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The Piano House in China
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Personal air transport made easier with the Scorpion Personal Helicopter
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Pipistrel Panthera aircraft flies 400km on electricity alone!
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Gold wedding ring to reveal the time shared between two people
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Gokey -Tuck your keys safely when you are on the run
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Formula D Interactive Card Table recognizes objects placed on it
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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
TGO Green Energy Gym Technology utilizes human power with cardio outdoor gym equipment and then changes it into useable electricity. This consequential electricity derived directly from humans can be used for lighting up the gym space during night time. The designers feel that the extra power output could be fed into local buildings and even into the national grid. Green Energy Gym is situated at Hull’s Orchard Park estate in the UK, It’s outdoor facility with the usual exercise oriented equipments like energy cross trainers; Energy hand bikes; Energy fitness bikes; Energy recumbent bikes; People Power Display Wall. It’s green, it’s shiny and it lights up at night.
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Compact Phones are a great idea. Combined are the powers of a cell phone and a PDA in one unit, letting you make calls, send e-mails, and work on documents and play games without myriad gadgets. Keeping this in mind Ciara McClean designed and built this model of a mobile phone for the 1st year modelmaking project in AUCB.
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Cicadas are known for their chirps and cries. Drawing inspiration from these little though terribly loud insects, designer Ryan Jongwoo Choi came up with this clock design, fashioned to give you timely mornings. Sophisticated and cleverly designed with a bright display, the Cicadidae Clock is modernistic and futuristic.
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Volkswagen has decided to offer the world a people’s car far apart from its iconic Beetle. For one, this one sports no wheels and makes no contact with the asphalt for that matter. Part of the People’s Car Project launched by Volkswagen in China last year, this Hover Car could very well be the next best way to get around in the foreseeable future! One of 119,000 ideas submitted to the project’s website, the Hover Car seats two and spews no pollutants.
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TokyoFlash Japan has long been the flag-bearer for unconventional and out-of-the-box timepiece designs. The Tokyoflash Design Studio Blog received a spectacular concept by Firdaus Rohman that has now turned into a reality. Called the Kisai Uzumaki, this one’s available in black or silver with a blue or green display and comes with a colorful spiralling display and a vortex shaped lens.
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When Audi decides to build a concept design, the German automaker makes sure it does it right. In an attempt to build the perfect chair, Audi and a group of other German designers set up an R18 Ultra Chair made from carbon fiber and aluminum at the 18th-century Milanese palazzo and hooked this one up with stress analysis monitors to the seat, back, and legs. The designers then asked a few thousand passersby to take a seat, monitoring their posture and stress levels, using industrial monitors to record it all.
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Conventional home designs are slowly fading away, as architects and designers these days are stepping away from the ordinary to fashion into being structures built to shock, amaze and strike awe. Called the Piano House, this musically sound structure was built by the local government in Huainan, China in an attempt to increase tourism. Reminiscent of a giant piano with a transparent violin resting on it, the Piano House could also serve well as local college for students studying music.
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Though this watch has no practical use, it seems very interesting. The TicTocTrac watch is a project from a couple of students from Cornell University that not only tells time like a regular timepiece, it also lets you measure your own perception of its passing. The TicTocTrac wristwatch, is an engineering project, has a handsome analog-faced watch with a 3D-printed case and microSD card slot. You can check the time by double-tapping its face, activating LED indicators. . When you’re enjoying, the time flies by, and when u are bored the second feels like an hour. This is achieved by first activating the watch through a double tap gesture, at which point it will briefly flash a random number between 5 and 55. This is the amount of minutes you’re supposed to estimate, and you have to double tap the watch again when you think this amount has elapsed. The gadget will tell you if you’re over or underestimated and by how much.
As natural resources begin to threateningly deplete, the world needs to look to greener and better ways to powering up, especially means of transport. DesignByMany recently hosted a competition inviting designers to turn in designs for electric vehicle charging stations. Of these, the winning design christened the Plug + Play seemed most appropriate for modern-day infrastructure. These stations are to be cleverly located near areas like restaurants, gyms, shopping arcades and the like, allowing users to plug their electric cars in for juicing and go indulge in subsequent activities. Apart from the fact that the Plug + Play concept fits in pretty well with urban life, this one looks great and is an aesthetic treat in a concrete jungle to say the least.
Recently, Samsung seems to have grabbed the spotlight in the consumer electronics market with some pretty darned amazing smartphone designs. With the Galaxy series quickly turning into a hot favorite amongst smartphone purchasers, Samsung seems to have got it all right. Here’s a concept phone design by Birmingham-based designer Tolu Falope that could further push up Samsung amongst its competitors. An un-named smartphone concept, this one comes with a razor-sharp form-factor skipping out on Samsung’s favorite curves. With a minimal bezel and a seemingly large screen with minimal buttons along the sides, this smartphone concept could fly off store-shelves if every manufactured.
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