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| Be a Superstar! Here’s Your Chance to Be on Reuters TV Posted: 15 May 2009 05:28 AM PDT Hiya YDers; let me tell you a true story for a change. I've been on YD for almost five months now and its been the best joyride of my life. Typically speaking, being an online journalist is not very exciting, but thanks to YD I got in touch with so many exciting new people, that I feel I know all of you like family. Power of YD is such, that I even got interviewed by my local Radio Station on bloggers and their life! It brought me my two minutes of fame. Here’s your chance to claim your fame on Reuters TV. Read on to learn more… Reuters TV is doing a gig about YD and wants to showcase designers who have been inspired or helped by YD in any ways. Like if your concept got noticed by the community or better still, realized into an actual product, then that's the story we're looking for. If your story gets picked, then a representative from Reuters TV will get in touch with you and document a video of you telling your story. Please mail Takashi your inspirational testimonial. No Tags       |
| Posted: 15 May 2009 03:01 AM PDT Really, why would I want this MID over the current iPhone I use? Lord! I know you're up to your neck with Apple banging, so for a change let's compare it to an LG Arena, Samsung I7500 or even BlackBerry Storm 2. Where does this MID score over the rest of these Internet efficient phones? Two places: Prime Real Estate i.e. a three screen setup that opens to 210 x 210 mm and an Integrated Stand. On the flip side, this MID is merely a concept, but is pompous enough to include a clip-like anti-theft mechanism! I'm not going to get into the tech-specs, coz any dandy designer can pump out just about anything they like these days. So my focus stays on the screen. How important is the screen of a mobile phone anyways. Plenty! Those who chanced on the LG Arena etc. will have to admit, that when you are using a device that small for net browsing, you wished for that moment the screen was a bit larger. Unfortunately I do need to quote Apple here, but damn; the panning in and out on the iPhone, sure compensates for not having a large computer screen handy. So yeah, a mobile device with a three tier screen layout giving easy keyboard access to fat fingers really scores, even if it's a concept! Designer: Petr Kubík     |
| Posted: 15 May 2009 12:01 AM PDT So I hear you all, all of us, love to eat breakfast. Or wish. Wish we could eat breakfast every day. Check it out. Here’s ten amazing industrial design concepts based on that old timey morning ritual. Most of them are basically made for people who’ve got time to eat breakfast, but yes, there are fantabulous designs for those of you who’ve got no time at all! Designers! 1. Wake Up Food Alarm by De Dietrich Juice and coffee or chocolate and toast on alarm, when you wake. Every single day! 2. Buon Appetito by Olga Bielawska & Astrid Schildkopf It’s a bib. It’s a blanket. It’s made for breakfast. Breakfast in bed. And it’s red and white! Red and white like the face of someone covered in red and white paint eating breakfast in bed. 3. Toasting Charger by Hyun-A Ko if you’ve got a battery you need toastin. Or charged. Charged like a battery toast. Don’t eat the battery though, that would be just terrible. 4. 0.2mm by Ivo Vos is made for those who need perfect, perfect breakfast placement. Perfect. Breakfast placement. With grids. For all you geometrists out there, also lovers of pattern and the color blue. 5. Never Miss Breakfast with Bikefast by Philipp Drexler This one’s for you, “green” designers. Get to work on the bike. The bike has a tray on it for your toast and a holder for your cup of coffee which you’re gonna probably spill on your crotch. Woops! 6. Perfect Cereal Bowl by Sherwood Forlee This is only half of the bowl. This is a cross-section. It’s a bowl with a cork in it that lets the milk (or whatever you put on your breakfast cereal) drain down into a lower bowl. This is for those of you who use your milk twice. 7. Fresh Traveler by Arjan Brekveld This is one of those metal containers that keeps your liquids cold, and it’s got a little plastic detachable container on the bottom where you can put your cereal. 8. Message Toaster by Sasha Tseng does what you think it does, which is, of course, write a message on a piece of toast by toasting it in. The toast is a message for whoever works up second. 9. Sustainable Toaster by Rob Penny is made of simple pieces that can be easily replaced, is 20% faster than the average toaster, and only gets hot on one side if only one piece of bread is in the toaster. Oh did I mention that it makes getting the toast out of the toaster totally intuitive? Check it out. Look at the pic. 10. Tea Bag Coffin by Jonas Trampedach Is the best experience you’ll ever have with the teabag. The teabag is useless after you use it, so after you use the teabag, kill it. Place the teabag under the cup. The teabag is out of mind. Drink that tea! Get pumped up! Designer: 10 Wild Designers No Tags     |
| Posted: 15 May 2009 12:01 AM PDT Oh yes, showers indeed. Apparently when you’re at the public shower, you put your money in the slot, and you get a limited amount of water, just like air at the air pump. If you use the public shower a lot, no prob! But if you don’t, you don’t know how much water you’re gonna get. So check it out. The “Interactive Shower System” has a little pixel hourglass to tell you how much water you’ve got left to get clean. In the public shower. It’s also got a temperature control lights, blue to red spectrum, cold to hot. Simple! In the public shower, you’ve got no problem now. None! No problem with the public shower. Designers: Kwang-seok Jeong & Hyun-joong Kim     |
| Posted: 15 May 2009 12:00 AM PDT You're a fine cook! You can even put the great likes of Anthony Bourdain to shame. I suggest you even take over Kylie Kwong's show. And I'm sure Jamie Oliver and Nigella can shove their Brit Pies in the oven for good, coz you're the next star at Hell's Kitchen! And before you take a long walk off a short cliff, just remember to pass me some SALT & PEPPER! Coz you may be the finest cook in the world, but "P. S." I like my dishes spiced to my taste. Post Dot Scriptum Dot! Designers: Michael Paschenko & Maxim Avramenko     |
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