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- Microwave Cooking With The Desktop
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- A Single Sheet Seat
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| Motorized Bodyboard To Save Lives Posted: 29 Apr 2010 08:54 AM PDT I’m not a beach/ocean person so I’m not even going to pretend I understand the needs of people who are. Fact of the matter is the ocean is a dangerous place and in a life or death situation, every second counts. The Titus is a motorized bodyboard designed to quickly skim the water with rider laying stomach down on top. The entire enclosure and simple propeller based propulsion system are designed to be environmentally friendly. I don’t know any life guards or coast marine operators but do you guys like this concept? I see obvious recreational value in this design and wonder why it couldn’t also be adapted for fun. Designer: Marco De Santi
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| Posted: 29 Apr 2010 08:46 AM PDT Pun intended of course. Some would say the struggle between man and ice cube trays is a silly one. It’s not that hard to extract a cube, I mean ice is slippery. The question is how can it be better? The QuickSnap looks like an ordinary tray but there are quick release tabs on the underside. Simply press the tab and BOOM (like Steve Jobs), the corresponding cube slips out of its cubby. Current score? Man = 2, Ice Cube Trays = 1. I win. Designer: Graeme Davies for Joseph Joseph
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| Posted: 29 Apr 2010 06:29 AM PDT Plastic water bottles are sooo 2009. What’s now and wow in H2O delivery is the OVO by designer Manuel Desrochers. Inspired by the successful AQUAOVO, Manuel takes a more transparent approach to filtered water housing design. Water is already front and center in our daily lives, so why not make it front and center in our kitchens? Made of glass and environmentally friendly BPA-free recyclable resins, this water dispenser can also dispense more festive liquids for parties and social occasions. Counter or wall mountable, this design holds from 5-6 liters of liquid, comes in several colors and is targeting a $150 – $200 price range. Cheers to the death of the water bottles! Designer: Manuel Desrochers
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| Microwave Cooking With The Desktop Posted: 29 Apr 2010 02:06 AM PDT The BrainWave is a desktop microwave that will come in handy for workaholics and bookworms, who can't seem to tear themselves away from their computer screens. The appliance works with the C8 port connected to the mains and is controlled through a computer application connected via USB. A RFID-tagged plastic spoon comes along with specially packaged meals and scanning the tag transmits the meal info to the microwave. This in turn auto sets the heating time. I'm not a fan of ready-to-eat meals, but piping hot microwave spaghetti beats eating a cold sandwich any day! Designer: Stephen Richard Gates
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| Posted: 29 Apr 2010 01:00 AM PDT When it comes to pointing out flaws in the layout of a laptop keyboard, the missing Number Keys on the side is one of the biggest. Since it's a laptop we are talking about, the solution obviously has to be a compact, portable one. So how about the Key Mouse? A Bluetooth mouse that hides a number pad underneath a retractable hood! Hood down and it's a curvy grip for the mouse; hood up and you can crunch the numbers; simple! Designer: Sun Lihui
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| Posted: 29 Apr 2010 12:13 AM PDT Don’t you just love it when something seemingly complicated turns out to be made out of one brilliantly folded piece of material? Well you’re in luck, there’s one of those sorts of things sitting in this post right here! It’s the “Faltsessel,” aka folded lounge chair, and it’s made from one single piece of aluminum, folded ever-so precisely into a lined chair defined by its bend edges. Manufactured in Germany, where they also offer it covered in three different kinds of buffalo skin. That’s all they have there in Germany, aluminum and buffalo. Not like the USA, where all the buffalo are basically confined to zoos, the same ones we used to keep the dinosaurs in. But that’s not a chair! This is. You can get this in plain aluminum, powder-coated aluminum in different colors, or covered with three different kinds of buffalo skin. And when you sit in the chair, always raise one foot up above your head for the full effect! At least that’s what I think the lady modeling the chair is telling us. You? Designer: Von Arne Amtsfeld for DUA
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| Posted: 29 Apr 2010 12:10 AM PDT This project goes by the name “Weight2Go” and it’s made for you folks who just need to get the weight of items on an everyday basis, in the streets! If you’ve got a gigantic box, how do you weigh it? Your bathroom scale isn’t going to work, man. It just ain’t gonna do anything for ya. So you need something else. How about you take the scale apart? All four feet, keep them, the readout meter, keep that, throw everything else out! And you’ve got this set of excellence right here. Weight2Go is made for odd-object weighing. Set down all 4 of your scale bits, set your object on all of em at once, and just check it out on your readout meter! It says what’s up! So simple. Work it. Designer: Jaeseok Han
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| Posted: 29 Apr 2010 12:02 AM PDT You wont get lost in any black holes on this thing right here. The project is called “Orbis” and it’s going to look quit familiar to you if you’re a yippie or a hipster or anyone who lives in a place that’s got rich people. That’s the only folks who ride Segways, anyway. But this isn’t that! This is Orbis, and it’s got one wheel, made for riding hard and slick. And not only that, it folds down into basically nothing for easy carrying. It’s electric! It uses gyroscopes to roll out, propelling itself based on the amount of acceleration needed to stop the vehicle from falling over. It uses a lithium battery and rides on one wheel. Orbis can maintain 25km/h at top speed, able to travel 20km on a single charged battery. After rolling, the folding is simple, and the entire contraption weighs 27lbs. Light! Designer: Christopher Souto
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