Two-seater chair called Air

Air_chair.jpg As light as air and as thin as, feather maybe? This design by Daniel Garcia Sanchez is to allow the user to project in the mind the lightness, weightlessness and comfort while sitting outside and enjoying the weather. In other words, you can sink into this seat while trying to relax – just like how relaxing a bean bag is indoors perhaps. The design is a two seater couch with simple elastic lines.

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Green Klip to check your energy use

Green-Klip-1.jpg Created by Prasanna Gadkari, this concept is good for people who need a reality check on how much energy they consume. Designed like a leaf, the Green Klip is just that – a clip that can be, well, clipped to a cable. The colour remains green if you are using the required energy and goes red if the consumption is more than you should be happy with. The design is apparently made of recyclable material and requires neither maintenance nor external power. It is also easy to use and read.

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Charge your portable devices using the Re:energy bicycle

Re-energy-bicycle-1.jpg The world’s slowly realizing the need for greener and more eco-friendly ways of transportation. One of the best and most common is bicycle use of course. And nothing gets better than generating electricity while riding a bicycle! Designers Jinsik Kim and Bosung Seo came up with the Re:energy bike, a finalist for the Incheon International Design Award. More than just a bicycle, this one draws energy from the wheel’s rotation. The energy generated is then stored and can be used to recharge portable devices like mobile phones and mp3 players using a socket equipped on the wheel itself.

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Thierry Fischer’s curvy phone

curvy-phone-1.jpg Curves are back! And when it comes to communication devices, you can bet your teeth they are. We just stumbled across this beautifully designed phone by Fischer Thierry. With all the right cuts and curves, the phone sure stands out of the crowd and is indeed a diamond amongst those lumpy pieces of coal we’re so used to speaking on these days. With a large screen and well placed buttons this one’s missed out the “*”, the “#” and the “0” button though, and we’ve been looking all around for it. On the bad side though, this one is curvy indeed, a bit too much to fit into our tight jean pockets.

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Helping the blind read ambient information, the Thimble

Wearable-Tech-1.jpg The blind and visually impaired have something that could make their lives a lot easier, a concept design developed jointly by Artefact and Industrial Design Department at the University of Washington. Known as the Thimble, the device basically is a finger glove meant to be worn on the index finger. A concept product for now, the Thimble allows the blind and visually impaired access ambient information and was created by Erik Hedberg and Zack Bennet. Equipped with an optical scanner on its tip, which when worn will be the tip of the index finger, the Thimble connects to portable communication devices like mobile phones using Bluetooth. To “read” information, the wearer simply has to move his index finger over the matter to be read as it is scanned.

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News and weather updates at a stoplight with the Droplet Traffic Light

Droplet-Traffic-Light-1.jpg Stoplights have never looked so beautiful before. They usually stick to that boring old iron pole with the large bulbs that hang around there, not much of a visual treat. Korean design and development studio, Psychic Factory gave the boring old stoplight an aesthetic push up the ramp, with the Droplet Traffic light. Organically shaped and beautifully designed, this stoplight does a lot more than just flash the three signal lights. It displays the temperature and news flash too! This makes waiting at a red signal not so much of a waste of time anymore. You can keep yourself updated with the news and the weather report too!

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Tron-like 3D Christmas tree by Japanese artist

Tron-3D-Christmas-tree-1.jpg The Japanese are very serious about their games and technology. Internationally acclaimed artist Masaru Ozaki is no different. He created a Christmas Tree for Tokyo’s Parco Shibuya shopping complex. The tree is extremely futuristic and features designs similar to that seen in new sci-fi movie Tron. It was built in the traditional Christmas tree triangle with illuminating giant white consisting of 3D projection. It also featured changing colours and patterns to portray a Christmas effect.

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Eco-friendly Public Poster

public-poster1.jpg A Public Poster which is charged using solar power and helping save ink and paper using e-paper. This design was created by Cheng Ya-Fang and Lin Nien-An. It is used as a medium where people can leave their advertisements using Internet or Bluetooth connectivity. They can even slot a space and set a time up to when the ad must be on. The poster contains a grid system and spaces in different sizes for one to advertise appropriately. The poster can also be used as a lighting unit to offer a sense of futuristic style at home or school or institute or office and the likes.

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Lego takes life in multi-socket design

rotating_plug1.jpg This is a design for a Lego-styled multi-outlet socket created by Cheng Hsiu Du and Chyun Chau Lin. It is extremely flexible, like the Lego blocks, and can be adjusted to plug on multiple devices and adjust it so as to add as many as required. If you want you can even dislocate them and use them according to the space available and devices present. It comes in the simple grey colour or multi-coloured formats. The design is called 360 degrees and aptly so! Very interesting!

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