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• Biker Bags
• YouRail Design Contest – Visions of modern transportation by Bombardier
• Un Disposable Paper Cups
• Ten Fantastic Kitchen Concepts
• Remember Your Pants
• This Pen Has A Lamp
• You Can Dishwash The Vent!

Biker Bags Posted: 18 Nov 2009 01:31 AM PST Carrying a purse or bag while riding a bicycle has been restrictive thus far. What I mean is that either you end up carrying a backpack or have those geeky baskets in front of the handlebars. Revolutionizing the way we carry our stuff is this absolutely fashionable set, simply called the Handlebar Bag & Bike Rack Bag. What I love is the way it hooks onto the bike, and then simply comes off as an elegant bag; loops, extra straps, and attachment clips detach and can be hidden. Designer: Po Campo [ Buy Handlebar Bag & Bike Rack Bag ] The Bike Rack Bag is available for $160 at the Yanko Design Store The Handlebar Bag is for $92 at the Yanko Design Store

YouRail Design Contest – Visions of modern transportation by Bombardier Posted: 18 Nov 2009 01:30 AM PST UPDATE: 4 weeks left! Is publishing your contents on online design communities or hosting your own portfolio site enough for creative satisfaction? Don't you want evaluation or recognition for your efforts? Much like how a post is done on YD, where we hear scores of you either trashing or praising a design, forcing the designers to re-think his strategy or go-ahead with his convictions. The Bombardier YouRail Design Contest by HYVE gives you instant feedback, allowing you to re-think your contribution or simply refining it. The contest is really simple, you only need to register, get inspired and submit your design ideas. The contest is about the creation of new and innovative interior designs for trains. Questions like how a modern train interior should look like and what kind of innovative features should be integrated need to be solved. It is irrelevant if participants have great experience in interior design or not, the contest is addressed to professionals, students, hobby designers and everyone who is interested into the topic. The designs can be submitted drawn freehand or computer generated, by using the configuration tool or just by explaining the interior idea. Participants may either design a seat upholstery with the configuration tool or freely create an interior design to the following three topics: The Leisure Passenger The Business Traveler The Everyday Passenger Like I mentioned to participate you need to simply join the community and submit your own vision for interior design in trains. Or you can create your own seat cover with the 3D – configuration tool. Anyway, you can discuss and evaluate the designs of the community and win great prizes: The members with the three best freely created designs amongst all three topics win cash prizes up to 2.000 Euros. The members with the three best configured designs also win cash prizes up to 600 Euros. Plus: The members with the 4th to the 10th best freely created designs win netbooks. Hurrah! The winning design will be built as a prototype and will be exposed on the InnoTrans 2010 in Berlin which is the leading trade fair in transportation. Besides, the designer of that winning design will be invited by Bombardier to visit the InnoTrans 2010. In addition, the most active member as well as the best freely created and configured designs according to the community evaluation are rewarded with a netbook, too. Finally, one idea will also win a netbook (and a signature book about Bombardier) by the "president's pick" where the jury select the most unconventional idea. The jury has an impressive line-up with high-level management and design experts – get to know them here. What is really impressive is that like our YD community, there is instant feedback and reaction to your designs by the community members. So participating in this contest really makes sense. You get evaluated not only by your contemporaries, but also by an elite panel of judges. Which other design competition can boast of this killer combo? To know more on the contest details hit here. The whole contest phase is being charged by the HYVE Innovation Community GmbH. HYVE is a German innovation agency dealing with customer integration into the product innovation process. Feel free to get all important information about HYVE on their website, or contact them directly.

Un Disposable Paper Cups Posted: 18 Nov 2009 01:29 AM PST Old Theory : Use paper cup and then dispose. New Theory : Use RIP-cUP, rip out the top layer where you sipped from, rinse and reuse for a couple of more drinks. Your Theory : ???? Designers: Yoo-Jin Kim & Hyesun Lee

