Thursday 11 November 2010

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The Fascinating Legacy of the 2010 TUDOR Heritage Chrono Watch

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 09:00 AM PST

If it's not the celestial bodies, man has depended on earthly resources (sand-clock) to keep an account of the precious moments that tick away. With age and technology, refinements to the system gave us pocket watches, grandfather clocks and even the humble wristwatch. Subtle significance in fictions like Paths of Glory, where a watch played the crucial evidence that rocked Edmund Hillary's claim to Everest, or real-time standstills found at ground zero, a watch is a Precious Heritage that we all identify with. The 2010 TUDOR Heritage Chrono Watch is one significant addition that you’d like to inherit.

Heritage essentially is the rich legacy that passes down to generations and Tudor Heritage is one legacy that is created at the crossroads of vintage and velocity. The 2010 TUDOR Heritage Chrono models itself on the 1970s model, retaining the original shape and proportions of the middle case, bezel, lugs and bracelet. To suit every taste, Heritage Chrono comes in either grey on black or black on grey. The style gets significant with the stunning orange details and 3-D appliqué rather than printed pentagonal-shaped hour markers and two counters.

Here is what makes TUDOR Heritage Chrono a charming addition to your precious time-keeping collection:

  • The beveled and polished edges of the lugs look breathtakingly elegant.
  • Slick, stylized shoulders protect the crown, and the knurled edge of the rotatable bezel and of the pushers that flank a knurled winding crown to improve grip.
  • The 45-minute counter reiterates the counter of the 1970s, dictated by the very structure of its 7734 Valjoux movement and the need for optimal legibility.
  • A thicker, wider, sleeker watch case of the TUDOR Heritage Chrono, once 40 mm and now 42 mm, is altogether in keeping with the dimensions of today's chronographs.
  • It boasts the reference to the 7033 bidirectional rotatable bezel, originally designed for the 1970s first edition of the watch but was never distributed.
  • Today it bears the reference number 70330, with a black eloxed aluminum disc, and comes with both a three-link solid steel bracelet with a new clasp and TUDOR shield logo, as well as, a black, grey and orange fabric strap, with a newly developed vintage- and seat belt inspired buckle.
  • The rich heritage accumulated for the last forty years finally culminates to the 2010 TUDOR Heritage Chrono, a fitting addition to the TUDOR Sport collection, which is ingeniously inspired by the celebrated TUDOR Oysterdate Chronograph of the early 1970s.
  • It is a fitting ode to the historic links and shared values of the TUDOR and Porsche brands and to the powerful TUDOR-Porsche Motorsport partnership signed in 2009, when TUDOR became "Timing Partner" for Porsche.

Design: TUDOR

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A Clean Shirt Everyday

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 08:54 AM PST

I actually enjoy doing laundry because the results always leave me in some warm, cuddly, lethargic relaxed state. Maybe it’s the combination of heat and dryer sheets; does it to me every time. But, if you told me I could leave it all behind and have clean clothes each time I opened my closet, I’d hand you my credit card.

This Washing Machine for the closet takes all the cakes kids. Designed for men (men are dirtier than women people), it uses a combination of humidity, ionization, ozone (O3) and air pressure to destroy bacteria and remove stains. All you do is hang up your shirts, turn it on and within minutes, the waterless system provides you with shirt worthy of a dry cleaner’s award. It may seem large and cumbersome but if you’re getting a clean shirt every day, doesn’t that mean you only need one, maybe two shirts instead of ten? Plus it’s free of chemicals meaning Earth is happy and your clothes last much longer.

Designer: Minsung Bae

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The Smartphone Bicycle

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 08:47 AM PST

Safety protocols say to keep both hands on the handlebars but they also say use hand gestures to signal turn intention. Contradiction! The Ecodrive has integrated lights and turn signals controlled via the handlebars. And no concept is complete without some form of smartphone integration so this little guy has a nice cubby hole for the iPhone. Keeps it charged and in return, the iPhone gives you access to its magical GPS and navigation abilities. It’s animal symbiosis people.

Designer: Juil Kim

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iDrop Information, Simple!

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 06:59 AM PST

i dropper this wonderful stylus pen for an intuitive connective experience on mobile devices. Gadgets like smart phones, laptops, and PDAs form the essence of our environment these days and the intuitive i dropper interface allows you to connect fast and move data between devices in a jiffy. Modeled on the eyedropper, this new-age thang allows you to "suck in" and "drop out" information such as a mobile application, text, or an image.

This easy step eliminates the complexities of existing transmission process between devices to an intuitive eyedropper method.

