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“O” Kitchen by Julio Seleghin Team

Delphine — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:19:46 +0000

Jump into the future with the “O” Kitchen designed by a Brazilian team. A shiny giant sphere (7 feet) unfolds to reveal a complete working kitchen created to be easily portable and fit smaller places.

The “O” Kitchen is practical: it includes a dishwasher, microwave, sink, refrigerator and even a smell and steam exhaust.

Alongside the abundant storage, garbage disposal and fire alert system, the control panel tunes in online access, MP3 functions and a digital cookbook system.

Click on the remote control, watch both sides sliding onto underneath structures and open together smoothly. 210 cm high, 460 cm wide when open, half when closed.

And it all works with just one socket!

Via [Übergizmo] & [Designboom]

Kami-Robo: Fighters Made of Paper by Tomohiro Yasui

Delphine — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:56:35 +0000

A touch of fun and cute madness with these amazing paper craft designed by Tomohiro Yasui since more than 30 years. Their history has been build along the trail of trust and treachery.

Each Kami-Robo wrestler has a personality that reveals throughout the fights Some are macho, some timid, some shrewd, some stubborn. Both in and out of the ring, the paper-fighters will tell you stories and life-paths.

Fighting techniques videos and a lot more on the creator’s website.

[Kami-Robo]
Via [SPGRA]

“Underfull” Tablecloth by Kristine Bjaadal

Hans — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:04:32 +0000

“Underfull” tablecloth is a conceptual piece that draws on the idea that negative situations should be turned into a positive experience. Norwegian Designer Kristine Bjaadal believes that this creates stories and can contribute in giving the products sentimental value .

Kristine Bjaadal
Via [designboom] & [Mocoloco]

Noteput, Interactive Music Table by Jürgen Grae & Jonas Heuer

Chantal — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:25:42 +0000

“Notput” project invented by Jürgen Graef and Jonas Heuer is an interactive music table with tangible notes, that combines all three senses of hearing, sight and touch to make learning the classical notation of music for children and pupils more easy and interesting.

All basic clefs, note values and accidentals exist as single wood elements. Whole, half, quarter and eighth notes differ not only in their form, but also in their weight: Long note values are heavier than short ones.

Via [Trendsnow]

The New Hasbro Star Wars AT-AT

Hans — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:57:58 +0000

For the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back, comes this re-imagining of one of the Star Wars saga’s most awesome vehicles. Retailing for $100 buck this AT-AT blows the hell out of the old one. The new All Terrain Armored Transport measures more than 24 inches tall, nearly 28 inches long, and 12 inches wide,and holds up to 20 Star Wars figures, 6 in the head alone.

It also has all kinds of stuff to recreate scenes from the Empire Strikes Back. There’s the zip-line in its body as well as LED lights and authentic movie sounds and phrases. As if that wasn’t enough the AT-AT includes a 3 ¾ inch AT-AT driver action figure and a pop-out speeder bike.

Hasbro
Via [Uncrate]

Misa Digital Guitar

Chantal — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:06:49 +0000

Lovingly constructed by Sydney-based designer Michael, the Misa guitar has 24 frets and a large multifunctional touchscreen, which you can use to interface with the appropriate software on your pc. It is an advanced type of MIDI controller that is powered by a 500MHz AMD Geode CPU and runs Linux under the hood, but don’t worry; you don’t need Linux to use the guitar . The Linux firmware code is open source, which allows programmers to modify it to their liking. While MIDI controllers and guitar-emulating synthesizers are nothing new to the music world, the Misa guitar is not your average key/knob/fader MIDI controller.

I am obsessed with digital guitar. But I also love electric guitar, and I have learned what it’s good at and what it’s capable of. Some of its most important qualities and characteristics stem from the very fact that the electric guitar is made out of wood and strings. A guitar string is “beautiful” – because the sound generated comes from the very vibration of the string, interfering with a magnetic flux and inducing an electric voltage, which is then amplified. Why would you want to emulate that? It is perfection. It is pure nature. It is in the analog domain. I did not intend the Misa digital guitar to replicate a traditional guitar.

Misa Digital Guitar

Dynamite Fire Starters

Hans — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:41:26 +0000

Though the contents of this sturdy wood crate will not move mountains, they will start your fireplace.

