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| Posted: 14 Oct 2008 05:54 AM CDT We know, we know. WE’RE LATE to the party, but better late than never. Yanko Design is finally on Facebook so join our group and see all the many faces that make up Yanko Design country. facebook, yanko design       |
| Posted: 14 Oct 2008 04:31 AM CDT The all knowing, all seeing third eye. An ancient myth no longer thanks to designer Kijin Shin- this Third Eye concept designed is for travelers. See something interesting? Just place the Third Eye up to your eyes like a monocle and the device pulls all relevant historical, travel, shopping, and tourist information. If you really like what you see, take a snapshot for keeps. It’s like an encyclopedia, wikipedia, GPS, and tour guide all in one! Designer: Kijin Shin        |
| I’ll Rock These with a Tweed Blazer Posted: 14 Oct 2008 04:18 AM CDT These RGB glasses just may be the next hated trend. It’s completely hollow to be filled with ink. One day you’ll be channeling The Great Gatsby with dark, thick, black frames, the next you’ll have bright red to show those hipsters how it’s really done. DO WANT! Designer: Luís Porém        |
| Posted: 14 Oct 2008 03:50 AM CDT Emergent’s new Huaxi Urban Center for China (always China or Dubai) is a paradigm shift in architectural design when once upon a time a building’s exterior was designed to hide, shield, and mask its massive network of support beams, duct work, wiring, and HIVAC systems. The Huaxi Urban Center externalizes all its “innards” in a morphology of shifting lights racing up and down its glacial-like hull. With advances in flexible cellular based materials, exoskeletal lattices, and carbon fiber composites; only now is a building like the Huaxi Urban Center possible. Gorgeous! Designer: Emergent        |
| A Touch of Personalization to your Flip Mino Posted: 14 Oct 2008 02:48 AM CDT Last month we reviewed the fantastic Flip Mino cam by Pure Digital with very little to improve on for a video camera in that price range. Today Pure Digital is announcing a new service to customize your Mino with professionally designed covers. If one of the designs don’t strike your fancy, create your own have them print it! Not design saavy? Don’t worry, the service includes a pattern generator to help your own create amazing graphics. I’m thinking maybe a few custom Yanko Design inspired Mino’s to give away to our readers?
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| Energy Mate Converts Consumption into Sense Posted: 14 Oct 2008 12:54 AM CDT Green People rejoice! Stuart Sharples’ designed the Energy Mate system, making it simple to convert the energy you spent in your home into pounds and pence! Simply clip or screw on the four different energy sensors and read the output on your hand-held screen! Retro-fitted goodness. Designer Stuart Sharples makes it irresistible to be green: “The EnergyMate system wirelessly monitors the gas, water and electricity usage within the home in real-time, allowing the user to take control of their energy consumption. An array of sensors around the home collect the usage information and transmit it to the display unit, where it is converted into meaningful figures such as pounds and carbon output. The system has been designed to be retro-fitted with ease in any domestic property. “The display unit features a large colour touchscreen to display the energy consumption graphically and as figures. The appliance sensor monitors the electricity usage of any product plugged into it, and wirelessly sends the data to the display unit. The lighting sensors fit between the light socket and bulb to track the electricity consumption of a lighting throughout the home. The ultrasonic sensor is designed to monitor gas or water flow inside pipes. The heat sensor fits to radiators using in-built magnets. An infrared sensor monitors the heat and transmits the data to the display.” Seems almost too simple. You can bet your butt that if this were widely available that not only would they sell to the environmental and energy-saving people, but to everyone wanting to save cash by simply being conscious about the most simple things in the house! Being able to see the actual cost of the energy would be a huge jolt to the pants of penny pinchers everywhere! Designer: Stuart Sharples        |
| Thirty-Point Art Furniture for Children Posted: 13 Oct 2008 11:17 PM CDT You all remember the ironing board that folds up into the closet, the seat that flattens into a painting, and the bathtub that doubles as an eggchair. Well, little Barry and little Michelle wanted some forward-thinking design ingenuity for themselves! My Deer are the wall herd that double as kid-size stools! Fun-loving designer of this deer-like stool Jeroen Wesselink reports the following: “[My Deer] are available in a multitude of colours. If you don’t need them, hang them upside down on a wall hook and hey presto, they transform into colourful, sleekly stylized deer heads.” These could be a new tool for day-care centers and kindergartens: My Deer, adding a strange and excellent element to “clean-up time” for everybody, everywhere! For more furniture that turns into wall decor, click the “Furniture” tag in the upper-left corner of this post. They’re everywhere! Designer: Jeroen Wesselink        |
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