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| Let’s Talk About Top 10 Designer Toilets Posted: 13 Mar 2009 04:10 AM PDT Oh Crap! Are we seriously talking about toilets today? Yeah we are, but in a very different way! 10) The Throne by Anderson Dunlap This pot screams BLACK BEAUTY! What a way to unload early in the morn! A throne that is not only unusual in shape but is quirky enough for a king! 9) Toilet Seat Scale by Haikun Deng People like me who have always battled the bulge since teenage years would love this seat. Every single ounce lost is like a miracle! This concept bath is so endearing, it kinda takes you back to Winnie the Pooh days! Imagine splashing around in a giant honey pot. This is an actual product that was designed for a Chinese brand and it went on to become a best seller instantly. Without doubt, this IS sophistication at its best! When he is not designing love seats for us to coo-chi-coo on, Victor is busy designing the perfect Spa Shower. This giant O is one helluva shower I would like to install in my bathroom. Damn the lack of space! What's special about this showerhead you ask? Well it's the simplistic design used here to adjust the flow of water. To change the flow from a concentrated pour to a spray, simply push or pull the flexi central head. 4) Paper Scale by Duck Image Studio One word-Gorgeous! If you must stand on scale to tell how overweight you are, it may as well be something as classy as this. Applying paper electronic technology to this ultra thin flexible scale is ingenious! The system combines a pressure sensing sheet that relays information to an e-paper display. It's waterproof, easy to clean, and can be rolled up for storage. 3) Cromobox LED Shower Door by Antonio Lupi As you indulge in some aromatherapy while bathing, team it up with color therapy as well! The Cromobox LED shower door transforms your drab morning ritual of a quick scrub into something quite special. Ah… the vibrant colors that uplift your mood! Ok, I'm stopping here…you people can let your sexy minds wander! 2) Bola Faucet by Agustin Otegui Captivating you with its awesome design, the Bola dispenses water in the most fashionable way. The hollow faucet features a light around the bottom rim that glows when in use. Excuse me, but my hands are dirty and I need to go and wash them! 1) Kali Metal Bathtubs By Blubleu The magic of metal comes alive in this classic tub for two! Shimmy with gold, bronze and other colors, the romantic experience of taking a dip together is blissfully realized with the aptly placed water jets and co-coordinating headrests. No fuss or fighting over space, just enjoy the champagne, strawberries and the bath! No Tags       |
| Don’t Hide Behind Dorky Goggles Posted: 13 Mar 2009 12:45 AM PDT Vertigo Nystagmus is a woozy condition to have; however Nystagmus can be controlled when the eyes are open and fixed on some point. The Vertigo Nystagmus Glasses showcased here allow vanity even in pain! Ditching the usual dorky eyewear for these technical glasses will make you look and feel better. Made of five parts, the design includes a visor that can be manually removed. Infrared cams that track eye movement and 4 LEDs for soft illumination are all a part of this special eye gear. Designers: Mike Neumann & Mirko Gabschuss     |
| Asp-Adder Take A Hike, Slythrin Is Here Posted: 13 Mar 2009 12:02 AM PDT For some reason I have a very soft corner for designer Mac Funamizu. I know sometimes his designs can get outlandish, but like I always say, you need to dream BIG to achieve something in life. His latest concept is a portable projector device that wraps around your hand like a bracelet. This modern bridge between the physical and digital world comes with a camera, a projector and WiFi. Interestingly he compares & names it after the beautiful white snake, SnowCorn. The transparent part that you see on the bracelet is actually a touchscreen that displays basic functions like time, date etc. For the projector part Mac describes it like this, "To activate the projection, you control the UI on the screen: just tap it and it gives you some options such as scan image/text or cancel. More advanced options are all projected on the wall or table. You can have a more complicated UI there, with buttons and a keyboard." Besides being customizable in the fields of color and style, you can even scan a business card and update your address book via WiFi. Designer: Mac Funamizu     |
| Posted: 12 Mar 2009 08:06 AM PDT Meet the Food You Eat is a kitchen scale that measures the environmental impact of food. The scale works by looking at the carbon emitted by transporting a particular product from its country of origin to Denmark. Place an RFID tagged product on the appropriate arm and try to balance the scale with the tree shaped weights. The amount of trees used to balance the scale represents the number of actual trees it would take to offset that product's carbon emissions over one year. Designers: Adam Little, Eilidh Dickson & Siddharth Muthyala This scale is an exploration in how tangible interfaces can be used to interact with data on the web. With the increase in usage of RFID technology and as "everday" objects become networked, we anticipate access to untold amounts of information for things as simple as an apple. With appropriate ways to interact with this data, we hope people will be able to make more informed decisions that will help build a sustainable world. As an exhibition piece, this scale will raise questions about the food you buy, where it comes from and how it is transported. With a subject as complex as carbon emissions and the global food economy, our scale is only an entry point and is intended to raise more questions than it will answer. This scale can also be viewed as a hypothetical kitchen appliance or point to a future grocery store service. The data it uses is important but remains hidden to most people, and we hope this will not be the case for much longer. The student design team faced many challenges in assembling the scale and in gathering the data behind the products, but most of our key learnings came in the beginning of the project. Rapid prototyping and user testing were essential for our team. We learned that building rudimentary models is the best way to test rudimentary ideas. Some models told us when an idea was going in the wrong direction while other models told us this only when in the hands of people outside our team. From the beginning, our project was heavy with metaphors - a scale and weights to measure data, and trees to represent this data. User testing was the only way to know if these metaphors were the right choice. No Tags     |
| Posted: 12 Mar 2009 08:04 AM PDT We’re supposed to embrace the one remote that rules all but even I have 4 separate ones sitting on my coffee table now. Tho I always know to keep them all in one place, some people are scatter cats. The Media Table by Sergey Saava is an ordinary media center with a sliding box to keep all your remotes in check. I especially like the double pane design element within the main box. Snazzy. Designer: Sergey Saava     |
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