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• Blue Blue Bidet?
• This Time Tea = Time
• Have A Safe Hump
• The Circle Mirror of Water Life
• Of Course! Brush Markers
• Keep on Workin, Keep on Liftin
• Welcome To The Library

Blue Blue Bidet? Posted: 05 Jan 2010 04:48 AM PST Bluena cleverly combines a WC Bowl and a bidet to become a space saving package. The acrylic bidet part conceals a tap that rotates in multi-directions. The lid of the bowl opens with a click and closes with a soft 'n slow closing mechanism. The seat is made from antibacterial soft rubber and can be replaced easily. Basically it's a no-fuss minimal styled WC that I think will look cuter in pink and soft gray combo! Maybe then I can call it Pinkena? Designer: Vasil Velchev

This Time Tea = Time Posted: 05 Jan 2010 03:54 AM PST If you've been living the fast lane for a real long time, maybe you need to slow down, relax, and have a cup of tea. Designed to replicate the art of slow-motion-during-Tea Ceremony, TEA=TIME is an attempt by designer Erez Bar-Am to make you comfy with this wide-rimmed teacup and unique sugar bubbles. These sugar bubbles float on the tea for 10 seconds, creating little bubbles on the surface till they dissolve. Enigmatic and a real leisure proposal; something we time-bound-deadline-slaves deserve. Designer: Erez Bar-Am

Have A Safe Hump Posted: 05 Jan 2010 02:28 AM PST No room for naughty thoughts here, but the explanation for a design simply called the "Safe Hump." This is no ordinary speed breaker, the system within allows it to harness the mechanical energy (of cars passing over it) into electric energy so that it can power the LEDs. Two reasons why we would want this: 1) LEDs lined speed breakers at night are easily visible from a distance 2) The design of this hump is such that your car glides over it smoothly. Operating principle: The gear mechanism structure inside the hump facilitates electromagnetic transducer and converts mechanical energy into electric energy, thus supplying energy to the LED within the hump. Better shock absorption by the car thanks to the gear mechanism structure and anti-pressure system. This prolongs the useful life of both the vehicles and humps. Designers: Zhang Yakun, He Siqian, Zhu Ningning, Chen Chen & Mu Zhiwei

The Circle Mirror of Water Life Posted: 05 Jan 2010 12:15 AM PST This mirror right here is designed to show you the amount of water you use on the daily, on the monthly, and on the yearly. LED colored lights adorn the rims of this delightful mirror, their colors being set in place by the amount of water that runs through the sink it is attached to. And if you’re feeling like you’d like a big brother mirror function, it can control the amount of water you’re allowed to use! The mirror sees what you do! You can set it so that once you get to a certain point in your water usage, the water is limited. Warm and cool colors in varying intensities show the amount you’ve used, and icons depicting helpless children and animals with numbers showing their struggles appear at the four poles of the glass. This is a product I’d put under a “righteous guilt” category. For reals. Designer: Jin Kim

Of Course! Brush Markers Posted: 05 Jan 2010 12:10 AM PST Designer Phelan Miller hits us with an ever-so-slight tweak of the ever-present highlighter marker. As part of a 12-hour designer challenge where a rendering was due at the end of the period, Miller decided to fuse the highlighter and the paintbrush together. Incorporating a paintbrush-shaped handle and a chisel tipped color distributor, this right here becomes a pen I’m surprised doesn’t exist already. I’ve never been the highlighter type. I circle things with pencils. Makes the book look nicer? I think. But that’s not gonna stop the millions of billions of students who use highlighters for studying every day! Not to mention office peoples. Billions and trillions! And I wonder, I wonder! Would they benefit from a nicer hold on their ‘lighters? I bet, I just bet, that they would. Designer: Phelan Miller

Keep on Workin, Keep on Liftin Posted: 05 Jan 2010 12:01 AM PST Designer Kimsungi has done it! Finally, my very own lift-me-up system I can roll around myself! This is one of those things I wish for but don’t really expect to reach fruition. The video below shows it in perfect clarity- a few clicks, openings, and closings, and you’ve turned what appeared to be a giant rolling suitcase into your very own lifting work stand! Get super high on this. Sungi added the brand WORX because it seemed like a rather good fit. I’m sure if you’re a manufacturer of muscle tools like this and would like to have it produced by you instead, you could ask Kim and it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch. Check out the easy to access plugs: electricity and air- very helpful if you’re using one of those fantastic air-nailers. Love em. Simple-to-use controller accessible by the person being lifted, move back and forth, up and down. Rubber flooring, uneven surface for non-falling action. Made for simple packing, movement, and help in the works. I want one! Don’t even do construction work anymore and I’d be apt to purchase. BONUS: see below for an awesome photo of Kim and a 1/2 scale final mock-up! Designer: Sungi Kim

Welcome To The Library Posted: 05 Jan 2010 12:00 AM PST For someone who stares at a monitor for most part of the day, an e-book reader is not such a novelty. No matter how convenient it may be, but at the end of the day it's still a screen! Can anything replace the smell of fresh, crisp paper? Alas, this is 2010 and the gadget-freaks are going to want more "tech" stuff, and this Library e-book Reading Device caters to their whims. It simulates actual page flipping (by rotating two mechanical rollers at the edge), features multi-touchscreen for bookmarks (no dog-ear pages!) that become visible when the book is closed. While the Bookmarks are featured on the front page of the Library, the back hosts the index for all the loaded books. The system gets funkier with the “keyboard mode”, where it simulates a laptop, allowing you to browse though a virtual bookshelf and online stores. From what I see, most e-books try and replicate the experience of reading traditional books. But from experience I can say, that it's easier to throw a book at your lazy spouse, than an e-book; especially in a fit of rage! Designer: Steve Yang, Yang ze-siao

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