Archive for March, 2008
The concept of “Clean Technology Tower” is brought to you by Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill. This building will be built in Chicago as highly efficient building. They plan to put the wind turbines in each of the corners of the building, to make sure it captures the wind at its highest velocity as it accelerates around the tower. At the apex, where wind speeds are at a maximum, a domed double roof cavity directs the wind towards an array of wind turbines. The negative pressure created by the turbines will be used to ventilate interior spaces. The dome itself is shaded by solar cells that capture the southern sun. These systems provide both comfort and energy to the space. Building on principles of biomimicry, Clean Technology Tower utilizes advanced technologies and climate-appropriate building systems to foster a symbiotic relationship with its local environment.
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Have you ever seen espresso machine in the coffee house? The size of those espresso machines are so big, while we espresso lovers hope there would be smaller one that we can keep in our small living space. Vincent Palicki try to address our need by designing this coffee machine concept. This concept is to combine two function (making big quantity of coffee and making expresso), by the help of a not so big coffee machine. You just have to switch, by rotating the upper part, to select what kind of coffee you want.
Designer : Vincent Palicki
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Controlling your home security from one single system, ProsperPC concept. This futuristic ProsperPC is a home system allowing families to experience a better standard of living. ProsperPC system works by embracing the evolution of technology in the home, making the entire home to act and function as one. One of main feature of this futuristic PC is the ability to monitor the status of your house, you will be informed about its conditions brings you comfort and confidence about your house situation. A second feature, building on the ability to monitor various utilities, is the power to alert a family of wasted resources. The ability to regulate energy usage saves money and is less harsh on the environment. ProsperPC is a flexible system for the home that could be beneficial today, and even more so in the near future. Reemphasizing the ability to embrace future technology, ProsperPC can adapt and utilize prospective intelligent applications.
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People’s idea of what their digital home should look like, is about to change radically. Large consumer groups now demand that home entertainment products must represent innovative design in order to even be considered as interesting to purchase. This demand is clearly addressed by the new Merium Multimedia PC, because what truly makes the new Mesiro Merium a piece of art, is its unique Scandinavian design and the fact that you can change its appearance to match the rest of your home. Just change the front covers – and you have a personalized piece of art.
The Merium is, technically speaking, a PC. However it is designed especially with the enjoyment of multimedia in mind. The Merium multimedia PC is an innovative and sleek designed product that helps you store, secure and enjoy all your digital valuables, such as your pictures, music, cam-recordings and other precious data, as well as providing Internet connectivity to your living-room. By introducing services such as Youtube and Facebook into the living room, friends and family can enjoy the web and other traditional PC entertainment together. Want to get this ? Prepare for 999.00 EUR.
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The aim of this new telephone design is to create a timeless and beautiful products. There are four new telephones, they are colombo one, colombo two, big and sandy eco. The designer intention was to create a family products that are visually timeless without blindly following current trends. The challenge from SunCorp Communication is to reestablish a visual relationship between earpiece and mouthpiece, while still at the same time incorporating all of the technology required of today’s modern telephones.
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In this digital world, we are turning more and more to the internet to find great recipes. But the question is, how to bring those recipes into the Kitchen ? Of course, you can take your laptop into your kitchen, but there won’t be any safe place to put it. Or you can print out the recipes and hopefully the water spills won’t make them sticky. Noah Balmer saw this problem and create a simple and genius concept, the Kitchen Sync. Kitchen Sync is a digital cookbook concept which perfect to meet the demand of replacing the conventional cookbook into a new generation of digital world. Finding your recipes online won’t be a problem for this device with its wireless internet connection, buy products, read cooking tips, no more sticky papers and dirty laptop.
This brilliant kitchen sync concept has won a prestigious International Housewares Association design award, hopefully this digital cookbook can continue into real production.
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This unique table surely will entertain you and your guests no matter they are a musician or not. Musical Furnishings has launched the Musical Rumba Series tables, hand built by artist Tor Clausen in his Olympia, Washington studio, and each one comes with a collection of interchangeable and re-arrangeable percussion inserts. Design your own personal drum table with durable, interchangeable and rearrangeable percussion inserts. Choose from four different sized tables to suit your musical and space needs. The smallest table accepts four of the smaller instruments and the largest accepts sixteen. Watch the video to understand why we are so exciting to get our hands on this table.
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Suzuki has announced its hydrogen motorcycle concept at Tokyo Motor Show last November, and the good news is they are ready to put this unconventional motorcycle into production. The crosscage concept motorcycle is a fuel-cell motorcycle in which a simple, compact, lightweight air-cooled fuel-cell system and a high-performance secondary battery are brought together in a way that realizes optimal power control. A fuel-cell unit from British specialist company Intelligent Energy delivers quick activation with low fuel consumption, and a lithium-ion battery combines safety with a low environmental burden. The simplicity, compactness, and lightness of these technologies not only make the crosscage environment-friendly; they also helped enable sporty styling befitting the Suzuki name.
This motorcycle was developed in conjunction with British Intelligent Energy, which make this a great collaboration since British Intelligent has its own hydrogen generation plants. Energy has a portfolio that includes a range of world-class fuel cell, fuel processing, desulphurization and hydrogen generation technologies. The company�s existing home hydrogen generation system means you�ll be able to make your own hydrogen at home. So I guess this news means you will find this motorcycle in the nearest showroom somewhere near the future.
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In the future, don’t be surprised to hear this sentences like “Pour your data on the table” or “Pour your data into my cup”, because if this Cup PC concept becomes reality, sharing your data can be as easy as pouring water from your cup. The concept of “The Cup” is inspired by people’s common behaviors in everywhere and every moment. Especially, usage of cup is one of the most general and daily behavior. In offices, home, even at shops, we can see and use them. In the future, the usage of computer will be more intuitive and simple than now. People will not need to learn how to use PC and the computer system will have effect on behaviors of user’s everyday conduct, like using a cup.
“The Cup” is innovative PC design in terms of following form and functions of physical and instinctive interface of cup. In other words, the operation of this new PC follows certain behaviors when people use cups. Such as contain, collecting, piling and pouring water into other cups, PC has functions of storing, sharing and organizing information. As reflecting a metaphor of cup into PC, The Cup may be creative but easy to use for majority of users.
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An amazing 3D GPS navigation has been launched by Thinkware, though I’m still hoping the e-paper gps concept can come to reality. iNAVI K2 GPS provides amazing detail of 3D maps which are rendered on its 4.8-inch 800 x 480 screen resolution in a photo-realistic way. iNAVI K2 GPS also uses a three-axis sensor (G-Sensor) that enables stable use of navigation system which speed up the search on iNAVI software. iNAVI K2 GPS also has multimedia functions, so you can do photo viewing, play your mp3, read e-book, and play games.
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