These designs are incredible. Design*Sponge shows us what crazy things can be done in everyday situations. This is a great way to improve our surroundings and it looks GREAT!!
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
Anatomy of a Tea Cup
There's always something hidden behind the most creative things and this caught my eye because you never know what's under craft made objects. Really interesting and fascinating.
"This work was an installation, set up as a lab experiment in progress, complete with scalpels, lab coats, needles and a microscope. Piles of dicarded, cut-up craft objects lay about the desk, some with their innards seeping out, others rearranged, Frankenstein-style. By doing this, I was turning a table full of craft objects into an artwork in its own right, it had a point beyond the technique, beyond the things themselves."
Tutorial fun
Learn to draw the famous cartoons that we've grown up seeing. This website directs the viewers to tutorials made for us to learn how to draw our favorite characters. COOL!
Fabric in control
Watch how cool it is to see fabric control on-screen graphics. The University of Art and Industrial Design has students experimenting with this crazy idea.
Pets on furniture
Simply a contest to find the cutest shots of your pets on modern furniture.
Looking at all of these pieces these pets look very cute but of course my dog would be the winner of the contest simply!
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Harlely Davidson of wheelchairs
It's the Harley Davidson of wheelchairs. This wheelchair is called the "Sidewinder". It makes use of styling and manufacturing practices borrowed from the custom motorcycle and cruiser bike industry. It adds a sense of style and desirability to the devices of war veterans.
New mini phone
Teleepoch has now come out with a new phone since now technology has been getting bigger, modern gadgets are getting smaller day by day.
Features: compact size about the size of an iPod shuffle, the gesture mobile phone integrates a display, a 2G radio and an accelerometer into a tiny board. This phone is used by tilting and shaking that is used to scroll and select.
Also, it is controlled by voice control for inputting numbers and quick dialing.
Bicycle gear crank clock
Someone's always coming out with new designs for everyday items.
The new bicycle gear crank clock is a functional piece of art that is a creative piece of work that helps in sustaining the environment. This clock is handmade and recycles a bicycle gear crank which was then sandblaster, primed and repainted to make this piece of work. It is generated from a single AA battery and is available for only $39.
Gravity ruler luggage scales
Why didn't anybody ever think of this before? The simplicity of this bungee cord luggage scale was invented by students Marcella Maltese and Lin Wei. The demand of this product was proven when the first batch of 35 was sold under an hour at the Travel Trading fair in Milan.
They're now looking for a manufacturer.
Abstract car body designs
A new look on car designs has come about in this Detroit Auto Show 2010.
The fact that electric motors and battery arrays can be mounted differently than gas engines has allowed car designers to begin experimenting with these new and abstract looking body shapes.
This car is called the Tango, its a two seat commuter car that goes from 0 to 60 in four seconds. The tango takes advantage of California's lane-splitting rules, allowing drivers to weave in and out of the spaces between gridlocked cars like a motorcyclist. This car is priced at $150,000.
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Samurai bottle
A design by Arthur Schreiber for a vodka bottle called Samurai is so magnificent looking it has the feel of the word Samurai.
This is a new bottle for my parents bottle collection along with every amazing looking bottle that they have from all over the world.
Bigger than the twin towers!
Dubai celebrated the opening of the world’s tallest building on Monday.
This rocket-shaped edifice that soars 2,717 feet and can be seen from 60 miles away. At an estimated cost of $1.5 billion, the Burj took five years to build. The building has more than 160 floors and has comfortably surpassed the previous record holder in Taiwan, the Taipei 101. More than 12,000 people occupy this six million square feet building that consists 54 elevators that can reach up to 40 miles per hour of speed.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Perfect pancakes in seconds
Imagine having a machine that automatically makes perfect pancakes for you. The crew at Gizmodo loaned a machine for a week from ChefStack and experimented with making these perfect pancakes. This machine also allows you to add any ingredient you feel like! How cool!
"The ChefStack automatic pancake machine is a revolution in the making. Now, for the first time, Perfect Panless Pancakes can be produced in a matter of seconds. With ChefStack, the ultimate comfort food has now become convenient to make. Resulting in new, exciting menu items and, most importantly, new profits for coffee shops, convenience stores and cafeterias everywhere."
The machine is so simple to use and requires no training for it. It has 3 different size options to
choose from and can produce about 200 large pancakes per hour! Wow, doing that the old fashion was it would probably take about 5-6 hours to make that many pancakes, if not longer!
Over the course of the week Gizmodo produced 629 large pancakes, 1,074 medium pancakes and 4,730 mini pancakes!
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Future way of transportation
New way of transportation
Here's an alternative route to saving gas. This rotary air engine is fed by high-pressure air tanks which means no gas, no combustion, no exhaust and no gearbox or shifting due to a single gear a 1:1 ratio.
