Results tagged “product design”

This is about a thousand years (okay only 1 year) old but it's so adorably cute I had to post it. The Hangman light is exactly as the name says. Disturbing how accurate it portrays my feelings about impossible clients.

The Renovation lampshade by Daria Burlinska and Wojtek Traczyk is made from modules of cast-off plastics, almost like flower petals. I love the organic lines and scale tho I bet it's a bitch to clean.

This "cattery" is amazing. Olive (the cat) sure does have a loving owner. A beautiful blend of modern design with all the cat essentials like a scratching mat, bird's eye view, and cushy sleeping quarters.

I made this house for my cat, Olive. She enters through a door in the bottom side and then ascends a ramp, which boosts her to the upper level. The front wall is plexi-glass, the floor is 2.5 inch thick old sheepskin rug, and my wife made some small paintings that hang on the walls. There is also a big cardboard scratching porch. Cats love to scratch and relax on cardboard. The top is removable and the glass slides out for maintenance.

More pics after the jump.

Mobile phones are getting so thin, they're almost ignoring every rule of handheld ergonomics. Designer Heikki Juvonen decided to backtrack and redesign a futuristic mobile complete with all modern accoutrements but with realistic ergonomics in mind. The end result is a phone he believes is perfectly balanced in the hand placing the heavy components towards the bottom. The unique profile shape also helps it sit better in the hand providing multiple surface areas to grip.

This is one of those DUH moments where I say, "damn why didn't I think of that!" The Febot is a windmill like gadget you suction cup to any surface facing the wind. A propellor collects wind energy to drive a motor that converts those kinetics into electrical energy thus promptly charging your AA battery. Hell you don't even need wind. Just place your hyperactive children next to them and make it a game. Whoever spins the most Febots the fastest gets a cookie!

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Hey, they're pack animals so it would only make sense man's best friend gets a social network too. The SNIF tag is a wireless doo-dad that clips onto Fido's collar. As he/she passes by other SNIF enabled dogs, they exchange data and record each other's presence. Everything uploads to an online site where your dog's SNIF profile exists.

More info on how SNIF tag came to be after the jump.

The Oracle Watch by designer Andy Kurovets not only tells time but digitizes the ancient Chinese philosophy of charting chance events called I-Ching. Need help navigating life? Press a button 6 times to generate a hexagram that correlates to a fortune cookie like prediction.

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I remember growing up watching Bob Ross painting happy little trees and thinking to myself, "hey that looks easy!" No, it's not easy so to save my ego I went back to my paint by numbers chart. Thanks to modern technology kids today (and adults) have the Virtuo, a computer screen with digitized paint, paint brushes, and colors. It teaches you how to paint "happy little trees" without having to waste materials during your "trial and error" period. It's just a concept but DO WANT!

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It's common to focus on emotions while ignoring or having any awareness of what that goes on inside our body. This lack of understanding between the two can lead to health problems, for serious. So if we could keep track of how our emotions and bodies relate, what would that look like?

This portable device lets the wearer express emotions with colors by correlating them with biometric data. The idea is to create another way to externalize how we feel in a language anyone can understand. Someone walking down the street with flash red might be upset, in a hurry, or angry. A computer keeps track of your colors, sort of a diary of emotions that can be turned into choreographed motion graphic pieces.

It's an esoteric concept but one grounded in scientifically proven models. We all react to colors and in most cases, can assign specific colors to a range of human emotions. I'd love to see this concept come to fruition.

via Yanko Design

Growing up in a traditional Vietnamese household, and then thrown into western society with different cultural eating habits was a difficult transition. For the most part I grew up using nothing but chopsticks and the occasional soup spoon. I vividly remember the first time I attended a black-tie event in high school and was overwhelmed with the myriad of plates and flatware.

Proper eating etiquette may be dying in the face of an ever-changing world where speed is becoming the norm. But the FunFam training kit attempts to teach proper eating etiquette with a set of plates, trays, forks, knives, and spoons all properly labeled for what kinds of foods to use it with and when. Ironically, it's a Japanese product.

There is something about the hexagon shape thats captivating, maybe the various possibilities of combining the shape is what attracts me. Anyways,
I'm considering these speakers designed by Oskar Daniel for my living room. The speakers are combined with one single hidden cable on the back and can be individually turned or tilted.

It's a little excessive to have a strand of Swarovski crystals hanging from your eyeball. Yeah I said EYEBALL. These specially designed contact lenses were made by artist Eric Klareneek so don't go asking for them at your next optometrist appointment.

Who am I kidding? I would totally buy into this. Some kabuki makeup and these lenses would make a killer look.

More after the jump.

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Linea Creativity is a collection of modern shower panels from Colarcril. It's novel and fun and although there are other panels like a woman's or man's body, I'm all about the panda. I need this ASAP. Colacril, hook it up please!

The Pea Speaker concept by Lu Le is pretty fan-fucking-tastic. Pardon my language. The tower holds 7 bluetooth wireless speaker spheres that can be tossed about to create dynamic audio environments. Tho not true surround sound, the concept is unique and from a tech standpoint, well thought out. Recharging happens via induction in the tower. DO WANT!

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Yes it looks a little sinister but the Stimuli 3.0 is a lighting system whose shape and therefore light output sensitively varies inversely with the surrounding natural light intensity. At the heart of this device is a unique 3 axis gear box which enables this subtle alteration of lighting through an attractive and striking change in form of the device.

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