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Sound Showers help you relax at crowded airports
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Parapak, a backpack for wheelchairs
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Tactus Technology develops micro-fluid keys that rise out of touchscreens
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The Legacy Edition watch face inspired by the Tron film
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X Grill, the stainless-steel kitchen packed in an oil truck
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Marc Newson’s Body Jet, the new mode of transport!
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The easy to setup and extremely accommodating Emergency Shelter
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Chinese construction team replicates the Wangjing Soho; nears completion before the original!
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LED lit wine-cellar gives designer Jamie Beckwith’s an eye-pleasing touch
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Cocoon 1 provides for personal space at home
Dubai regularly finds itself in the headlines, and for good reason. Most recently, Dubai pulled the veil off yet another eye-catching and architecturally shocking masterpiece, the 75-storey residential Cayan Tower. Standing 310-metres (1,017-foot) high, this is the world’s tallest twisted tower and was built at a cost of a whopping $272 million!
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French aviation giant, Airbus, teamed up with UNESCO recently to give aeronautics and engineering students around the world a chance to show off their aircraft-based innovations and the results could pretty much give the world of commercial airplanes a facelift! The Airbus Fly Your Ideas competition saw a bunch of entries that deserve special mention, particularly the air hockey-inspired luggage mover and in-flight entertainment systems powered by body heat.
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The aviation industry continues to watch wide-eyed as the world’s first plane powered completely by solar energy goes globe hopping. The Swiss-made Solar Impulse plane recently completed yet another milestone journey, landing in Washington. After this, the plane has one more journey to complete on its cross-continent voyage. Sporting photovoltaic panels on its wings, this 208-foot-wide plane has no carbon footprint and landed at the Dulles International Airport.
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Magic? No. Innovative design? Hell yes! We’ve seen a bunch of cleverly crafted dining tables in our time, but this one surely takes the cherry atop the cake. Called the Floating Dining table, this clever piece of furniture by designer Ingo Maurer, gives your living space a dash of magic. The table assures to astound and shock visitors to your dinner party, simply because it has no legs and gives the impression of levitating off the ground!
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We’ve all faced those terribly depressing times when the space around us is devoid of sufficient seating facilities to rest our tired legs and backs. Designer Jamie Wolfond came up with the answer for such instances, an inflatable bench that can be deployed whenever required and just about anywhere! Called the Emergency Bench, this concept comes with an included portable air pump that can be used to pump air inside it.
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By now, we all know what a bean bag is. A perfect piece of furniture to slump on and spend a lazy day, coiled up with a book and a hot cup of coffee, bean bags do what simple straight-back chairs cannot – provide comfort! Designer Po Egle came up with a different take on bean bags, giving it more than just a single use and turning this piece of furniture a little more humane. The Zmogai bean bag is shaped like a human being. Making it a perfect place to play, sit, sleep or enjoy a hot cuppa!
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The Japanese don’t cringe at shortages of space. Instead, these folks use their time to devise ways to use smaller areas to serve bigger purposes, like this underground bicycle parking system that has caught the attention of the world. One of the most popular modes of transport in Japan, the bicycle too requires sufficient parking space. So, a construction company called Giken came up with the solution and developed the Eco Cycle, an underground bicycle storing system capable of housing hundreds of bikes.
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Tired? Frustrated? Or simply annoyed at the world going nuts around you? Well, here’s a little device designed to calm you down, without having to inject alcohol or nicotine into your bloodstream! Called the W/Me wristband, this concept was designed by Mountain View startup Phyode. The wristband sports a medical-grade sensor called the life spectrum analyzer that helps capture and analyze electrical impulses from cells in the right atrium, enabling the band to detect a person’s mood.
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When an automobile giant teams up with a home appliance manufacturer, the two are bound to come up with something interesting, just like the product of these two Italian manufacturers, car-maker Fiat and Smeg, the appliance company. Recently, Smeg turned the front of the classic Fiat 500 into a refrigerator, an appliance built to perfection for the kitchen of an automobile lover.
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Solar power is turning into the modern world’s juice. These days, just about everything is solar powered, from mobile phone cases to cars to homes. Here’s a solar-powered wheelchair that brings the energy of the sun to the mobility impaired. Created by a team of students at the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, this wheelchair uses solar energy to power up its assist systems and won the team the first place in the World Cerebral Palsy “Change My World in One Minute” competition.
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