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Posted: 09 Apr 2009 01:06 AM PDT

A car for some people is 4 wheels with an enclosure meant for transportation. To the nomadic tribe who consider it a second home, it's a haven where they escape to when they want burn some rubber. Jazzing up the interiors of this second home is the Nomadic Device Integration System or NDI for short. The in-dash unit syncs up all your gizmo peripherals to one system and projects their functions and menus to the UI dashboard for easy access. Safe and fast, NDI looks to be what the car & gizmo-crazy teens would want!

Designer: Joshua Saling

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Pain In The Back?

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 12:15 AM PDT

Thanks to my husband's persistent back problems, I have become a second hand expert when it comes to the various methods to alleviate back pain. To make the back muscles strong, regular exercise, stretching, maintaining correct posture and Yoga helps a lot. For the moment when a spasm occurs, doctors usually advice muscle relaxing creams, compresses or painkillers. However sometimes indulgent contraptions like this VertaBrate massager may offer temporary relief.

The VertaBrate focuses on areas where the spinal nerves begin to permeate through the back and aims at diminishing the amount of discomfort that spawns at the beginning of these spinal nerves. It bends over the shoulders and clings to the body using sticky pads. The sticky arms embed four vibrating nodes that facilitate deep massage. Like I mentioned before, that sometimes doctors advice compresses to alleviate the pain, so depending upon what you have been advised, the VerteBrate can be popped into the freezer or microwave for temperature therapy.

From my experience in tackling back-related problems, the only mantra one should really follow is regular exercise and moderation in activities.

Designer: Jacob Ballard

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Legally Paint Freely on Any Wall You Wish

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 12:01 AM PDT

So your desire is that of a villain. So you want to do the painting version of killing a puppy. So you like graffiti. You’re gonna have some opposition, and you’re gonna have it immediately. If you want the good walls, you’re gonna have to earn em. And you’re gonna need a plan. Most hott and amazing graffiti writers plan beforehand. Here’s the tool. Here it is. This is the one you need. This is the graffiti writers fun book. You’re still writing in a plain ol’ sketchbook? Get ‘atta here.

Jay kay, y’all. Any kind of paper will do. But check this out. It’s called the “Walls Notebook,” and it’s by the dude, the Forlee dude. Flip through the pages of 80 pre-printed New York “clean” scenes that you, the writer, can take command of. “Minus the jail time.”

Don’t get caught.

Designer: Sherwood Forlee

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Fargo Here We Come

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 12:01 AM PDT

Now, I don’t want anybody panicking, but floods; they happen. And as North Dakota’s been showing us, not every place can be 100% prepared for the onset of an especially quick spring after a long, tall-snowed winter. What we’ve got here is a nice little helicopter-drop-in rescue-canoe. A rescue canoe with a nice ol’ stretcher and a tent cover, no less. Better get your arms and back in shape for this one.

Would you be up for it? Consider yourself sitting on top of your house, yellin’ for help, when along comes an aircraft, dropping you a brand spankin’ new “Res-Q,” aka the rescue canoe. Would you be in the right condition to be able to propel you and an injured passenger to safety? If not, ask designer Jacob Ballard to whip you up some robot-paddlers to go along with the package.

Designer: Jacob Ballard

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The Story About Drying Dishes

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 12:00 AM PDT

Many of you must be accustomed to a dishwasher but a better part of the world still hand washes the dishes. They either towel dries them or puts them up in racks for air drying. No doubt air-drying is a better method and to max this is the Trio Dish Drier. What's special about this one, is that it's got these cute little containers at the bottom of the rack that houses herbs. Essentially, the residual water from the washed dishes trickles down to the plants to water them. Nice!

Designer: Jordan Bailey

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Have A Different Car Everyday

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 08:45 AM PDT

MOY koncept was made for a generation used to using media to express themselves. The idea is everyone can design their own car on their own computer and then apply the design to their vehicle wirelessly or share it with others thru a website or even email. For those lacking creative skillz, there’s a slew of templates to choose from. The car is always connected so imagine dynamically changing your vehicle’s skin in motion. WAIT it doesn’t stop. Since MOY can display both static images and videos it can be used as a new medium for promotion too!

Is the tech feasible? Well it’s powered by in-wheel electric motots. The body of the car is made of outer and inner policarbonate layers, with layers of liquid cristals, LED diodes and electrochromic foil (film) inbetween.

Tho I love the idea, if MySpace taught us one thing it’s that MOST people are not designers and I guarantee if the Moy or something like it ever comes to fruition, we might as well hang up our preverbal coat because personal creativity always trumps manufactured design. We’ll have officially enter a new era of ugly meets individualism. Wait, isn’t that supposed to be a good thing?

Designer: Elvis Tomljenovic

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Squishy Lights

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 08:37 AM PDT

Medulla in latin means bone marrow or by abstract - the soft inner part of something. The Medulla Lamp sorta takes on that definition as a tripod lamp filled with a fluidic technogel. The legs are flexible enabling multiple configurations. Arrange it with others to form a pattern or use attachments like hooks to hang onto a wall. The illumination comes from two circular LEDs, one diffuses into the technogel, the other is omni-directional. It’s also waterproof so add this to your pool buddy collection.

Designers: Matteo Barbaresi, Giovanna Zega, Silvia Fasoli & Marco Bortolozzo