Here is how it works:

The button at the top controls the inwards-outwards action, which is reminiscent of the rubber tip of an eyedropper. The stored information is displayed (like liquid) with illuminated icons within the stem.

Awesome!

Designers: Heo Jaeyoung, Jin Hoyoung & Jung Han-Bi

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Fingers For Food Feelings

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 06:39 AM PST

The See With Fingertips is a specialized plate for the blind, to help them feel around the food-plate with hands and eat confidently, without spills. The thoughtful shape of each niche is quite interesting and I feel this idea can be extended to toddlers getting their grips on independent eating. What do you think?

Designers: Keum Eun-byeol & Park So-mi

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Dosh Wallets 2.0 Review

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 01:00 AM PST

We reviewed the original Dosh wallet in 2008 but the Aussie company is back with more styles, more colors, and a series of bespoke art wallets to choose from. I also want to introduce you to our new review editors Bret and Greg. Both switched from traditional wallets to give the Dosh a spin. Hit the jump for their review.

Check out this awesome stop motion animation starring the Dosh wallet.

Designer: Dosh (Buy them here)

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Spirograph in Three Dimensions

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 12:03 AM PST

For four days at the end of October 2010, the folks at Cohda Studio offered up a testing ground for a brand new concept in furniture creation. Using the 1960s engineering tool Spirograph along with newly developed computer programming and the latest in 3D printing tech, they’ve created a DIY stool station! All you do is draw your spirals using a plastic disk onto the provided Wacom tablet, adding the third dimension by slowing down or speeding up your movements.

So when the data on your speed is collected by the computer, leg height, depth, and overall structure of the object are decided and mapped. At this launch, the machines were effectively set to create coffee table height design, but are configurable to numerous projects with variable heights.

After illustrating (or designing, however you look at it) your stool, the rapid prototyper is able to print up a three-dimensional copy of your stool. In the future, you’ll be able to take ownership of the images and 3D file you created, print a copy at your local 3D printer, or choose to have a group like Cohda manufacture it to your specifications. Words from Cohda:

"Why can't individuals own the computer blueprints and data for the products they purchase or create, much like the music or movie files we store today?" Wouldn't it be interesting for your kids to look through your old digital furniture album?

Designer: Cohda Studio

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A Town Under Cup

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 12:02 AM PST

This is the lovely Flowing City Coaster brought to you by the fine folks at MEGAWING. Designed by Liu Chenhsu and coming in either clear or black, made entirely of Silica gel and sized at approximately W3.5 x L3.5 x H0.2″. Made to realize the age-old idea of a micro city, how strange it would be to have little objects finding us humans so very gigantic. A single drop becomes a flood in these itty bitty streams.

Condensation will become a river for the city here in the warm and hot days of summertime. Watch out for total world overflow! These lovely coasters come in sets of two, so you can get your double drink on.

Designer: Liu Chenhsu of MEGAWING [Buy It Here Flowing City Coaster is available for $12 @ YD Store]

Flowing City Coaster is available for $12 @ YD Store

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Environment of Understanding

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 12:02 AM PST

This project is called “Hope Tree” and it aims to encapsulate you in a world of light and help you to fully immerse yourself in the essence of our natural environment. As the designers put it, “Lately, we are bombarded with products that try to deal with the consequences of environmental damages throughout the world, but occasionally we overlook the roots of these occurring problems by not fully understanding our environment.” With that problem in their path, they set to work creating a tree.

Shelter, gardener, and friend, this is the tree. The tree has been one of us humans most used objects in history, from a single sheet of paper to a gigantic mansion house. We must take care of this resource before it gets chomped down into oblivion.

Inside a 20 foot shipping container, the tree enveloping the space within it, made up of 670 self-supporting watercolor paper panels this environment then surrounds anyone who enters it. The rigidity of each watercolor panel was further reinforced by edges of cardboard to create a box form. These panels were sized such that they’d be able to assemble a spacial arch based on traditional construction, while leaf-like cutouts were sized and placed in the panels depending on their geometry.

Behind each panel, tracing paper is placed for diffusion, diffusion of an array of LED lights which then shine into the tree. Each leaf cutout exposed itself more and more each day as the watercolor paper’s expansion and contraction based on humidity took place.

Location: Tokyo, Japan
Project Team: Fumio Hirakawa, Principal, Marina Topunova, Principal
New York Team: Rain Yan Wang, Jennifer Shively, Motoko Shoboji
Tokyo Team: Taro Fukunaga, Gregory Kay, Yo Konishi, Kumiko Ouchi, Akira Taguchi, Atsushi Takahashi

Designers: Fumio Hirakawa and Marina Topunova of 24° Studio

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