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• Alley Traffic Lights
• Bookmark Does The Work For You
• Another Power Saver Plug, Maybe
• Sleep On The Pavement, It’s Soft!
• Truly the Wildest Blind
• Roll Out, Child, Roll Out
• A Swell Rockin Lounger

Alley Traffic Lights Posted: 25 Mar 2010 08:24 AM PDT We don’t often think of congested alleys but in Korea they’re some of the busiest intersections where over 40% of accidents occur. Like a traffic light, the AISA is a 3 or 4 way signal. It’s made of titanium alloy with a round shape  to disperse direct forces. Small camera based sensors detect whenever foot, bike, or motor traffic approach and warns cross traffic with flashing LEDS. The color indicates the degree of danger and the flashing rhythm denotes speed. It’s not meant to control the flow of traffic like a stop light but it does give you a sense of what’s coming ahead. Designer: Jeongseon Park

Bookmark Does The Work For You Posted: 25 Mar 2010 08:03 AM PDT The Page Chaser is a flexible bookmark that automatically marks the page as you turn them. Ordinary bookmarks can fall out and require you to correctly mark where you left off. Why waste all that precious brain power on something so mundane? The Page Chaser catches every page as you turn. It’s an incredibly simply design that never falls out. Cheap, easy to manufacture, and handy. Win in my book. Designer: Hyeon Joo Lee

Another Power Saver Plug, Maybe Posted: 25 Mar 2010 02:22 AM PDT We have covered many power saving plugs in the past, but for once I think we have quite an amicable solution with the Sticord. The plug itself houses the on-off switch, and when pushed on, the internal pins connect to complete the circuitry and start the power flow. The main-plug also helps identify which device it belongs to. This aspect may come in handy at offices, where many gadgets/devices coexist. Those dependent on remote controls will have to move their butts and "SWITCH OFF" the mains! So it really is the question of being aware and doing the right things! Designer: Dongyeon Kim

Sleep On The Pavement, It’s Soft! Posted: 25 Mar 2010 01:53 AM PDT A quirky series of bed sheets are available at the Snurk Bedding and the latest one to catch our fancy is the Le-Trottoir. Stark replica of a hard cold pavement block, complete with moss and old rusted metal covers, the styling screams the opposite of comfortable! Probably a gentle reminder that when you do get drunk and pass out on the pavement, it won't be as cushy as this! And as always, a part of your purchase will go as donations to Dutch Homeless Youngsters Foundation. Designer: Snurk Bedding

Truly the Wildest Blind Posted: 25 Mar 2010 12:14 AM PDT Bear with me here, this is a pretty interesting and therefor slightly difficult concept of a window covering to understand. What we’ve got here is a set of blinds. You know, the covering for windows. These are the blinds that run up and down in columns, but these are unique in that they drop like the horizontal type. There are four modes of dropping: all the way up, all the way down, halfway, and graph. What does the graph do? It takes the amount of time you’ve worked and played and graphs it on your window for the world to see! Make sense yet? Take this and stick it in your brain: when the shade is all the way open, you are not working. When the shade is all the way closed, you ARE working. When you activate the GRAPH function on these shades, it takes all the recent ways you’ve set the shade recently and graphs them, displaying for you the amount of time you’ve had the shades shut or open, when you’ve been working or basking in the sunlight. Wild! Another interesting tidbit: this shade’s name comes from the Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window, whose Spanish title is La Ventana Indiscreta, which, when translated back to English reads: The Indiscreet Window. Really wild. Designers: Ishac Bertran and Gizem Boyacioglu The Discreet Window from Ishac Bertran on Vimeo.

Roll Out, Child, Roll Out Posted: 25 Mar 2010 12:10 AM PDT Literally, this car is called the “Joyride.” Below you will find a definition of Joyride, as provided by the designers. It is wild. Let’s talk about how this car is. It’s for kids, it’s constructible without tools, and it’s for kids, but lemme tell you why I said kids twice – it’s for kids who are so amazingly difficult to please, they don’t even think about responding to you talking unless you call them twice. This is a modern soapbox cart of the free play variety. *JOYRIDE: as defined by a source provided by the designer, Per Brolund, is: “to drive around in a stolen car, boat, or other vehicle with no particular goal, a ride taken solely for pleasure or excitement.” YES! This particular Joyride is a full-scale construction kit. It’s easy enough so that basically anyone can do it, but challenging enough that it’ll be a total adventure for basically that same set of people: everybody. It’s made of 10 pieces of marine plywood, three pieces of aluminum tube – that’s two wheel axles and a pushbar, a 12mm thick nylon rope for steering, and twelve self-locking ring pegs to hold the whole contraption together. It’s easy to put together, and easy to dissemble, just incase you want to pack it flat away during the wintertime months. AND It’s got wonderful coloring-book-style imagery all around it, so feel free to bust out the paint. Designer: Per Brolund

A Swell Rockin Lounger Posted: 25 Mar 2010 12:01 AM PDT So you’ve got one big wooden plate, right? What are you gonna do with it? Make an ashtray? No. That’s a terrible idea. Instead, I’ve got basically the best idea. Actually it was Marietta Moraweg who had the idea, then totally designed it and had it executed. It’s got so many parallel cuts in it, you’re going to be lounging for basically forever. All summer long, anyway, I bet. And from where I’m posting, that’s kinda starting basically right now, it’s springtime. Time to rock. Combining the crafts of the future and the past! Traditional wood bending craft combined with modern CAD laser technology. You could put it in your garden and/or terrace. Rock it. Plywood, 155×62x50 cm Designer: Marietta Moraweg

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