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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

Viu : 3 Wheel Electric Concept Car for 2 Persons

TheFuture — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:18:02 +0000

Viu is a futuristic concept car that has been designed with a living feel and has given the sensation about not only its aesthetic like a motorbike, but comprehensive safety of a 4 wheeled car. This lighter and smaller vehicle comprises more aerodynamics to make it more efficient and environmentally friendly with its 2 electric engines that never emit anything bad at all. The sporty and technologic outlook enables wheels, suspension or rear suspension to be seen in action from the driving position inside. Moreover, cameras with the floating rear view mirrors, air side intakes, aggressive LED front lights and carbon fiber elements have given the car an innovative and dynamic image.

The interior of VIU was designed aiming the needs of the future users by serving as a living means of transportation. The design of the dashboard stimulates the eye with two lateral LED lights that indicates an efficient driving meter and a tachometer. The 1+1 sitting arrangement of the car offers the exciting movement of a motorcycle together with the safety of a closed car. As the road turns, the car cabin inclinates with the turn and the back seat rotates following the turn to offer maximum driving excitement to the driver.

Up the drivers seat, there is a fan to blow on the drivers back and shoulders to motivate him and to provide an excitingly fresh environment during the hot season when moisture accumulate on the seat, another air fan is there to dissipate the moisture. The steering wheel is actually a drumming pad, which can jam in the speakers when the user drums on the wheel spontaneously. This extremely cost-effective vehicle will cost five cents only with Eneloop batteries for one month, eight hours a day use.

Designer : Quim Vila-Masana Mas

Dry Blizzard Champagne Case by Thomas Lemaire

TheFuture — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:07:10 +0000

This new revolutionary concept, designed by French designer Thomas Lemaire, called “Dry Blizzard” is the champagne case which is more or less a new technical approach for the high end champagne. The concept helps to keep the champagne chilled but without ice! It is done with a pool of dry ice at the bottom of the device which creates the cold effect thereby ensuring that the champagne is at desired temperature. The device has a battery and a small system that creates a current of cold air around the bottle. Also since it is in a case, the contact with the hot hand is avoided. So feel free and enjoy the sip of your chilled champagne!

Designer : Thomas Lemaire

Digitable Coffee Table with Built-In CD/DVD Player

TheFuture — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:18:23 +0000

We all may be very simple on the inside but when it comes to show off we never miss a chance to do so. The only thing, we think, is to be sophisticated than others in terms of our eating, drinking and interacting style. So here is Peter Lee presenting an excellent style statement with a contemporary digitable coffee table with an inbuilt CD and DVD player.

With a very inviting, attractive and glossy look of this glass coffee table all you need to do is to pair it up with a plasma TV and invite your special one for that romantic date with a movie along with a sip of coffee.

Designer : Peter Lea Via BornRich