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- When Noise is Good for Lights!
- Flexible Notebook Has Sexy Features
- What a Tweeter
- Sensual Interior Design: The Shade Club
- Sly Lamp
- SNAP! Pen
| When Noise is Good for Lights! Posted: 25 May 2011 08:21 AM PDT C'mon noise can never be good or pleasant for anything! This pollutant give me enough grief when they tear down an old building and bring in them drill machines and saws! The only way I'm going to like them is if something useful like sound harvesting is done! Something like the Eco Noise, where these special tiles absorb the noise and convert it to energy to power up the gates with mesmerizing lights display. The idea is sweet, but I'd much rather power just one lamp than have a fancy fence. The Eco Noise is a Lotus Prize entry. Designers: Luo Lide, Chen Songrong, Li Daiyan, Lin Haoting & Xu Junwei
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| Flexible Notebook Has Sexy Features Posted: 25 May 2011 08:21 AM PDT I call myself a concept technology glutton because I can devour the most bizarre and hypothetical features, in the hope that someday we will make those advances and sexy, psycho gadgets will rule! My hope is kept alive with concepts like the Flexbook that sports key features like a flexible joint that allows you to fold and configure the laptop to become tablet or a notebook in a jiffy. Specs include a waterproof keypad, swappable rubber skins, 21:9 – 180-degree swivel touch screen that make it an eBook, tablet and notebook in one go. I’m so happy! Designer: Hao-Chun Huang
This Fujitsu concept is a part of the Fujitsu Design Award that was organized by Designboom. ---------- |
| Posted: 25 May 2011 08:18 AM PDT Don’t you have a love/hate relationship with your alarm clock? It’s probably one f the most reliable friends you’ll ever have yet we despise them. Error is the “little alarm clock that could.” To emphasize how annoying it is, Error looks like speaker tweeter. Now, it doesn’t necessarily function as a clock, but designer Niek de Kort wanted to create something that epitomizes the classic love/hate – happy/angry relationship, ultimately leading to Error’s destruction. Designer: Niek de Kort
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| Sensual Interior Design: The Shade Club Posted: 25 May 2011 12:29 AM PDT SquareONE’s latest renovation, located in the basement of a residential building in the center of Bucharest, was once home to some of the most successful and downright sexy clubs of the 90s, some of which carried a notorious and even dark past. After 5 years of vacancy the Shade Club has opened its doors to reveal a sultry modern design that reflects the scandalous history of the venue. At the start of the remodel, the design team noticed 7 to 8 layers of material applied to the walls, giving them a peek into the location’s history, and sparking their interest in its mysterious past. The first of the 3 defined spaces within the club is also the largest and features a high density of structural pillars. By covering the pillars in mirrors and applying three-quarter lamps across two edges on each, the columns seem to disappear and a “forest of lamps” emerge. The volumetric pattern on the surrounding walls is CNC dense polyurethane foam painted white. Behind the pattern are mirrors that continue the visual effect of the mirrored pillars. The second space is a circular room that surrounds the central lounge. Given the shape, the designers opted for an organic design that incorporated baroque decoration. The single row of structural pillars were covered in a Corian skin. It is a soft, organic shape vertically extruded. The Corian skin was engraved with the graphic design CNC milled into the surface of the material, then a special mold was made and the Corian milled plates were thermoformed. The semicircular bar in the this space was done exactly the same. The walls have a routed MDF structure, and thin, extremely flexible Axpet cladding to which graphic designs were cut and applied on the surface. The third and smallest space is quite isolated from the rest, and features handmade graphic designs on the walls and a single lounge. Hovering above the lounge is a ellipsoidal light membrane on the ceiling made of a elastic membrane that diffuses the light. To polish the look the designers used white fringe to better illustrate the shape and link the two elements. In the bar areas there are virtual sections that cut the volume and leave white luminous surfaces with 2D images of different objects (lamps, tables and other household furniture). The ideea was to illustrate a photo of the interior of a house that cuts out volume and leaves an impression. To contrast the space the designers used Corian Noir in combination with translucent Glacier Ice Corian. Spectral tubes were then used as light sources to illuminate the white surfaces. Designer: SquareONE
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| Posted: 25 May 2011 12:01 AM PDT This pendant luminaire, designed by Ding 3000 for online design retailer SKITSCH, is the latest member of the mega-successful family of 2D LED lamps. Like the original table and floor lamps, the shape mocks traditional lamp forms. The structure is deceivingly bare and even looks unfunctional, but recessed into its framework are inconspicuous strips of bright LED lights. A clever design that’s sure to make a great conversation piece. Designer: Ding 3000
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| Posted: 25 May 2011 12:01 AM PDT It’s interesting that a commonplace item like the pen can really tell a lot about a person, because as I’m sure you know, people can be very particular about their pens. Focusing on this idea, the Turtle SNAPback series of work and play pens incorporates both sophistication and fun into an innovative design sure to have its fair share of devotees. The casings, which are finished in either refined steel or vibrant plastic, are pulled rather than pushed to let it “snap back” and expose the nib. Get your Turtle here! Designer: Turtle
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