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- Time Shant Stop Until We Reach…
- Smart Street Lights Know How To Bloom
- It’s Not Rollercircle, It’s 3D!
- Made to Light You Up
- Robot Lovers, Spike Jonze, and Absolut
- Touch The Whale Tail
- Sit On The Canadian Flag
- Pencil Printer Part Two
| Time Shant Stop Until We Reach… Posted: 23 Feb 2010 03:45 AM PST Equilibrium! Yes, until all scales are equal, all minds at rest, every video program recorded to VHS cassette, time must go on! And if you want to know where it is, where it was, and where it’s going, you’re gonna need a watch! And what better watch to slap on your wrist at a time like this than the “Equilibrium Watch” from Projects Design. It’s got all the creative time display you need. Inspired by the artificial horizon instruments in the cockpit of an aircraft, the Equilibrium Watch has an aesthetic all its own. It’s quite simple to read once the wearer understands the simple sense of it all: that being the tiny circle in the center to show the seconds, the next largest circle with the smallest red dot showing minutes, and the largest showing hours. Designers: Projects Design [ Buy it Here Equilibrium Watch ($95) is available @ YD Store ] See how this watch displays time: Equilibrium Watch ($95) is available @ YD Store        |
| Smart Street Lights Know How To Bloom Posted: 23 Feb 2010 03:44 AM PST The street lights in my area have a mind of their own and flicker into life on whim. So when I hear of concepts like the Sustainable City Lights, it makes me go green with envy. It's not asking too much for an intelligent lighting system that harnesses the solar and wind energy for itself. Lampposts intuitive enough to beam up the LEDs only when people are around, else emit a soft glow! Ah, Wishful Thinking Adapting itself to the environment, Sustainable City Lights mimic the opening and closing of a flower bud while harvesting the energies. Any surplus accumulated goes back to the main grid for powering other city things… Designer: Philips Design     |
| It’s Not Rollercircle, It’s 3D! Posted: 23 Feb 2010 03:24 AM PST It’s called “Rollersphere,” and it’s coming to run you the heck over! I would not get in the way of this one, let me tell you that. I’d mostly expect it to be the work of otherworldly being if I saw it rolling smoothly down the highway. What the heck! Let’s have a little discussion about it! It’s designed by Krasimir Emilov Asenov out of Bulgaria and it’s dependent on electricity. Not just one electrical engine, but several, each of them powered by an accumulator battery and a nice new solar energy system. Woo doggy can you imagine going over some large ramps in this? I don’t know what would happen. I do know the potential for this is fast. The accumulator batter and solar energy system work in concert like this, there’s a folio of solar sensitive cells on the outside that collect power, supplying it then to the electrical engines. Seem simple enough? Oh that’ll be no problem I bet! The vehicle moves on a kind of tire mechanism. This mechanism is based on a “speed track system” which means that many treads, each of them covered in elastic, flexible, and strong material, work together to make the car rock and roll. On the other hand, the designer notes that the vehicle could also employ driving-belts alternatively, making it possible to rotate around the vertical access of the vehicle. It’s all based on a gyroscopic system, the handling to be handled by joystick. When the driver wants to go left, the vehicle tips (or bends) in left, to go right, the vehicle bends (or tips) right. Just like one of those speedy motorcycles on the fast track. As for landing after a huge jump — this vehicle does have shock absorbers. The materials used in creating the vehicle will be light, materials like carbon or titanium, so the cage must be strong. The bones must be strong if the skin is soft, you see? The guts (you) must be kept safe. Also, just for kicks, there are also furrows on either side of the vehicle so that it might some day run on tracks, like a modern day train system. Designer: Krasimir Emilov Asenov     |
| Posted: 23 Feb 2010 02:54 AM PST This particular design is called the “Grass Lamp.” It’s designed by Marko Vuckovic to bring warmth into your environment through the fabulously cunning combination of cool human design with natures lovely natural elements. Same word. Its huge, yet discreet. Grows grass, yet it’s PVC. Only light will tell. It’s difficult to display anything other than flowers inside a home, items that are meant to remain outside. And yet, here it is! A rather magnificent display for grass! On the wall it goes, to refine the space it goes is where it goes. It goes there, and it does that. The Grass lamp helps the grass grow with its light, and lightens the room at the same time. Made of light PVC plastic material with thin walls, its inside reserved for soil, water, and yes, grass. Designer: Marko Vuckovic     |
| Robot Lovers, Spike Jonze, and Absolut Posted: 23 Feb 2010 01:30 AM PST Lovers of indy video, robot heads, and the masterful mind of master director Spike Jonze, you’re in for a treat. Spike Jonze has created a short film, “I’m Here,” about how enriched a life can become having been introduced to creativity – in a female robot. It’s the story of the male robot librarian who is gaining this enriched life, the adventurous, free spirited lady robot who helps him, and a little bit of music too! Moonrats to the rescue! Well check it out: one member of the Moonrats, Aska Matsumiya, along with Yeah Yeah Yeah’s guitarist Nick Zinner, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ bassist Flea, and bookstore owner* David Kramer form a fake band that go by the title The Lost Trees. In this movie they play a song called “There Are Many of Us”, written and sung by Matsumiya, that incidentally is also for sale already on iTunes. *David Kramer owns lovely bookshop “Family” in the LA, CA area, where the characters in this film “I’m Here” play out their lives. You’ll notice the famous Absolut Vodka copyright information on the trailer here because they were kind enough to make this whole project possible. Find out more about this project soon at http://www.absolut.com/uk and watch the trailer on YouTube or below, then take note at the amazing news for all you UK residents out there: The global on-line release of this film is March 1st, 2010, but it’ll be shown several times the week before, with a splash of drink! Thursday 25th Feb Somewhere in central London… Friday 26th Feb Somewhere in central Manchester… Saturday 27th Feb Somewhere in central Edinburgh… There’s two viewings per night, and a couple glasses of Absolut after each. But you need tickets! You can get those on the official I’m Here/Absolut site: http://absolut.com/uk/imhere/events, which isn’t quite open yet but will be soon. Designer: Spike Jonze     |
| Posted: 23 Feb 2010 01:14 AM PST I have this awesome yet odd fascination with whales. There’s a majesty about them you can’t quite touch so I live vicariously thru cetacean inspired design. The Whale Humidifier doesn’t do anything extraordinary but it’s in the shape of a whale for godsakes! That’s an automatic win in my book. The touch sensitive tail activates the device and as expected, steam comes out of the blowhole. A hoi hoi! Designer: Arthur Xin     |
| Posted: 23 Feb 2010 01:06 AM PST To celebrate the 2010 Winter Games, Ligne Roset and Livingspace collabed (not a real word but using it anyways) on the “Ottoman”. Well that’s a straight forward name. If you look real close, the two-toned 100% wool piece has contrast stitching highlighting the familiar maple leaf. Yay Canada! Tho it celebrates the winter games, it won’t be available until the summer which is a bit odd. Designer: Ligne Roset and Livingspace     |
| Posted: 23 Feb 2010 12:02 AM PST The refined Pencil Printer part II comes with detailed explanations and a better understand of saving the environment from paper trash and permanency of Ink! In here we see how the lead shavings feed the cartridge toner and prints effortlessly on paper. Mistakes are easily erased, and once the crappy memo is done with…you can erase all the gibberish and re-use the paper. A true test of erasing skills! Designers: Hoyoung Lee, Seunghwa Jeong & Jin-young Yoon     |
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