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• Cook In With The CookIn Table
• Sit On An Ostrich Or Something Like It
• Advance Carbon Fiber Electric Bike
• All I Ever Want Is The Smartbook To Be Real
• Two Baths Crashed
• For Soggy Boots
• One Ring to Green Them All

Cook In With The CookIn Table Posted: 11 Mar 2010 01:17 AM PST This is induction cooking at its finest. Designed to be functional and as a wonderful table top to serve from, the CookIn Table encourages family time by engaging everyone to join in ala hot pot style. The cooktop only heats up when a metallic surface touches it. Beneath the glass top are retractable shelves for additional service stations and beneath that is storage for utensils. Beautiful and accompanied by an extremely detailed exploded view. We like that. Designer: Young-Chan Choo

Sit On An Ostrich Or Something Like It Posted: 11 Mar 2010 01:08 AM PST A finalist for the Most Beautiful Object in South Africa, the Ostrich Barstool defies conventional seating design for something whimsical and surprisingly comfortable. Inspired by a recent ride on an Ostrich, sounds fun! – the result is an upholstered seat with elegantly shaped steel legs based on an ostriches’ proportions. I want 3 of these NOW. I think they’re gorgeous and fun to look at. Designer: Y. Tsai

Advance Carbon Fiber Electric Bike Posted: 11 Mar 2010 12:59 AM PST Thinking caps on because this takes some imagination to digest. The HMK 561 is a carbon fiber bike with special electrical properties that hold power right inside the frame. Carbon fiber is highly conductive so the designer uses it as a power distribution network instead of  wires. The power drives the lights and the motors in between the rims but get this… there’s regenerative braking. All that energy drives a system that turns the wheels using a counter-turning axel in lieu of gears and chains. Far fetched? No, because there’s already a prototype. Designer: Ralf Kittmann

All I Ever Want Is The Smartbook To Be Real Posted: 11 Mar 2010 12:30 AM PST And then I'm ready to go to Geek Heaven! One of the reasons why devices like iPad and other tablets exist is to satisfy this urge in us to stay connected to the web world. Latest touchscreen phone also carry the same incentive, but somehow both the devices have one flaw: tablets lack an external keyboard and phones lack the screen real estate. To bridge the gap we have the really innovative Smartbook; a Smartphone that flips open to become a QWRTY keyboard and syncs with its personalized PC Tablet. Designers: In-oh Yoo & Sun-woong Oh for Metatrend Institute

Two Baths Crashed Posted: 11 Mar 2010 12:03 AM PST That’s right, two baths crashed very gracefully and what came out the other side? This thing right here! It’s called the Infinity Bath, and it’s just the best thing ever I’m tellin ya. It’s got controls! Total technology in your ol’ bucket o’ wash water. Yessir, technology and next level comfort. And it all comes through the mini-panel on the inside side of the bath, which accesses every sensation: scent, music, touch, and eyeballs. Through that control panel adjust for yourself the water temperature, feed rate, and modes of hydro-massage jets. You can also choose oil or perfume for aromatherapy. Remote connection to the internet and intelligent home system allows you to also choose music and pre-enable all of your favorite settings. Concealed, silent valves for water, on two sides to help distribute the water evenly. Each bath contains removable cartridges for things such as pine oil, sea salt, that can be refilled at stores that carry such stuff. The bulk of the bath is made up of Duralight – material, “opening new possibilities for creating harmonious and pleasing lines, simple in its understanding, helping to fully experience the dynamics of water and feel its infinite movement.” And this designer thinks further ahead than the actual first wave of these! The bath is made in a way that allows for modification, opening the door for such things as lighting implanted in the sides, unique sculptural elements, and ornamentation galore. Designer: Aleksander Mukomelov

For Soggy Boots Posted: 11 Mar 2010 12:03 AM PST Do you live in a place where it snows very often? I sure do. If you’re smart, you either make a living off blogging and never leave your house, or you get a nice fresh pair of snow stomping boots! But as you face it, the cold, cold world you live in becomes clear, and you realize you must get groceries. And your shoes will become wet. What do you do then? Dry em. And that picture you see down there isn’t just a shoehumper! It’s a Universal Drying Apparatus, and it’s made to heat! It’s called the “AIR” aka and its made to be able to dry anything from clothing, accessories, umbrellas, to seeds and berries! On this sphere of warming, three extenders are situated, each of them able to clamp on, move around, and support basically any configuration. Not for making hot chocolate! Designer: Olga Kalugina

One Ring to Green Them All Posted: 11 Mar 2010 12:02 AM PST How many of you are swanky enough to have a tree stump on your wall? Well you’re in luck! Because here’s another one! This one’s made to keep tabs on your environment, air pollution style. The basic concept here is lights and filters. As this device sits on your wall, showing you with conveniently lovely lights how dirty your air is, it also does a small degree of filtering that same air to keep your home nice to breath in. The reason these designers chose to do this project is to remind folks at home of the pollutants that are affecting the forests of the world every day. In the same way those forests are dying, SO WILL YOU* unless you keep your house air clean! *Probably not, but clean air keeps lungs happy! They offer this loving message: Today, the green forest in our global village is daily being reduced to 80 thousand m². The forest is being worsened daily by air pollution due to elements such as SO2, ozone depletion, NOx and acid fog. Accordingly, the following phenomena such as the impeded leaf growth, yellowing damage, and narrowed width of annual tree rings are appearing and have appeared due to this pollution. We propose this Eco-Green Ring to represent and remind us of both the pollution in the air and the trees that are disappearing, as they are both indispensable for our species life. As far as the air in your room goes, red lights means bad, green lights means good. And as it’s a green machine, a large cross-section of the elements it’s made of are recycled in some way or another. And it’s powered by your favorite kind of power! Human power! It doesn’t eat your skin or anything, what I actually mean is that you actually have to pull on the little branch on the side of it to rev up its power supply. Cute! Designers: Park Jun Seok and Kwon Hye Rim

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