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- Snail-Mail House, Do They Still Exist?
- Tactile Flash Cards for the Blind
- Like A Sort of Vine Lamp
- My Latest Fashion Accessory
- Photoshop Your Vision
- Plane Takes Off On Magnets
- Grippy For The Grip Challenged
| Snail-Mail House, Do They Still Exist? Posted: 11 Aug 2009 12:15 AM PDT Oh yea they do, coz no matter how hooked we get to technology, emails, chats etc. Snail Mail WILL NOT go out of fashion. So presenting to you here is a very tangible "Lettreman XXL" letter box, to receive those Christmas Checks from grandmas. Besides the "striking peephole", what I really like about the box is the clever paper-tube, where my callous newspaper boy can leave my morning papers. Well protected from the elements! If the XXL size too big for you, RADIUS DESIGN has two smaller sizes to choose from. BTW I love the zesty orange color one. Designer: RADIUS DESIGN
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| Tactile Flash Cards for the Blind Posted: 11 Aug 2009 12:01 AM PDT Rhea Jeong, YoungSoo Hong, Sun Min Lee and Sae Hee Lee of Samsung Design Membership have it all figured out. Surely by now the schools for the blind have their lessons and so forth figured out by now, right? I mean, we’ve been teaching sight-impared folks for generations, right? There is ALWAYS room for improvement, everyone, and here is a big step! Flash cards. I dreaded them when I was learning my multiplication tables. But they were helpful. And they remain helpful to millions of students around the world today. Students with sight! The Hello Haptic set of flash cards works with Braille text and other tactile elements from environments the student might not otherwise have access to. The urge to learn is there! But as a blind person who must learn primarily through touch, the need is not fulfilled as often as it is with a person who can see. In come the flashcards. Learned become the students. I was informed to mention the university these fine designers have attended. This is a great practice, carrying one’s university around, as it not only benefits you to have a good name under your belt, but as you grow, the university profits as well! And that’s your lesson from your Jedi Master Chris Burns today.
And the world is again at peace. Designer: Rhea Jeong, YoungSoo Hong, Sun Min Lee and Sae Hee Lee of Samsung Design Membership
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| Posted: 11 Aug 2009 12:01 AM PDT This right here is the Climbing Lamp. It is not alive, contrary to the title. It does appear to be climbing, however, just like a good vine plant wood. The Climbing Lamp is also a kit, the kind of kit that allows you to make your own combinations of angles, attachments, and directions. 8 pieces and a plethora of possibility!
Nice of those people at Trust In Design to provide a list of statistics, wasn’t it? That’s so convenient! This set runs on florescent fluo tubes contained in strips assembled by you, the user. Simple fixation points allow you to connect the 8 pieces in the set together in a wide range of ways. Fixation points can be connected to basically any surface that will hold the small amount of weight, and each strip can be adjusted to point the light in your optimal direction. What’s your optimal direction? Designer: Trust In Design
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| Posted: 11 Aug 2009 12:00 AM PDT Inspired by photosynthesis, the Leaf is a wearable bracelet phone that incorporates solar cells on its front panel for juicing it up. If that's not good enough, the cradle into which it docks also hosts the cells on the back. Alternatively, on a dark dingy day you can use the trusty electricity to recharge the phone. A pretty basic phone with calls and messages functions only, it's main objective is to "remind people that they can contribute to energy efficiency." Designers: Seungkyun Woo & Junyi Heo
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| Posted: 11 Aug 2009 12:00 AM PDT Akin to Photoshopping the images to suit your requirements, the VIU Contact Lens blurs out the stark realities of life that you don't want to see. Transforming your vision to suit your preferences, it can obscure and twist the realities of a stinky dumpster down your alley or block out that offensive Ad on the billboard. Intrigued? No, I'm scared, coz if we have a choice to block out the visions that we don't like, we may end up as far away from reality as this concept. More than the images that you see in this post, I urge you to view the video clips that explain the concept in totality. Designer: Christofer Kümmerer
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| Posted: 10 Aug 2009 10:54 AM PDT The MagLevAir is an airplane shuttle system with reduced noise, space and energy consumption during take off. The airplane is hooked to a maglev shuttle saving expensive cerosin for accerleration during take off. In flight the delta wing shaped airplane uses scram jets. The MagLevAir is part of a hub and spoke system. It could serve in an urban environment and transport passengers across short distances to bigger airports with more standard Airbuses and Boeings. The MagLevAir was inspired by the take off procedures on aircraft carriers. The short and decentralized take off combined with the fast and quiet accerleration of a transrapid formed an ideal team for an ecological urban airport system. Designers: Leonie Lawniczak, Deniz Örs & Georg Milde
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| Grippy For The Grip Challenged Posted: 10 Aug 2009 10:49 AM PDT Slip Grips are designed to help individuals with limited hand mobility manipulate objects that they would otherwise be unable to use. The product is used by slipping the finger holds over the thumb and forefinger and then snapping objects in to place via the clips located in between these finger holds. At a slight angle, the clip directs objects placed in it downward, giving the user a natural range of motion. When wearing a Slip Grip, the user is able to use objects such as pool sticks, spatulas and tooth brushes. Ultimately, Slip Grips are an affordable product that function in a variety of different scenarios without taking away any of the users independence, or drawing any unwanted attention to the user in the process. Designer: Stanton Burns
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