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| Apple Macmini Needs A Radio Friend Posted: 23 Mar 2009 06:06 AM PDT Apple freaks know pretty well that Jobs doesn't indulge in concepts. Which is why any nugget that comes our way, we lap it up like starving puppies. Who wouldn't love having this stackable Radio and Speaker System for Macmini on their table? Specs like Internet radio with access to about 10,000 stations worldwide, 2 front and 3 rear extra USBs and multi card reader, makes it a delectable item. Superb sound quality and sexy design are a given! Designer: Sebastien Sauvage        |
| Posted: 23 Mar 2009 03:14 AM PDT Without compromising on privacy, the 4sides4home is an amazing interior option for those who have small apartments and even smaller families. The concept utilizes the given floor space optimally by doing away with the walls and incorporating partitions instead. Imagine a huge + (plus sign) on the floorplan where each wing is a specific room. What you design or expect from the modular room is up to you. For instance the four wings could each be a living room, a bedroom, a study and a dining room. One of the objectives behind creating the 4sides4home was to keep electrical networks to the minimum. Additionally the plan also wants to create an environment that is conducive to easy WiFi streaming; this seems to be of prime importance to gadget-freak yuppies! Designer: Studio Stanta     |
| Grow A Bamboo To Get Better Sound Posted: 23 Mar 2009 02:02 AM PDT If you get yourself the Forsta Speakers then trust me, this is exactly what you will be doing. Stop splitting your sides; I'm serious about this concept! The idea is to install a speaker inside the bamboo hollow (on the vertical top) as the stem serves as a sound box; hence taller the bamboo grows, the richer the sound gets. Ok summary-time: you nurture a bamboo, which has a speaker inside it and you hook it to your TV/Sound System. Looks aesthetic, but will this concept be functional? Come on guys…you tell me! Leave me your comments. Designer: Jocko Chan     |
| Touchy Much? HP Touchsmart PC Review Posted: 23 Mar 2009 01:00 AM PDT Touchscreen interfaces; the delicate balance between technology and cost are slowly falling in unison and HP aims to be at the forefront of that revolution. The Touchsmart PCs have always tried to epitomize that future but the 1st gen machines weren’t exactly winners. We took the 2nd gen machines for a test drive and spoke to Randall Martin - HP’s Worldwide Director of Design for Commercial and Consumer Desktop PCs about the present and future of the Touchsmart PC line. The meat and potatoes of the Touchsmart PC is the Touchsmart UI which overlays Windows Vista. Apps are neatly arranged in two rows; the often used ones are larger tiles on top with secondary apps below. You can rearrange them however you like. Most of the apps are right at home with your finger. Photos, videos, and music are all intuitively controlled by taps, swipes and flicks. It’s apps that require keyboard input that visibly break the whole Minority Report-esque experience. Some apps take you out of the Touchsmart UI into Windows but intelligently return when you close out of them. Good thing otherwise that quirk would be a totally annoyance. Speaking of the Windows desktop, the touch interface works there too. Tho not as intuitive, you can open/close and move windows around. The touchscreen isn’t a capacitive touchscreen. Instead it uses camera technology to accurately pinpoint the position of your finger(s). Be it design or cost - the decision is a mistake. Sometimes it doesn’t register my finger and other times it’s hypersensitive. The key to successfully using it is to go slow and pace yourself. This isn’t the iPhone where you can wildly flick your fingers. This takes precise taps and swipes to control and manipulate. Once you get past the whole “touch” gloss. You realize it’s a decently powered multimedia computer. You’re not going to be playing Quake or Spore on maximum settings but surfing the internet and watching HD videos are a breeze. There’s even a built-in QAM tuner for those with compatible cable. We couldn’t test this feature since we have digital optical cable but if you’re familiar with Windows Media Center, then you don’t need us to cover it here. I couldn’t resist the opportunity to speak with HP’s head honcho of design, Randall Martin. The 2nd gen Touchsmart PCs are a huge improvement. They’re sleeker, sexier and they even look thinner. Careful attention was paid to the footprint. Minimalism was key. The face is devoid of any buttons. The keyboard and mouse are wireless without the barrage of multimedia buttons found on PC counterparts. There’s a single cable in the rear and that’s it. You turn the computer on by touching a “home” button near the bottom right of the frame. Greeted by a satisfying humm, it’s almost as if I was in some parallel universe where Mac’s were black. The most surprisingly thing Randall told me was the loose inspiration - the idea of a messenger bag. The ubiquitous icon of storage and utilitarian function; a fitting metaphor for the computer. After all a computer is a place where one stores all their data. A place that holds the key to communicating externally with others. It’s valued and cared for. To translate those esoteric ideas. the Touchsmart sorta looks like a messenger bag. The rounded frame is bisected at the bottom right above the speaker grill - like the flap of a messenger bag. A light illuminates underneath functionally shedding light on the all black keyboard and yet the aesthetic remains clean and unobtrusive. Perhaps the most reassuring thing was Randall’s commitment to evolving the Touchsmart line. He wants to see it thinner, cleaner, even more minimal. He wants to see more focus on the touch interface and the software behind the UI. As with any good product - if the designer can see room for improvement, then we’re all in for a treat. The HP Touchsmart PC is a good computer, don’t get me wrong. Priced around $1,500, it gives you a lot of bang for your buck but the interface is laggy. It’s not quite ready for prime time but so close. Thankfully the bells and whistles aren’t there to hide a crappy computer. Either way - be it for novel use or real computing, I think you’d be happy to come home to a piano black computer ready for your every touch and whim. Specs:
Company: HP Designer: Randall Martin
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| Stack Books in your Grandfather Posted: 23 Mar 2009 12:01 AM PDT He wont mind. Often in history, mashing two things together, furniture pieces, silverware, counties, anime characters, has been the good idea. No exception here. My grandmother has a grandfather clock that’s worked since the 1950’s - but not for carrying books n’ stuff. This new design, the P-Bookshelf, still has the clock, has new shelves, looks modern and could have the same method of distribution if it wanted… Distribution of my grandmother’s grandfather clock went as thus: see the ad in a tin of oats, send in the order form and some amount of money through the post office, and receive the whole clock via the post. You put it together yourself. A grandfather clock! This P-Bookshelf doesn’t look to complicated for that, ya think? Even if not, it’s pretty, isn’t it? I’d use one fo-sho. Designer Yar Rassadin with the flavor. Designer: Yar Rassadin     |
| I’m Preggies, I Need New Shoes! Posted: 23 Mar 2009 12:00 AM PDT Clothes don't fit, I feel hungry all the while and don't even get me started about my excess weight or I'll shoot you. You have to humor my hormonal moodswings; I'm pregnant after all! In this condition you can expect me to go ballistic about every single fart that squeeze out or simply go drooling over the Piel shoes. They may not be your average style-statement, but what the heck they are comfy for my feet and the organic pattern stretches across to fit so perfectly. Ahh…soft cushy comfort! Don't laugh at me or else you'll find a Piel planted firmly in your bum! Designer: Nicolas Winograd     |
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