Monthly Archives: August 2009

Chiron Algae-e-motion By Benjamin Cselley Jupin Ghanbari Jessica Covi Erol Kursani

Chiron Algae-e-motion By Benjamin Cselley Jupin Ghanbari Jessica Covi Erol Kursani

This is a vehicle, for the world, to transport goods around the world, with a lot less pollution! Sounds great, doesn’t it? It’s able to drive on the road, get aboard some train tracks, travel really far (on ALGAE fuel cells!), get off the tracks, and go to where it needs to be! Fun, yes?

This particular vehicle also brings into light the GPS tracking system as mapped unto railroads (which will of course become standard once all cars are rail-efficient).

The flexibility of the road and the environmentally sound capabilities of rail travel. And it transports one of those HUGE storage containers, too!

This is Chiron…

Designer: Benjamin Cselley, Jupin Ghanbari, Jessica Covi, Erol Kursani

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Chiron Algae-e-motion by Benjamin Cselley, Jupin Ghanbari, Jessica Covi, Erol Kursani

Lampadair By Assa Logerot

Lampadair By Assa Logerot

Tis a variable volume lamp, the variable volume lamp you’ve always wanted! Assa Logerot inflates the lighting business with this thing called the “Lampadair.” It’s an inflating lamp on a tiny tube with an inflating device attached. The light is intense. When the lamp inflates, the triangles move away from one another. When the triangles move apart, the light that can escape from the lamp increases! Wacky.

What’s really wacky is the fact that this balloon lamp does not float… unless you modify the air pump to include helium. Another OFFICIAL thing I should mention, (ie this is really real,) is that the air pump includes a program that allows the lamp autonomous fluctuation of its volume.

Oh my goodness.

That will go very well for that lady there, who is very obviously drinking absinthe. Very very thick and non-watered down in the least… absinthe.

This particular model was realized with Matthew Marino, who is definitely the dude to see if you want to roll with new interactive designers in Paris.

Designer: Assa+Logerot

Lampadair Inflating Lamp by Assa Logerot

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Electrolux Bifoliate Wall-Mounted Double Dishwasher By Toma Brundzaite

Electrolux Bifoliate Wall-Mounted Double Dishwasher By Toma Brundzaite

Scenario 1: Dishwasher load is done, now you take out the dishes and place them in their respective shelves, cabinets etc. Been doing this all your life!
Scenario 2: Wall mounted Electrolux Bifoliate Double Dishwasher uses one compartment to clean the dishes via ultrasonic wave technology;you then transfer the clean load into the next shelf. Space saving, less time consuming, done in a jiffy. Which Scene do you like?

Designer: Toma Brundzaite

Electrolux Bifoliate Wall-Mounted Double Dishwasher by Toma Brundzaite

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Catcher Lemon Squeezer By Graeme Davies For Joseph Joseph

Catcher Lemon Squeezer By Graeme Davies For Joseph Joseph

I am so in LOVE with this squeezer! Exquisite in style, its one of those classy looking tools that dont just sit pretty on your kitchen counter top; its actually functional! The hand-held reamer is dishwasher safe and has a cup fashioned at the base to catch the pips and bits. In a time that we see dime-a-dozen non-functional jazzed up tools, this utility Catcher comes as a refresher.

Designer: Graeme Davies for Joseph Joseph

Catcher Lemon Squeezer by Graeme Davies for Joseph Joseph

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Mint Light 5 One Life To Live By Mintpass

Mint Light 5 One Life To Live By Mintpass

YD isnt the ideal place to discuss suicide, but thats the only inspiration that one gets from the Mint Light #5 You Only Live Once Lamp. The hangmans noose works in a creepy way as well; tighten the noose to turn it off and loosen it to brighten the lights. Almost poetic in a way.life is a precious gift, if you let your worries depress you, its like the tight noose of this lamp–DARK. Enjoy what you have and it brightens up your life!

