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• Creativity In Smell Can Reward Handsomely!
• Poop Bucket With A Mission
• Oh So Sleek Faucets!
• Good Vibes for Your Pleasure… and His!
• The Bio Alternative
• The Monte Carlo Leaflights Hotel
• Double Headed Watering Can VS Godzilla

Creativity In Smell Can Reward Handsomely! Posted: 08 Jan 2010 06:20 AM PST Update: Only 3 days left! Home remedies of using baking soda or vinegar for getting rid of domestic odors are good to learn in grade school. In the real world we need more sophisticated methods to do away with sickening smells. So if I were to ask you, what's your brightest idea for preventing domestic smell, would you have one for me? I wouldn't reward you tho, however if you presented it to the Swirl Smell Fighters Innovation Contest, you could win handsome prizes! Participating in the Swirl Smell Fighters Innovation Contest is easy, you register your account, submit your ideas and solutions on how to prevent domestic smell or contribute challenges for the community which describe problems and specific needs. Discuss and evaluate the proposals and win great prizes for the ideas and for being the most active contest member! Some Important Notes: It is important, that you focus your ideas and thoughts on the prohibition of domestic smells and not on covering them. Deadline for submission of ideas challenges is January 11th, 2010 Announcement of winners: February 5th, 2010 Prizes: 1st prize: 2.000 € 2nd prize: 1.000 € 3rd prize: 500 € Details for the contest can be found here, and if you want to see what others are up to, hit this link.

Poop Bucket With A Mission Posted: 08 Jan 2010 02:32 AM PST We are all well aware of the various sanitation issues that developing countries are facing, the biggest one being poop management. It's easy for the kids (and in some cases adults) to take to the open fields and roadsides, without realizing the implication of health hazards like disease outbreaks and food contamination. One of the solutions addressing this issue is the Poosh. This is a bucket-mounted toilet for the developing world. Here are some highlights: Human waste in its raw form is not safe to be used as a fertilizer on crops; however, after a lengthy decomposition process it becomes a good fertilizer. Poosh emits low smell and is an easy-to-use toilet seat that works with a wide range of common bucket sizes. A specially designed biodegradable bag (which collect the waste) made from bio-plastic includes some chemicals that speed up the decomposition of the human waste. After about two weeks, one bag of waste will have transformed into a mound of rich fertilizer that can be used to add nutrients to crops. The bag fits over a lip on the bottom of the seat and automatically seals when the bag is full and the seat is removed. Poosh is constructed from post-consumer material (recycled water bottles), rubber, and bio-plastic. It has a simple, easy-to-clean design with no cavities that could collect waste and harvest germs. The seat features a rubber resting surface so it will sit soundly and securely on a wide variety of buckets, including the common five-gallon bucket standard. Precautions have been made to avoid unsanitary misuse. Designers: Sangmin Bae, Kim Yeon Hee, Mark Whiting, Choi Eun Jung & Yu Hannie

Oh So Sleek Faucets! Posted: 08 Jan 2010 01:26 AM PST Faucets are getting trendier and sleeker by the day. The shift in focus is to have a line up that is streamlined and not so obvious. While gilded ivory taps do have their charm, its sometimes the understated ones that really stand out. Trying to fit into this latest trend is the Fluid Faucet Series. The USP seems to be the cohesive design with seamless integration of touchpanels for water temperature control on the body of the faucets. Water pressure and other controls are located at the shower head. Designer: Jordan Tomnuk

Good Vibes for Your Pleasure… and His! Posted: 08 Jan 2010 12:16 AM PST These rocks right here are called “Woodvibes.” This project is what’s known as the all-encompassing androgynous sex toy. Made of aluminum, various types of wood, and the super-secret electronics inside. These so-called “sex toys” are made for the modern couple – aka the one that likes to mess around a bit, but doesn’t want their exploits to be the whole world’s business. Cleverly disguised as wooden rocks, charged by induction, unique in vibration. Made outside the normal paradigm of sex toys (that being specifically for a man or for a lady,) these Woodvibes reduce the pleasure down to vibration alone. The stones are ambiguous enough to have sitting in a public place in your home, being quite pretty in appearance! And check it out: charged by induction. These stones come in a box which is also a charging station. Each stone comes alive with its own unique vibration pattern when picked up. Notes from the designer — Status: prototypes done, technology matured, looking for production/investor. Notes: this project was handed in 9 months prior to Philips releasing their sex toys, which are quite similar in philosophy and function. Designer: Jonas Lonborg

The Bio Alternative Posted: 08 Jan 2010 12:13 AM PST As an alternative to the present variety in mobile phone batteries, Bio battery sounds like a plausible solution. It feeds off carbohydrates (sugar) and utilizes enzymes as the catalyst to generate electricity. With the promise of lasting three to four times longer on a single charge than conventional lithium batteries, investing in a can of coke (Sometimes Alcohol!) every now and then doesn't seem to be a bad proposition. Add to this, water and oxygen as residue when the battery dies, makes the concept sweeter! Designer: Daizi Zheng

The Monte Carlo Leaflights Hotel Posted: 08 Jan 2010 12:02 AM PST I know you go to beach hotels all the time, but hear me out! This is a pretty fabulous one. Why? The nice lights! The designers in this here project bring you a couple of lighting solutions that make the newly renovated Monte-Carlo Beach Hotel, Monte-Carlo S.B.M. a sight to behold! Come with me! Light up your seaside world! Now there’s two lighting solutions here, don’t fool yourself, one of them circular, a very nice and basically basic solution exclusively for the ceiling. The other is my favorite. A system of superimposed short disks combines several sheets which reflect light off in all sorts of directions. These fixtures are made from laser-cut metal sheets cut to leaf-like aesthetics with a ring for fixation around the light source. A hammering technique used with the sheets gives them each a unique look. The disk that holds these leaves to the light source is turnable, allowing for multiple settings in each lamp. While these lovely lights are often set all by their lonesome on the sides of walls and on ceilings, the grand conglomeration takes place in the lobby. The lobby is a giant dome, with a cone-shaped center ceiling filled with this unique lamps for a lovely display. So pretty! Designer: WORKS.PSLAB

Double Headed Watering Can VS Godzilla Posted: 08 Jan 2010 12:02 AM PST Oh no! Watch out you wilty-wanting flowers, you will be GROWN by the not one headed, but TWO headed watering can! Yes! It is “Symmetrican,” the watering can that is symmetrical! You can put water in on either side, the water flowing freely because of the hole on the other side. Then carry it where thou wilt, for it is simple to carry! Then, pour! It’s so simple, it’s just madness! Created by designer Saebyul Lim to be a unique and eye-pleasing watering can for the garden. The only question I have, S.L., is how does one clean such a thing? Designer: Saebyul Lim

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