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Futuristic Bionic Transportation for The Year 2030

TheFuture — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:58:04 +0000

The stylish Bionic concept car is simply a token of functional values and innovative natural aesthetics through its radical aerodynamic design. The car has been designed to change its shape as per requirement in different situations by implementing EAP-electro-active polymer layers, which is an optimized and advance automobile material. Moreover, it features advance in-wheel motor technology that allows the car to produce zero-emissions and a polycarbon roof with attached solar photovoltaic cells that gives an uninterrupted outside view aside from producing energy through sunlight. This ultra-compact car can house two persons and has been designed for the year 2030 considering as an excellent solution for the massive future crowd and positive environmental aspects.

Designer : Vlad Icobet

GloBike System : Social Bike Sharing System

TheFuture — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:25:09 +0000

The GloBike system concept allows the user to share the bike and their experience with all other members of its internet community. The motto was to promote the cultural exchange and friendship between people from different communities through its online portal and use the bicycle as one of the best green transportation solutions. These bikes can send their exact location to the Globike portal which can be accessed by other users through their Globike device and call the nearest bike for their use. There are two parts of the system to manage navigation, sharing and communication between users. They are the hardware part, a device with a NFC chip that is permanently installed on the bike and the software part is the web portal itself. Globike is an updated version of Freecycle, designed by Cristiano Giuggioli, Stefano Marchetto, Massimo Brugnera and Alessandro Brunello.

Designer : Stefano Marchetto and Cristiano Giuggioli

Fima Touch Screen Faucet Will Do All The Thinking For You

TheFuture — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:24:55 +0000

The Touch Screen Faucet from Fima is equipped with smart and intelligent features that will do all the thinking on behalf of you. This unique and innovative gadget will pamper you with high-tech traits but yet features a simple and stylish outlook. Its sleek lines, stylish stainless steel made body, simple shape and touch sensitive display will help you to preset the ideal temperature of water and control the usage, making it an environmentally responsible and elegant bathroom essential. Hanging the faucet is easy and operating is easier. It features large icons for different options that can be programmed through simple touch of your fingertips.

Designer : Fima via Trendir

RocStar Faucet, Basin, and The Mirror by Hany Mansour

TheFuture — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:00:42 +0000

The innovative RocStar Bathroom concept has been designed aiming to overcome the limits of the conventional bathrooms and heighten the efficiency of the same. It features three main components that have been differentiated it from others; the faucet or the Rocstar, the basin and the mirror.

The Faucet comprises five arms with different functionality such as three of them are supplying water, liquid soap and toothpaste, and the last two acts as driers. The Rocstar top is made of transparent plastic with lighting underneath which acts as control sensors and allow users activating a particular arm by simply touching it. After being activated that arm will give a magnificent led light and smoothly turns to the user. Other activities such as changing the water temperature, screen savers and profile colors, driers, etc. can be done with the center top touch screen of the Rocstar.

The basin has been designed to protect the users from viruses and other diseases that the users might infected with usual basins. Moreover, the color of the basin can be changed with the led effects and can be programmed to change the color every time someone enters into the bathroom. More surprisingly, the color of the spot where the water drops on the basin can be changed as well. There are exterior buttons on the stainless steel area on the basin that can control the covering and sterilization procedure and selecting profiles.

The mirror includes a digital camera which can be controlled from the rocstar through wireless system to know different previous conditions of your skin color, pimples, medicines, etc. The mirror will capture your photo every time you go to the bathroom which can be reviewed later for comparison. Hany Mansour, the designer, welcomes youto give any critics and suggestions. You can contact Hany here: COMISSARDAYS@YAHOO.COM

Designer : Hany Mansour, you

Landscape Bathtub Can Transform Its Shape to Meet Your Needs

TheFuture — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:37:19 +0000

The Landscape Bathtub concept was envisioned to meet problem of limited resources of energy and space in near future. This project is designed to transform its shape to meet the requirements for different scenarios. For example, the landscape will be a shower deck during the fast morning, which will transform into a long relaxing bathtub during evening. The landscape is made of transformable thick silicon/rubber including an air pumping mechanism inside. Moreover, the concept offers vibro-massage feature based on turbulent pumping arrangement inside the rubber skin and an option to resize the bathing area as per the particular user’s need in order to optimize the usage of space and water.

