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- A False Arm that Doesn’t Appear So
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| Posted: 28 Dec 2010 01:31 AM PST  Do you remember blowing soap bubbles and chasing after them? Give me a set now, and you'd find me doing the same…. even at this age! I guess for such fun-stuff we get stuck in a time warp or something. And since this is the next-gen, imagine adding some neon-psychedelic colors to the suds and blowing glow-in-the-dark light bubbles! The next big thing! Designers: Wang Qiubo, Shen Lingyan, Zou Yujuan & Shi Tenggao
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| Posted: 28 Dec 2010 01:30 AM PST  The River Flowing System doesn't give you the chance of wondering if you have it set to flow or tap. The design is such that the showerhead is placed above a basin-esque bowl and the water flows down as a stream. Water pressure and temperature settings are controlled via a centralized knob and showerhead is held into place via magnets. So basically you just turn the shower on and the water cascades down the bowl-lip, giving you the best of both the worlds! Designer: Choi Hyong-Suk
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| Posted: 28 Dec 2010 01:28 AM PST  Every little step towards saving energy is a good thing; and thus we have the Ring Socket. The design is based on how a timer works. Set the ring for an hour, two-hours, more-hours; and at the end of it, the power supply shuts off. A thoughtful design but I guess suitable only for single sockets; as a long strip it would look too comical! Designers: Cheng-Hsiu Du & Chyun-Chau Lin
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| Posted: 28 Dec 2010 12:08 AM PST  Behold shrouded figures standing watch over us all, each of them covered in light in all places both light and dark. These are a set of sculptures called “Light Guards,” designed and executed by designer / artist Manfred Kielnhofer. Each of them is a lamp sculpture, fabric draped over an invisible human-like shape. Each one of them is also polyester matched with energy sensitive lamps glowing at 32 W each. These seem so spectacular. They remind me of the band SUNNO))), except they’re light and spectacularly gorgeous instead of darkest night. To have these sitting about your city is to have something miraculous keeping an eye on your whole spiritual population. Designer: Manfred Kielnhofer
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| A False Arm that Doesn’t Appear So Posted: 28 Dec 2010 12:03 AM PST  It’s the strangest thing, and it owes a lot to the advancement of medical research and history, that while eyeglasses have been fashionable almost from their inception, prosthesis have barely evolved at all in the hundreds of years they’ve existed. This situation has been addressed by Stephan Merkle in this project, AWEAR SERIES Prosthesis. It is through artificial skin and fashion elements that cover up advanced mechanical elements that make this project the leap into normality we should have made long, long ago. Lovely and attractive elements cover up hinges and electronics, these myoelectric prosthesis allow the user to not only match their own physical appearance, they’re able to accessorize to the degree that such a perceived handicap should be, turning that piece thats missing into a piece that’s added. Take a peek at the video and gallery below. Designer: Stephan Merkle
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| Posted: 28 Dec 2010 12:02 AM PST  When I was a young lad, we had a local playground with a giant playset made entirely of old rubber tires. The giant ones, four feet or more in diameter each. This playset was eventually torn down because a combination of weather, animals, and homeless people ended up making it an unfavorable environment for kids. Let David Barry show you now what the people who designed that piece of junk SHOULD have done with the tires instead. Take a glance, if you will, at the Big Foot play equipment project. Each of the pieces here consists of a steel frame, recycled plastic support, and rubber safety surfacing made entirely of recycled car tires. The set you’re about to see consists of a climbing frame / slide, a multi-layered climbing frame, a round-about, and a giant moving play surface. Slide Mountain is designed with motor play in mind, having kids climb up the side to be able to access the slide. Cave Mountain has both an interior and an exterior playing surface lending itself to lots of imagination intensive situations. Wobble Ground is a play surface that moves and shifts as its stepped on, one piece moving one direction making the next move the next, encouraging interactive play between children. Roundabout Rock is a spinning pointer that can work to direct kids along colored paths throughout the play area – alternately it can be used to spin around so fast that you just barf all over everyone, hooray! Check it out, looks amazingly fun, and I know I would have had a BLAST when I was five. Designer: David Barry
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