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- Worry Beads Player For Fidgety Hands
- Embrace Your Heat
- Ride the Vacuum!
- Livestrong Nara Newson Hirst
- Getting To Know Your Fishes
| Worry Beads Player For Fidgety Hands Posted: 30 Jul 2009 05:18 AM PDT Inspired by the Greek komboloi and begleri (worry beads), The Chukka is a kinetic-powered, tactile music player. Better that twiddling your thumbs aimlessly, you can keep shifting the beads and in turn charge up the player. Sourcing energy thru electromagnetic induction, the device uses easy-to-recycle Thermoplastic polyurethane for its outer casing and stainless steel for the innards. A highly flexible data cable links the two sections together, making it easy to dismantle for repairs. Designer: Thomas Mascall        |
| Posted: 30 Jul 2009 05:06 AM PDT Sang-Jang Lee is a dear old friend of YD and we have seen him give us some really great designs in the past. His current offering, the Blob Heater is a quite an eccentric personalized heating system. Kinda meant for a broken-hearted who craves for the body warmth of a partner. Something that Carrie Bradshaw would shy away from! Calling it a "hybrid between furniture and electric appliance", this spandex covered blob measures 240" x 25" x 25" and is auditioning for the role of an alien. Designer: Sang-Jang Lee     |
| Posted: 30 Jul 2009 12:05 AM PDT Dyson. It’s the wackiest vacuum. You know it is. It’s the off-orange/yellow floor etc cleaner with the spherical wheel. The object designer Adam Alpine is trying to accomplish is “to push a brand [Dyson] beyond its product genre maintaining the brands design principles.” To maintain the principles of a vacuum brand in a toy vehicle. What a lovely idea for a project! Before I go further, I’ve got to mention this: if you are a design professor and have the opportunity, try a project like this one. To maintainin the principles of a brand in a product that has little to do with the brands original “main” product. One fabulous challenge. In this vehicle, the rider lies forward on the front giant Dysonesque wheel. The rider pushes the handlebars forward, engaging the double planetary gear system -also used in monster trucks to increase torque for minimal power. The back wheels act as giant ball bearings allowing a hubless rear. The feet. Your feet. Where will you put them. The back wheels, since they work on ball bearings, have that space in the center where the foot can sit. The hub-less wheel also incorporates a foot-actuated caliper break. Clean up! Designer: Adam Alpine     |
| Posted: 30 Jul 2009 12:01 AM PDT Since Lance Armstrong with Livestrong put their finger in the light socket that is the art world, there’s been wild electricity. This year sort of got started with the Livestrong x Shepard Fairey collaboration. That was fire. These are definitely hot. Designer Marc Newson, the childlike artist Yoshitomo Nara, and the most expensive artist in the world Damien Hirst. I’ve got butterflies! Since these bikes are a little bit more about the aesthetics than they are about the technicals, I’ll give a nutshell bit of info about each of the artists involved. Damien Hirst has bank. He’s gained major notoriety for his dot paintings, his frighteningly alive dead animals frozen in their most exciting moment in formaldehyde, and of course, his butterflies. The Trek Madone bike Hirst has designed here he covers with a collection of real butterflies accented with socking pink. Marc Newson is the designer. He’s worked with Nike, Ford, Dom Pérignon, Cappellini, Qantas, Samsonite, and Jaeger Le Coultre amongst many many others. His furniture bit “Lockheed Lounge” is still the most expensive piece of furniture ever sold at auction. His Trek Speed Concept features a “Stroboscopic” rear wheel that “appears to pulse as it spins.” Yoshitomo Nara designed the giant dog that sits on the first floor of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. That’s the closest I’ve ever been to a piece of Nara. Nara loves hardcore rock’n'roll, and rocks the hardcore simplicity in cartoon characters who often wield knives and other deadly weapons. Nara’s Speec Concept bike features what you can see in the pictures as well as a phrase on the bike that can only be viewed when Armstrong’s head is “deep in aerodynamic tuck:” Never Forget Your Beginner’s Spirit. *PS if you don’t follow Lance Armstrong on twitter, do it. It’s so completely worth it just to see how often he gets at it. Check that out here: @lancearmstrong - the @ culture is strong! Designer: Trek Bikes, Damien Hirst, Marc Newson, and Yoshitomo Nara     |
| Posted: 30 Jul 2009 12:00 AM PDT Aquariums can be fun places for kids to learn a thing or two about marine life, but try and get preachy with them in terms of show-reels and storyboards and they are a lost cause. Since interactive is the new mantra with them, concepts like "Hark Acoustic Transmitters" can go a long way in educating them (subtly) about fishes and the kinds of sounds they make, their habits and many such details. Besides, it looks like a cool gadget that would intrigue the tots into using it. Technological advantage eh! Designer: Cenk Aytekin     |
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