Designer : Yaroslav Rassadin

La Clef du Temps Limited Edition Watch from Confrerie Horlogere

TheFuture — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:59:32 +0000

The La Clef du Temps watch actually allows the user to control the pace of time by modulating the speed of every passing hour through the crown at 9 o’clock. Aside from featuring technical triumph, it returns luxury timekeeping more importantly to all range of users. These 24 watches of different time zones of the world surely stand a chance to be a great collector’s choice. The weird symbols of the watches can be revealed by close examination and no matter how long you misrepresent time on your watch, you can return to the standard time anytime by simply moving the crown at 9 o’clock. These watches would be quite expensive, only a prototype of such a watch fetched the 2nd highest price in a recent watch auction at $410,000.

From the website:
LIMITED EDITION OF 24 PIECES
An exceptional mechanism created by Mathias Buttet – founder of Confrérie Horlogère – for the Only Watch 09 auction: an event that takes place every two years and is aimed at raising funds to help children affected by Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Touched by the devastating effects of this disease, Mathias Buttet has developed a Vertical tourbillon watch which features a hand-wound mechanical movement able to make the time last longer for those who don’t have much of it. Moreover, the prototype developed has been enriched with a further function allowing users to shorten the time if they so wish.

Designer : Confrerie Horlogere

Hugo Boss Fragrance Bottle by Karim Rashid

TheFuture — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:24:23 +0000

Hugo Boss is the renowned brand fragrance by HUGO that was first released in 1995 and is occupying one of the top ranks among the competitors. In order to keep it up, they have decided to launch their limited edition fragrance named as HUGO Man Exclusive and has asked Karim Rashid, the international designer, to design the bottle. The outcome was superb. With the illuminated color combination on white background with an exceptional shape to be a fragrance bottle, it would be able to generate customer allure. Moreover, the water bottle like cap is really rare to see on a traditional fragrance bottle. HUGO will release 1000 copies of this soon through 100 different outlets worldwide.

Designer : Karim Rashid

Clover Eco-Sensitive Mobile Phone Grows Old With You

TheFuture — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:33:02 +0000

The Clover is an eco-friendly mobile phone concept that has been designed to grow old with the user. This phone features four module interfaces; sound, sensor, vision and location, allowing the user to customize the phone according to their need and taste. Moreover, users can add quite a few numbers of additional modules to make the phone even more functional and attractive. The sleek black touchscreen offers different way of checking out the functions and a user-friendly operating environment. The phone is branded under the name of Samsung and is a great physical device that can develop and share environmental awareness through a built-in collaborative social network name “eco-map”.

Designer : JinWoo Han

Opehn Lamp Design by Flavio García

TheFuture — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:06:45 +0000

The superb design of OPEHN Lamp concept leaves the wires outside, giving the lamp an impression to be naked. The designer has used energy saving LED bulbs to make it even more efficient and the bulbs have been placed in a shameless manner too. However, the bulbs are decorated with petals which give the lamp an organic appearance with the wires to be some growing vines of a tree. The petals have been placed in different angles so that it can lighten in all directions equally. The round base is designed to be well balanced and keep the lamp stand still in even and uneven surfaces.

Designer : Flavio García

Mosquito Repellent Gadget With No Harmful Chemical Processes

TheFuture — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:37:58 +0000

Driving away mosquitoes is a major concern with all range of people and there are various traditional methods of doing this such as mosquito repellent, liquid vaporizer, aerosol and finally mosquito net, all with different harmful and inconvenient attributes. The Mint Mosquito Repellent is an innovative substitute of all forms of mosquito drivers keeping the consumer’s preconceived idea intact that a mosquito repellent should always be green. The repellent doesn’t require lighting up with fire but everyone will be able to tell from a first glimpse that it is a mosquito repellent.

The concept comprises a metal plate built with high conductive and heat resin metal where the essence cord should be placed and a low-voltage PTC thermistor has been used to make it more secured than other electric repellents. The termistor contains an over-current protection fuse that prevents fire way before it is probable to occur. Mint Mosquito Repellent offers the advantage of customizing the amount of aroma oil as the user’s desire. Moreover, you can use other natural substances such as Eucalyptus oil, glass oil and lavender oil. The MMR is completely safe to use with infants and children, and has no harmful chemical processes like other conventional repellents.

Designer : Mintpass