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- Ten Way To Get Your Fix – Coffee Machines & Kettles
- Entire Vanity In A Strip
- Quatuor the Kitchen Annihilator!
- Media Centers: Not Just for Nerds
- Rugged Lamps Now Refined
- Dell Adamo XPS, World’s Thinnest Laptop Reviewed
| Ten Way To Get Your Fix – Coffee Machines & Kettles Posted: 06 Nov 2009 02:58 AM PST As the winter sets in, more of us are going to be downing the liquid gold, just to keep out the chills. Coffee! A warm mug to curl your hands around, just as you watch the first snowflakes hit the ground. Here are Ten ways to get your fix; machines, coffee sets and kettles. I like mine instant coffee with milk and strong; how about you? 10) Birch-wood Coffee Set by Andrea Branzi Kicking off this countdown is an elegant silver and birch-wood coffee set designed by Andrea Branzi. Made from silver dipped in acid to get the rustic look, the set is quite a collector's item. 9) Muji Non-directional Coffee Maker by Kazushige Miyake I don't get what a "Non-directional Coffee Maker" is, but I'm willing to hear your opinion on it. Technically Kavha is the Kashmiri way of preparing tea, with saffron and cardamom; so it quite surprises me that a coffee maker has been christened thus. Any ways the Kahva is a beautiful way to brew your coffee. 7) The Barista by Patrik Pettersson Perfect solution for multiple coffee addicts in an office, this machine dispenses many cups of coffee at one go. 6) Coffee Maker by Tom Metcalfe This one's for the serious brewers who go to any lengths for their cuppa java! I love the video in this post, do re-visit and check it out. Made of twin-spherical bowls, in the Cacoon, the water is heated via induction in the outer sphere and a pump in the handhold transports the warm water to the filter and finally the ready coffee drips into the inner sphere. The resulting cavity (where the water was before) between the both spheres, now serves as a natural insulator and keeps the coffee warm. A service tray that doubles up as coffee warmers! I can pictures us warming our hands over it! 3) Enjoy It While Flying by Balazs Millete & Telekes Tamas Enjoy It While Flying is a concept brewer of Nespresso that is to be enjoyed abord your private aircraft, as you jetset from one glam destination to another. Strictly for those with the moola; Plebs please endure the airline trash you get. 2) Pearl by Andreas Diefenbach This Ceramic Coffee machine is refined with a gilded touch, and is quite an exquisite creation. 1) Untitled by Brice Genre Hanika Perez Thanks to its thermo-sensitivity, artistic patterns appear on the surface of this coffee machine when hot water runs through it. Almost like have an art piece hanging up on the wall.        |
| Posted: 06 Nov 2009 12:59 AM PST On a recent trip out of town, I crammed into my suitcase this vanity bag containing soap, facewash, lotions, perfume, gels etc. In short a mini replica of my personal hygiene collection. Then again Murphy's Law kicked in and the bottles of lotion and shampoo just burst open, soiling all my clothes! Wish I could have carried this "Wash One" pills instead. Tablets of hair, face, body wash and even toothpaste! Brilliant! Designer: Se Jun Lee     |
| Quatuor the Kitchen Annihilator! Posted: 06 Nov 2009 12:01 AM PST What’s that? You want more organization in your kitchen? Well contrary to the title of this post, that’s what “Quatuor” is here to do! You’re in a hurry to create that perfect cake? Not to worry! Quatuor has your flour in a perfect proportion! Not only can in dispense both solid and liquid ingredients, it’s also got mystical magic charms cast on it! You can use the heck out of this at dinner time, lunch time, or party time! * Be creative, sensitive, and accurate with just such a device as this. The activation controls are still up in the air, perhaps a voice-activated sort of thing? Could get messy. *NEVER for use at breakfast time.** **Just kidding. Definitely suitable for cereal. Designer: Arthur Senant     |
| Media Centers: Not Just for Nerds Posted: 06 Nov 2009 12:01 AM PST Let me tell you what a media center is, first of all: it’s a computer. It’s a computer from which you have a bunch of cords and plugs and bluetooths and everything running into and out of so you can, from that one machine, run your whole media experience in your home. What have we got here? “Mod Systems’ GreenPlay” system from Samuel Hoang with Teague – a media center without all the keyboards and mice! A) Mod System’s GreenPlay software engages your main system with your “set top boxes” and storage units throughout the house for easy management. Music, movies, tv shoes, and photos. It’s connected to Mod Systems online library from whens mass amounts of media can be purchased or rented. B) The online library of Mod Systems is a fully interactive customer and administrator user interface designed just for the GreenPlay system. Digital content galore! C) The GreenPlay Set Top Boxes connect to high definition televisions and other networked devices (such as speakers, your PC control station, etc.) Designed at the same time as a digital interface and a physical object, this is made to fit into the home in more ways than one. The full integrated experience is what this is all about. Designer: Samuel Hoang with Teague     |
