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• Umbrella The Guide Master
• Not Your Typical Take-out
• Review: naoLoop Loft Your Handy Organizer
• Yellow Light Switch
• Wrap A Little Heat
• Dial W For Water
• A Place for Your Lightsaber
• Do It for The Birdies
• Eggy Furutistic Wheels

Umbrella The Guide Master Posted: 24 Mar 2010 07:44 AM PDT Never get caught in the rain without a clue as to where to go. The Umbrella Guide has a city map printed on the inside of the nylon shell with attractions, cafes, restaurants, and hot spots pointed out. Pretty ingenious but which one of you designers want to step up and create one with a dynamically changing display based on location? Do it, do it! Designer: Cansu Cender

Not Your Typical Take-out Posted: 24 Mar 2010 07:41 AM PDT It’s interesting to see how modern life affects dietary habits around the world. In Korea people are so busy with work, dinner is often a rushed affair so designer Heewon Yoon created the BOB system. Users go online and order up meals for the week. Recipe cards color coded by day along with all the ingredients and a talking timer are delivered. Cooking home made complete and nutritionally balanced meals have never been so easy and delicious. Bibimbap anyone? Designer: Heewon Yoon

Review: naoLoop Loft Your Handy Organizer Posted: 24 Mar 2010 07:00 AM PDT To the layman the naoLoop Loft is nothing but a glamorized sheet of metal bended in three places; powder coated and has tension straps to hold things in place. But herein lays the difference: layman vs actual user aka me! I have been using the naoLoop Loft for the past three months and can tell you this; it sure is a handy organizer especially in a house populated with four adults and two children! Hit the jump to read my review. Like I mentioned before, I have a huge family compared to most and we do tend to be disorganized at times. We do have our places for keeping the car keys, mails, magazines etc. but prior to the naoLoop Loft those places were scattered around the house. The one thing that this stealth organizing device has done for me is to keep the essentials in ONE PLACE. It scores brownie points for being wall mounted because this ways everything is at eye-level and slotted, so no chance of missing it. Although naolab suggests using the naoLoop Loft it in the bathroom, kitchen or living room, I personally think it's apt for the hallway or in the office. What we loved about it: Wall Mounted. Sleek Finish. Polyester Latex Bands to hold in the goodies. Sturdy bubblewrap packing. Perfect Sizes for Binds to hold in a variety of things. If the binds start to sag a bit, they can be tightened at the fastening. What can be improved: I needed to call in a handyman to fix organizer to the wall, folks with a drill machine at home will not have a problem. A little steep in Price. The bends in the metal takes time to adjust and sit flush with the wall. Details: Dimensions: 60 cm x 30 cm. Materials: Laser cut Stainless Steel or Steel powder coated (white, black, and green) Polyester Latex Bands 2 nails come included in the pack Steel Finish: €85.00 / $115 Other Colors (green, black & white ) €75.00 / $100 Designer: Naolab [ Buy it Here ]

Yellow Light Switch Posted: 24 Mar 2010 05:04 AM PDT Sooner or later we are all going to succumb to the charms of organized electric control hubs for lights, fans, gadgets, etc. Either it's going to be the remote control way or a centralized switchboard way. Should the latter take your fancy, then concepts like The Yellow Light Switch are apt. Touch sensitive, pictographically accurate and adept to turning of lights, fans… Sorry won't work for muting nagging wife or mother-in-laws! Designers: Heo Jaesik & Lim Hojoon

Wrap A Little Heat Posted: 24 Mar 2010 04:55 AM PDT Portable burners are awesome for camping, but they do have their minor points like refilling gas and flames extinguishing during windy times. A good solution is using induction cooking stoves that are compact. The WrapStove here follows that norm and comes fitted with tiny magnets in the sleeve, to cling onto the vessel. It's a flexible thang that is fashioned like a rolled up towel and wraps around the cooking pot. It switches-on only when the end tab is folded and the temperature is set via a touchscreen. Since camping also means cramping, the WrapStove scores beautifully in the portability sector and takes up very little space in your bag. Designer: Wonchul Hwang

Dial W For Water Posted: 24 Mar 2010 03:52 AM PDT You don't have to dial any alphabets for this faucet to work, but you do need to set the duration for the flow via the dial. The thought behind this dial-connection is of course eco-consciousness. A better style than those push button taps, where one push gets you enough water to just wet your hands and nothing else! So dial wisely…5, 10, 15 seconds…or more! Designer: Eun ji Byeon

A Place for Your Lightsaber Posted: 24 Mar 2010 12:20 AM PDT So you’ve got about 500 gaming controllers, all of them all over the place. Am I right? What do you do with them? Do you wrap them up, push em back into the drawer? Tie them up together, wrap em up, tangle em up? Unwrap those thangs! Get em out here! Let’s see em! Because you know what? They were designed to be used, but they were also designed to be beautiful. I’m of the opinion that if you’re one of them “gamers”, you should let that title hang out there, flappin in the wind. Let’s look at this thing here. This thing here is a Gearboard. Made by Cambre Canada, it’s meant to show off all of your controllers, making them both easily accessible and up there out of the way. If you own a bunny rabbit like me, you know how important it is to keep cords off the ground. The same is true if you own a little human kid or a puppy dog. Or other animals I’m sure. And your lightsaber fits in there! That is nice! Designer: Cambre Canada

Do It for The Birdies Posted: 24 Mar 2010 12:15 AM PDT Park benches are a thing I’ve seen innovated upon not nearly enough. I must admit that when it comes down to it, a seat in a park is a seat in a park, and metal + wood has served this world kindly for many years. However! There is someone who wants more! The common park bird. Those little tweeties they say hey, we want some more interaction here, we want to be even closer to those friendly humans always feeding us bread crumbs and whatnot, we love em! Thus, here is the “Aves,” a bench which offers friendly elements for both birds and humans alike. On the side, there is a ceramic bird bath which when filled with rainwater plays a role very similar to the generally yard-placed birdbath. From this, designer Marlen Hähle hopes that a closer relationship between bird and human can take place. Sitting on the same level, just chillin. Wood, concrete, ceramic, 230×60x80cm. Designer: Marlen Hähle

Eggy Furutistic Wheels Posted: 24 Mar 2010 12:03 AM PDT It’s the egg on wheels. Inspired directly by Peugeot egg-car, GM’s P.U.M.A, Toyota’s I-real, Honda’s U3-X personal vehicle, and of course, my favorite, a penguin! The “Gentoo” concept car takes its form inspiration from the Gentoo penguin, a cute and lovely and environmentally friendly little thing. The idea of this car is just that, to be cute, to be really nice to look at, and to be nice to the environment: the Gentoo uses no fossil fuels at all. The Gentoo also uses self-balancing technology and is powered by lithium battery technology. Also it looks like it’s from a video game I’d love to play. I’m thinking like a 3-D Sonic the Hedgehog sort of deal, flying up and down hills with this fabulous egg vehicle that’s got a bottom-heavy body, doing some sweet flips and such? Heck yeah. Eggy afterburners! Designer: C.Rameshkanth

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