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- MacBook 3D! Glasses Included
- Electricity Is A Dangerous Game
- Friday Giveaway: Six City Rain Concrete Glasses To Say Cheers With!
- JAWS Revisited As A Mouse
- Two Hoods for Good
- One Screen, One Nintendo
- Bombs Away!
| Posted: 26 Mar 2010 08:22 AM PDT 2009 was the year of EVERYTHING IS TOUCHSCREEN but times-a-changing. I’m just gonna go ahead and make a prediction for 2010. We’re going to see a bag load of concepts with 3D-enabled technologies. Take a look at this MacBook 3D and get used to some of the features. It’s like any other MacBook except there are stereoscopic iSight cameras, a touchscreen trackpad (soooo 2009), and a hingeless spine design. All kidding aside, I am a bit intrigued. 3D imaging has Hollywood scrambling to join the bandwagon so it’s obvious technology leaders will soon provide consumers with some of the same features. Apple’s iSight camera is good so slapping two on there to provide simulated depth is totally feasible. Just imagine chat rouletting in 3D! I’m not sure about the hingeless design though; couldn’t tell it it’s flexible or a segmented joint. The jury is still out on touchscreen trackpads. We saw tons of those concepts all through 2008-2009 and no manufacture seems to have bitten. Is it just too novel, too expensive, and power draining to implement?        |
| Electricity Is A Dangerous Game Posted: 26 Mar 2010 08:07 AM PDT Developing countries and emerging economies are facing challenges in properly distributing and building out their electric grids. Unfortunately energy needs are now being met by people running the black market and many are getting hurt. Some people have resorted to stealing it by creating their own makeshift access lines leaving a tangled and hazardous mess behind. The TUME concept solves these issues by creating a new infrastructure that can grow just as fast as demand. TUME BASE stations are setup in public spaces. Anyone with a TUME ACCESS unit can plug into the base station to draw power. Credits can be purchased online, thru mobile phones, and existing brick and mortar shops. The idea is people want to be legit about their power needs. They are willing to pay for it. They just need a safe and easy way to do it. Designer: NOS Design     |
| Friday Giveaway: Six City Rain Concrete Glasses To Say Cheers With! Posted: 26 Mar 2010 07:00 AM PDT TGIF? The time of the week when you come home after a hard week's work, unwind to some music, lounge on your recliner and sip scotch on the rocks! Total Paradise! If this is what you want to do next Friday (and many more), the least we can do is provide you with some awesome glasses to nurse your drinks in. We are giving away total 6 Concrete Glasses to 3 lucky people (2 each) who tell us: with whom they'll raise a toast to using their swanky new set of City Rain Glasses. Labor of love: City Rain concrete glass is made of high water-absorption concrete with the idea of wet street and glass window. Each handcrafted set is painstakingly nurtured through the various stages, till the end product is crafted. From the beginning of making molds and accurately calculating the percentage of admixture, to the end of keeping the cement wet, the procedure takes more than a week. This is why each glass is unique and a labor of love. Contest Closes: 28th March, 11:59 pm. PST. Designer: 25togo CITY RAIN is available for $18 at the YD Store     |
| Posted: 26 Mar 2010 01:00 AM PDT One can never picture sharks as these tender loving creatures thanks to the Hollywood hangover! Maybe this is why I have a mental block for the Shark Mouse Concept. The designers are convincing in their presentation: recyclable thermoplast body, minimum contact with the surface for reduced friction, slender design and chic aesthetics… Maybe I should picture this more as a Necklace CarpetShark than a Great White and get over my musophobia! Designers: Alireza Haji & Mahbod Ashraf     |
| Posted: 26 Mar 2010 12:20 AM PDT In this modern age of dual-uses for blankets, you might wonder why all the innovation has been taking place on early-morning television and 30 Rock’s Liz Lemon’s television channel choices. Well it’s not! There isn’t just a Slanket, there is THIS! This right here, the project we’re looking at in a moment right here, it’s called the “Minus 18″, and it’s made for a little bit of the ol’ wintertime picnic dinner. I bet you didn’t know people had picnics out in the cold snow, did you? Obviously you are not from Minnesota. This would SELL OFF THE SHELVES if they sold it in my city. We’ve got an event in Minneapolis called Art Shanties where artists from around the area create cold-weather houses in the shapes of robots and igloos and churches and they roll them out onto the ice for a festival of freezing your toes off! This project right here is in the same spirit! Yes! The Minus 18 is a “picnic planket” made for two. With a simple zip of the ends, the planket is transformed into a fluffy dual-hood to protect the snacking partners from the snow and cold. Made of plush fabric, water repellant fabric, and zipper – 300×100cm. Designers: Marlen Hähle, Corinna Wolf, and Anna Schermann     |
| Posted: 26 Mar 2010 12:10 AM PDT Welcome to the future of handheld gaming. I mean it. This is one of those futures in gaming that I’m really betting on. This project is sleek, it’s nice, it becomes flat, it’s basically everything I imagine the gaming industry hitting on in a few years. This project is a concept for a future class of Nintendo hand-held gaming, really similar to the current Nintendo DS in many respects. This one’s got a fully interactive 3-D interface. Basically the same amazing stuff you see in the newest Iron Man movie, all jammed in a cute little Nintendo. This is a design that lands itself in with a great set of designers that are so pumped up and excited about a design they’ve thought of, they just render it up (with mad skill) and release it upon the world saying, “there it is, now you do the math and execute.” That’s what Mario Troise is saying here. This is a futuristic Nintendo DS. It’ll have two cameras, one on front and one on the back. They’ve got the ability to track the movements of the players so that they might interact with the games via their facial expression or hands (for chess!) 3D projecting screen brings Star Wars home to the world of now. Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, we need these technologies as fast as possible! We need better games! And the “mechanical” buttons are still there. They are beautiful, they are functional, there’s nothin wrong with em. Joy be to the inventions that last forever. Designer: Mario Troise     |
| Posted: 26 Mar 2010 12:03 AM PDT This is no aircraft. Nay! That’s all crampy. This is the future of transport. Elegance and a sensible arena for enjoyment of the trip. That’s what this is! From our friends in design 2-B-2 Architecture comes this modern marve; the “Bombardier Adventure,” a true adventure in passenger car for train mechanics. It’s got three decks, infinite niceness, and a lovely cool blue and green color scheme. Let’s get rollin! Inside this masterfully crafted passenger car for a train you will find all of the following: On deck 0, there are bedrooms for 24 passengers. On deck 1, you will find 4 toilet rooms, 2 shower rooms, a playroom for all the little childrens, and a stuff room (for all your stuff.) Deck two is the main salon and public space with room for 24 passengers for if they want to have a huge amazing party with dancing. That childrens area? It’s a game room. And through the monitors on the other decks, parents and guardians can view their children at play while they themselves are playing or resting. Dimensions: 23600×4590x4700mm Yes please, bring these to the states, in particular, my state of Minnesota. Do it. I want to train across the galaxy in this. Designer: 2-B-2 Architecture     |
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