Designer : mintselect @ mintpass

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Rescue Stick Lifesaving Float By Sungjoon Kim Jangwoon Kim Sook-kyung Lee amp Keunhwan Pack

Rescue Stick Lifesaving Float By Sungjoon Kim Jangwoon Kim Sook-kyung Lee amp Keunhwan Pack

Humor aside, its quite tough to aim a heavy Lifesaver tube, accurately to a drowning person. It would be much easier to throw him the Rescue Stick, which is a baton shaped contraption. Contraption it is, coz its strings undergo a chemical reaction when they hit the water; they dissolve to release a horse-shoe shaped float. So basically the baton reacts to the water and becomes a life-saving device. As a back-up plan, in case the reaction fails, the tube can be inflated manually.

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The reason why Rescue Stick can provide rapid and accurate assistance in the emergency situation can be divided into two facts; the high effectiveness of the type of form factor and chemical reaction. It has a dimension of 270×65×70(mm) and weight of 0.9(lb). Chemical reaction-wise, Rescue Stick can be inflated by the dissolvable strings. The rate of inflation is fast, reaching about 10L in 3~4 seconds. There are other materials like sodium azide, that can achieve faster inflation rate of 0.05 seconds, but the cost of external casing that can reach up to $200, which is a trade off which is almost unacceptable. In contrast, an alternative that involves other chemical compound and water costs a mere $5, but takes 20 seconds to inflate, which makes this option also unacceptable. The material we use, compressed CO2 gas in aluminum can, can pull the cost down to $15 and takes only 3~4 seconds to inflate. This is why we think that our option is an optimal choice. The materials used can all be recycled and no waste is left in the water after use. Just by refilling the relatively low cost compressed CO2 gas can and dissolvable string and refolding the tube after deflation, Rescue Stick can be recycled without much hassle.

Designers: Sungjoon Kim, Jangwoon Kim, Sook-kyung Lee & Keunhwan Pack
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Rescue Stick, Lifesaving Float by Sungjoon Kim, Jangwoon Kim, Sook-kyung Lee & Keunhwan Pack

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Fotel Rocking Chair Transformer By Peter Vardai

Fotel Rocking Chair Transformer By Peter Vardai

What do we want? Rocking chair! When do we want it? In under 20 seconds! Thats what you want. I know you do. You’ve got a chair that sits flat on the ground, you’ve got a rocking chair, but what you really want is 2 in 1. The “Fotel” by Budapest, Hungary designer Peter Vardai is just the loving spoonful you are looking for. And it’s got nice colors, too!

The aim of this project was to create a chair that no only looked good inside and out, was also comfortable in both places too. Not only that! But the chair had to be a rocking AND an armchair and be comfortable in both transformations, too!

The frames is made from carbon, the seat of comfortable elastic bands. Good for people who sweat profusely. I shall put this in my “transformers” file.

Maybe in my living room, too!

Designer: Peter Vardai

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Climbing Lamp By Trust In Design

Climbing Lamp By Trust In Design

This right here is the Climbing Lamp. It is not alive, contrary to the title. It does appear to be climbing, however, just like a good vine plant wood. The Climbing Lamp is also a kit, the kind of kit that allows you to make your own combinations of angles, attachments, and directions. 8 pieces and a plethora of possibility!

Project : kit lamp
Type : Appel projet VIA 2009
Location : Paris
Size : 4×3x18cm(base connexion) 4×3x25cm(articulations) 4×3x60cm and 4×3x90cm (fluo strips)
Materials : anodized aluminium, frosted polycarbonate and silicone
Client : in search for editor
Project team : Joran Briand
Collaborators : Cockpit prototype
Status : prototype
Reference : Ivy structure

Nice of those people at Trust In Design to provide a list of statistics, wasn’t it? That’s so convenient!

This set runs on florescent fluo tubes contained in strips assembled by you, the user. Simple fixation points allow you to connect the 8 pieces in the set together in a wide range of ways. Fixation points can be connected to basically any surface that will hold the small amount of weight, and each strip can be adjusted to point the light in your optimal direction.

What’s your optimal direction?

Designer: Trust In Design

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Hello Haptic Flash Cards For The Blind By Rhea Jeong YoungSoo Hong Sun Min Lee And Sae Hee Lee Of Samsung Design Membership

Hello Haptic Flash Cards For The Blind By Rhea Jeong YoungSoo Hong Sun Min Lee And Sae Hee Lee Of Samsung Design Membership

Rhea Jeong, YoungSoo Hong, Sun Min Lee and Sae Hee Lee of Samsung Design Membership have it all figured out. Surely by now the schools for the blind have their lessons and so forth figured out by now, right? I mean, we’ve been teaching sight-impared folks for generations, right? There is ALWAYS room for improvement, everyone, and here is a big step!

Flash cards. I dreaded them when I was learning my multiplication tables. But they were helpful. And they remain helpful to millions of students around the world today. Students with sight!

The Hello Haptic set of flash cards works with Braille text and other tactile elements from environments the student might not otherwise have access to. The urge to learn is there! But as a blind person who must learn primarily through touch, the need is not fulfilled as often as it is with a person who can see.

In come the flashcards.

Learned become the students.

I was informed to mention the university these fine designers have attended. This is a great practice, carrying one’s university around, as it not only benefits you to have a good name under your belt, but as you grow, the university profits as well! And that’s your lesson from your Jedi Master Chris Burns today.

Rhea / Young Soo > Hongik University
Sunmin > Ewha Women’s University
Sae Hee > Hanyang University

And the world is again at peace.

Designer: Rhea Jeong, YoungSoo Hong, Sun Min Lee and Sae Hee Lee of Samsung Design Membership

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Hello Haptic Flash Cards for the Blind by Rhea Jeong, YoungSoo Hong, Sun Min Lee and Sae Hee Lee of Samsung Design Membership

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Lettreman XXL Letterbox By RADIUS DESIGN

Lettreman XXL Letterbox By RADIUS DESIGN

Oh yea they do, coz no matter how hooked we get to technology, emails, chats etc. Snail Mail WILL NOT go out of fashion. So presenting to you here is a very tangible Lettreman XXL letter box, to receive those Christmas Checks from grandmas. Besides the striking peephole, what I really like about the box is the clever paper-tube, where my callous newspaper boy can leave my morning papers. Well protected from the elements! If the XXL size too big for you, RADIUS DESIGN has two smaller sizes to choose from. BTW I love the zesty orange color one.

Designer: RADIUS DESIGN

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Lettreman XXL Letterbox by RADIUS DESIGN

VIU Contact Lens By Christofer Kmmerer

VIU Contact Lens By Christofer Kmmerer

Akin to Photoshopping the images to suit your requirements, the VIU Contact Lens blurs out the stark realities of life that you dont want to see. Transforming your vision to suit your preferences, it can obscure and twist the realities of a stinky dumpster down your alley or block out that offensive Ad on the billboard. Intrigued? No, Im scared, coz if we have a choice to block out the visions that we dont like, we may end up as far away from reality as this concept.

More than the images that you see in this post, I urge you to view the video clips that explain the concept in totality.

Designer: Christofer Kmmerer

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Leaf Solar Charging Mobile Phone By Seungkyun Woo amp Junyi Heo

Leaf Solar Charging Mobile Phone By Seungkyun Woo amp Junyi Heo

Inspired by photosynthesis, the Leaf is a wearable bracelet phone that incorporates solar cells on its front panel for juicing it up. If thats not good enough, the cradle into which it docks also hosts the cells on the back. Alternatively, on a dark dingy day you can use the trusty electricity to recharge the phone. A pretty basic phone with calls and messages functions only, its main objective is to remind people that they can contribute to energy efficiency.

Designers: Seungkyun Woo & Junyi Heo

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Leaf, Solar Charging Mobile Phone by Seungkyun Woo & Junyi Heo

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Slip Grips For People With Limited Mobility By Stanton Burns

Slip Grips For People With Limited Mobility By Stanton Burns

Slip Grips are designed to help individuals with limited hand mobilitymanipulate objects that they would otherwise be unable to use. Theproduct is used by slipping the finger holds over the thumb andforefinger and then snapping objects in to place via the clips locatedin between these finger holds. At a slight angle, the clip directsobjects placed in it downward, giving the user a natural range ofmotion.

