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SENSE! : Use All Your Senses to Eat

TheFuture — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:06:59 +0000

SENSE! is a concept tableware objects collection that offers dining with all your senses instead of just eating with your eyes. The surprising and fun to use design makes you aware of your sensory abilities and turns a usual meal into an amazing experience with various innovative tableware each featuring different attributes. The Scent Flowers discharge a scent to accompany a dish. The Hot Stone Plates have inlaid warm basalt stones that heats in oil, allowing a slower and healthier dining. The Palate Cleansers produce a desirable break the scenario of dining by allowing you to relax when sipping the mint vapor that cleanses your palate keeping your stomach not so filled. Both the table and the tea set are the part of the astonishing Hot Ice Tea Ceremony, where the ice is unlikely hot.

Text from designer:
Most of what we perceive is through sight and sound. The senses of touch, taste, and smell are secondary. Up until now we have consumed food mainly with our eyes. Visually challenged people have proven that we have the capacity to develop other senses to a greater extent… but do we truly need to lack a sense before we’ll put the others to greater use?

SENSE! is a set of tableware objects that challenges you to use ALL your senses and no longer ‘eat with your eyes’ only. SENSE! is a set of Scent Flowers, Hot Stone Plates, Palate Cleansers and a Hot Ice Tea Ceremony. The designs make you aware of your secondary sensory capabilities. They are surprising, fun to use and magical… turning an ordinary meal into an extraordinary experience.

Hot Ice Tea Ceremony
The table and tea set are both part of a modern tea serving ceremony. Placing the tea carafe on the table will set of the crystallization of the ‘Hot Ice’ that will run through the tabletop into the double walled tea glasses. Do not trust your eyes… the ice is hot!

Hot Stone Plates
The porcelain plates with inlaid warm basalt stones heated in stock or oil allow for slower and therefore healthier dining.

Palate Cleansers
The palate cleansers create a desirable break in the dining scenario. Sit back, relax and enjoy sipping the mint vapour, which cleanses you palate but does not fill your stomach.

Scent Flowers
The scent flowers can release a specific scent to accompany a dish. Do we actually need to swallow all ingredients to have the perception of eating them, or can we eat with our noses?

Designer : Katrien Ploegmakers

Audi Bosendorfer Grand Piano for Audi’s 100th Anniversary

TheFuture — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:25:20 +0000

As a form of 100 years celebration of Audi, they have allowed their German designers to create any kind of amazing stuff aside from cars and Bösendorfer Piano is the outcome of such an extraordinary effort. Audi designed this magnificent piano with sleek curves and Batman-black cowl, which resulting an alluring appearance that can attract all range of people. However, the basic structure of a traditional piano has been kept intact, but still the design is quite unique and appealing. The main goal of the project was to stimulating the creativity of the design team and the project was quite helpful for the young designers which will benefit them on the long run of car designing.

Designer : Audi via [Dvice and Autoblog]

NV Bed by Karim Rashid

TheFuture — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:46:56 +0000

Designer Karim Rashid with Hollandia International has come up with top class NV bed with adjustable sleep system. The product is designed with rounded shape, showy style and amazing high luster gloss bi-color. Apart from its shiny and solid look, this bed enhances the storage capacity at the foot and headboard. NV bed offers a perfect blend of form and functionality along with the support of iPod. Karim Rashid has not left anything to provide modern and lavish home décor. You are going to get everything starting from iPod docking system to cabinet doors or artistic choice of materials. So, invite your laziness on this incredibly designed bed.

Designer : Karim Rashid

Artistic Modular Shelving Unit to Enhance Your Living Room

TheFuture — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:08:07 +0000

Various designer scaffolding by Maria Yasko if to be described in two words can be said to be ‘unusually beautiful’. The designer seems to have been inspired by nature and surroundings, as one can see many of the designs which have graphically designed leaves and branches as extensions of the structures. The material used for design is corian and apart from beautiful design, the beauty of the scaffoldings is also enhanced by smart color choices and amazing color combinations. Perfect companion to adorn your living room as you see your walls being beautified with nature as a backdrop.

Designer : Maria Yasko

Honda V4 Motorcycle Concept with Hubless Wheels

TheFuture — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:08:36 +0000

It’s amazing now seeing the jaw dropping designs and concepts that Honda brings forward. Honda V4 concept has come up with a deadly sports bike that proposes a new bike design direction for the brand. This model is designed to indicate the beginning of a new era. The bike has V4 engine and it is clearly shown in the design. The hubless wheels are fixed with all-enveloping cowls which most likely assist in reducing drag. This stylish and futuristic sports bike concept was exposed at the 2008 Intermot bike show in Germany. Overall, this bike is going to offer a new look to all the bike riders with excellent performance.

Designer : Honda

Stylish Jaw Dropping Axess Skateboard

TheFuture — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:03:19 +0000

Skateboard is a very special possession and anyone who loves to skate would go to any extreme to customize the skateboard with stickers, colors and different style of wheels. Days are gone when one used to stick to limited designs for skateboards but nowadays, you get amazing designs for your skateboard. “Axess” is a jaw dropping skateboard presentation with different styles and designs of skateboards. You would have never come across such innovative ideas to present skateboards with style and proper foot placement. These are not just usual skateboards but each of them is unique and serves for different kind of tracks.

Designer : Pascal PRAT

RCA Sleek, Super Cool, Sustainable and Futuristic Concept Cars

TheFuture — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:27:58 +0000

Have you ever imagined driving a super cool car on your city roads that can knock out others? Well, RCA have unveiled sleek sustainable concept cars composed of aerodynamic glass or with a split framework mimicking a motorcycle and sidecar. The Royal College of Arts has recently showcased auto designs which are sleek and cutting edge concepts ready to steal your heart away. Their display included electric engines to ultra-lightweight materials to driver less navigation system. Most of the cars are 1-seater or 2-seaters. Some of the designs are so amazing that you just cannot wait to bring them home.

Enigma concept by Paul Howse

Iomega concept by Joonas Vartola

Winner: Airflow concept by Pierre Sabas

Phoenix concept by Sergio Loureiro Da Silva

Concept car by Ilaria Sacco

Source : Royal College of Art via DesignBoom