Each cedar wood crate contains 20, 8″L x 1-1/4″W, fire-starter sticks. They are made of paraffin and sawdust for a long, hot burn. Each stick will burn approximately 30 minutes setting ablaze even the most stubborn wood.
Buy it Here

Coolest Clock Ever

Hans — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:35:24 +0000

At first glance, it may look like someone’s actually behind the clock drawing in the time, but upon closer inspection, you’ll notice that it’s just an LCD display “that plays a 24 hour loop of this video by the Dutch desinger Maarten Baas watching his own clock somewhere and painstakingly erasing and re-writing each minute.
Via [The Presurfer] & [Techeblog]

Tapistongs by Lise El Sayed

Chantal — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:21:29 +0000

Tapistongs by Lise El Sayed is a stylish carpet unlike others with the matching slippers. Taking a great shag carpet and creating matching slippers is one thing; having cut-outs where those slippers originated is simply ingenious.

Lise El Sayed
Via [Trendhunter]

Levi’s “Pop Up Closet”

Chantal — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:51:59 +0000

Tim Arts and Stefan van den Boogaard decided to skip the traditional mailers when it came to announcing a new Levi’s collection to the fashion press. Instead, they constructed and sent out these “Pop Up Closets” that contained real products from the line.

Hanger Tea-Shirts by Soon Mo Kang

Chantal — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:06:32 +0000

Designer Soon Mo Kang reinvents the packaging of tea around mini clothes. The tea bags are shaped like T-shirts with a hanger that hangs on the tea cup. Each tea type is highlighted in a different color for ease of tracking.

Via [2dayBlog]

Electric Bike Concept by Yuji Fujimura

Chantal — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:28:47 +0000

NYC-based Yuji Fujimura’s electric bike concept, which features a place to stow a laptop allowing the rider to have access to all the information they need at any moment. Sure to appeal to all workaholics as well as gadget junkies, this concept bike is definitely amazing.

Via [Design Launches]

Vesta Life Headphones

Lesexysykes — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:40:59 +0000

Soyun Kim, Leah Thomas, Young Bang, and Hojin Choi, four women coming from totally different backgrounds have found themselves in a dynamic originality to created Vesta life headphones.
The Vestalife headphones have a smart design. The headphones are covered in a fabric “headband” that can be swapped out to match an outfit. The earbuds are made of fabric and have a leather insert so that you pull the earbuds out by the bud and not the cord. Will Vestalife headphones change the way men see women when they’re listening to music? Only time will tell.

Vestalife launches now beautifully fills a gap left somewhere between utilitarian geek and let’s-coat-every-product-in-pink. The line will see a debut at CES this week and then, before long, you can see them soon in a store near you.

Vesta Life

Via Trendhunter

Water Powered Can Clock

Chantal — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:27:38 +0000

The Water Powered Clock to use energy from water to keep the clock alive and ticking.
All you have to do to keep the clock ticking is change the water every six months. It uses “the latest electrochemical technology” to power the digital display with water and there are no emissions or waste. Shaped like cans, the clocks are available in four colors.

Buy it Here

LEGO Wallets by ColorByNumbers

Chantal — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:43:24 +0000

Those wallets are handmade LEGO wallets from colorbynumbers. Opened and closed by a zipper, you can choose from a few different colors and styles. With the addition and subtraction of LEGO pieces, you can easily change the appearance of your money holder. They have also designed keychains which follow in the same
playful approach.

Link Via [Fubiz]

Curtain Door by Matharoo Associates

Chantal — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:13:20 +0000

The Curtain Door created by Matharoo Associates was celebrated like the best piece of design by a young architects from across the world by Architectural Review’s Emerging Architecture Awards.
At 5.2m high and 1.7m wide, the door is comprised of 40 sections of 254mm-thick Burma teak. Each section is carved so that the door integrates 160 pulleys, 80 ball bearings, a wire-rope and a counter weight hidden within the single pivot. Stacked one above the other in the closed position, each plank can then rotate by a simple push causing the door to reconfigure into a sinusoidal curve.

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Kudamemo Fruit Notepad

Chantal — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:52:50 +0000

Juicy and sweet looking Fruit Memo Pads. They look so real! The attention to detail is amazing, too- the stems are made from actual tree branches, and the printing even extends to the seed inside. From office gift to dorm-room accessory, these make great gifts for just about anyone.
There are 150 sheets for one pad and its stem is made of real twig.

They can be purchased at Japan Trend Shop.

Pentax Kx; 100 Colors 100 Styles

Chantal — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:22:15 +0000

Pentax has recently introduced the new upper entry level DSLR camera Pentax K-x. Breaking away from the conventional black coloured body for a DSLR, the new K-x will come in a whole new range of colours. “Pentax K-x 100 colours 100 styles” provide the consumers with 20 coloured bodies and 5 coloured grips to mix and match around with.

With the possibility of 100 different colour combinations, the K-x model certainly provides this unique customizable option to its already high performance features:

* 12.4 megapixel
* 2.7 inch LCD
* Widescreen HD 720p video at 24 FPS

Buy it Here