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| My Faucet Is Better Than Yours Posted: 26 Mar 2009 05:38 AM PDT Your Morning routine: head to the sink, open the tap, water pours down, brush your teeth, and gargle with cup. Designers: Jinsun Park, Byungmin Woo        |
| Let’s Talk About Camping Essentials Posted: 26 Mar 2009 04:09 AM PDT Every time I hear the word camping and the only image that comes to my mind is the Carry on Camping movie. That was one PARTY CAMP flick! Alas, real life is not as much fun as reel life, so it's best to be prepared with handy tools and gadgets to make a camping trip successful. Along with the Swiss Army Knife, ropes, kettles, provisions and tent, it would be wise to carry something like the Vertigo. This one's a self-heating food and beverage container featuring a high performance dynamo that makes it possible to heat food in minutes. The external shell is crafted from Polybutylene Terephthalate (PBT), which is a good thing coz it's a chemical and mechanical resistant material that can withstand temps up to 150° Celsius, and is a fire retardant. The sensor-triggered LED indicates when the food (or beverage) reaches the optimum temp. All in all, Vertigo looks to be good enough to make it to the essentials list. Designer: Nicolas Bernal     |
| Posted: 26 Mar 2009 02:01 AM PDT Hey YDers, this NVISIBLE TOUCH – IT Universal Remote Control concept is a very tricky proposition. If something like this were to hit the stands, then either we women would lose our "who owns the remote control" battle to our men OR we could use it effectively to get chores done. Go on woman; hide it till he doesn't do the dishes! Here are some of the specs: Designer: Zeynep Altmisoglu     |
| Energy Seed: A Yanko Love Story Posted: 26 Mar 2009 12:01 AM PDT Listen, we all love Sungwoo Park here, don’t deny it. There’s been more than one satisfied reader here on Yanko when it comes to Sungwoo. But this time, the reader took an extra step and became an inspired advocate for action. This reader cum designer, Jerome Demers, took the Sungwoo Energy Seed concept and made it DIY and desktop sized. Don’t you want to play along with the “dead” batteries too? The parts used to make this contraption are intuitive: metal plates, plastic to hold the batteries in place, margarine container for the base, but here’s the important part; the circuit ingredients: Parts you will need: These are put together to make what’s called a Joule Thief. This is a fun and amazing little amalgamation that makes use of left-over juice in batteries that you’d otherwise throw away because they’ve got little-to-seemingly-no power left. They almost always have a bit of juice that you can access using the right formula. Hood a thief up to an LED light, and WHAMO! You’ve got a nice little environment helper. Check below and at at Demers’ Instructables entry for further details and instructions. Watch the movie for words from Demers himself. The most important part of this story is, of course, that he was inspired by a Yanko entry. Yanko! Yes, Yanko, bringing the conceptual industrial design world together, one post at a time. Thank you very much Jerom Demers! Well played! Designer: Jerome Demers     |
| How to Paint with a Brand New BMW Posted: 26 Mar 2009 12:01 AM PDT So you’ve got a hankering to pour paint all over expensive cars, do you? Today’s your lucky day! Unless of course you were hoping for more than a video of a car painting a picture with its wheels and gallons and gallons of paint. This post shows exactly what you’ve got to do to successfully create hype for a new project using a giant canvas, a remote controlled wheel paint splatter car, and Andy Warhol just for fun. The BMW Z4. The official page for which has just gone live today, is coming to a release party near you. Or you to it. Something like that. Check it out: A public art installation at Grand Central Terminal. In on half of Vanderbilt Hall: BMW painted art cars from four of the worlds most well-respected artists; Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg. In the other half, a 30′ x 40′ section of a football-field sized painting by artist Robin Rhode. Conceptual enough for you? Rhode controlled the painting by remotely activating the spray of the paint on the tires of the car as it drove a choreographed path across the canvas. Gross, huh? If you’re interested in the car itself, read below, see the video, or check out the BMW homesite. More info on Art Daily and BMW Designer: BMW Motors     |
| Posted: 25 Mar 2009 10:41 AM PDT Someone at Mercedes-Benz is either truly inspired or clearly suffering from dementia. What better way to showcase the future of hydrogen-electric fuel cell technology than with this stunning roadster concept. For nearly a year, 150 “trainees and dual education system students worked on the overall concept, development, assembly, and completion of the F-CELL Roadster.” Basically a bunch of design students were brought on by Daimler to “demonstrate how the topic of sustainable mobility has become an integral part of our vocational training…” The result is not only a throw back to the Benz Patent Motor Car from 1886, but a leap forward with integrated next-gen technologies like a drive-by-wire joystick replacing the traditional steering wheel and an emission free fuel cell system. Handle-bar mustache and goggles sold separately. Designer: Mercedes-Benz [ Via: Jalopnik ]     |
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