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• A New Look At The Carafe
• Treats Come In Triplets
• You Have Smartphones? Here’s a Smartwatch
• A Radio For Treehuggers
• Art Deco Goes Green
• Everyday Socket Rings
• Wind Based Acoustic Coupler Radio
• This is no “Tippy Cup”
• Magical Transparent Fireplace

A New Look At The Carafe Posted: 15 Oct 2009 04:01 AM PDT Venice is host to some of the most spectacular glass factories in the world. A place where exquisite mouth-blown pieces are created every single day. I found new respect for this industry when I visited one such factory and saw how they artistically breathe life and form into a blob of molten glass. Featured here is the Barbara Carafe Vase, a beautiful mouth-blown piece with modern sensibilities. A colored crystal ball doubles as a seal and a tactile magic ball to the carafe. The crystal ball deliberately features a cut (grind-ed) surface, which stops it from rolling-off. If you choose to use this piece as a vase, then place the crystal ball under the carafe in its little cubby - just a nice splash of color. Designer: Nina Jobs [ Buy It Here ]

Treats Come In Triplets Posted: 15 Oct 2009 04:00 AM PDT Three for one, that’s how I look at the nifty Trinity Dish. The holidays are near so I’m all for anything that promises less prep and cleanup. They’re two much for these two little hands! The Trinity Dish unfolds into, count ‘em - one, two, three dishes offering guests bite sized goodies. Get real creative and use them for decor, say a beautiful candle display or maybe little storage containers for your home office. Designer: Lisa Hilland [ Buy It Here ]

You Have Smartphones? Here’s a Smartwatch Posted: 15 Oct 2009 01:42 AM PDT Sleek and minimal? Check. Large screen? Check. Oodles of tech? Check, check and check! The E’llipse Traveler is a watch to end all watches. Why? Because it has a fancy processor and the latest algorithms in human-machine learning. Yes it learns you! It knows what you want and keeps you up to date. That’s not all. ZigBee and Bluetooth modules enable indoor localization, an impossible feat for GPS. The UI is based on widgets - one for every kind; time, weather, calendar and a custom API lets developers get creative. Designers: Su Chew Lee & Paolo Di Prodi

A Radio For Treehuggers Posted: 15 Oct 2009 01:34 AM PDT It’s a wooden log and a radio. That ain’t all folks. It’s also solar powered and if Mr. Sunshine isn’t happy that day, there’s a dynamo powered by your finger. I love the giant wooden rotary dials to change stations and volume. The old school retractable antenna nostalgically tugs at my heart too. Sure I have no idea what station I’m changing to but it looks like an ewok crafted it so I totally approve. BTW, 80% of the radio is oak. The rest are radio components. Treehuggers might like it… or will they hate it since it’s made from a tree? Hmmm Designers: Solène Le Goff & Christophe Gouache

Art Deco Goes Green Posted: 15 Oct 2009 01:24 AM PDT I love when past design sensibilities turn out to be more than aesthetic fluff when combined with modern knowledge. Such is the case with the art deco movement. “Doh” unapologetically rehashes the streamline and symmetric lines of automobiles from the 30’s - a time when aerodynamics became the “in” thing. The vehicle is sleek like a pearl, slippery looking like a fish and is laced with more gadgets than you can count. Neuro-technology embedded into the seats eliminate unnecessary buttons and controls. The seats are separated by the upper and lower parts, attached to the roof and floor deck which hides a storage place. The entry/exit of the vehicle is an event where the seat swings to the outside for ease and that all important photo-op. So where does the green part come in? Why the use of lightweight and sustainable materials of course. The designer doesn’t go into detail but he does mention extensive use of recycled glass and components. His argument is art deco was about minimizing just as it was about decadence. While automobiles of later decades became ornate exercises in ego, art deco stayed true to what a car should be - sleek and efficient thus requiring less energy to manufacture and drive. Designer: Doh Kim

Everyday Socket Rings Posted: 15 Oct 2009 12:01 AM PDT Welcome back for this day’s installment of the Everyday. Every single day you (or at least I) use a plug, or multiple plugs to activate the objects we use that require the power. The power of electricity. But how can the power of LOVE be attained? With a plug. In what’s more than just a simple gesture here, Anna Yu of Yu Yu Design presents the Plug and Socket Duo Ring - one male, one female. Made of PURE 925 silver. Best silver ever. I love cute little guys like these, especially when they can be worn without their clever intent intact. You could even put a nice gem in the weird crevices, if you’d feel so strangely inclined. These are part of a full, albeit limited edition ring from Yu Yu. Designer: Anna Yu of YU YU Design

Wind Based Acoustic Coupler Radio Posted: 15 Oct 2009 12:01 AM PDT Nice name, huh? Actually the name is “Breeze Radio” but I thought it better to make it more technical to get you weird electricity connection lovers in here nice and interested. I recently discovered how easy it is to instal a light fixture. Exciting, huh? Knowing that, I find the concept of a wind based acoustic coupler radio pretty neat! Let’s get a better look at it! Designer Chiu Chi Hung wishes to remind us of a time before hand-held flickering light-based mp3 players. A “sound-only era” as it’s described, using radio waves as medium. When the sensor is activated and detects air flow, the radio is activated. Once the radio is activated and functioning, the sound produced, (the volume and “mood” produced,) is altered by the wind direction and intensity. Maybe it’s music… maybe it’s naught! Fun! Designer: Chiu Chi Hung

This is no “Tippy Cup” Posted: 15 Oct 2009 12:01 AM PDT When I was a little fellow, I had several new-age solutions for my spilling tendencies. One was, as the title suggests, a “tippy cup.” The tippy cup was a regular cup with a screw-on lid that had a little sippy tip on the top and a weighted half-sphere on the bottom. It worked wonders until I learned how to get the top off! What designer Kenyon Yeh’s got for us here is a simpler solution for a slightly less destructive child. Yes, this cup will not work if your little monkeys kick it across the room, BUT if they’re just a little bit clumsy sometimes, it’s a nice idea! Quite simply its a cup with a wider bottom and little gap to avoid burnt hands on hot liquids. Though why a kid is drinking much less handling liquid so hot it’ll burn their hand is beyond me. Also I LOVE THE KID IN THE FIRST PICTURE. Designer: Kenyon Yeh

Magical Transparent Fireplace Posted: 15 Oct 2009 12:00 AM PDT The beauty of the Electrolux Fireplace is that it stands out as this opaque ceramic column that slowly turns translucent to transparent, as the flames flare up. Upon cooling down the column goes back to being the white shaft it was. Kinda like now-you-see-it-now-you-don't. Maybe the impending winter has something to do with it, but I think this design is awesome! The video is cool too. Designer: Camillo Vanacore

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