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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Kitchen Gadgets: Nutcracker's Minimalist Design Gets The Job Done |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 1:39 pm |
| Tags: Design Concept, Kitchen, Kitchen Gadgets, Nutcracker |
| nut cracking jokes, but this design concept could be a serious ballbuster. Consisting of two aluminum tubes, it's sized to fit a walnut inside, and all you need to do is twist, and the nut is cracked right in two by the nutcracker's ridged edges. Seems pretty simple. Created by German industrial designer Christopher Kuh, his idea was to craft a |
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| Design Concept: Triops Camera Takes Panoramic Shots, Reacts to Sound and Motion |
| Published: September 17, 2007, 9:05 am |
| Tags: Camera, Design Concept, Digital Cameras, Triops, Triops Camera |
| camera is a design concept that somebody thought was good enough to be a finalist for the BraunPrize 2007. It can wirelessly transmit its hijinks to a picture-displaying receiver, and then when you're done tossing the camera around that receiver also serves as a charging station. We're just thinking that if German designer |
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| Design Concept: E Takes Twitter Idea Into Meatspace |
| Published: September 17, 2007, 11:53 am |
| Tags: Design Concept, Exo, Gadgets, Project E, Social Networking |
| Exo. So far it's just a design concept, looking for investors and showing prototypes to all who will listen and fondle the odd-looking thingamajigs. The only problem with this "welcome to the social" idea—which sounds vaguely familiar to us for some reason—is that a critical mass of users must be achieved before it actually makes |
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| Design Concept: Project E Takes Twitter-like Idea Into Meatspace |
| Published: September 17, 2007, 11:53 am |
| Tags: Design Concept, Exo, Gadgets, Project E, Social Networking |
| Exo. So far it's just a design concept, looking for investors and showing prototypes to all who will listen and fondle the odd-looking thingamajigs. The only problem with this "welcome to the social" idea—which sounds vaguely familiar to us for some reason—is that a critical mass of users must be achieved before it actually makes |
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| Design Concept: Memory Infinite, a Chain of Drives USB |
| Published: September 19, 2007, 4:50 pm |
| Tags: Design Concept, Memory Infinite, Peripherals |
| a design concept for a potentially infinite string of USB drives. The snake-like, flexible design is called Memory Infinite. As you daisy chain one to the next, their storage capacity increases; keep adding drives until you have neither more nor less than is required. String together enough of them and you have yourself a necklace made of |
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| Home Entertainment: Home Theater Screen Disguised as a Bookshelf |
| Published: September 20, 2007, 2:30 pm |
| Tags: Design Concept, Home Entertainment, Home Theater, Screens, Shelves |
| That's just what Italian designer Matteo Ragni has dreamed up here, trying to cross that bridge between a dedicated home theater room and a multi-use space that might double as a reading room, too. The only problem we see? If this is going to be a big enough screen, it's going to amount to one tremendously long shelf. This example is 170 |
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| Design Concept: Portable DVD Player with Sexy-Flexy Display Transforms Into Mini-Theater |
| Published: September 21, 2007, 10:20 am |
| Tags: Design Concept, Flexible Organic Electroluminescent Display, Oled, Portable Dvd Player, Yanko Design |
| like a butterfly knife. This concept takes that design a few years into the future, looking like it's about the size and unpocketable shape of that crazy iPhone clone Intel was flaunting the other day. Like a Transformer, it twists around and gives you a turntable on which to spin the DVD while you unravel its sexy flexible OLED screen to feast |
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| Design Concept: Barricade Tape Design Reassures You: Everything Is OK, Really |
| Published: September 26, 2007, 1:45 pm |
| Tags: Barricade Tape, California Design Biennial 2007, Design Concept, Everything Ok, People S Design Awards |
| this is some kind of genius design or anything, but wouldn't it be nice to walk up to a horrific crime scene in see this "everything is ok" barricade tape strung all over the place? Wouldn't it make you feel much better about all the blood, guts and mayhem you just directly witnessed? Created by San Francisco design firm MINE, the tape's up for |
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| Design Concept: Respect The Old School Cane, For Punk Kid Smackdowns |
| Published: September 28, 2007, 11:10 am |
| Tags: Cane, Design Concept, Respect The Old School Cane |
| some enterprising young designer has created this Respect the Old School cane. As soon as its curmudgeonly carrier (who hasn't learned yet that respect can't be commanded, it must be earned) wants to stamp down those who don't bow at his feet, all he needs to do is take the self-inking cover off the bottom of this cane and get to stamping. |
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| Design Concept: E-Ink Cellphone Techno-Demoed at CEATEC 2007 |
| Published: October 3, 2007, 3:45 pm |
| Tags: Ceatec2007, Cellphones, Design Concept, E Ink |
| by Art.Lebedev. That concept will have major advantages for a cellphone. Besides the tactile feedback you'll get from individual keys, the major advantage is the way e-ink barely sips battery power, only requiring juice when it changes the display, because it doesn't use constantly shining backlights or LEDs at all. So even if battery |
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| Design Concept: Capsuli Emergency Solar-Charged LED Lights in a Pass-Around Pack |
| Published: October 4, 2007, 9:55 am |
| Tags: Capsuli, Design Concept, Emergency Lighting, Flashlight, Lighting |
| an empty windowsill. [Yanko Design] |
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| Design Concept: Art.Lebedev Shows Pultius, the Crazy Zillion-Button Remote |
| Published: October 5, 2007, 9:20 am |
| Tags: Art Lebedev, Design Concept, Pultius, Remote Controls |
| Studio was kidding with this design concept for a remote control. Named Pultius, this 20-inch-long clicker solves a problem of designing "a remote control with as many buttons as there are channels on TV." We weren't aware that was an actual problem, but if such a solution were actually needed, this is about the most beautiful way to accomplish |
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| Design Concept: Punch the !ighting Turns Frustration Into Illumination |
| Published: October 8, 2007, 5:40 pm |
| Tags: Design Concept, Gadgets, Lighting, Punch The Ighting, Punching Bag |
| a design concept by Jin-Sook Kim lets you take out your frustrations while attempting to illuminate your environment. That's because this Punch the !ighting device makes you beat the shit out of it before it'll give up even the slightest bit of light. It must be a satisfying feeling, though, to see an actual positive result of violence, a |
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| Design Concept: Strato Cruiser Airship, Floating Along Without Wings or Reality |
| Published: October 9, 2007, 12:30 pm |
| Tags: Airship, Blimp, Design Concept, Strato Cruiser |
| blimp lumbers along. The design concept calls for spectacular restaurant inside staffed by star chefs, a spa, private suites, office space, a swimming pool and even a resident DJ. If this all gets too boring for you, the designers also plan to install a bungee-jumping platform. Check out the magnificent set of renderings in the gallery below, |
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| Design Concept: Memo Pad Phone Incorporates Message-Taking Paper |
| Published: October 17, 2007, 11:15 am |
| Tags: Design Concept, Memo Pad Phone, Phone Accessories, Phones |
| At first we thought this design concept involved some kind of fancy electronic paper, but no, it has a special memo pad that's cut out to fit around the telephone's keypad. This is a a good idea that will solve that problem of frantically searching for a piece of paper when it's time to take a message. We would suggest adding some of that |
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