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This phone was designed by Londoner Arthur Schmitt and it’s just awesome. The phone is so inefficient, so bulky, such a pain to handle and all these things make the phone even better. Among all the inefficiencies, which makes this phone so cool, one stands out the most – you need to use punch cards and binary phone numbers to control your phone’s features and make calls. Isn’t it just the coolest gadget ever?
Field of Light by Bruce Murno will be on the Eden Project in Cornwall, England, this winter. The project consists of 6,000 acrylic tubes containing optical fibers. Just like flowers growing in the desert stand out so will the installation when it starts to glowing, capturing everyone’s attention.
Why attack wheels to suitcases when you can make a wheel a suitcase. Rooz Mousavi has done exactly that he designed the Obag. The form in the Obag makes it easier to move, maneuver and even drag up and down the stairs. The Obag has 2 compartments which open up like an atomic bomb, that’s kinda cool. It’s a not in production yet, however, I hope it will be soon.
Ferrari is one of the most popular manufacturer of supercars but why not superbikes? That’s what an Israeli designer Amir Glinik decided to change. He has designed a Ferrari bike concept that looks pretty darn good. The heart of the bike is a V4 engine with a fluid share around it and a waterproof LCD touch-screen above the fuel tank. This is only a concept so no numbers regarding it are known.
This man is not waiting for rain or Merilyn Monroe air vent effect, he is sleeping. Artist Jamie O’Shea designed a vertical bed and presented it during the Conflux Festival in NYC. He even slept on(not quite on) it for 40 minutes for 4 days during the event.
I fail to see the benefits f such a “bed”. I personally don’t know where would a person might actually use it. You can’t use it in the city because God only knows what might happen when you are asleep. Somebody might steal you stuff or loot your pockets besides I wouldn’t feel safe to sleep on a street. At night it’s too cold to sleep without a cover and it doesn’t seem like you can cover yourself with anything in that position except maybe a sleeping bad. Not to mention it’s difficult to fall asleep standing up.
Superstar is a conceptual china town designed by MAD. A person could be born, live his life and die without living the star-city. The spires act like different districts. The Superstar produces its own resources and leaves no waste. On top of all that it is mobile.
How exactly does the city suppose to move is unclear and even if it could move around, moving something as big as this would certainly result in damages to the structure, unless of course, it is fitted with an anti-gravitational engine which would allow the star to take off and land smoothly. So I guess the next step for MAD is to design an anti-grav engine – good luck to them.
Next week on September 25 Le Gallery in Toronto, Canada will host David Trautrimas’s “Habitat Machines” exhibition. The compositions are made from household object like coffee pots, bathroom scales and cheese graters. The exhibition will last till the October 19
Netherlands-based designer Tineke Beunders has created a table that combines the world of adults and children. Whenever you’re feeling like a child and want to do something fun or just need to relax simply get the marbles into the grooves on the table. The grooves run through the whole table and the marbles will roll down the legs to the feet of the table where they will in a small box so you won’t have to chase the marbles all over the room (despite what the photos show).
Music has become an integral part of our lives. Having this in mind Reindy Allendra has designed a bike with an attached music player. While riding you also charge the battery which powers the front and brake lights. The design is brilliant but I think having a bike with an attached music player is unnecessary, you can use a mp3 player and ride a regular bike with the same result.
You know when you eat an apple you don’t know when to put the apple core and as it often happens there’s no bin nearby or you can’t throw the core that far. Some people eat the whole apple seeds and everything. For those who don’t there is a cool, funny dish for apples and apple cores made by d-vision. I’d rather get up and walk to a bin and throw the core out then put in on a dish and then walk to a bin, throw it out and then wash the dish. But that’s just me.
