The Average Day watch, by designer Crispin Jones puts the conventional day into the form of a watch. It divides up a regular day into units. The watch is limited edition and only 100 have been produced.
Hotel Puerta América, located in Madrid, is 12 floors of pure architectural beauty. Every object, from the elevator lobby to towels, were created by powerhouse designers and architects. The hotel features amazing public spaces such as the Black Tears resaurant and the Underground Garage. The hotel can be considered, “12 floors with 19 stars.” It’s a truly stunning structure. (Jump for additional photos).
Alex published this entry on Tuesday 01 July, 2008 at 2:26 pm. It's been filed in the Ads + Art + Geek + Tech category. {Share Your Thoughts}
Every wonder what happens when you microwave a cell phone? Well, the cooking process causes a monster to bubble up out of the device and act all screaming and angry. The commercial by Droga5, for pay-as-you-go provider Net10, is trying to paint other cellphone companies as evil for having lengthy contracts.
Due to me lacking the ability to read Japanese I can’t really tell you much besides what the headline says and what the photo shows. I’m not even sure if this product is just concept art or an actual commercially produced product. I may not have the ability to share the story behind this ultra-geeky set of numeric keypad/calculator chairs, but I can say that it is pretty neat.
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The football table has never really received the attention of any designers in recent years. The rise of monstrous, glamorous, and architecturally well thought out football (soccer) stadiums could explain this gorgeous table created by GRO design and Tim modelmakers. The table is called 11; named after the amount of players on each team. (jump for additional pics)
Alex published this entry on Monday 30 June, 2008 at 10:22 pm. It's been filed in the Gadget + Music category. {Share Your Thoughts}
There are several ways in which a person can capture natural energy. Forget using wind, the sun, tides, and geothermal activity — you can use your own body to produce energy to charge all sorts of electrical devices.
Orange, a music company, and GotWind, a firm specializing in renewable energy, have teamed up to create a device named the Dance Charge. Dance Charge weighs 180 grams and you strap it around your arm. Dance Charge then uses the kinetic energy generated by your body in motion to charge up whatever you have connected to it.
The neat contraption also uses a system of weights and magnets to produce electric current to top up the storage battery. A prototype of the device was shown and tested at this year’s Glastonbury Festival.
Alex published this entry on Friday 27 June, 2008 at 9:38 am. It's been filed in the Cars + Concept + Design category. {2 Comments}
Designer Andrei Fraça’s has created Noah, a high performance vehicle that looks like a unicycle. However, on closer examination, it can be seen that there are actually two tires mounted on a tandem. Noah’s basic design is meant to have a human driving and controlling it. It is controlled by the person leaning forward, backwards, or side to side. These factors control acceleration, braking, and turning. Everything is done without pedals or buttons. The tires act as stabilizers for the vehicle through turns as they shift up and down against one another to give more control to the driver. Zoom on!
Somebody came up with the clever idea to take scenes from old games such as Donkey Kong, Yoshi Island, and Street Fighter and place them in real photographs. Enjoy: