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Posted: 12 Mar 2009 04:55 AM PDT

My camera and I are inseparable during vacation trips. It's a shame that weather often dictates how and where I use it tho. Like I would love to capture the sudden showers of London in the middle Hyde Park and not from under some shelter. Dubai's desert safari is awesome, but the sand grains really ruin your cam. Down Under snorkeling in the Great Barrier is spectacular; then again you either opt for an underwater cam or simply take pics from the deck. Will someone make a camera like the eXtreme Compact Digicam, puhleezz?

This one's an all-weather, all-terrain coolpix device that looks sleek and really knows how to rough it out!

Designer: Camillo Vanacore

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Who Moved My Cheese?

Posted: 12 Mar 2009 02:09 AM PDT

Actually furniture! A new electronic item at home usually means finding an appropriate place where you can aesthetically place it and find an empty power source. Who wants messy wires! A difficult situation, but yes sometimes it does mean rearranging some stuff. Movable Power looks to be that handy option where you just move the power strip according to your convenience and do the jiggy! As Jeff puts it, "This power strip allows you do change the strip, not your space."

Designer: Jeff Carter

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A Marriage Of Style And Technology

Posted: 12 Mar 2009 01:10 AM PDT

I don't think I need to remind you of the quirky sunglasses, MP3s or headsets that we have seen on YD over the years. However is this one of those moments where I bring you an item that's all three! Bluetooth headset, player AND Sunglasses all rolled into one. Mood is something you would like to wear down Miami Beach and impress the crowds with your style. It's a multifunctional accessory for your music, phone and eyes.

Walk on the crowded streets and still engage in crisp communicate via the headset thanks to the high quality microphone with noise canceling tech. A bright LED light comes to life when you sync it with your GSM phone or comp. For those interested in the player part, there are three dedicated buttons (on one earpiece) for navigating the songs and three buttons (on the other) to manipulate the volume and Bluetooth on/off.

With summer hitting us soon, something like The Mood will do plenty to up our style-quotient.

Designer: Akin Bacioglu

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I Know what Yanko Needs : More Crane

Posted: 12 Mar 2009 01:07 AM PDT

I know from your comments that you’ve been wanting more Crane Content for a while now, and I know it’s high time to alleviate your hankering for more Crane Content. So here it is. If there’s one crane you’re gonna own in your lifetime, make it this one. The “Optim Crane Cab” by Artemy Lebedev and crew. It’s made for single- and double-beam 125-tonnes capacity cranes.

Don’t hesitate.

A massive list of people were called upon to make this amazing crane. What was focused on was the crane cab. The crane cab is optimized for frame and bridge cranes. If I had a nickel for every different kind of crane cab they came up with, well, I’d have at least a dollar or more. See below! And if you’ve got some crane knowledge or criticism to drop on us, do what the crane does, and drop it on us.

Everyone who worked on this project:

artistic director
Artemy Lebedev

art director
Timur Burbayev

industrial designers
Alexei Sharshakov
Maxim Chaschin
Maxim Shkinder
Benoit Patoureaux

modelers
Alexander Pozdeyev
Yevgenia Yeremeyeva

visualizator
Dmitry Dolgikh

manager
Vera Dorofeyeva

Cranes is serious business.

Designer: Art Lebedev Studio

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Wake Up to An Alarming Juice, Toast, and Coffee

Posted: 12 Mar 2009 12:24 AM PDT

Ou de chocolat! The one time I was in France in my life, I stayed at a nice place of lodging just down the street from the Moulin Rouge (no lies!) And in this place of lodging, every morning, we were served toast and a choice of “café, tea, ou de chocolate.” And with the “Wake Up” alarm, that’s just the choices you’ll get. Every morning. Automatically.

These designers design in French, so you’ll notice I took the liberty of keeping their original instructional notes in French with an English translation below. This project hardly needs instructions, however, as the whole thing is basically intuitive.

Set your alarm.

Make sure whatever you’d like to have ready in the morning is set up (make sure the toaster is loaded, that the juice, coffee, and/or chocolate are in their respective slots.)

Click the buttons for the items you’d like made.

Wake up the next morning to a Yanko approved breakfast!

*MY MISTAKE! This project offers Juice in place of the Tea from my story. But I’m sure you could jury-rig it to whip you up some fine chai.

Designer: De Dietrich