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• Radiator Mug For Cold Hands
• Only Photogenic Pictures Please
• While You Were Trying To Get Some Sleep On The Bus…
• Happy Rested Feet
• Un Capsize Able
• How to Keep The Nose
• A Knee-t Crutch on Wheels

Radiator Mug For Cold Hands Posted: 17 Feb 2010 03:49 AM PST There is a reason why this coffee mug is called the Radiator Mug, the bottom fins (called heat sinks) take inspiration from the radiator mechanics found within the PC or an engine, to keep things cool. Likewise these ceramic fins eliminate the need for a handle and keep your hands cool while holding a steaming cuppa coffee/tea. Designer: Stephen Reed [ Buy it Here, Radiator Mug is available for $24 @ YD Store ] Radiator Mug is available for $24 @ YD Store

Only Photogenic Pictures Please Posted: 17 Feb 2010 03:48 AM PST At times it's the photographer's fault that your picture came out weird and at times you're plain ugly! Ha! So scrutinize and be in control over which picture of yours is groovy… So, Are you camera-shy? Not with this funky digital camera that has two separate sections, one is the Lens part and the other the screen. Both stick together via magnets, but when someone wants to click pictures, the screen part detaches and is kept with the subject and the clicked shot comes over to the screen via wireless USB. This means crappy pictures can be dumped and only cool ones approved. The photographer doesn't see what exactly he has clicked, so he's pretty much clueless about the his photography skills. Designer: Xi Zhu

While You Were Trying To Get Some Sleep On The Bus… Posted: 17 Feb 2010 03:11 AM PST Someone stole your bag, kids sitting next seat were screaming, the nap in the bus sucked and now you have a muscle pull in the neck! Ah so many reasons, but the situation still remains unresolved; how do you catch your forty winks during a commute? Easy, you need a Napper! It's a set of comfy hooded shawl with concealed earphones (that work with Bluetooth), combined with a Bluetooth lock for your luggage, and NapApp. Intrigued? Hit the jump for more info… Napper aims especially at sleeping in public transport. It consists of a hood, whose padding makes it comfortable to lean against window panes. It's wide cut and the scarf make it possible for you to shield yourself from the environment and create your own private cocoon. Bluetooth headphones are integrated in the hood, which, together with software for the mobile phone, provide sound to fall asleep with. The entire system is foldable into a compact bag and can be easily used for daily commuting as well as for longer. The hood's inlay is padded with 3Mesh material, which has a soft cushioning effect and high shock absorption against the vibrating windows. On the outer side of the headphones is covered in Sorbothane, a plastic foil which has noise absorbing properties. Inside the hood, Napcap'are integrated Bluetooth headphones which, together with the traveler's mobile phone, play music, send the wake-up alarm and the warning signal, in case the traveler's luggage is moved. The headphones can easily be taken out of the hood, when you want to wash it. Small LED lights on the headphones give information about the remaining battery life and Bluetooth connection. The headphones lithium-polymer-battery is charged via USB, which is integrated in the headphone and can simply be plugged into your computer. There is also a mini-jack on the headphones, if you want to use them with a device which doesn’t support Bluetooth. To ensure a carefree sleep, the hood NapCap comes together with the luggage lock NapSecure. It doesn't only lock your luggage, but is connect to your mobile phone via Bluetooth. If the luggage should be moved away from its owner further than one meter, he will be warned by an alarm on his headphones, his mobile phone and the lock itself. The lock can be opened by using your mobile phone, but also through a mechanical lock, in case your battery is low or your phone is lost. The Bluetooth lock is charged, same as the headphones, using an integrated USB port. The luggage lock and the headphones communicate via Bluetooth with the software NapApp which can be installed as well on touchscreen as on keyboard mobile phones. Next to the control of the luggage lock, it contains a alarm clock which helps to wake up at according to your preferred time, location (if the mobile supports GPS) or sleep stage. With the help of a reaction game, which should be played directly after waking up, the software analyses how recreational your nap was and whether or not you should shorten or extend your next nap. Furthermore the software has a build in voice recorder, to capture the ideas you have just before dozing off. Designer: Simone Wittmann

