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• Free Diving is a Dangerous Sport
• Food For Thought
• Printing My Food By The Molecule
• Printing With Ballpen
• How Simple the Rack
• Walk the Mobile, String it Up!
• Enemies of Garden
• Mother Of Modular Kitchens

Free Diving is a Dangerous Sport Posted: 02 Mar 2010 07:29 AM PST And yet more and more people are doing it. Why people why?!?! Listen, we weren’t meant to be underwater. The fact that our cell walls start to explode and oxygen levels deplete in a few minutes should be half a clue that mother nature didn’t design us to be here. Then again, nature didn’t design us to fly nor sit at the computer blogging all day so I digress. If you love free diving, then you may need the D-eepdive gadget. There’s two bits to this setup. Both are wristwatches but one monitors the state of the free diver – the one plunging head first into the abyss on a single breath. The other device receives information about free diver so should he/she suffer from hypoxia and suddenly faint (apparently very common in this extreme sport), the safety or control diver can save the day. The whole thing works via Bluetooth and nanotechnology. Don’t ask me how – the designer doesn’t really explain other than suggesting the chip inside each device requires nanotech to work. Designers: Murat Ozveri & Anil Dincer For Design Quadro

Food For Thought Posted: 02 Mar 2010 07:17 AM PST There’s a paradigm shift in the science of food. Fifteen ago proper nutrition meant augmenting the kind of foods you ate. Buzz words like low-carb, low-cal, non-fat, low-glycemic, organic, and natural made their way into our vocabulary and yet we’re becoming fatter and unhealthier. Philips Design envisions a range of products that not only identify the true contents of food, but also how it affects your individual body. The Diagnostic Kitchen enables people to take a much more accurate and personally relevant look at what they eat. The system is comprised of a tabletop, scanning wand, and swallowable sensor. The wand is an interactive device that gives you real time data about what’s going on inside your body, everything from salt to water ratio, hydration, fats, proteins, etc… By docking the wand and placing a food item you might eat on the tabletop, the wand updates to show how this item will affect your body. The end goal is finding equilibrium. As you continue to use the system, you’ll gain an understanding of how food really affects you. As you find balance, the wand keeps a visual record of your progress and displays it across the surface. This is a provocative and unconventional look at food but one that can have a profound effect on how we eat. Imagine what that wand would look like if you placed a Big Mac with fries and a coke on the tabletop. The damn thing would probably explode. Designers: Philips Design

Printing My Food By The Molecule Posted: 02 Mar 2010 01:15 AM PST Molecular gastronomy studies the physical and chemical processes that occur while cooking. It basically tries to investigate and explain the chemical reasons behind the transformation of ingredients. We saw reference to this stream a while ago and now inspired by the so-called ‘molecular gastronomists’ who take pride in completely deconstructing food only to re assemble them bizarre modern ways, Philips Design presents the Food Creation Concept. Food Creation consists of a food printer that would accept various edible ingredients and then combine and 'print' them in the desired shape and consistency, in much the same way as stereo lithographic printers create 3-D representations of product concepts. For example carrot could be served as foam or parmesan cheese as a strand of spaghetti! So if the kids don't want to eat broccoli or brussels sprouts, how about shaping them as candy or ice-cream? Interestingly, the printer allows you to adjust the nutritional value and relevance of what was being ‘printed’ based on input from the diagnostic kitchen's nutrition monitor. This ways you'll always have the perfectly balanced meal. Designer: Philips Design

Printing With Ballpen Posted: 02 Mar 2010 01:10 AM PST Forgive me for the overdose on Printer Designs, or rather re-design, but apparently current cartridges and toner ink is a major source of worry for our designing community. The evil existing ones are BAD for the environment; hence after Pencil I and Pencil II, it's time to consider draining out the last drops out of a Ballpoint Pen and use it for printer ink. So let's dissect the REENK…only request, keep the discussion to why you think this will work or why not. Designers: Hyo Sun Ahn & Min Koung So

How Simple the Rack Posted: 02 Mar 2010 01:00 AM PST Not that rack. This rack. It’s the “Line.” Designed by Pavel Sidorenko and made to be tied. Made for you modern-headed life-bringers from the city or the small smart towns popping up all over the outside of the big ones. Yes you! I know you’ve got antique stores in your town, but you’ve got to have some of this new loveliness, I know you! If you’d have been born a few years later you’d have been hipsters! As it stands, you’ve just got really good taste. Look at this rack. This rack is for you. It’s 150mm tall, and one of three lengths: 1450mm, 850mm, or 350mm. Hows that. Anything you want there! To hang you’ve got only to lift your object behind the rack and let it fit between slits, or use one of the addition options. First you can use pegs that come with it, plugging them in the holes there. Second you can use the “Line” set of objects which, incidentally, I wrote about just the other day. Have a peek! Any way you hang it, your elders are going to have a heck of a time adapting, and your youngsters will figure it out in a moment. Designer: Pavel Sidorenko of Adsen Furniture

Walk the Mobile, String it Up! Posted: 02 Mar 2010 12:03 AM PST How many times have you, as an adult, or as a young adult, been walking along the sidewalk thinking, gosh! I wish I had a yoyo right now. And the phone rings? That’s almost certainly what happened to Emmanuel Hanson the day this yoyo mobile phone charger concept was whipped up. What does it do? It yoyos! And what happens when it yoyos? It charges your phone! All the way up, all the way down. Make it walk, make it run. Make it fly over your head, make it smack a dude in the face. All of this is beneficial! Unless that dude then breaks your phone. That’s not awesome. What’s the weirdness though, you might ask? I’ve heard of every charger idea in the world, this is neat, but not neat enough? The neatness is thus: not only does the yoyo charge the phone, the yoyo IS the phone. How’s that for spinnin? Designer: Emmanuel Hanson

Enemies of Garden Posted: 02 Mar 2010 12:03 AM PST Friends at last! For what greater enemy does a vase have than a baseball? Maybe a cat. But that’s not important right now, because this is the “VaseBall!” In fact it has little to do with baseball at all, and a lot more to do with water and magnets. As you’re soon to see, the base of this vase and the top of the base of the vase each have magnets. When the water in the vase is too low, the lightness and the opposites in the poles make the ball lift! Makes sense? Opposite poles in the magnets, too powerful for the weight of the ball, makes the ball lift from the ground. When water is added, the weight becomes greater than the power of the magnets. As the designer Min Seok Song says, the magnets act as an “intermediary in communication between human in plant.” How very poetic and neat! Designer: Min Seok Song

Mother Of Modular Kitchens Posted: 02 Mar 2010 12:00 AM PST We have seen plenty of modular kitchens and counters, but the Mother of em all is the Accordion Folding Cook Table. Sneaky little triangular drawers pop out from the folds of the table (that's why it's called the Accordion). Sliding counter tops and more drawers on the left and right side of the table, makes this the most coveted kitchen platform in my eyes. The beauty doesn't stop here, drawer covers can be upturned to be used as preparation boards. And transparent plastic let's you know what the boxes hold, without having to open them. The functional modules can be configured in two to four sets, giving you the perfect kitchen! Designer: Olga Kalugina

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