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• Ten Creative Cutlery Concepts And Designs
• Social Media at its Apex
• Electronic Bionic Insect Bus
• Recyclable Head Protection
• The Magic Stone Phone
• Stack ‘em Up Sound And Light
• Design Submissions 101: More is Good

Ten Creative Cutlery Concepts And Designs Posted: 10 Jul 2009 02:54 AM PDT If you look into the history of spoons and knives you will know that we have been using them from pre-historic times. With references found in various religious and historic literatures, these implements have evolved with the passage of time. Initially fashioned out of wood and even stone, the availability of cheap steel and metals led to a revolution in their designs. Here's a look at ten creative concepts and designs that represent cutlery. 10) Yogurt Spoon by Nojae Park Down till the last drop; this is soo funky for those situations where you don't want to let go of that last dollop of yummy yogurt. Saves you a lot of embarrassment of being caught licking d cup! 9) Handy Spoon For Baby by Thomas Franke A complete package for tending to baby's meal-time needs. 8 ) SPOO by Paul Sandip This one's more for the parents than the baby to be fed. It's comfortable to use for right and left handed folks, making it an ingenious concept! 7) Famia - Feminine Cutlery by Mulu+Milano Design Studio Using a feminine approach to designing cutlery, this collection looks neat on the dinner table when placed in a set particular fashion. 6) IC3 concept Alex Schulz Is it fair to leave technology out of something as generic as cutlery? Nope, so there you have it….knives, forks and spoons that analyze the food you put in your mouth! 5) Cake Sharer by Junk-Suk Choi Don't discard the packaging of your cake, nip tuck it and use it as a spoon! 4) Simpleware by Sean McGreevy Made from martensitic steel (the hardest of all steels) with magnetic properties, this flatware can be stored upright, within the cabinet, or in the drawer. Neat! 3) Lux Dinnerware by Philippe Starck A durable designer collection is hard to come by coz most often designer-ware is oh-so-precious and expensive to use. The Lux Dinnerware suprises! 2) Silverair by Pod Design and Media Bone Folder sounds a funny term to be used in conjunction with tableware, but that's what describes the Silverair project perfectly! 1) lightWARE cutlery by David Veldkamp High on romance and looks, this LED cutlery concept looks alluring for the perfect dinner date!

Social Media at its Apex Posted: 10 Jul 2009 12:05 AM PDT No need to be mean now! It’s not insane to collect one’s tears, is it? No way! How about droplets of nose-liquid, sweat, urine, and stomach contents? It is this collection of body contents that the project called “Native Commodities” aims to measure. It aims to test the limits. The limits of “sharing, manufacturing, and interacting with biological data from our bodies.” HOOARF - barfing included. Three spittoon-type objects made for capturing disgusting data. In his own words: As genome technologies promote the open sourcing of the human body, could such data participation one day be extended into other forms of biological manufacture? Synthetic biology and nanotechnologies have made it possible to reprogramme cells, but would we be prepared to consider using our bodies to do this? - WC Yes. Yes I think this would translate just perfectly into another form, aka the next step, of insano world-community sharing. Not just as Mr. Carey states, but as the internet dictates. Sharing with one another not only what you do with every moment of your time, (I’m looking at you, tweeples,) but what your body does with itself every day! The video below is a MUST WATCH. Wholly disgusting, interesting, wonderful! Designer: Will Carey

Electronic Bionic Insect Bus Posted: 10 Jul 2009 12:01 AM PDT So you fancy yourself a strange vehicle fanatic, do you? Do you? Well you should, because strange vehicle fanatics are the best. They go wild for the weird. Here’s something weird for ye. It’s an electric-powered bus, entered in a contest incorporated with Michelin Tires. You may have to guess some info, because most of the details are still top-secret. This post is basically an authorized leak of bus-faced-magic! What the designer, Mohammad Ghezel, can tell us is that this particular bus was inspired by insect life. Eight separated wheels with in-wheel electric engines. Solar cells on top of the bus. Two side doors that open like butterfly wings. And a wicked black shine finish. I bet it could go toe-to-toe with the Gentlemen’s Racer, too. Yeh? Nay? I mean in a Twisted Metal sort of way, of course. Designer: Mohammad Ghezel

Recyclable Head Protection Posted: 10 Jul 2009 12:01 AM PDT Holy bajeesus did you know that there’s legislation that will be in place by 2015 in the European Union that says 95% of any vehicle produced needs to be recyclable? It’s called the EU ELV (End of Life Vehicle). In reaction to this as well as the last census of whiplash victims (2007 at 430,000 in the UK along) - this headrest has been designed! It has been designed to save us all! It is made to automatically adjust to your head at the same time as it adjusts to the environment! What I mean is that the headrest is recyclable. It’s made of materials that can be broken down and reused or recycled, no glues included! Then by using a proximity sensor and actuators the headrest is always right behind the person, reducing the risk of whiplash drastically. No more ouchies on the necks! Designer: Julia Johnson

The Magic Stone Phone Posted: 10 Jul 2009 12:01 AM PDT What do you want? The perfect phone. How do you get it? Magic! It’s the “Magic Stone” telephone. It’s any shape you want it, it’s any color you want it. Within reason, cripes! You order the phone up, it’s sent you you in the mail, and wah-la! There you have it! Also it’s got not only a touch-screen, a holographic display, constant internet access, storage space, games, and it’s charged wirelessly or by sunlight, intercepted by it’s outer case. Enough? “Absolutely any shape” is what you can accomplish with this phone, as well as any color, patterning, pictures, etc. for the case. This case is also covered with a “nano material” converting the sunlight into the energy your phone needs to function. The phone can also be charged wirelessly with electromagnetic fields. Sound alright so far? The big screen is a holograph projector (ala Star Wars) created by a series of lasers. The lasers can read motion within their field, allowing additional functionality. This is what we call “going there” so that one day, others may “go there” - not just in concept, but irl. Designer: Aleksandr Mukomelov

Stack ‘em Up Sound And Light Posted: 10 Jul 2009 12:00 AM PDT Fond of stacking up stuff viz-a-viz Lego? Cool, then enjoy this multipurpose iPod dock that can add stacks of speaker, light, air-cleaner and then some more speakers! Use a configuration that suits your needs and get docking! Designer: Sang-hoon Lee

Design Submissions 101: More is Good Posted: 09 Jul 2009 11:42 AM PDT We here at YD receive countless designer submitted concepts on a daily basis. The vast majority of them are relatively self explanatory and/or come with a detailed concept breakdown including such delectable little tid-bits like “purpose”, “functionality”, “materials in use” and a number of useful insights for a proposed design. So it is with great tongue biting that I present to you the “MINULUX” by designer Jukka Rautiainen. Jukka’s submission started the “description” of the Minulux with industrial design babble like “the greatest challenge for design is to do more with less…” Great, thanks for that morsel of info. But then the description gets even more ambiguous: “a vehicle concept aimed at urban dwellers who rely on public, shared and human powered transport as modes of daily mobility and for whom their own car is all about self indulgence, a way to enjoy leisure time. The car powers itself entirely with solar energy restored during long periods when parked and when driven, delivers freedom and joy of mobility, carbon free.” Saying that your design is “carbon free” does not help us understand your design. That is tantamount to describing a computer as free from emitting hot fudge sundaes. That’s it folks. Anyone want to take a stab at what is the point of those ears popping out of the roof? Sorry for calling you out on this one Jukka, but someone needed to be made an example of. Oh, and before I forget… cute design. Designer: Jukka Rautiainen

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