Burn
LED Destroys Incandescent Forever
I’m not sayin this lamp is going to kill incandescent lamps altogether, but it’s gonna slay some of them I bet, for sure. It’s called the “Allure” and it’s a pretty amazing floor lamp. It looks like a fantastic set of tentacles. Multiple light sources from the same lamp – that’s amazing! Amazing! And not only that, but while the lamp base is meant to stay in place on the ground, the lamp post rotates. Excellent!
The best part of this lamp is the remote. Maybe. Probably that it looks fabulous. But lemme tell you about the remote anyway, how about that? The remote’s got a power switch, a top light activator, a low light activator, and an RGB button. What do you do with that? You turn on all the different colors! At the base of the lamp is the source of the colors.
Beautiful!
Designer: Zhiqiang Liu
Coffee Cup Sleeve
Starbucks and company have taught us that hot beverages in disposable or plastic cups are better held with a cup-sleeve. Air Shield Coffee Cup Sleeve takes the venture forth by banking on the principle of air expands when heated. So the lovely little petals that you see on the sleeve kinda blow up to act as a buffer between your fingers and the cup, saving you from a scorching hot cup. At room temperature the sleeves petals fatten out once again. Nothing extra special but a novelty item for the buzz-generation.
Designer: Frank Xing
Philco PC by SchultzeWORKS
US designers SchultzeWORKS have designed a desktop PC inspired by television designs from the 1950s. (more…)
Try Air To Stay Dry
Back in May last year I did a roundup of the Most Unconventional Umbrellas seen here on YD.I wish I had stumbled across the Air Umbrella then, because its the mother of unconventional designs! Imagine an umbrella with no canopy! The barrier between you and the raindrops is a sheet of steady air that is blown out by this hollow pipe. Physics and a lot of engineering stuff is clogging my brains to accept this design, but if I put these dark clouds of doubt out of the way, we may have something in this concept. Think about it!
You can control the length of the stick and the size of the air canopy.
Designer: Je Sung Park
GP practice by Vasd architects
Dutch architects Vasd have completed the interior of a doctor’s surgery in Hague, the Netherlands. (more…)
Cooper-Hewitt Receives 600K to Continue Design for the Other 90% Exhibit
The Rockefeller Foundation just awarded the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City$600,000 to make its 2007 Design for the Other 90% exhibition into an ongoing series. Inhabitat reported on the exhibition when it took place in 2007 and we were amazed by the innovation on display. So much of the great design we see is focused on the wealthiest 10% of the population, it’s nice to know that Cooper-Hewitt will be able to highlight more of the cutting-edge sustainable technology that is designed for the developing world.
Read the rest of Cooper-Hewitt Receives 600K to Continue Design for the Other 90% Exhibit
PermalinkAdd to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Cooper Hewitt, design for the other 90, design for the other 90 percent, developing world, Museum, new york city, New York., NY, smithsonian, Solar Ear
Recycle Your Old Cell Phone to Help Quake Victims in Haiti
Have an old cell phone just sitting in your electronics drawer? Consider putting it to good use and donating it to ReCellular’s Phones for Haiti program, a cell phone recycling initiative to provide disaster relief for the recent Haiti earthquake. There are over one billion used phones sitting around and gathering dust, and just a tiny percentage of those could equal millions of dollars for quake victims.
Read the rest of Recycle Your Old Cell Phone to Help Quake Victims in Haiti!
PermalinkAdd to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: cell phones, earthquake, haiti, phones, phones for haiti, recellular, recycling
Found by Stuart Haygarth at Haunch of Venison
This chandelier made of spectacle frames (above) is on show at the Haunch of Venison gallery in London as part of an exhibition of work by London designer Stuart Haygarth. (more…)
Et Tu Dyson?
Before you critics go Dyson Copy, give designer Zizi Chen a chance to explain her take on this centrifugal wind driven fan that blows air from a circular band. Chen is a designer from China and her version was devised early last year, even before the Dyson announcement in October. Yup, its student work; but then again lets not gets into who-inspired-who and instead concentrate on the dynamics of the Wind Circle.
Designed using the principle of fluidics, Wind Circle redefines the traditional concept of the electric fan. It is composed of the stator, the coil, the large OD (outer diameter) thin shell bearing, the rotator, and the vanes. The mixed-flow centrifugal fan is driven by the hollow motor, which blows air out through the circular-shaped air outlet. At the same time, the air in the centre of the wind circle is dragged in to flow forward. The vanes have a high linear speed in order for them to have a high working efficiency. Consequently, the wind circle will have a much better wind energy conversion efficiency. The controls are located at the top of the circle, which makes it convenient to operate. The controls consist of a touch-switch and a frequency converter speed regulator, which control the power, speed, and left and right swing respectively. (The Wind Circle can swing to the left and right over the central base.) At night, the LED on the control will be illuminated.
Remind you of anything?
Here is a rare post, where we have a concept (as you see above) and a live iteration (see DYSON) in front of us. What we’d like you designers, engineers, and otherwise design-minded individuals to do is leave us indisputable comments on which design holds more fire!
Only the facts, folks.
Don’t be NASTY!– Chris Burns
Designer: Zizi Chen
Shape/Form by Lukas Peet
Canadian designer Lukas Peet has created a set of cutlery comprising a silver fork and spoon and a ceramic knife.(more…)
Categories
Popular Posts
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- None Found
Tag Cloud
-
Applications
Architecture
audio
Burn
CAD
Capture
Convert
Design
Download
Draw
Driver
File
Files
Flash
Gadgets
Games
Graphic
HTML
Image
Internet
LAN
Map
Media
Mobile
Money
Movie
Music
NetWork
Office
Other
Paint
Photo
Photos
Portable
Print
Projects
Ram
RAR
Software
System
Tools
WEB
Windows
Wireless
ZIP