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- 5 Favorite Spices, Mago5 Spice Rack Review
- The Angels At Firewall
- Podcast Episode 2
- Tokyo Fiber 2009 SENSEWARE PART 4
- Block House in Stocksund Sweden
- Touch Sensitive Bath Time
- Media Quick Fix
| 5 Favorite Spices, Mago5 Spice Rack Review Posted: 06 Jul 2009 01:19 AM PDT I’m a vegetarian and sometimes it’s challenging to whip up something quick and tasty. No time to slave over the stove waiting for the flavors of garlic, celery, onion, and carrots to meld. That means all my flavors need to come from spices and there are 5 I use most often when I make my favorite type of food; soups. Enter the Mago5 magnetic spice rack. I usually keep all my spices in a cabinet right next to the stove. They come in various packages and some aren’t exactly easy to dispense so I’ve been thinking about a spice rack for a long time. The Mago5 just holds 5 but that’s pretty much all I use day to day; paprika, coriander, marjoram, basil, and thyme. Those 5 spices are my secret (not so secret) to the most delicious soups. Varying amounts of each make everything from the best minestrone to the most satisfying lentil soups. 5 polypropylene jars with magnetized tops adhere to a magnetic plate. I mounted mine right underneath the spice cabinet so the commonly used spices are within reach. The design is incredibly simple and yet I can find no real equivalent in the market. To dispense the spices, you unscrew the lid ever so slightly and shake to your heart’s content. In practice it performed as expected. The kit comes with labels pre-printed with some of the most common spices. If you’re into more exotic items like star anise there are blank templates too. They’re easy to fill and tho modern - the look isn’t stark enough to clash with traditional kitchen decor. My only gripe is the plastic. I found it absorbed the smell of the spices so replacing them with another required a thorough soaking with soapy water. Glass jars would work better but the weight could be too much for the magnets and the last thing I need are shattered jar(s) of spices. Dimensions:
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Designer: OHM for Modenn [ Buy it here ]        |
| Posted: 06 Jul 2009 01:12 AM PDT Forest fires are essential for the ecology but when uncontained can cause a lot of damage. The four major causes lightning, volcanic eruption, sparks from rockfalls, and spontaneous combustion are further supported with human activities like accidents and arson. One of the ways to contain wildfires is starting controlled burn operations that minimize the risk of major wildfire events. The Thirst.D Helicopter is proposed to be a part of the first privatized wildfire fighting force. Thirst.D is a purpose-built heavy response helitanker that is designed for the prevention and defense against wildfires. Here's the concept:
Designer: Sameer-Andrew Rayyan     |
| Posted: 06 Jul 2009 12:18 AM PDT Apologies for the long delay in getting episode 2 up but it’s finally here. I caught up with Philippe Nigro at the start of ICFF last month and chatted about his latest furniture collection called Confluences manufactured by Ligne Roset. At first glance it may look like a random exercise in seating design but Philippe’s intention was seating for real people and real people come in all different shapes, sizes, and sit different ways. The question then became how do you design for the many and make it all flow together - confluences. Episode 2: Philippe Nigro Interview Subscribe via iTunes     This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Tokyo Fiber 2009 SENSEWARE PART 4 Posted: 06 Jul 2009 12:15 AM PDT Part 4 of this fantastic exhibition. Panasonic Design Company, Ross Lovegrove, Shigeru Ban, and Yasuhiro Suzuki Exhibition: Tokyo Fiber Robot with nanofiber fabric wipes up micro-dust and oil films Panasonic Corporation design company / Teijin Ltd. Material: NANOFRONTFabric made with nanofibers, invisible to the naked eye and with diameters only 1/7500 of the thickness of human hair, has more than 10 times the surface area and pores of ordinary fabrics, enabling it to pick up sub-micron oil films and dust. This superb wiping performance of nanofibers the size of single cells is here combined with high-tech from electric appliances to create a wiping robot. Part of the robot’s behavior is simulated, but a final product would use sensors to detect dirt and roam around freely as if it were a living creature.         Ross Lovegrove, the UK designer whose earnest approach to organic designs constantly produces surprises, has utilized the properties of triaxial woven fabric to create an ultra light-weight backpack with an organic shape. Unlike conventional textiles with warp and weft intersecting at 90 degrees, triaxial woven fabric employs three threads intersecting each other at 60 degrees in a reticulate arrangement. From this fabric emerge structures that are ideal for tracing dynamic surface changes in three dimensions.       Architect Shigeru Band is an architect with a reputation for having a clear motivation for choice of materials. Here, he conceived a super light-weight chair that uses carbon fiber for lightness and tensile strength. Rather than using carbon fiber on its own, he created a tough structure by sandwiching aluminum between thin layers of carbon fiber. The use of aluminum in the combination enables successful pinpointing of the characteristics of carbon fiber.        Artist Yasuhiro Suzuki uses the human body as one of his motifs, and created a mannequin with a 3D spring structure built up from monofilament fibers extruded from nozzles. The mannequin is a hollow structure molded in a cast taken from life-size human model. Internally carefully placed polyester fibers can be operated by an air compressor to make the mannequin move as if it were breathing.            |
| Block House in Stocksund Sweden Posted: 06 Jul 2009 12:05 AM PDT There’s only so many ways you can make a box exciting and this is one awesome example. Designed by Architects Tham & Videgård Hansson Arkitekter, the house located in Stocksund, Stockholm Sweden is nothing more than a rectangular block. The cool bits are the blocked out segments strategically placed to bring in light and connect the living areas. I love the facade too - like oversized shingles except they’re mad thin; 18 mm. Don’t get me started on the interior which is Scandinavian restraint at its finest. Via: Arch Daily Designers: Tham & Videgård Hansson Arkitekter
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| Posted: 06 Jul 2009 12:01 AM PDT Oh my goodness dirty title! But really, this bathroom (including the bath) is quite touchy. Step in the shower and your temperature water will fall on your head, and not everywhere, just the place where your body occupies. Additional controls are lit up in wall tiles. Also included is an inverse (or rather, convex sink) which also recycles water for later use in the toilet. Hey that sounds familiar! It’s always best to use your water twice in the bathroom -And to conserve whenever else you can in other parts of the home. To learn how to do this conservation thing in the bathroom, allow yourself to be trained like any common learner does - with pain! Below the sink are the foot panels which activate the water, becoming temperatures undesirable to the foot upon the reaching of “too much water being used.”
Designer: Joel Williams, Claire Finch, Alexander Archer-Todde, Ethan Mcquillan, Liam Smith and Joel Neild     |
| Posted: 06 Jul 2009 12:00 AM PDT Downloading videos from the net and watching them on small computer screens is a pain. The R 2 2 Media Player Media Player gives you the convenience of downloading content in any of the available formats to it and playing back on your LCD/Plasma big screen TV. Its high-speed Wi-Fi compatibility transfers the files in a jiffy plus the accompanying programmable touch screen remote compliments the device perfect-o. More on the remote after the jump. The touch screen universal remote adapts to the pros and the novice with easy coz it's customizable. Color coded choices are available for each of the family members so that they can set their button preferences and save them. Like dad maybe tech savvy and want to control all his media devices via this remote, so he can save his setting under the Blue Color code. Mom may want to use the remote only for her TV channels and the Media Player, so her settings can be saved under Pink Code. In all it’s a spunky setting to be net-addicted and TV addicted! Designer: Gordon Yeh Iota Creations     |
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