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• Contest Giveaway: Win The Little Star Table
• This Tree Is Artificial Green
• The Braille Phone
• 1 Tool To Rule Them All
• Knocking On My Vase
• Talking Dumbbell, No I’m Not Crazy

Contest Giveaway: Win The Little Star Table Posted: 21 Aug 2009 12:07 AM PDT Here's introducing one of the most contemporary Industrial Designers from the UK: Ben Huggins. His Little Star table project is a simple mathematical endeavor. Craft a line here, stack an angle there and you've constructed a very chic table! Three tables can be cut from one 1200mm x 2400mm sheet of 15mm ply by CNC router and Ben’s been hand-crafting them all. No screws or fixings, it comes in this neat pizza-style box. To Win this £199 ($325) table simply tell us how would you constructively re-use the empty packaging box. Simple! For more information on Ben & his products visit New British Design. Contest Ends: August 24, 12:00 am PST

This Tree Is Artificial Green Posted: 21 Aug 2009 12:05 AM PDT A tree that limits itself to only the air cleansing function. Oh yeh, it's prepped up with some LED lights to create a warm ambience, and a seating ring at the base, to rest your tired feet. The over-all vibe is of a tree alrite, and here is how it works. The tree has an electronic fan (in the base) that sucks in ambient air and pumps it through the HEPA filters to remove all impurities. The refreshed air, then blows out from the top of the structure. I can see this as a helpful prop in malls where I can rest after a serious session of retail therapy. Designer: Seung Jun Jeong

The Braille Phone Posted: 21 Aug 2009 12:01 AM PDT Hello there! I want to tell you about the thing called “collective conscious”: It’s a theory which says we (humans) all share, on some level, the same databank of knowledge, learning and creating together. Keeping that in mind, take a look at this, Seon-Keun Park’s braille-central phone: the second universally accessible phone we’ve discovered here on Yanko in so many weeks! Right after (or right before) you take a peek at this design, be sure to check out the version that Seunghan Song designed. Compare and contrast! Then look at this! It’s got raised and lowered portions to create braille using what’s called Electric Active Plastic (EAP!) Several different modes can be activated: text, braille numbers, roman-character numbers, and off (all lowered.) It can send and receive phone calls and texts, displaying texts in braille in the space normally reserved for a screen on the average phone. Designer: Seon-Keun Park

1 Tool To Rule Them All Posted: 20 Aug 2009 08:57 AM PDT I have a tool caddy in my kitchen filled with slotted spoons, spatulas, ladles and some omelette flipper thing. Wanna know something? It is all for show. I use 2 out of the 9 items in that caddy. It makes me look like a serious cook but now that I look at this product called the Uni-tool, I’m ready to “be real” about my abilities. Made from tough nylon, heat resistant up to 240ºC, comprised of a slotted spoon, turner, cutting edge, ladle and spatula; I think I’m set. This is all I need. Now make one is multiple colors and I’m sold. Designer: Graeme Davies for Joseph Joseph

Knocking On My Vase Posted: 20 Aug 2009 08:51 AM PDT This is so clever I am giggling inside. This concept came across my desk ages ago but it is only now that I am getting to it. I apologize to the designer because it is as brilliant then as it is now. The SEVRES VASE CLOCK is pretty self explanatory. An adjustable hammer gently knocks on any vase you place on the stand on the hour, every hour. Different vases produce different sounds so potentially every home’s clock looks and sounds different just from one device. It sounds overly simplistic to qualify as a “design” but I love what the designer is working with here; porcelain and a hammer - two things you normally would never put together. That juxtaposition manifesting itself into a product is always something refreshing. Now for the evil part. There are a couple of very old Vietnamese and Chinese vases my mom has stashed in her home. I wonder how those will sound against the thump of a hammer. Designer: Georgios Maridakis

Talking Dumbbell, No I’m Not Crazy Posted: 20 Aug 2009 08:30 AM PDT My trainer would go ape nuts for this concept. The Mint Dumbbell speaks. Workout programs can be personalized as a trainer walks you thru every rep. It even has sensors to smack warn you when you’re not in form. Working out with a set of dumbbells? These guys wirelessly communicate to keep you going. When all is said and done, the charging station charges/syncs and tattles sends all that data to your trainer. I imagine mine would just laugh uncontrollable at my feeble attempts. Designers: mintselect @ mintpass for Mintpass

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