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| Smile Please! Shoot, It’s A Trashcan! Posted: 05 Feb 2009 03:07 AM PST Dining at self-service has one major flaw, cleaning up your mess after you're through with the meal. Inevitably the trashcan (front loading types seen in fastfoods) is ALWAYS full, or you spill the tray contents while shoving in the mess. Grrr! I hate it! And while I'm trashing trashcan designs, let me also tell you that only a bottle of Purell makes me want to touch those lidded thingies. On the flip side, something like this Click Hybrid Trashcan will make me want to use it pronto. Using the aperture/iris action of a camera as inspiration, Click features a button that allows you to open the mouth of the bin to an appropriate size, so as to dispose the waste. Small opening for small trash like cans and bottles, big hole for big items! Designer: Hyejin Lee        |
| Give Your Input on The Mozilla Phone Posted: 05 Feb 2009 02:15 AM PST Working with Aza Raskin of Mozilla Labs as part of their Concept Series, yours truly is helming the open source project to design the Mozilla Phone. The lovely BlackBerry you see here is the first throw-away concept to come out of the project blog at MozPhone.com. While only a crude mashup of a Blackberry 7130 and the Optimus Keyboard, its serves to illustrate how much more we need phones to communicate with us. Mixing channels of communication like with the Storm’s clickable screen or this concept’s OLED buttons allow the phone to create more information rich experiences that help break down barriers created by size limitations. If you’re technically inclined Industrial or Interface design, or just like talking about phones, leave some comments or contribute over at the development blog. Designer: Billy May     |
| Candlelight Be Damned, LED Forks Are Here Posted: 05 Feb 2009 01:04 AM PST It's the Valentine month, and love is in the air. Planning out gifts, romantic dinners, cards…awesome fun! Care to sparkle the evening a bit? Dine in elegance in exquisite settings with gourmet food, candlelights and good old charm! Perhaps lightWARE cutlery will illuminate the ambience; after all it's a heady combination of silver, crystal and LED lights. With a silver head and engraved crystal body, the least you expect from a cutlery is to emit soft colorful lighting. At the tip is a removable silver cap that hosts the LED and a watch size battery. Giving the adage "Silver Spoon" a totally luminous meaning, I reckon this will be a hit during the dating season! Designer: David Veldkamp     |
| Posted: 05 Feb 2009 12:05 AM PST The entire cord is stays whichever way you style it. It’s got a flexible electrical lining that allows the entire chord to take part in the way the lamp sits. It’s like, totally alive. Every style is unique. Not like those crappy normal lights. Think of all the things you could use this for! I’d bring it with constructing with me. Next we need it to have some A.I. in there so it could go the next step: follow me around and totally snake smart. Look at the plainness! Designer Mi-So Sim says that “a good model is formed only by the characteristic elements of objects.” What the! As simple as it gets is (sometimes) as excellent as it gets. Once a basic element like the versatile electrical lining of this lamp was discovered, the pole could be dispensed with! All that’s needed is the plug, the chord, the bulb, and the switch! Hey. Don’t really even need the switch, come to think of it. Designer: Mi-So Sim     |
| Do It Yourself Pipe and Plastic Chair Posted: 05 Feb 2009 12:04 AM PST Word is on the streets that people be lovin the do-it-yourself kinds of stuff. Straight up. This the chair for you. It’s a glider. It ships flat. Produced of recyclable materials. Polypropylene molded sides, synthetic fabric, pvc tubing. Chair or bench. Stay positive with negative space in mind. It’s called “Empower” because yes, the power is indeed yours. Visually light to the eye! “Empower takes a traditional glider style seat and transforms it into something energetic and modern.” Take it with you. The age of fat heavy chairs is over. These are in the vintage shops. Buy them there. On the real for the new, see signs like this of modern engineering intelligence. Glide on! Empower! Designer: Ryan Klinger     |
| Posted: 04 Feb 2009 08:45 AM PST Some of us would do anything to shy away from a chore, be it cleaning up or doing the laundry. However our friend Murat Ozveri is trying to entice us into at least wearing clean clothes once in a while thanks to his innovative OVO washing machine. The enticement comes in the form of visual appeal more that practical application however. It's the spunky colors, ergonomic outlines, lights and disco show that glams-up OVO! The key features to this design include interchangeable colorful plastic covers (made from ABS-injection molding) and a mini-projector positioned inside the glass face. The fun begins when the machine gets into standby mode displaying a digitalized (analogue) clock and funky lights. In the working mode, the large glass-face displays all vital information regarding the wash cycle. Basically it's a good-looking machine that will make any apartment happy. You can happily flaunt it anywhere provided you get the plumbing right. Designer: Murat Ozveri     |
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