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There Is No Shame In Asking For Directions

Posted: 28 Apr 2009 12:10 AM PDT

My family travels a lot by car and I think I have seen more than half of my country on my numerous road trips. Mostly all the journeys go on without any hitch, except when we have to stop and ask for directions. Look, I'm willing to be reasonable about a man and his ego regards to asking for directions in your HOME CITY, but in a strange town! Come on man, pull over at the curb and ask someone for DIRECTIONS, you'll get to the destination faster! Noooo? Then the GPS PathQuest it is!

A double-screen display unit with E-Ink for conserving battery power! Pocket-sized and discreet, the PathQuest relies on Google Maps for navigation.

Come on women on YD; tell me I'm right about this male ego and directions thingie…
Share your story with me!

Designer: Kyle Fleischhacker

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Projectors Galore

Posted: 28 Apr 2009 12:05 AM PDT

Projectors, projectors, here and there, projectors, projectors, projecting on everywhere. According to Gareth Marples, the first conceptual drawing of a projector was done in 1420 by Johannes de Fontana: a drawing of a monk with a lamp projecting a vision of a devil holding a lance. Truly a lovely first ideation it was. In this post we use two brand new concept projectors, top prize winners at a recent Philips design competition, to open the door to Yanko’s full collection of projector concepts.

These first two concepts are called the “Sail” and the “Spy Box,” both by Marek Wenglorz. They are both very similar, one sitting on it’s side, the other sitting upright, both rather tame examples of projectors compared to the rest of Yanko’s wild-eyed designers design concepts. Collect them all!

Designer: Various

The following is the rest of the Yanko collection of projector or projector related concepts. This is not the full collection, it is but a simple sampling. For the entire projector-related collection of Yanko design concepts, simple search projector in the search box. Light on!

Mac Funamizu’s iAcqua iPhone Dock brings the spill of photos on full tap.

SnowCorn by Mac Funamizu has an extremely strange name, but allows you to turn your entire world into one big… well… screen.

Mobile Projector Phone by Eun-Young Kim takes the idea of a cellphone projector and keeps it cool.

E-Pod by Eun Seok Huh basically makes your iPhone, iPod, iWhatever into a giant.

iShow by Moti Barzilay takes the iWhatever and matches it with projection, creating the simplest projector to have an Apple stamp.

De-Light Mini LED Projector by David Koo makes projection blue, cool, and LED too!

B-membrane Laptop/Desktop Hybrid by Won-Seok Lee is the largest concept, memory-wise, as it’s not just a middle-man between your mobile and a big image, it’s everything at once.

Notice any themes? Project your mind into comments.

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Beauty Basic

Posted: 28 Apr 2009 12:05 AM PDT

For me the hair dryer has existed ever since the day I was born but research on the net tells me that it was the 19th century inventor Alexandre F. Godefoy whom I should be really thanking for the first salon model. However, the first handheld model came out only by the 1920s and we have seen it change its avatar ever so often. This time we showcase a spherical model that goes by the name of Comet. Oh…and Comet your dog, breathing down your hair does not count as a blow-dry.

Designer: Hoang M Nguyen

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Brainless, Heartless Scarecrows

Posted: 28 Apr 2009 12:01 AM PDT

The future of farming is here! It’s scarecrows with infrared ray sensor eye with a 16,529 square meter range for animal detection. Ultrasonic Wave Generating animal approach prevention. Solar panel wings for completely self-powered scarecrowery. Tripod legs for secure sentry standing. Bunnies beware of the shockwave! You gonna get jolted.

The wave causes no damage to the animal, just gives them a little incentive. The scarecrow itself does no damage to the environment, and powers itself. Only thing I see missing here is a deterrent to human thieves! Though too many ultrasonics to the head might be shock enough.

This is the “Digital Scarecrow.”

Designers: KyungRyul Lim & Miyeon Kim

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Drowning Man Requires Hip Rescue Gear

Posted: 28 Apr 2009 12:00 AM PDT

If the Scorpion and Sting Ray team is not your style of rescue mission while drowning, then maybe you'd like to look at a much hipper option: the Swim Guard Vest! Formfitting and held into place with a neoprene-belt with a compressed lifting body mechanism, the gear is a Hot looking jacket that you flaunt. When you think you're drowning and can't handle the choppy waters, simply trigger the inflatable mechanism fed via the enclosed gas cartridge.

A GPS signal is simultaneously beamed to the nearest rescue center, so that you can be rescued asap.

Jokes aside, first of all if the waters are choppy or look dangerous avoid getting into it. For a safety option using a minimalistic jacket like this could be good, coz it’s better to be safe than sorry.

Designer: Steffen Reiter

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Got Me a Spoon

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 09:00 AM PDT

This isn’t the first time the whole world moved towards “greener” design but hopefully this time it’ll stick. Plastic spoons that come with takeout foods are inefficient and “ungreen” so the challenge was to find the most cost effective remedy while giving Earth one less thing to worry about. Ideally you should carry your own flatware but if you don’t mind a little kitsch, check out the Spoon and Box.

The handle is a perfect spot to hide a precut spoon. Just turn it inside out (the clean side) and you’re ready to eat. It can even turn into a spork for those sporky occasions. Works fine for dry foods but I wouldn’t go dipping into some greasy chili fries or Chinese food with it. So did we really solve any problems here?

Designers: Won-Jae Lee, Jun-Yong Lee, Sang-Jun Hahn, Sun-Kyu Kim & Yeo-Wool Kang