When wearing a Slip Grip, the user is able to use objects suchas pool sticks, spatulas and tooth brushes. Ultimately, Slip Grips arean affordable product that function in a variety of differentscenarios without taking away any of the users independence, ordrawing any unwanted attention to the user in the process.

Designer: Stanton Burns

Slip Grips For People with Limited Mobility by Stanton Burns

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MagLevAir Airplane Concept By Leonie Lawniczak Deniz rs amp Georg Milde

MagLevAir Airplane Concept By Leonie Lawniczak Deniz rs amp Georg Milde

The MagLevAir is an airplane shuttle system with reduced noise, spaceand energy consumption during take off.The airplane is hooked to a maglev shuttle saving expensive cerosin foraccerleration during take off. In flight the delta wing shapedairplane uses scram jets. The MagLevAir is part of a hub and spokesystem. It could serve in an urban environment and transportpassengers across short distances to bigger airports with more standard Airbuses and Boeings.

The MagLevAir was inspired by the take off procedures on aircraftcarriers. The short and decentralized take off combined with the fastand quiet accerleration of a transrapid formed an ideal team for anecological urban airport system.

Designers: Leonie Lawniczak, Deniz rs &amp Georg Milde

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MagLevAir Airplane Concept by Leonie Lawniczak, Deniz rs & Georg Milde

Haptic Reader For The Blind By David Lee Yuna Kim amp Hansub Lee

Haptic Reader For The Blind By David Lee Yuna Kim amp Hansub Lee

Youre blind, I mean sight impaired and the situation is that you wanna read Harry Potter but the Braille version is not available. So you pop out the Haptic Reader, place it on the front page, and allow it to scan the contents. Almost magically all the letters get converted to Braille, which dot the surface of the reader. Want more magic? Turn on the voice system, to hear the story instead.

Designers: David Lee, Yuna Kim & Hansub Lee

Haptic Reader For The Blind by David Lee, Yuna Kim & Hansub Lee

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Bio Top Car Concept By Luis Pinheiro De Lima

Bio Top Car Concept By Luis Pinheiro De Lima

Electricity is in the air. Literally. This vehicle, the futuristic “Bio Top” utilizes “wireless electricity” technology. The front of this vehicle has 2 wheels, the back has one, and this one is a sphere which charges the electric car battery as it goes, then transmitting the energy from the battery to the car through that wireless electricity. Also you’ve gotta have a listen about the steering wheel!

The steering wheel might make a few video-game fanatics more prone to fly about the roads like they were Cruzin, if you know what I mean: instead of the now-standard foot-pedal gas and break, the Bio Top features a hand-controlled speed and stop system, all done through the steering column.

A car that powers itself. That’s what this is.

Designer: Luis Pinheiro de Lima

Bio Top Self-Charging Vehicle Concept by Luis Pinheiro de Lima

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Plug Extension Cord Project By Anton Zetocha

Plug Extension Cord Project By Anton Zetocha

I wont bore you lengthy explanations on this Plug Extension Cord Project, because it really doesnt require one. Its been designed to basically explore the possibilities of using only one hand or simply just your foot to unplug your gadget. Sometimes we do get into a situation where our hands are full and we need to unplug the damn cord. This plug extension is for one of those sticky situations. Neat, simple and superb!

Designer: Anton Zetocha

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Color Therapy Lamp By Peter Kuhar

Color Therapy Lamp By Peter Kuhar

So perhaps you’d like blue today. Or perhaps you’d like magenta? Or perhaps you’d like to go for broke and say choose… pure white light? My goodness you have all of these choices, all of them, with this lamp I am about to show you called the “Color Therapy Lamp.” A color LED selection of “millions of colors” right from your mobile phone. Not so novice!

The white lights that are in this bad boy are Philips Luxeon Rebels so you know they are so bright your eyes will burn out. The color is controlled by 36 RGB LEDs from Avago Technologies.

Also the lamp has 50,000 hours of life so don’t worry about changing the bulbs. This would be called, if I may use our modern most popular nomenclature – a “green” lamp.

