked Archimedes ran down the streets of Syracuse screaming, "Eureka! Eureka!"; people thought he had become loony. Later on they realized that the genius had just hit upon the Buoyancy Theory when he jumped into his bathtub. Similar to this story is the silver T-Man Tea Strainer. The only twist to this tale is that if T-Man jumps out of your steeping cup of tea, YOU RUN down the streets screaming, "GHOST! GHOST!" Designer: Jeewon Jung No Tags

Jeeze Frank, that is a Nice Kitchen Hood! Posted: 05 Mar 2009 12:04 AM PST Robert Brunner of Ammunition Group steps up with a mince-no-words collection of kitchen hoods. You know the kind: big, ugly, yellow. Or at least they’re that way if you’re living in a house whose kitchen hasn’t been updated in the past 10 years. Get minimal! Get something from the “Arc Collection.” The colors and designs range seven main categories, but they’re all 36 inches wide, suck smoke, and shine light. At Yanko, not oft does a kitchen-related hood come along worth the glancing. In fact, only two have been reported on: the All In One Kitchen by Sebastien Poupeau, and the Aion, Kitchen of the Future, by Antoine Lebrun. Both of these were relatively popular posts. Does this mean we need more design work in the kitchen, or that we’ve just got such perfect kitchens that none need be done? Designer: Robert Brunner of Ammunition Group No Tags

Funky New Office Toy Posted: 05 Mar 2009 12:00 AM PST Did you see all the cool stuff Google has installed in its office for the benefit of its employees? I'm sure most of us don't even get a fraction of what those guys have. Without being envious, I think its time we spoke to our bosses and at least got some funky looking gadgets on our desks! Like this Conference System that looks like an odd UFO or something. I'm sure if we look into its specs, we'll find something to rave about it to THE BOSS. Dishy to look at, the system features an extra-flat Hi-Fi speaker disk along with a detachable remote. The system is hooked up to WiFi so that you are always on the top of the latest buzz. It automatically updates you on the company’s contact book, calendar, meetings alarm, business trip schedule reminders and a whole bunch of other stuff. Moving on to the remote, it's like a solid piece of cylinder in your hands. It has a touch dial interface that comes to life when you use it. Color codes differentiate between incoming messages, voice mails and calls. To keep it going, it tanks up using Induction technology. Sour gapes or whatever! If can't have a Google Office then I want this! Designer: Guillaume Bordas No Tags

RELAX Design Competition Posted: 04 Mar 2009 08:48 AM PST CALL FOR ENTRIES Submission deadline: March 30, 2009 RELAX furniture design contest sponsored by Rhinoceros. Participation is open to anyone. Winner receives a full retail copy of Rhinoceros. UPDATE 1: Win Hypershot HD as a bonus prize. Details after the jump. UPDATE 2: Less than a month left! Get to designing people! Subject Matter: Use the power of Rhinoceros to design a piece of furniture that addresses relaxation Criteria: One entry per person, no teams, schools, or companies Design has to be original, no copy-cats! Previously designed but unpublished work is okay Modeling work MUST be created in Rhinoceros. You’re free to use whatever renderer you like tho we suggest Hypershot Timeline: All submissions must be received by March 30, 2009 Winner will be announced April 6, 2009 Prize: Full retail version of Rhinoceros 4.0 for Windows BONUS! Winner will also receive Hypershot HD if they render their design using Hypershot. Download the demo How to enter: Download the Rhino 4.0 trial if you don’t already own it Mac OS X 10.5 users can download the beta Zip up both your native Rhino file along with a medium sized JPG render of your design. Include your name, email address, and an explanation of your design. Email to contest@yankodesign.com Copyright: By participating in the competition, you authorize Yanko Design and Rhinoceros to publish and exhibit all designs including project data submitted - waiving compensation - at exhibitions and events and/or use them in any publication that the organizers may deem suitable. Yanko Design will not pursue production of any design submitted. Competition, relax, Rhinoceros

My Wrist Bling Posted: 04 Mar 2009 08:47 AM PST I bet my wrist is jealous. It hasn’t seen an accessory adorn its graceful neck in years thanks to the advent of mobile phones. Tho there have been several attempts by designers and companies to integrate the two, they’ve never been successful. The On Time Headset System seems to be a much better marriage between them and one I could see myself using. It’s technically a bracelet but it tells time so that makes it a watch, but it also handles calls which means it’s a mobile phone. When someone calls, the bracelet rings and/or vibrates. The entire face pops out as a wireless headset without sacrificing a screen since there’s a secondary LCD. Both LCDs are touch enabled. Is there still room for concepts like this or have we all moved on and embraced miniaturized handheld computers (cough: smartphones) as the current and wave of the future? Designer: Pedro Gomes No Tags

Cooking Plates Posted: 04 Mar 2009 08:39 AM PST Lotus is a wireless cooking system that offers an elegant alternative to the conventional static hob. Each piece is specifically designed for various cooking styles and meal types. There is a tepan yaki plate, a wok hob (the bowl like piece), a grill plate and induction plates. The pieces are powered using resonant induction. There are transmission coils hidden beneath the counter top and receiving coils in each of the pieces. Power can be transferred to one or all of the pieces at any one time. Clean up is a cinch since you can dunk the plates in water. Although many avid cooks argue nothing beats the flavor and efficiency of a meal cooked by fire, home chefs like myself prefer flexibility and easy clean up. Safety is another huge advantage here. The heat ferrous directly by creating a magnetic field causing edding currents in the metal to heat up. Therefore they always remain cool and are safe to pick up almost immediately after cooking. Of course there are handles just to ease the minds who are hardwired never to touch anything hot. Designers: David Barry & Laurence Finnegan No Tags

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