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• Cheers To Finger Power!
• Let’s Get Steamy
• DuraPower Cell Energized?
• Big Open Love Bus
• J-Shape USB with Super Display

Cheers To Finger Power! Posted: 04 Jan 2010 03:04 AM PST Mind you, this is not a "Green" concept and neither does it claim to be "Eco Friendly". It's just a helpful solution for a tricky situation. The situation being: you running out of juice on your mobile phone. So what do you do? Remove the battery from the back of the phone; give it a few good turns around your index finger and its gathered enough power to last you a conversation or a safe trip to your charger and electric point. Designers: Song Teaho & Hyejin Lee

Let’s Get Steamy Posted: 04 Jan 2010 02:45 AM PST The Vap Steamer here brings back memories of the times when Microwaves were not available in India. I'm talking about the early 80's, an era when the electronics boom had not hit this Asian subcontinent. We re-heated rice and other such items using the double boiler system, where steam was used to re-heat leftovers. Vap offers a safe and healthy option for not only re-heating but also for steam cooking. How about a round of Dim sums? Those who have tried re-heating rice without the micro and in pan know that the starch easily makes the grains stick to the bottom. Another problem with refrigerated cooked rice is that the grain on top gets a hardened and steam kinda softens them. Appliances like this, if energy efficient can easily replace the Microwave. Or not? Designer: Arthur Senant

DuraPower Cell Energized? Posted: 04 Jan 2010 01:59 AM PST The light is within it, yes within its body, oh so comfy and cozy that you can hardly make out its presence. The idea is to incorporate a minitype LED within the traditional AA or AAA battery sans fuss. This is because you may just want to use a mini flashlight at the drop of a hat or because "Lighting Battery" exists. Whatever the reason, it's a swanky concept and designer Lu Yi presents a fantastic argument to support the case. May the light be with you….. Lu Yi says: The structure of the lighting battery is quite simple. We change nothing in the traditional battery structure, but install the minitype LED in the opening of the separatrix of anode and cathode on the top (or bottom) of the battery and conceal the conductive foil beneath the battery package film, which simplifies on/off function. The advantages of such an easy structure are as follows: Nothing has been changed in the traditional battery structure and changes in the production process of lighting batteries are slight. Therefore, it is easy for production. The lighting structure does not occupy any battery space and consequently it will not have any impact on the capacity of the battery. The increased parts are minitype LED and conductive foil, which are cheap. Therefore, the production cost is comparatively low. LED boasts a pretty long service life, so recycling is achievable and it is more environmentally friendly. We can see that such low costs and tiny amelioration may enhance so many new functions of a battery. Designer: Lu Yi

Big Open Love Bus Posted: 04 Jan 2010 12:01 AM PST This right here is a bus made for everyone who is anyone. Everyone can ride this bus, no matter how they get around, no matter what they roll on. If they roll on a wheelchair, there’s room for at least two of them. If they ride a stroller (usually this is little kiddies), they’ve got four whole spaces open to them. If they ride fine legs but bad eyes, they’ve got bright contrast throughout the bus for ease of identification. Plus, there’s handles galore. Designed to be an all-encompasing transport system for town transport, designer Ceren Bagatar dubbed this the “ACBus” Accessible City Bus. Low floor, flexible module elements throughout, and so many handles you’d be more at risk of dinking your forhead than falling down for lack of support. What did the last bus you rode look like? Last one I rode was when I was all the way over in England. Those busses looked very similar to this: low, relatively open, and basically all wheelchair and baby buggy ready. Not quite as handle-intensive though, and not quite as brightly colored. Plus steps upstairs. But aren’t those gone now? Designer: Ceren Bagatar

J-Shape USB with Super Display Posted: 04 Jan 2010 12:01 AM PST Ever picked that USB flash drive up and wondered, gee, I know I’ve got some super important stuff on here that I can’t get rid of yet, but I wonder if there’s enough space left for my new drunken bash photo collection? I wonder that all the time! About the space, not so much the drunken bash. But you never know! That’s what this design is all about! Check the percentage – or the MB! – or the name! This super-simple USB flash drive device holds files. It plugs into your computer, really simple, and holds items like a folder would, helping you transfer from one computer to another. But that’s normal! What this one innovates on is the display. Where most flashdrives are blank or just have the size of the drive printed on the side, this one has a display which shows the actual space left! Not only that, when plugged in, this lovely thang has options to change that display to things like percentage, names, symbols, lots o’ stuff. How it keeps enough power to display these things when it’s not plugged in is beyond me, but may well be a super-secret guarded by this fantastic designer indeed. Designer: Sokolova Ekateryna

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