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| Posted: 16 Jan 2009 03:41 AM PST Lilah Fowler’s new show at Brown Gallery in London continues a line of exploration that has preoccupied artists in the second half of the 20th century: the presence of geometry in our lives. With visual influences ranging from Tony Smith’s sculptures to Sol LeWitt’s drawings to Fred Sandback’s string installations, Fowler would seem to be putting herself into a minimalist corner. But the work seems too playful, too chaotic to be a simple assemblage of references. The work plays much more directly with a visitor’s experience of the pieces, through explosive reflections and geometric coincidences that cause well-known plays of perspective. But the work never falls into geometric order, or the implication of gemoetric order. It is as if the order of rationality has broken down, if only under the weight of all the rhomboids and parabolic surfaces put into play. Complex geometry never had so much fun. Designer: Lilah Fowler                      |
| This Sconce Makes Me Want Some Artichoke Dip Posted: 16 Jan 2009 03:13 AM PST Always one to rip off the hard work Mother Nature did millions of years ago, Janne Kyttänen swoops in again to steal all the glory for herself with this “Dahlia” sconce that is inspired by the “mathematics of nature and the arrangement of flower petals.” Personally, I’m not a huge fan of this derivative work, If I remember correctly, I believe I saw da Vinci put out something pretty like this at the Salone del Mobile in 1512. Available at Freedom of Creation Designer: Janne Kyttänen     |
| Posted: 16 Jan 2009 03:12 AM PST A close brush with a distracted driver is enough to intimidate any avid bicycler from riding at night. You’ve probably seen small blinkers and flashers tucked just below the seat but that isn’t enough. As a daily driver in a very bike friendly city, I can attest I usually don’t notice those blinkers until I’m within a few hundred yards of the bicycler. That leaves very little distance and time to react if I were to collide with them. Only a small fraction of streets have dedicated bike lanes, and with an installation cost of $5,000 - $50,000 per mile, we shouldn't expect to find them everywhere anytime soon. LightLane projects a crisply defined virtual bike lane onto pavement, using a laser, providing the driver with a familiar boundary to avoid. With a wider margin of safety, bikers will regain their confidence to ride at night, making the bike a more viable commuting alternative. I want one now. Even and Alex, make it and call me! Designers: Evan Gant & Alex Tee     |
| Birds Underwater and Fish That Fly? Posted: 16 Jan 2009 03:01 AM PST I love this idea called Duplex. A stylish superstructure holds a fish tank on top of a birdcage. From our POV, it’s just an odd arrangement of two very separate environments but imagine what the birds and fish are thinking. I’m a little bird and every day of my life, I’ve come to accept water is in the sky and fish really do fly. And if I’m a fish, I’d find it confounding why these feathery neighbors seem to swim in an area of the water I just can’t get to. Gives new meaning to “bird’s eye view.” Designer: Constance Guisset     |
| Contact Lens Kinda Makes You Cyborgy Posted: 16 Jan 2009 02:54 AM PST This one’s kinda hard to swallow so take a deep breath, open your minds, and pretend it’s 2100. I CONTACT is essentially a mouse fitted to your eyeball. The lens is inserted like any other normal contact lens except it’s laced with sensors to track eye movement, relaying that position to a receiver connected to your computer. Theoretically that should give you full control over a mouse cursor. I’d imagine holding a blink correlates to mouse clicks. The idea was originally created for people with disabilities but anyone could use it. Those of us too lazy to use a mouse now have a free hand to do whatever it is people do when they sit at the computer for endless hours. I love the idea but there is a caveat. How is the lens powered? Perhaps in the future, electrical power can be harnessed from the human body, just not in a Matrix creepy-like way. Designers: Eun-Gyeong Gwon & Eun-Jae Lee     |
| Posted: 16 Jan 2009 12:52 AM PST The leaping flames, the hot arid smoke, he runs like lightning with the hose in his hands ready to douse the sparks! Good beginning for a juicy romantic novel, but I'm talking about a real big fire that firefighters have to deal with and any ways this is a design site and not Mill&Boons. The design to look out for is a new type of hydrant that uses zinc casting as a base. Featuring RFID, independent power and lighting system, this new hydrant could help firefighters save precious moments as they locate and hook the hose to it. What firefighters are going to like the best about this hydrant is its cap. The thing has been fashioned in such a way that they won't have to remove their awkward fireproof gloves to open it. Summertime fun with this hydrant is a big no-no! Designer: Jon Cervin     |
| Posted: 15 Jan 2009 02:03 PM PST Router is the most mundane of your computer peripheral and the poor gadget hardly ever gets noticed. Most of the time it is callously placed on top of the CPU or stacked behind the monitor. In this modern wireless age, when we have so many creative heads bringing us upbeat tech, it's a pleasure to see someone turn the eyesore to an object `d art. The Occipiter incorporates some amazing finishing like brushed aluminum with inlay wood and a magnesium alloy chassis. Moreover, the side panels are inspired by the Fuego Grill. Designer: Michael Laut     |
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