Designer: Peter Kuhar

Color Therapy Lamp by Peter Kuhar

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Recovery Sling For Fractures By Sungjoon Kim Seunghee Son Sook-kyung Lee amp Yonghee Cho

Recovery Sling For Fractures By Sungjoon Kim Seunghee Son Sook-kyung Lee amp Yonghee Cho

Recovering from broken arm is not much of a pleasant situation; coz one needs to diligently follow a physiotherapy routine to build back the muscles. Maybe something like the Recovery Sling will help you stay on track coz it doubles up a physiotherapy aid. As a sling, it offers adequate support to the fractured arm, without putting much of a strain around your neck. The arm loops are adjustable and post plaster-removal, can be used as a rehab aid to do some muscle building exercises.

Here are some types of recovery exercises that one can follow:

  • The patient fixes a hand holding a ring and moves another back and forth while wearing the middle pad on a shoulder. This exercise can recover the biceps and pronator muscle of the arm and the wrist muscle.
  • The patient holds the rings and stretches them out horizontally. This exercise can recover the deltoid muscle of the shoulders and the wrist muscle.
  • The patient moves each hand up and down in turns. This exercise can recover the deltoid muscle of the shoulders and the biceps muscle of the arms.

Designers: Sungjoon Kim, Seunghee Son, Sook-kyung Lee & Yonghee Cho

Recovery Sling For Fractures by Sungjoon Kim, Seunghee Son, Sook-kyung Lee & Yonghee Cho

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Electrolux Butl-R-Bot Robotic Kitchen Assistant By Tim Leeding

Electrolux Butl-R-Bot Robotic Kitchen Assistant By Tim Leeding

Dumbledore’s Pensieve would come in handy here, but the thing is, I need you to look into the future and not in the past! The scene is this, youre as lazy and rusted in the kitchen as Irona coz you now have a full-fledged butler-robot to do your cooking; Butl-R-Bot. Its compact, intuitive, cooks, cleans and flies like Tinker Bell; only the fairy dust is missing! This futuristic kitchen-o-bot relies on Responsive Artificial Intelligence and advanced technologies.

Oh, these techs would include humanetic arms, fan arrays (allowing movement), cameras and advanced sensors that allow it to cook meals, order and collect food, manipulate all tasks a human can around the kitchen and interact with all available kitchen utensils and appliances.

Lazy or not, this what Electrolux Design Lab Finalists Tim Leeding foresees for you in the future90 years from now

Designer: Tim Leeding

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Ten Futuristic Computer Concepts

Ten Futuristic Computer Concepts

Apparently when it was suggested to build a Home Computer, the trade analysts predicted that there would be a demand for only 2 PCs a year. Times have flown and look where we are now! In a family of four with modest means, we own 2 desktops and 2 Laptops! The point is, we have seen many creative concepts in laptops and PCs on YD over the years. Agreed many are farfetched, but dreaming big is a part of the creative process. Here is a look at Ten Futuristic Computer Concepts that we hope get realized.

10) MacBook Touch by Tommaso Gecchelin

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Highlights: flexibility in form-factor via iSpine technology, flexible OLED screen, and Magic Dock that externalize ports to keep the appearance clean.

9) HP LiM (Less is More) Concept by Jeffrey S. Engelhardt

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Highlights: use of Bamboo fabric across the aluminum frame of the PC, 19 transparent touch OLED screen along with a wireless keyboard, virtual trackpad.

8 ) Evolve Modular CPU by Vas Obeyesekere of Point Innovation

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Highlights: transforms between mobile and home computing configurations and can expand or contract its module based components to meet any users needs.

7) Mac Folder by Tryi Yeh

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Highlights: a re-worked User Interface that resembles the iPod Touch or iPhones, super-slim multi-touch screen.

6) Dual Screen Computer by Yong-Seong Kim

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Highlights: a large slot behind the LCD display that can accommodate the notebook thus allowing you to use it as a desktop, notebooks screen transforms into a second display in portrait mode.

5) Canvas by Kyle Cherry

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Highlights: designed for those in the creative arts fields, offers a wide are for workspace.

4) The Napkin PC by Avery Holleman

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Highlights: Uses e-ink and RF technology, designed for group collaborations, has pens like modules that transmit info to the base station PC, processed info is displayed on the napkin which is actually e-ink paper.

