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• Holograms Can Be Fun
• Carved From A Block of Chrome
• Recipes On Time
• Woven Bench
• Inverse Proportion For Texting
• Universal Design for Hammer
• Solar Filtering, It Works!
• Clothes Hanger Meant To Be Messy
• Share TV, It’s Good For You

Holograms Can Be Fun Posted: 19 Aug 2009 05:28 AM PDT Hologram technology may still be in a full bloom, but that doesn't stop some designers from conceiving fun ideas to play around with. Like a kid in a candy store, the 3D Desktop Concept is perfect for computer-freaks like me. Natural hand movements across the black curtain to crumple and discard documents, or type out a virtual page akin to a typewriter; this concept has virtual holographic goodies by the dozens! If the idea is too overbearing then switch off the embedded tiny projectors and use this as a desk lamp! Some features: A browser window can be resized by actually “pinching” and dragging the tab at bottom right. It would be fun if a document could be made as if you were using a typewriter. The curled paper hologram comes out of the keyboard. Touching the 3D objects will be possible by dragging, throwing, resizing, etc. By pressing the mouse body downwards, the cursor sinks (goes deeper) on screen. When you release it, it goes back to the default position (front). Designer: Mac Funamizu

Carved From A Block of Chrome Posted: 19 Aug 2009 01:22 AM PDT Here are two products destined for production. The Chiseled and U-Turn faucet concepts come to us by way of  Design Jordan. I love the contrast between the abrupt sharpness and the organic nature of water. Too often I see these esoteric faucet designs that look stunning on their own but would look terrible in most homes. These concepts are what I call reachably futuristic. The "Chiseled" concept is the first of a high-end bathroom/kitchen faucet range designed as if carved out of a block of chrome. The wide base, extended neck and rear-mounted handle provides a dynamic profile reinforcing the stealth-inspired sharp edges and flat facets. The "U-Turn" concept is a high-end bathroom & kitchen faucet range designed around user need, incorporating bathroom items or providing additional features for personal objects. The bathroom sink model provides a recess to safely place rings while washing hands. The multi-purpose "U-turn" features a precast opening to place toothbrushes or other accessories like a customized liquid-soap dispenser. The larger kitchen model includes an easy-access removable soap/sponge dish mounted on a rotating spout. The "U-turn" tip provides grooves to hang gloves, a watch or other personal accessories. Would you buy one? They’re supposed to hit the international market… now. Designer: Sofian Tallal of Design Jordan

Recipes On Time Posted: 19 Aug 2009 01:10 AM PDT Julia Childs called me up in my dreams and told me the Kitchen Timer is totally approved. It’s a timing device that works with specially designed recipe cards. Like any card you have instructions only the Kitchen Timer goes one step further and provides visual and audio feedback on progress. If a set of instructions says to cook the chicken for 30 minutes, the arm will slide down the card in that exact amount of time. This is precision cooking. Flaws? Imagine if you had a really long recipe. Multiple cards or is that too cumbersome? Designer: Emma Caselton

Woven Bench Posted: 19 Aug 2009 12:57 AM PDT Something about woven furniture tickles me, in a good way. The Cheig Bench is gorgeous. I love the modern form with the heavily pronounced curves. The wooden core is layered in plush D45 foam. The woven shell can be made of anything but I prefer it in nylon or recycled scraps for a truly unique look. It’s a bench, a coffee table, a foot rest, and if you want to be adventurous, turn it on its side for an instant room divider. Put a couple of them together like that and you’ve got an instant fort. Designer: Sollo Brasil

Inverse Proportion For Texting Posted: 19 Aug 2009 12:00 AM PDT The choice so far in cell phones has been large screens and tiny keypads or tiny screens and large keypads. Finding both large-large on the same device is very rare (like the iPhone) and this may irk some hardcore texting addicts. A plausible solution can be a device that goes on to have a large display when reading a message that transforms to having a large keypad when typing in the text. This is what the Blackhole Phone is all about. I guess motion sensing technology is used to transform the digital screen form big screen to big keys, coz you need to reverse the phone to switch modes. I reckon the ample keypad is good for pudgy fingers, now only if it were a QWERTY one! Designer: Seunghan Song

Universal Design for Hammer Posted: 19 Aug 2009 12:00 AM PDT Not much of a carpenter, but sometimes we do get stuck in a situation where we need to tackle the nail, the bang, our fingers …all at one go. Desperate times call for desperate measures and the Unihammer is a likely solution. The design of the hammer is such that it increases the target area considerably. Simply place the nail underneath the detachable head and hold it in place. Next, strike the detached head with the hammer, and you my friend have saved your fingers AND embedded the nail into place. The Structure: The structure of UNIHAMMER is rather simple. A steel piece that can withstand the force of a hammer is used to fasten the nail in position. Using a piston mechanism to raise it up and down, and the frames on both sides keeps it perpendicular. The user is able to hold the nail perpendicularly without having to place their fingers anywhere near the nail itself, reducing the risk of hammering himself. Designer: Ji-yun Kim

Solar Filtering, It Works! Posted: 18 Aug 2009 08:14 AM PDT As proven by my 4th grade science project, adequate sun exposure will in fact, disinfect standing water. Now give me money. UV filtration isn’t new. People do it all over the world. What the SODIS does better is provide long-term durability and viability. The briefcase-like water jug is made of  a high tech material which resists scratching. Scratches inhibit proper UV filtration which means jugs have to be replaced and as we know, the people who use devices like these can’t exactly do that. Let me tell you why I like this concept. First, someone thought enough to put a 6 liter jug into a briefcase making it much easier to transport. They thought enough to choose a material that can resist scratches better than cheap plastics. Thirdly they’ve done the research and figured out it will only cost $2 to manufacture these life saving water vessels. Kudos to the designer Samuel Rock. Nice name man. Now give me money. Designer: Samuel Rock

Clothes Hanger Meant To Be Messy Posted: 18 Aug 2009 08:04 AM PDT I’m guilty of it, haphazardly slinging my clothes, new and worn, all over the place. Why not at least go for the semblance of organization if it can be done tastefully right? That’s the idea behind the aptly named Clothes Hanger. It provides a functional solution to hanging everything from clothes, bags and laundry without making you feel like Mr. Clean. It’s meant to look messy, in an organized way. The thing even doubles as a drying rack. My my, we’re designing for the lazy now. I love it. Excuse me while I get my dog to hit the publish button. I can’t reach it. Designer: Therese Glimskär

Share TV, It’s Good For You Posted: 18 Aug 2009 08:00 AM PDT This must be a sign, the end to human intelligence - the day when we create TVs to further enable our couch potato ways. The Share TV looks like any other except the screen is actually made of two bezaless (is that even a word?) OLED screens you can separate for individual viewing needs. In hindsight, this may be a “tastic” (new made-up word for the day) idea. You got two kids fighting over programming and one of them is your husband. Just spit the TV in half and let them go about their ways. Problem is, that isn’t exactly sharing which goes against the very name of this product. Still, I want one. Designers: Kim Seulgi & Evan Yiwei Ma

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