Ten Fantastic Kitchen Concepts Posted: 18 Nov 2009 01:00 AM PST I know how enthusiastic most of our readers are about cooking, so this round-up should have been my top priority. Better late than never, they say. So here's a list of Ten Innovative and Creative Kitchen Concepts seen on YD. Some may beg to differ, but that's ok, we are all allowed to have our opinions. Point is, we all love to cook in a classy, futuristic kitchen! 10) Kitchen Drawer by Nojae Park Compact and all-inclusive with a fridge; I can see this kind of kitchens being sold in the future, touted as height of modularity! There are four main parts to this set: a stainless plate for warming up food, an electric stove for cooking, a dish drawer for storage, and a mini-fridge. 9) Aion by Antoin Lebrun You have to hand it out to designers for trying to incorporate the "Green" element into their designs. For instance, this kitchen features specialized plants that were developed by the aerospace industry for their filtering and cleaning properties. If it has to be Green, then it may as well be the Aion. 8 ) Transportable Kitchenette by Aurelien Banerjee & Olivier Picard This kitchenette was designer for outdoor usage by charitable organizations who do a lot of field works and require nourishing their charges. A simple electric socket is all this needs to get it going. 7) Mood Kitchen by Scavolini Who doesn't like a chic sophisticated kitchen, with oodles of space and charm! 6) Lift Modular Kitchen by Michel Cornu Lift is a kitchen concept that has truly captured the essence of the word modular. It's tough to explain this in words, which is why I am showing you all the images for it here. It's a kitchen with several modules mounted on the wall, and can slide up and down, as per usage. 5) L'Evoluzione by Giancarlo Vegni for Effeti Another chic kitchen with the essentials neatly tucked into drawers and special nooks. Something that we always dream of having, but alas, always out of reach. 4) All In One Kitchen by Sebastien Poupeau The mother-of-all Single platform kitchens! One slab and that's it….you don't need anything else to call it your cooking space. It houses a main work top, which is height-adjustable, food cutting area, digital screen, dining table, induction hobs and an oven, a sink and its drying rack, dishwasher with two separated racks! What more could you want. 3) Outpost Kitchen by Simon Kingston & James Rennick Sized as filing cabinet with extendable surfaces, this is the ultimate in modular kitchen. It may lack in glam-quotient; but for all practical purposes, this is a fully functional cook-spot that can operate anywhere…office, home, backyard….anywhere! 2) Grandma's Kitchen by Melanie Olle & Ilja Oelschlägel A series of latches and slides helps you to transform this wall unit from a kitchen to a dining table and back. An interesting way of going from cook-mode to dining-mode in a jiffy. 1) Multifunctional Kitchen by Wiwat Pitakpongsanit Another single-slab module kitchen, but the difference is that you can customize it as per your needs. This versatile space can be reconfigured; depending upon what you want where. Totally Awesome!

Remember Your Pants Posted: 18 Nov 2009 12:30 AM PST Remember that post I did just the other day? The one about the metal pants. Well there’s more! There’s a whole range! It’s called the “Dual Range” and it aims to take your home to a new level of simplicity and versatility. Explore with me, if you will, six new concepts that do one of my favorite things: cram two things into one. First, the “Notch” – you already know a little bit about this from the post we had before. It’s a side table and stool with a handy little notch in the middle to hold your book open. Second, “Notch+,” what the! It’s just basically a smaller, more square version of the Notch, right? Well check it out- the squareness of this situation increases the stackability tenfold! Third, the “Lean” – a board with lots of notches in it. Each notch is able to hold a whole lot of material, especially made-for-hanging clothing. Fourth, the “Lean MIRROR.” This is the one I’d want most. Only thing is, I wouldn’t hang a belt on there for fear of scratching the surface with the metal buckle. Fifth, the “Myriad.” This is a magnetic messageboard, whiteboard for writing, shelf, and hanger system. What else could possibly be crammed!? Sixth and last is the “Dual Clock” which is such a simply good idea I cannot believe it hasn’t been thought of before. It’s a clock. It’s a messageboard. Write on it, erase it, love it. Designer: Alex Bradley Design

This Pen Has A Lamp Posted: 18 Nov 2009 12:10 AM PST Let the record first show that this pen has a lamp on it. Potentially. The most important thing about this pen might not be the lamp (yeah right!) but I’m gonna go ahead and say that I know it is. This pen is crazy. First of all (wait are we still on first?) I gotta tell you that the name of this pen is “Pendragon” and it’s a construct-your-own pen. It’s name is Pendragon. What else you do you need to know!? Pendragon. The pen has four parts. It’s got the Nib, the Central Unit, the End Part, and the Expandable Units. The Nib is the writing part. it can be changed to a ballpoint, pen, fountian-pen, mechanical pencil, or digital pen. The Central Unit has, get this, the LED light – important!, a music player, charger input, memory card, and battery. The End Part has a bluetooth connection to whatever headphones you choose to use in collaboration with the mp3s youve put in the Central Unit. Expandable Units! Camera, microphone, laser pointer, chop, corrector, usb connetion, WLAN reciever to connect to computer, internet. BONUS: pen-dock to connect to computer, charge, and work with the mic. Designer: Peter Vardai

You Can Dishwash The Vent! Posted: 18 Nov 2009 12:00 AM PST Are those plates to be eating off of? Nay!* They are vent covers. Retractable vent covers. Customizable vent covers. I bet you’re saying to yourself “self, I’ve always wanted to customize my vent covers, and self, this is my big opportunity.” And you’d be right. Available in like 5 billion colors and designs, this is the Ventware system. With the Ventware “Seasons of Change” system, you’ve got both the best in retractable kitchen vent systems AND “a whole new paradigm for kitchen appliances – unparalleled customizability.” This system is made of a ceramic faceplate and removable filter behind the vent. Cleanable in the dishwasher, switchable for every season. *If you really wanted to eat off these, I bet you could. By all means, if they’re clean, use them. One of my favorite things to drink water out of is a mason jar. It just tastes better. Who am I to say you wouldn’t get a kick out of eating liverwurst off of the vent cover? Just do it. Designer: RKS

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