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• Lap Eating Is The 21st Century Way
• Grade School Learning In The Future
• Make Cooking A Dining Experience
• A Glass With Class
• You Put the Chalk on The Table
• Seed of Light, Flower of Illumination
• German Laser Dentist

Lap Eating Is The 21st Century Way Posted: 16 Apr 2010 09:09 AM PDT Lapware exists in the realm between traditional tableware and cheap plastic/paper plates. There’s a contemporary approach to this eating style. It’s suggestive of a more casual experience that’s highly focused on social interactions. Each piece looks awkwardly shaped but exquisitely molded to fit the unique nooks and crannies of the human body. It’s adaptive and functional and I’m hungry. Designer: Andrea Marin

Grade School Learning In The Future Posted: 16 Apr 2010 08:47 AM PDT What will education be like in the 21st century? The “Conceptual Age" has just begun. In this era, the creative and sensitive, conceptual thinkers will play a major role and in their education, school plays the most important role. Human intelligence produces technical and social change at a pace the traditional classroom can no longer deny. Since students have the opportunity to research online, teachers no longer have mastery over knowledge. They become mediators and facilitators, they need to promote the students' ability to work scientifically. EduMap supports the students of the Conceptual Age. Because of the EduMap's compact size when rolled up, group learning situations can be generated with ease. The teacher simply brings some EduMaps to class (one map serves up to six students), unrolls them and places the subject tag on the map to activate the learning program. As soon as the students place their personal tags, their working area pops up and the recording of their learning progress starts. Now the students can interact with the teacher, with each other, and with the digital content, and even real subjects on the table. EduMap is a tool of interaction and collaboration that makes learning intuitive, engaging and fun. It is intended especially for elementary school to help students to prepare them for digital tools and networked learning. Is this how you imagined school? All image copyrights belong to designaffairs GmbH. Designer: designaffairs STUDIO

Make Cooking A Dining Experience Posted: 16 Apr 2010 08:43 AM PDT Why is it the kitchen and dining area are in two separate rooms? They function together in a symbiotic relationship more so than any other in a house. Space is a premium so designers are thinking modularity and this exercise in efficient cooking/dining is probably just one of many concept we’ll see . It’s a dining table with a work/cook top; or is it a work/cook top with a dining table? In one fell swoop, you get both with the added bonus of an office nook. The ceramic cook top is insulated with silicon to protect that beautiful wood beneath. I want this badly. Designer: Jonas Buck

A Glass With Class Posted: 16 Apr 2010 04:11 AM PDT Under normal circumstances a drinking glass with an extra hole in it is a messy proposition. Unless that hole was designed by Alvaro Lagos Vasquez. His “O-Glass” design cleverly uses the base of a normal lowball glass by inserting a hole. Now you can use this magical hole to hold a napkin, pencil, spike etc. Plus, it creates an easy storing potential in bars. Genius! This got me thinking, what other common items could be improved by the simple inclusion of a hole? Designer: Alvaro Lagos Vasquez

You Put the Chalk on The Table Posted: 16 Apr 2010 12:10 AM PDT And that’s where it stays, until of course you want it offa there! It’s also easy to clean. What I’m talking about of course is “Board Stories”, a collection of furniture made for your customization in any chalk color you do so desire. What we’ve got here is the table. So nice you aughtta be able to use it for meetings, dining, drawing, and whatever else you might seem to beed it for. It’s versatile. Draw yourself a glass of water! You’ll be needing it to clean up after you chalk a frenzy of fantastic scribbles the likes of which have never been seen tableside. Made of MDF, coated with a special matte black laquer and are fully able to be covered with your favorite chalks. A branded sponge and a soft cotton towel are part of the set. Designer: Board Stories

Seed of Light, Flower of Illumination Posted: 16 Apr 2010 12:05 AM PDT I swear this lampshade has nothing to do with the occult. Really! Actually it has a lot more to do with nature and the unzipping of poly propylene sheets. That’s what the “ZIPP Lampshade” is made of, poly propylene, all arranged nicely in a flower-like shape for your total enjoyment in brightness! In its flowery flower state, the shade is approximately 50cm in diameter. Zip or unzip however you choose. Will you make an American football? Or maybe a jellyfish? Or a face monster? Or an alien from Pluto, Pluto having sent it in rage at having been dropped out of the planet category? Or maybe you’ll make a pretty flower! Who can tell!? Designer: Arash and Kelly

German Laser Dentist Posted: 16 Apr 2010 12:03 AM PDT I am not even kidding. This project has German people, lasers, and dentists who use lasers on German people in it. German people in the pre-cursor to the project, if you will. The designer of this project, Muna Sawas, found 50% of Deutsch citizens to be totally afraid to visit their dentist. So what’s to be done? Make a practically pain-free, totally awesome laser therapy method. With lasers! On the teeth! Made to be an entry-level tool for dentists who plan on using laser therapy in the future. The “Dio-Lase” uses a 7-watt diode laser and covers the main treatments of soft tissue. No wires, the laser is completely self-contained in this little handheld device. Adjustable laser head, perfect for fitting in the mouth, 180 degrees of laser lovliness. I’m not sure HOW it works, but it does seem pretty fab, doesn’t it? Designer: Muna Sawas

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