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• Call for Entries!
• For The Love Of Coffee
• Becoz I Like To Move My Sofa Around
• Considering a Slice of Cake
• Washing Machine Divides and Conquers
• Replicating Guitar Reality
• Deep Sea Exploring
• Over the Land and Through the Port

Call for Entries! Posted: 09 Mar 2010 09:10 AM PST Your assignment: imagine the future of mobile communication. Have you ever been frustrated with your mobile phone and wondered why it can't do this or that? Well, you finally have a chance to let your voice be heard! LG Mobile Phones is partnering with crowdSPRING and Autodesk® to announce a new competition to define the next generation of mobile communication. If you are a U.S. resident age 18 and older, you can have a chance to design your vision of the next revolutionary LG mobile phone and compete for more than $80,000 in awards. The competition will begin soon, so why not get a head start and exercise your creative imagination now! Competition: LG Design the Future

For The Love Of Coffee Posted: 09 Mar 2010 02:34 AM PST I think I’ve confessed one too many times that tho I’m a coffee addict, I just can’t spend too much time nurturing it. There are actually freaks like me who LOVE instant coffee and don’t want to do the grinding-percolating routine. Which is why I simply adore this ceramic-glass fusion called Coffee Set. It’s a cup with a slotted bottom that holds in just right amount of coffee powder and water, for you to stir the mixture with the handle. Yup no spoons required! The design gets even more interesting with the saucer, which has a missing bottom! This empty space is for fitting in your cup snugly and keeping the brew warm for a longer time via insulation. I know many of you may be going “tsk tsk” for the cleaning part, I mean getting the cup spanky clean thanks to the slotted bottom doesn’t sound easy. But for fancy design’s sake, I’m willing to adopt this set, plus I don’t do the dishes….so it’s really not my headache! Designer: Yali Dai

Becoz I Like To Move My Sofa Around Posted: 09 Mar 2010 01:00 AM PST Long before it became a fad to hire interior designers to do up your rooms, humble folks just rearranged their furniture to give their home a new look. Times and trends now dictate that either we use innovative stuff that never gets obsolete or keep hiring the cash-drain! Fitting into the former category is the EQUALIZE Multifunctional Furniture Modules; a set of three pieces that can be configured in your free-fancy way. Create sofa, couch, folding table, flower or fruit vase! Designer: Olga Kalugina

Considering a Slice of Cake Posted: 09 Mar 2010 12:50 AM PST Yay let’s have a party! I’d eat cake every day if I could! I remember when I first went to college, I ate icecream every night. Designers at WAGAii are considering how to cut the cake. Really! Each box of Petals consists of a single plastic flower. With it, you can cut a cake perfectly into 3, 4, 6, 12, 5, 7, 8, 9, or 10 pieces. I didn’t get lost in there! There’s two ways to cut! So many options, one single flower of plastic. Alright check it out. You can either use the pedals of the flower (the top,) or the leaves of the flower (along the stem.) If you use the petals (the top,) you can cut the cake into 3, 4, 6, or 12 pieces, as each pedal spans 30 degrees. All you’ve got to do is insert the top of the flower into the cake and keep it in place, cutting then between whichever pedals make sense for you. (See the first image below). If you use the leaves (on the stem,) you can cut the cake into 5, 7, 8, 9, or 10 pieces. This gets a little more complicated. You must first start with a cut, placing against that cut then the pedal marked with the number of pieces you’d like. At the other end of that pedal, make another cut. Move the pedal to that cut, and continue. All done! And when you ARE done, the flower connects and sits in the pot that it comes with for a lovely decoration. Designer: WAGAii

Washing Machine Divides and Conquers Posted: 09 Mar 2010 12:20 AM PST I want this in my home NOW. We all know step 1 in caring for your clothes is to properly wash them but who can be bothered with the whole separate and sort bit? Technically you should sort by color first, then fabric. That all adds up to multiple loads, some of which may not be full which makes you an evil water waster. The Individual Washer concept is an upright washing machine with 3 compartments to sort and launder your clothes together without worry about color bleeding or bleaching. Now I’m looking at my washing machine with contempt. Designer: Yali Dai

Replicating Guitar Reality Posted: 09 Mar 2010 12:18 AM PST I would like, if I may, to take you… on a strange journey. Actually on a weird, wild, perhaps futuristic guitar trip. What we’re dealing with here is an electric guitar that the designer reports has all the pros of electric sound with none of the downsides of a non-analog. Pickups and frets with digital imputs which work on a MIDI-signal that’s adaptable to replicate any guitar and amp setup. And what’s weird about that? No strings – but your fingers wont believe it. The touch sensitive neck analyses finger positions, while liquid micro-channels bulge from the surface to create variable fret positioning while “piezo-electric actuators emulate frequencies of vibration corresponding the the played note.” And what the heck would that mean to me, you might ask? The brain shall then recognize these frequencies through your fingertips, reporting the same sensation you’d feel if you were playing physical strings. Whaaaat?! This sounds amazing. I demand one instantly. Designer: Anton Weichselbraun

Deep Sea Exploring Posted: 09 Mar 2010 12:14 AM PST Fluke is a diving robot designed for the deep abyss. The data collected serves to deepen our understanding of the ocean as an ecosystem. The research probes are equipped with flexible, pressure-resistant carriers suitable for holding various sensors in order to prepare for the respective missions. Extremely effective and featuring reduced energy consumption, the low-complexity drive system concept is based on the movements of a fish and can be manufactured affordably. Designers: Ralf Kittmann & Annalisa Koch

Over the Land and Through the Port Posted: 09 Mar 2010 12:10 AM PST Look at that port! More on that later. This concept vehicle is the OEX-B, the Overland Expedition type B. Overland, basically meaning across land exclusively, describes where this truck shall go, and sightseeing is what its passengers shall do. Made for tourist travel, is what it is. For the best tour ever, with the most eyes directed towards YOU. Because there’s no way in HECK there’s going to be a truck like yours on the road when you’re cruzin in this bad boy. Made for lots of places for easy viewing: the giant porthole with seats facing the sides of the road, hatch on the tail that opens to view the from the back, lateral extendable balcony with built-in binoculars, and a big-ol windshield up front. Below you will see first a video of the canopy opening atop the vehicle. Notice how bug-like the whole situation is (in fact, the entire vehicle’s main form is inspired by the scarab beetle.) Inside are panels that collect solar energy from our yellow sun, not unlike Superman himself. After that, you’ll see a similar video, this time of the giant port-hole and extending staircase that come out the side of the vehicle. These remind me rather of the classic film “Flight of the Navigator”, in which a fabulous space craft has very similar stairs and port. OEX comes in two types: A and B. A having 4 wheels for short distance, type A3 being the "OEX-A All-Terrain" for 12 to 15 passengers, and A4 the "OEX-A Arctic" for 12 to 15 passengers, specialized for the Arctic touristic expeditions. B being the one made for long travel. B1 is the "OEX-B All-Terrain" for 20 passengers (featured in the images), and B2 "OEX-B African" for 20 passengers, specialized for African safari drives (also featured in the images.) Each of these trucks features a Modular Platform featuring a “series-hybrid system” assisted by a diesel generator, categorizing it as a "Range Extended Electric Vehicle" (REEV). Each of the wheels have an in-wheel motor inspired by Hyperlink. These independent engines create the possibility of reconfiguration, “4 or 6 wheels all created with the same components to form a drivetrain.” AND, just so you don’t forget, if you’re observing lions in this thing, either make sure you’re driving the B type 2, which has a balcony, or just be safe and stay inside the vehicle for cripes sake. Designer: Hamid Reza Bekhradi

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