The Suncheo wetland of Korea features the 5th largest tidal flat of the world where Gansam Architects G.lab has taken an innovative initiative to build a world class visitors center, aiming to protect and enhance the wetland. This minimally invasive project has been designed to go with the ebb and flow of the river tides. The 3,500 hectare wetland contains shallow salt marshes and over 25 types of threatened species and is important for its ecological attributes, production of fish, mollusks and seaweed. Keeping these important eco factors intact, the project was designed to join and showcase the wetland and surrounding mountains.
A significant part of the building is covered with green roof and the layout of the project is inspired from the outflows and inflows of the wetland’s tides. The project has different areas to maximize the environmental aspects and reducing energy consumption. All the portions of the design have maximum exposure on daylight and the entire structure is elevated from the ground level to ensure minimal disruption of the site.
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These concept laptops by Asus have been designed with lots of innovative features to dominate the headlines over the near future era. These next generation gadgets can attain the attention of all range of users with their unique shape and functional qualities. The Waveface watchphone with its bendable feature can stick on the wrist of the users to offer convenient access to their important documents. The Waveface Light is another innovative laptop concept with flexible display that can be flattened to use it a tablet on the desk or as a usual laptop. Finally, the Waveface Casa is a complete home entertainment system that can be hooked up on the wall to watch movies with great comfort.
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The futuristic monobike, featured with retro elements, is an innovative concept that is inspired from the WWII motorcycles. The extraordinary one-wheel bike contains BMW telelever technology based suspension which is excellently functional. The main bike is placed inside the large wheel, which certainly can make some barrier on the driver’s vision, but the compact shape of the bike is very much helpful to avoid the lousy future traffic. The bike is designed for one person only and contains powerful engine along with attractive metallic finish body that surely can become a good choice of future commuting.
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The ‘SITE’ concept is a combination of a navigation device and a scanner that helps visually impaired people to locate the correct food by using voice recognition, scanner and Radio-Frequency Identification tags. The device can scan canned grocery items through the scanner and save the products under a name assigned by voice command of the user, following by placing an RFID tag on the product.
When the user wants to find an item, they just name it and the SITE activates the particular RFID tag through radio signal. The user will put the ring of ‘SITE’ and will feel vibration when they place their hand over the desired food item. This innovative product will offer maximum convenience to the targeted users by diminishing the need of going through all the cans in the pantry and read their labels with traditional readers.
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Phillu is an innovative mobile storage device with a shape of matchbox that has a capacity of 45GB to carry and transfer all your data. The concept not only incorporates the shape, but also the functionality of a matchbox by featuring 9 removable sticks with a capacity of 5GB storage each. When it comes about transferring data, the user have to pick an available stick by pushing the case from the behind, put the head of the stick at the end of the striker and quickly strike the stick along the striker by adding pressure. The stick will become burned black at that time and will be ready to transfer data to another Phillu owner by plugging it to his device without the need of a computer in between.
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