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- Ten Necessities When Disaster Strikes
- SONEA Converts Sound to Energy
- Super Substitutions
- What? No Display On This Cam!
- Nintendo Probably Wants This
- Kiwa Korean House Inspired Bench
| Ten Necessities When Disaster Strikes Posted: 09 Sep 2009 03:56 AM PDT Natural disasters and accidents happen with little or NO warnings. One of the best ways to deal with such situations is by being a bit prepared. By being prepared I mean more than just the First Aid Box; stuff like lights, shelter, tools, supplies, installations and kits that can help you deal with emergencies. Here's a look at Ten Necessities When Disaster Strikes; a compilation of what we got on YD. 10) Swiss Peace Knife by Qian Jiang, Yiying Wu & Carolina Flores What's Special: A pocket tool that holds a pill box, bandages, disinfectant spray and whistle. 9) Unified Sprinkler And Light by Duck Image Studio What's Special: A water sprinkler system that includes an LED light system to illuminate the room during emergencies. What's Special: Almost always water is in of short supply during the salvaging operations and at the disaster site. H2O is a specialized container that turns urine into drinkable water. Before you go ewww…consider this…dying parched or drinking re-cycled pee? 7) Disposable Pre-Paid Phone by IDEA What's Special: This disposable phone can be worn like a bracelet and has very basic features. It's meant for quick calls for help and supports pre-paid services. 6) Ocean Rescue by Seol-Hee Sohn, Seung-Hyun Yoon & Cheol-Yeon Cho What's Special: The Ocean Rescue distills the salty sea water into pure drinking water, it provides location information of the ship-wrecked victims by emitting light at night and colorful smoke during the day. 5) Recover Shelter by Matthew Malone, Amanda Goldberg, Jennifer Metcalf and Grant Meacham What's Special: Designed for disaster relief, the Recover Shelter can house a family of four for a month. It can be set up by one person in minutes, collapsed into either of two configurations for transportation (horse-shoe shape or flat), and is made of 100% polypropylene. Another big plus is that the ridges can collect drinking water when it rains. What's Special: The Wizard is a safety-harness that can help people get off buildings during an emergency. It uses webbing woven from liquid polyester capable of withstanding forces in excess of 2 tonnes. Engineering plastics based on semi-crystalline polyamides were specified for the case and internal drum, encasing a cassette spring recoil system capable of deploying a 50-250m Kevlar lanyard. 3) Emergency Stool by d e Sellers What's Special: Wall mounted and unassuming, this flat-pack Baltic Birch plywood opens up to form an Emergency Stool to help you climb out of sticky situations. 2) The Shooter Fire Extinguisher by Eunjung Kim, Yangwoo Kim & Junyi Heo What's Special: This Shooter is a light weight gun loaded with CO2 cartridges. A laser guidance system helps you take aim and an alarm button to let the rest of the gang know your position. 1) Pullight Dynamo by Sebastien Sauvage What's Special: This flashlight is powered by stored kinetic energy built up from pulling a string. The dynamo can charge devices like a mobile phone or iPod, making it the perfect handy device during an emergency situation!        |
| SONEA Converts Sound to Energy Posted: 09 Sep 2009 12:01 AM PDT That’s no boom box! That’s no ghetto blaster! That’s a Sonea unit! It’s basically a machine which protests the waste of perfectly good noise, converting it to energy we can use to do anything! Anything at all! But probably most often such things as lighting street lamps and such. A single Sonea unit is 450mm by 450mm by 80mm, weighing in at a whole 7kg. It converts 30 watts of power per decibel of sound it intercepts. It’s made of Poly Carbonate elements, ABS, and other more obvious components listed in the layout picture below.
Humongoid possibilities. I’d lay one right outside my apartment window where sirens from the nearby fire brigade station let loose pretty darn often. Loudness for my free energy! Designers: Jihoon Kim, Boyeon Kim, Myung-Suk Kim, and Da-Woon Chung     |
| Posted: 09 Sep 2009 12:01 AM PDT Super super substitutes! Each of these items is a domestic object not being used for its original use. I used too many “use” words in that sentence. Anyway! Each of these items is only completed by the items which it holds. For example, the book table: it holds books. As it becomes full of books, the books then become a table! Neat! Three items included in this set! And this set is golden! Because everyone knows that three is a magic number. After the table (or before the table, depending on how you look at it,) we’ve got the lamp. The lamp is too bright until you fill it up with receipts, the receipts of course then becoming the shade for the lamp! Then there’s the room divider. It’s just a lonely set of hanger-like objects on poles until their full of your most fashionable fashions. Then they divide rooms with the best of em! Go Gabi! Designer: Gabi Crohn     |
| Posted: 09 Sep 2009 12:00 AM PDT You got that right! No Display! So every time you take a picture it's like throwing a dart in the dark, you never know what pose, angle or subject you may capture. Not knowing is sometimes better, because this ways you can capture "real" pics v/s artificial smiles. Oneshot Camera has more tricks up its sleeves: it needs a good shake to produce its own power (through piezoelectricity), no confusing buttons, just click pics like how you click a ballpoint pen. Face recognition software and light measuring software manage the show and biggest thing of all…there is no display! See your handiwork by uploading the pictures on the computer using the mini-usb. The one thing that comes to my mind about its palm-sized iteration is that we live in a world where there are freaks who could misuse this feature. However keeping such freaks aside, I think the concept is neat. Designer: Tino Klaehne     |
| Posted: 08 Sep 2009 07:45 AM PDT AFGT is a gaming device that uses tactility to enhance the video gaming experience. It’s made up of touch-sensitive silicon - subtly mimics the terrain in a virtual world allowing the user to feel through the environment. It works with individual silicon air pockets laid out underneath, each connected to an air pressure actuator that changes the air pressure in each packet. AFGT was created to connect the gamer to the game on a sensory level, with actions such as navigation achieved through manipulating the positions of the silicon pockets. Designer: Yee Von     |
| Kiwa Korean House Inspired Bench Posted: 08 Sep 2009 07:43 AM PDT This beautiful bench inspired by a Korean style Han-ok house is gorgeous from end to end. The Kiwa’s sinuous curves are evocative and inviting for my bum (cue British people laughing) to sit on. The general shape of the structure comes from the specific arrangement of tiles found in its muse. Hey if it’s strong enough to house people, it’s certainly strong enough to sit on. Designer: Cho Hyung Suk     |
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