3) Book Laptop by Kyle Bean

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Highlights: it showcases the trend that we have become so dependent on technology and the virtual world, that we have forgotten about the REAL one that we live in.

2) B-membrane by Won-Seok Lee

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Highlights: built-in projector that removes the need for a separate monitor, a membrane keyboard that appears when needed, integrated optical drive, projector can beam ambient lights.

1) Sony Vaio Zoom Notebook Concept by Eno Setiawan

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Highlights: thin glass form factor, touchscreen holographic technology, screen is completely transparent and the keyboard goes opaque when switched off.

Moving Kitchen By Joongho Choi

Moving Kitchen By Joongho Choi

My kitchen, that is. Like, I want it here in the middle of my dining room; instead of a table.but Chris Burns says it will look funky by the deck. Long Tran wants me to place it aesthetically next to the bar in the living room (hes a designer you know). Takashi couldnt care a less about where I place it, as long as I cook him a decent meal! Well, a Moving Kitchen is possible, and quite a functional one at that. Small in size, its got an induction cooking space, folded tables that double up as work-area plus plenty of room to store some kitchen essentials. Excellent for singles.

Designer: Joongho Choi

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Extensions Contemporary Furniture Designs By Assa Logerot

Extensions Contemporary Furniture Designs By Assa Logerot

What do the ingredients in the title make? A table! At least in Assa Logerot’s world they do. I might be mistaken on the number of bits of wood, but the equation remains the same: a completely enjoyable build-it-yourself table made from simple, visible parts. Lots of people get down on IKEA for creating low-quality, oversimplified designs, but I say no! The best part is being able to build it yourself, and easily! Logerot’s on this same tip.

But let’s not tie Logerot to tightly with IKEA now, because this is no Swiss, miss! This is a French work of design, straight out of Paris. With the cord ye shall tie the table down, and with the cord thou shalt be able to adjust the table with time.

Yes, the table sits in a non-fixed state. The table can be lengthened and extended, tightened and shortened. This kit folds flat, and oh did I mention you can make it into a shelf, a stool, and a seat besides?

Same pieces!

Kinda like Lincoln Logs or K’NEX or Legos, ey?

Designer: Assa Logerot

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Moving Kitchen By Joongho Choi

Moving Kitchen By Joongho Choi

My kitchen, that is. Like, I want it here in the middle of my dining room; instead of a table.but Chris Burns says it will look funky by the deck. Long Tran wants me to place it aesthetically next to the bar in the living room (hes a designer you know). Takashi couldnt care a less about where I place it, as long as I cook him a decent meal! Well, a Moving Kitchen is possible, and quite a functional one at that. Small in size, its got an induction cooking space, folded tables that double up as work-area plus plenty of room to store some kitchen essentials. Excellent for singles.

Designer: Joongho Choi

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Electrolux H20 Future Kitchen 2099

Electrolux H20 Future Kitchen 2099

Any of you ever read those really weird “2099″ comics that Marvel Comics put out in the 1990s? Well here’s something even weirder. A kitchen based around the “Claytronic Atom” – teeny tiny (nanometer) silicium spheres (tiny little robots) that can reconfigure instantly to create basically whatever forms you want. See this silly video to learn more, then continue below for basically the greatest kitchen ever.

The kitchen has a single form pre-programmed into it so that it can be displayed and installed. After that, the form can be changed by its owner. After the basic kitchen is owned, new models can be purchased and installed (kind of like applications, or “apps.”) The shape the kitchen takes when brought out of the store is a simple cube form.

The cube can be transported easily, and set up simply in a range of different environments. The box contains cooking and cleaning equipment which take the shape of the instruments they need to include. The box contains heat conducting metal which can work with external tools (like pots and pans.) The box cleans itself as the substance that is the claytronic atoms absorbs the food waste and takes it to the proper garbage receptacle.

Lots of other stuff, too! The kitchen has a memory for recipes, the kitchen is powered by H20 fuel cells, the kitchen loves you! Oh that’s a pretty big deal too: totally green!

Designer: Peter Vardai

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