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• I got NEWS For You
• Eat Artistically
• An Alternate Breast Pump
• Train of Deep Thought
• GPS in a Hand Disk
• Dead Wood for Books
• Frozen Unit for a Frozen Unit

I got NEWS For You Posted: 22 Apr 2010 08:59 AM PDT Motorized wheelchairs are a great invention, giving millions of disabled people mobility and independence but they’re still prohibitively expensive. Even with insurance, it can take families years to save up the cash to buy one. An alternative is the NEWS (New Electric Wheelchairs) by Ju Hyun Lee. The contraption attaches to any standard wheelchair giving you instant motorized power. Great for hospitals, nursing homes, physical therapy centers, and a future episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Designer: Ju Hyun Lee

Eat Artistically Posted: 22 Apr 2010 08:54 AM PDT Love me some sushi y’all. Good sushi is already editable art but designer Arthur Xin takes it to the next step in the literal sense by packaging all the traditional condiments in gouache paint tubes. The entire serving tray looks like an artist’s palette he calls the, wait for it… Sushi Palette. Mmm yum yum I gotta get me some! Is there a place for artful eating in people’s busy lives? Designer: Arthur Xin

An Alternate Breast Pump Posted: 22 Apr 2010 06:44 AM PDT Cracked nipples and the agony of nursing a hungry baby at the same time is quite a severe situation that only moms will understand. Breast pumps are a solution and even if we use it for convenience purposes, the whole idea of an artificial nipple squeezer is quite alien to a lactating mother. The goal of the IUNO Breast Pump is not to offer a quick pumping session, but to offer a comforting, more intimate and less intimidating experience. The bowl is shaped more like a baby's head than a bottle tube for that sake. How does it work: Instead of a funnel connected to a bottle, the part of the pump held against the breast is a sphere. It encompasses all the different parts that are found in today’s pumps: funnel, diaphragm, valve and milk reservoir. The funnel’s shape has been designed to be more organic and closer to what actually goes on in a baby’s mouth during suckling during which the nipple’s shape is changed and the areola is massaged against the baby’s palate. In addition, the funnel is lined with a separate thick silicone lining for the mother’s comfort. It is this lining that massages the area surrounding the nipple when the vacuum is applied. The base houses the pump itself as well as holding the sphere when it’s not held by the mother. It includes a digital timer as well as controls for the vacuum levels and the number of cycles per minute. Designer: Dan Almagor

Train of Deep Thought Posted: 22 Apr 2010 04:15 AM PDT Traveling by train, metro, subway, monorail, bullet train or whatever you call it, can be harrowing at times. No worries, design house Prechteck has saved you a great seat for all the action. Like plucking fruit from a tree, fruit that you sit on as you pretend to not notice the creepy man next to you “reading” a porn magazine. This railway seating design won second place out of 5,000 submissions to the Bombardier/YouRail design competition. This design features retractable and flexible seats that are formed by an external stretchable layer which is attached to the structure and can adapt to different configurations (body types). Now if only these seats can cure the obvious depression these train riders are suffering from after learning they are riding in the second place design. Designer: Chris Precht

GPS in a Hand Disk Posted: 22 Apr 2010 12:20 AM PDT This one’s for those of you who have low or no visibility with the eyes. Blind, sometimes people say. This is what’s known as the “DROP” GPS system, and it’s all hand-held. It uses the 3D dots you might be used to calling braille, here known more as Tactile Display technology, and it all works in conjunction with things such as a cane or seeing eye dog sometimes used by the blind. Smooth sailing on an abstract device. It’d be interesting to try’n use one of these, blind or sightful, The 3D map of the city is lifted up from the surface of the device and moves as you move, like a compass and with zoom, search, voice command, and everything. All in your palm. BONUS: I suggest an alternate means marketing this device – as a very sophisticated game of treasure hunter! For grown up kids. Designer: Allan Sejer Madsen and Lukasz Natkaniec

Dead Wood for Books Posted: 22 Apr 2010 12:10 AM PDT For books to sit on, that is. Not to be. Although when you think about it, all real books are made of dead wood pulp. Unless it’s… LIVING DEAD PULP! Ahhh! But that’s not what we’re here about today. Today right here now we’re talking about the “Zen Bench.” This bench / bookshelf amalgamation is the tops when it comes to looking amazing while holding either books or butts. Designed by an intensely named Latvian, Raimonds Cirulis. Cirulis describes this bench or bookshelf to be made of naturally dead wood sources. Not only that, but naturally dead pine wood. For use as a bench or as several benches stacked up to make a bookshelf. For real. See, I said it. I called it. Designer: Raimonds Cirulis for Studio Maffam

Frozen Unit for a Frozen Unit Posted: 22 Apr 2010 12:03 AM PDT Allow me to get cold hearted with you for a moment. Let me warm your brain up with some lovely Industrial Design of the conceptual sort. This might also be called architecture, if you be so inclined to be specific. An ice-tastic structure designed by the 2-B-2 crew, one by the name of “Arctic Mobile Unit.” It is a solution to the problem of existing in such a climate, a climate not suitable for human beings, an environment that will freeze your tootsies off. In the polar regions of the world, there are ever-present problems of transport, life-support, and communication. To solve, or at least take a blowtorch toward these problems, 2-B-2 unleashes a set of mobile units. Each unit can support 3 people for 15 days, and can operate between -40 and +10C with winds up to 85 km/h. With dimensions very similar to the widely used 3′ Dry Freight Container, each unit is easily transportable. Each unit has a solar battery, 5kW power generator, snow smelter, and is made of a steel frame, carbon panels, and polyethylen (thermo-insulating membranes.) It all weighs 1500 kg and is 2000×1600x2300mm. Designer: Andrey Bondarenko for 2-B-2 Architecture

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