| Posted: 06 Nov 2009 12:00 AM PST It's quite funny actually when you think about it; products that you use in extreme conditions, when refined and gilded, suddenly become prized possessions and artifacts. For example the oil lanterns that the electricity-deprived population uses, becomes an iconic possession for the fortunate one. We don't really care much about the construction lamp found in the garage, but if Form Us With Love decides to glam it up and give us the "Work Lamp"; WE WANT IT! Available in Gold and Chrome plated versions and refined with a dimmer incorporated to the design; this "Blue Collar" lamp is rightly called the one lamp that rules it all! Designers: Form Us With Love [ Buy it Here ]     |
| Dell Adamo XPS, World’s Thinnest Laptop Reviewed Posted: 05 Nov 2009 08:00 AM PST At a scant 9.99mm, the Dell Adamo XPS really is the world’s thinnest notebook – truly design like no other. I’ve been trying to keep my tongue in check when Dell invited me to grab a first hand look at their new baby. It doesn’t look real. It’s almost too thin, yet underneath that metal exterior and diamond cut logo is hardware powerful enough to run Windows 7 without skipping a beat. Hit the jump for my review. As I said before it’s almost too thin. If it weren’t for the softly bezeled edges the Adamo XPS might also be the world’s sharpest notebook. Weighing only 3.2lbs with the 20WHr battery installed is quite impressive but my favorite feature is the capacitive latching device. Por que? There’s no button or indentation to lift open the Adamo XPS. Just swipe your finger across a touch sensitive bezel and the lid magically magnetically unlocks. The design is quite interesting. In lieu of the usual perpendicular form most notebooks take, the Adamo XPS opens up to an angle. The keyboard is raised for better ergonomics and all that space underneath facilitates cooling. The screen is slightly recessed because the entire keyboard plane folds into the display. When you look at the Adamo’s profile, what you’re really looking at is the screen housing. I’m avoiding the phrase “wafer thin” because that implies flimsiness. The Adamo XPS is far from it. It’s incredibly sturdy and any give comes from the carefully seamed joints, alas the Adamo is not a unibody design. The keyboard looks almost like polished stone but it’s actually metal. How novel and appropriately chic! On the left edge is single USB and display port. The opposite side has another USB port, an audio jack and power connector. All the exterior sex appeal doesn’t mean diddly if it chugs during everyday use (cough – MacBook Air). I’m not a PC user so this was also my first experience with Windows 7. Upon start-up I was greeted with a facial recognition option. I didn’t try it because I was in no mood to see my mug in the incredibly bright 13.4″ HD (720p) screen. Once in, Windows 7 looked like a supremely clean version of Vista. All the nonsensical gadgets were gone and the taskbar now had a companion ala Mac OS X dock. I don’t want to make this a Windows review so lets just say I browsed, interneted and emailed without pause. The Adamo XPS is fast. Dell has been on a roll lately releasing computers that step outside the proverbial grey box. The Adamo XPS looks like a winner in most areas but since we’re a design site, lets get picky. The corners are a little bit too rounded. The trackpad is too small. The speakers are too quiet. The bezel around the display is too noticeable. You’ve got the grey aluminum on the exterior and the black hugging the display. This double whammy makes the screen feel smaller. It would also have bee nice to move the Dell logo off the display area down into the keyboard because it’s way too distracting where it is. What Dell deserves snaps for is the beautiful, crisp screen. The keyboard is a dream to type on and that capacitive latch is like concept finally making it to reality. It’s unnecessary but design is only half about function – the other is emotion and that latch immediately introduces the idea of a computer far more advance if not a little cooler than anything else out there. Specs:
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