Student Edwin Yi Yuan created this as a student project at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, this bike is intended to be a land racer.
It [air power] has lower mileage than petrol. I mean to cover the same distance, you need a lot more volume of compressed air than petrol. That means we're either going to have to go to the gas station more often, or have a huge heavy tank on the bike which makes it very heavy. Even a dangerously high pressure air tank still cannot compare to petrol for power to volume figure.
Blunt Umbrellas
A new umbrella called the blunt umbrella has been created to solve all of the common problems with typical umbrellas. Instead of being poked in the face with someone's umbrella this new design has rounded off corners getting rid of the sharp and pointy metal ends. This umbrella comes in all different sizes and colors and is the best way to keep from future injuries with old fashion umbrellas.
Keep your money safe!
Hitachi's "Finger Vein" technology came out with the idea that would use a scanner that would read the veins in your finger that would link to your bank account and other personal information. This would mean that one wouldn't have to carry around a wallet, credit cards, cash, keys or identification. This would be great so that a person can access the things that they need instead of always having to remember to bring these things with them.
Now made in different colors the price of this wallet starts off at $299.
In my opinion this wallet is a magnificent idea. It would be harden for identity theft and there wouldn't be many issues with credit cards being stolen and used since the only person that would be able to open the wallet would be the person who the wallet belongs to.
Guggenheim sets record attendance
The Guggenheim Museum in New York City celebrated their 50th anniversary last year. This creatively designed museum by Frank Lloyd Wright is now celebrating the count of people that visited this museum during and after this celebration.
The museum said that within last year 1,164,098 people visit, 22% more than expected.
The museum displaying artwork of Wassily Kandinsky hits their highest record of visitors ever. Between December 27th and January 2nd alone, the museum counted 45,150 people, becoming the busiest time since 1992.
Kandinsky is an abstract artist whose artwork is unexplainable and very creative.
The day that I went to see this exhibit, the museum was packed, the line to buy a ticket was about a 2 hour wait, security was high and the exhibit was very well displayed and enjoyable.
Water draining boots!
Having wet boots to a normal person means having a little snow or water in them from stepping in a puddle, however, to the Navy Seals having wet boots means coming ashore after being completely submerged. The problem with that is having water in their boots making a squishy sound while you're trying to sneak up on the enemy is the worst thing possible.
A company called OTB that produces a boot called the Abyss, "designed and engineered at the request of the U.S Navy Seals."
One, the arches are recessed, making it easier to find your foot's center of gravity when scaling ladders; two, a pocket in the tongue provides a place to tuck the tied laces into, preventing snagging; three, the specially engineered rubber soles provide "superior silent traction on both wet and dry surfaces;" and four, for that pesky problem of water--the boots actually have holes in the insoles and bottom for drainage.
This now is going to help out the Navy Seals a lot more and save them from being caught by their enemies.
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Saturday, January 9, 2010
Soda powers electronics?
A Chinese designer Daizi Zheng experiments with taking everyday objects and remaking them to fit our daily lives.
Her primarily interest is in designing everyday object that brings new
experience to people and make them rethink and question.
Daizi Zheng created a mobile phone for Finnish brand Nokia that would be powered by sugary carbinated drinks. She proposes that this phone could run on a battery that generates electricity from carbohydrates.
"Through my research, I found that phone battery as a power source, it is
expensive, consuming valuable resources on manufacturing, presenting a
disposal problem and harmful to the environment. The concept is using bio
battery to replace the traditional battery to create a pollution free environment.
Bio battery has the potential to operate three to four times longer on a single
charge than conventional lithium batteries and it could be fully biodegradable."
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Make your own iPhone case! Coolest thing!
Case Mate is probably one of the coolest cellphone accessory websites! The website came out with a new online design tool called I Make My Case. This enables iPhone users to create custom made cases using the designs of graphic artists such as: Joshua Davis, Anthony Yankovic, Hannah Stouffer, Shadow Chen, Deanne Cheuk, Matt W. Moore, Hannah Stouffer, Thomas Hooper, Nigel Dennis, Ray Frenden, and Chuck Anderson
A choices makes it easy to express creativity and individuality by choosing a background color, adding the various drawing elements and then finally by applying an effect, such as kaleidoscope or mirroring.
I tried this website out to see how it works and it's one of the coolest online design websites that
I've ever seen! I'm really amused by this and think that just for the fun of it everyone should try it out and if I had an iPhone I would definitely get a custom made case like this, I'm just waiting for them to come out with a program like this for the BLACKBERRY!
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Tennis table in a conference office?
Of course putting things in one would be the easiest way to get around things, however, it's not the best looking.
Table & Tennis was created by Ryan Vanderbilt to combine a conference, dining room table with a tennis, ping pong table that's easily transitions from one to the other.
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