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Office furniture inspired by Aston Martin
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Scale Scale, the versatile and interactive weighing scale
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iPoo Toilet snugly fits the shape of your butt
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Desk Rail helps organize your stationary and desktop gadgets
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Bikoff concept enables you to carry your bicycle to work!
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Mike Mak’s watch integrates fully functional calculator
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Ring alarm clock uses vibrations to greet you to a new day!
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Rubik’s Cube for the blind shows up at MOMA
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Swiss army-knife-inspired sofa by Diablo Design
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The watch with no face, hoLED watch uses holes to tell the time instead
Automaker Aston Martin has begun indulging in office décor these days and has pulled the veil off this fabulous line of furniture. Designed to turn your workspace irresistible, these furniture designs have a close resemblance to the lines and schools of designs Aston Martin uses for its cars. Made from carbon fiber or sanded aluminum, these will be produced and distributed by the Formitalia Luxury Group, a perfect way to pay tribute to some of the forerunners of automobile technology and design, these furniture pieces bring a sophisticated touch to just about any office space.
While outdoors, bathing can turn into a pretty discomforting issue, particularly if you’re camping in a place where the water tends to chill your bones. Sergi Ruiz however, designed this amazing way to enjoy a warm shower out in the open, away from the comfort of your cozy bathroom. Called the Rainywhere, this concept was designed for Roca and is in essence a portable shower! With an easy assembly and portable enough to lug around while out enjoying nature’s charms, the Rainywhere uses integrated solar panels that help heat the water as per your preferences. All it needs is a water source, and the Rainywhere quickly transforms into a full-fledged heated shower, just about anywhere!
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We all despise the occasional nosey colleague who occasionally tries to listen in to your telephonic conversations at work, or the curious bystander who pretty much does the same at public spaces. To give you a bit of privacy from the world at large as you answer calls on your mobile phone, designer Alain Gilles came up with the Buzzihood concept for Buzzispace. Basically wall-mounted cocoons for you to hide away in as you answer your calls, these fit right into public spaces and opens space offices. Available in a host of colors that set the mood just right and blend into a vast variety of places, the Buzzihood design is the perfect way to enjoy some privacy while communicating on your mobile phone.
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The most of us who spend the better part of our days rooted to our computer terminals, with our eyes glued to the screen, do face severe back pains at regular intervals, and these can turn into a serious discomfort and health issue if not dealt with on time. Designer Tobias Sonne from the Carnegie Mellon University however has come up with an innovative way to better your posture, using a set of “Posture Suspenders”. These alerts the wearer when one slouches and uses the variable resistance of stretch conductive fabric. The Posture Suspenders make sure you sit up straight and work, helping you keep away from the unnecessary back pain.
As fickle minded humans, we quickly tire of old designs and look forward to newer innovations that never fail to amuse and astound us. One of these is the Dreamtime Alarm Clock. Unlike the ticker that lies at your bedside with a clear conventional LCD screen shouting the time aloud; this beautiful clock looks more like an art installation than a run-of-the-mill alarm clock. Compromising of four glass bowls and a hammer, the clock begins ticking when one of the glass containers is filled with water that slowly drips overnight into another glass container directly below. This then causes the hammer to fall and strike the other two glass bowls! A clock unlike any other, the Dreamtime alarm clock is a one-of-a-kind time piece that changes the very way you perceive time!
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C.S. Lewis, the chronicles of narnia author, once wrote, “our desires are not too strong, but too weak. we are half-hearted creatures, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in the slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. we are far too easily pleased.” This is the quote that came to my mind when I wanted to renovate my new apartment. In 2009, I had just got a new apartment which was unoccupied for 8 years, I had bought the place outright, exhausted all my savings and then was just drawing blanks when it came to make the house livable. Before buying the home I had browsed through tons of Good Homes magazine, but faced with a razor thin checkbook I was running out of options. I had consulted a close friend of mine who is a very talented interior designer and settled on a materialistic theme. I was $15,000 short of the estimated budget for the renovation. I had to borrow $15,000 and get my dream home ready or spend $5,000 and make the home livable with just the basics. I turned to my oldest friend Kenny who worked at IBM for advice, knowing me he said that if I spent the $5,000 to get the home ready I would never be satisfied and eventually will do the renovation as I had planned earlier, thus spending more money. After a lot of brain storming he advised me to get a short term loan of $15,000 with flexi repayment, this carried a higher rate of interest but free repayment, which meant I could repay the loan whenever I wanted, this in turn pushed me hard at work as a freelance graphic designer. Eventually I repaid my loan before time, grew my business and had the house of my dreams for myself. I just wish back then if H&R Block* like it now was offering a $100,000 giveaway for customers who completed their taxes using H&R Block at home. Enter the sweepstakes now.
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Designer Fernando Montero pretty much knows how to make music enjoyable for the younger masses and has come up with these three fantastic speaker designs for a student project for SFX Technologies Ltd. The speakers come in unconventional form factors and colors and are a fun way to play your music out loud. Hook it up to your iPod or just about any other music player, and blast out your tunes with these audio devices sporting Gel Audio technology by SFX just about anywhere. The speakers are easy to carry and are designed to be carried around without a hassle.
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Sick and tired of the conventional smartphone that tend to stick to the duller side of the color palette? Well, here’s a device that’s bound to grab stares with all the funkiness and peppiness it sports. Designed by Naoto Fukasawa, the Infobar C01 phone uses a checkered style keypad and sports a full-touchscreen. Packed with an Android user-interface, the phone also sports an 8-megapixel CMOS camera and USB and microSDHC ports and measures 5.11 inches tall by 2 inches wide. About half an inch thick, this device seems to remind us of candy shops and popsicles for some anonymous reason!
At the CES 2012, Technicolor unveiled a fabulous new technology that enables you to watch a football match as if seated in a real stadium, from the comfort of your couch! Called Personalized Content Rendering, the system uses software that merges six different camera angles to create a panoramic view unlike any other, combining the six individual video feeds into one and allowing you control over where to look within that picture! In short, the technology allows you to literally look around the system and also zoom into specific areas of the screen as per your preferences.
Chasing Captain Jacksparrow could’ve been easier, if the British Navy did resort to the Ghost. Designed by Juliet Marine, this high-speed attack boat sports a jet engine, making it devilishly faster than the Black Pearl! Designed specifically to cut through the waters on shallow coastlines at significantly high speeds, the Ghost uses supercavitating technology, using air bubbles to reduce hull friction for faster and efficient cruising. Also, the Ghost can carry several thousand pounds worth of weaponry, making pirates hate their occupation more than ever.
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