Happy Rested Feet Posted: 17 Feb 2010 02:00 AM PST One of the coolest things you can do for your feet is to pamper them. A little bit of TLC never hurt. This is why we have been cajoling you folks to rest them a while on the Webble Active Footrest or better still treat them to a good massage. I'm sure there is no dearth of good foot massagers in the market, but the Foot Massager by designer Xiaoxsi has taken my fancy because it's modeled similar to the Webble, only difference is the two counter-rotating massagers and heating options. Designer: Xiaoxsi

Un Capsize Able Posted: 17 Feb 2010 12:10 AM PST The indestructible car! Inconceivable! As one might think, there’s no real such thing as a completely safe way of auto-mobiling around the Earth. That goes double, triple, 10x as much for people who use rally racing as an excuse to drive insanely fast around a treacherous death trap of a track. But there’s such a thrill! That’s why designers are here to design safety measures for the crazy at heart. What’ve we got here? Impact resistance, a self-righting system, and pit climbing features. This design is indeed called “Structural Skin.” Designed by Chu Hyung Kwon to make the death-defying even moreso that, this design brings the structure to the skin. Basically what’s going on here is that now the core of the car will still be the strongest, while the outer extremities (the structural surface) will be made of materials with relative flexibility. Shock resistance. With modern advances such as the following, even the most severe of impacts will be dissipated: AeroGel, Carbon/Kevlar composite, and liquid metal. This, along with the formentioned simple self-righting system and the ability to climb right up the side of a pit make this Structural Skin car quite the formidable foe. Designer: Chu Hyung Kwon

How to Keep The Nose Posted: 17 Feb 2010 12:02 AM PST How much do you appreciate the photos you have? The videos you’ve filmed yourself? How about your collection of old smells? What do you mean they don’t have that!? I’ll tell you who has that: Kawamura Ganjavian. In his design, the “Scenter,” Ganjavian owns smell. How else do you plan on keeping the smells you’ve grown accustomed to once you can’t go to the places where you smelled the smells? You gotta have little jars, and in the jars, big smells. Smell it. Concentrated personal fragrances stored inside compact cartridges, released through the nozzle of your Scenter upon pressing the bellows. Right into your nose. Right into your brain. The closest thing I’ve got to this now, me, is an old Batman wallet. It’s a wallet that I found one time at a garage sale my mother and father were hosting (aka, someone had lost it while shopping.) I couldn’t find the person who it belonged to, so it belonged to me. At that time, I’d started collecting comics. Incidentally, after I was done collecting comics, I quit using the wallet. I kept the wallet in a drawer for many years and forgot it. After many years, I found it, opened the wallet to see if anything was inside – and there was – that smell of comics. Comic shop smell. Real deal. Designer: Studio Kawamura Ganjavian

A Knee-t Crutch on Wheels Posted: 17 Feb 2010 12:01 AM PST Ohh that is clever. This is a project whose main function is to get you around in two kinds of style. One prerequisite: your leg has to be broken. What the weird!? Or if you want to fake it just to use such a wild and wonderful design, well that’s your own business I suppose. What this design, the “Stryder,” does, is act as both a one-legged crutch AND as a knee-standing scooter. It’s a transformer! What designer Dat Huynh does here is take that extra step, don’t mind my word use. Made specifically for people with non-weight bearing lower leg injuries. Made for people to get around quick! Scoot around! With less strain and fatigue on the body than the usual one-crutch. But for those situations where the wheels just don’t roll, it’s also transformable into old-reliable Y-wing single crutch. (That, with the wheels visible and all, definitely reminds one of an Auto-Bot.) Designer: Dat Huynh

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