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Posted: 02 Mar 2009 03:56 AM PST

I have some water and I have some bulbs, hmm…what can I make from this?
Oh I know, but then I'll need some spring and a box too. Done…my craft teacher will be so proud of me!!
Wicked as this sounds, “Don't” by designer Djordje Cukanovic is just this, but a hell lot more creative.
It's (NOT) a Jack-in-the-box that uses light and mesmerizing reflective properties of water along with fake snowflakes and aluminum pieces. Snow globe of the future perhaps?

Designer: Djordje Cukanovic

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When Plants Inspire Lights

Posted: 02 Mar 2009 02:46 AM PST

You remember that photosynthesis lesson you bunked in school? That was way long back in time, but folks at D’arc Studio revisited that period and decided to haunt you with that chapter (pun totally intended!) The Sinthesya is an indoor/outdoor light that looks like it's out of a sci-fi movie set and draws inspiration from nature's food-factory. Solar power is the name of the game, but just in case of an emergency, an electrical plug has been included.

Shaped like a plant, the light features an adjustable base, a long winding stem, Lithium battery cells and a leaf panel that sports fotovoltaic flexible panels on the outside and 10 LED lights on the inside. A soft-touch dimmer lets you adjust the lights and when you place the leaf-head in a closed position, it gears up for some sun soaking recharge.

What makes it waterproof is the silicone rubber detailing and the green factor comes from the use of recycled ABS made by printing and injection.

So in case you missed the lesson: sun + plant shape = cool lights

Designer: Daniele Calisi, Alessio Tommasetti, Rosa Topputo & Camillo Vanacore

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Open Debate: What Should This Mac Book Mini Hold?

Posted: 02 Mar 2009 01:24 AM PST

Everybody has an opinion and at YD we encourage it. However this time around I want to do things differently. I came across these renders for a Mac Book Mini by Isamu Sanada (he is a devoted Apple freak). Prod as I did, he didn't have any suggestions or ideas on what exactly this book should hold. Except for the fact that it has a very convenient sliding track pad, the design gives away nothing. Heck we are a design site so lets get some ideas from you erudite guys.

Lets deliberate/debate and see how we can make this Notebook the ultimate Apple Book…. just for fun! Are you guys with me?

Leave your ideas, opinions in the comments.

Designer: Isamu Sanada

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Time is Creepin on My Wrist and I’m Peepin’ It

Posted: 02 Mar 2009 12:05 AM PST

What kind of time are you telling? The kind the bell tower is selling, or the time that your Mom is yelling? Check the hour hand on the “ON Air,” it’s got the minutes that you need right there. The red light has the time, as minimal as possible. Ask the siblings Asanaliev if you want one, they’ve got the strings that you’ll have to pull, no bull.

Designers Iskender Asanaliev & Adilet Asanaliev have made a quite fine example of the concept of time being contained all in the hour hand. The LED light on the clear display shows the minutes, while the position of the numbers act as the hour hand. And if it weren’t simple enough, setting the time is included in an extremely quaint way:

To set the time you need just to push in the center of the display for 5 seconds and LED flashes, here you push upper or lower corner of the display to set the hour and the left and right corner to set minutes.

Designers: Iskender Asanaliev & Adilet Asanaliev

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Display in 16 by 9 or 4 by 3, Literally

Posted: 02 Mar 2009 12:04 AM PST

Studio FRST is going to get your squared away with a TV that simplifies(?) to an extra degree. The studio says that the form shows the function. That’s true. It’d fit right in at the home of a modernist, probably also at the house of a minimalist. It leaves space to put your tiny fern if you want! Put it right there under the side there! It will look nice, totally nice!

The title of this project is “16943″ -intuitive, huh? It’s got a “crystal asymmetrical black picture on a glass base.” As you’d expect, the dvd slot (yes there’s that system built in, how nice), and the controls for the TV are located up under there in that square negative space.

Designer: Studio FRST

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Skateboard Deck Chair for the Old or Fantastic

Posted: 02 Mar 2009 12:00 AM PST

If you’re a crazed art collector with little to no cash, you are a paradoxical sort of person. If you collect “street art”, you’ve got two options: pay the toll, or find it on “lesser” canvases. One of the more odd to display products in this category is the skateboard deck. Guess who’s got your back?

The design team at Tunto.

Explaining the title: this deck chair is not for the elderly! What I mean is that you’ve got a couple great options for this deck chair since you have the option of buying it without a deck included. You’ve got the fantastic decks (as mentioned above) that you want to display for their designed beauty. Then you’ve got the cracked, scraped, and destroyed decks that you’ve used: an opportunity for the deck to continue being useful while displaying your hardcore street skating, deck destroying ways.

Also for the offices of the designers of the boards in the preview pics, CTRL Clothing.

Designer: Tunto Design