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- Who Needs A Diamond When You…
- Pouring Made E-Z
- Nightlight Simplified With Touch
- Roly Poly Iron Part Two
- Robots Save Earth
- Where’s My Water?
| Posted: 19 Aug 2010 08:57 AM PDT  Not impressed with diamonds or carat size? The M3 and M4 rings might appeal to you. Each stainless steel screw is set in sterling silver, cut to reveal the screw threads. It’s even removable should you suddenly need a screw in that size for some emergency. Torx screwdriver not included. Designer: The National Design Collective ----------        |
| Posted: 19 Aug 2010 04:50 AM PDT  E-Z is a flap kinda attachment that you slip on the rim of a wide-mouthed pot or shallow pans so that you can pour the liquid contents into a bowl or utensil without spilling over. I can very well see myself using this aid when I try and pour out oil from my kadhai after a batch of deep frying. For some odd reason skillets, shallow pans and the more traditional kadhai & wok don't have that required nip-in-the-mouth for pouring out hot liquids sans spills. It’s almost as if their design-evolution has stagnated….maybe this can inspire one of you to recreate a new design! Designers: William Thompson & Alex Thompson under the direction of Professor Tsai Lu Liu of Auburn University ----------     |
| Nightlight Simplified With Touch Posted: 19 Aug 2010 03:35 AM PDT  The Senzo Nightlight is a very sweet intuitive light that is fitted on the wall, 80 centimeters above the floor. This specific position is so that both children and adults can touch it conveniently in the darkness. Let me explain, at night if you don't have the lights on, you usually reach out to feel for the walls to get your bearings and then move forward. Fingertips skimming the walls till you reach the door, that's the inspiration behind this design. So as you walk past touching the tube, a soft lighting follows you. To make it more than just a nighlamp, the designer duo have added another useful feature to the Senzo. During power cuts, the light doubles up as the backup light. Quite clever! Designers: Soledad Clavell and Marcos Madia ----------     |
| Posted: 19 Aug 2010 02:08 AM PDT  I've been watching BBC's The Genius of Design and it has totally re-educated my perspective of the Industrial Design profession. The genius of design is in offering solutions to a problem in such a way that they don't compromise on our routine habits. The other aspect of designing that I understood was that it's not wrong for designers to try and improvise an existing solution, with their own perceptions. Usually I disregard a design submission that is very similar to a published post, but this time around I want to bring out the two and spark a debate on the design challenge. Problem: The clothes iron is a fantastic invention and the technique dates back to the ancient Chinese people using pans filled with hot coals to iron out clothes. With electricity and modernization we moved on to regular and steam irons. However one situation remained constant with the advent of new technologies – burning clothes due to carelessness. Solution: One solution that we recently saw was the Roly Poly Iron designed by Wonkook Lee. It worked on the rocking principle where weights in the handle pulled back the iron into a standing position, when not in use. A simple enough idea that was worth exploring! Ironically, I have stumbled upon another similar solution and what's really weird is that this iron too is called the "Roly Poly". Like I said we don't usually publish repetitive ideas, but what makes the second version different from Wonkook's is derived from my first statement: "offering solutions that don't compromise on our daily habits." Roly Poly II has a form that we are very familiar with, it is intuitive and basic. It solves the problem of being careless while ironing by rolling back to the upright position, but in a very logical way. Would you call Part II a genius of design or are we mature enough to break the mold of conventional norms and adopt designs that are form beyond function? Designers: Sangyong Park, Jungmin Park & Sunwoo Hwang ----------     |
| Posted: 19 Aug 2010 12:14 AM PDT  Science Fiction has been less-than-kind when it comes to giving robots an environmentally friendly outlook. Robots are supposed to destroy the world, not save it, right? Nay. Nay I say. And so also says Anna-Karin Bergkvist, designer of this tree planting robot. Reforestation on the horizon, that’s what this robot says. Four legs, extendable planting arm, and planting head. That’s what we’ve got here. One green robot walker. This machine is built to be small and tread lightly so that it has as little negative impact on the plants and animals it must walk through in order to get around the newly planted forest. By using hot steam to destroy competing vegetation (choking vines that kill trees, for example), it poses no threat to the animals that afterward come upon planting spots. Each seed is planted with a biodegradable plastic protective barrier, protecting it from bugs until it’s old enough that they could take chomps and it’d still survive. The robot itself is run on steam and fueled by “forestry waste” such as animal pellets and wood chips. One robot can carry around 320 seedlings in one load. Seeds are fed into the machine at the front and loaded onto a revolving cartridge until full – at which point the robot begins it’s cycle. The robot stands in place, planting as many seeds as is reasonable and it can reach in one location. Once finished, the arm retracts to fill up again as the robot moves on to the next location. There is a trailer involved in this situation also, the one that brings the robot to the locations it’s going to seed. Once in place, the robot uses this trailer as a base camp, returning as needed to re-fill with seeds, fuel, and water automatically. The robot can work in patterns, a complete “virtual forest” can be programmed into it for planting. Landscape Architects, get out your pencils and pads! Designer: Anna-Karin Bergkvist ----------     |
| Posted: 19 Aug 2010 12:04 AM PDT  Have you ever come up on a faucet and thought – wait a second, where are the faucet handles? How does this work? Even after years and years of motion-sensor technology being embedded in faucets in malls and restaurants the world over? Designer Daniel David Sutherland sees this problem too. Convenience should be intuitive, right? In order to convey instantly the way this new faucet works, Sutherland placed a human hand impression right in the center of the bowl. What to do? Place hand here. In addition, the bulk of the faucet is hidden behind the bowl, preventing the user from focusing on it instead of the hand washing. Modern motion sensor faucets are confusing (Sutherland and I agree) because when the faucet is the center of attention, the user instantly thinks they’ve got to interact with it by touching it to turn it on. In addition, this interesting feature: “By concealing the motion sensing componentry underneath the angular faucet, any concerns of unsolicited washroom surveillance (often associated with conventional sensing technologies) are also averted.” True! I used to think they were little cameras spying on my hands! Paranoia averted. NOTE: This project is a Reece Bathroom Innovations Award Finalist. Designer: Daniel David Sutherland ----------     |
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