Beside P’9521 mobile phone, Porsche also won iF product design awards for its P’7340 kitchen and P’6750 watch design. P’9521 is a flip phone with square shape, featuring a fingerprint reader to identify the user and also make secure access to private data. The screen of the phone also can be rotated through 180A a? thus allowing the phone to be used as a digital camera, thanks to double hinge made of aluminum. You can find this phone in the Porsche Design Stores, too bad it is not available for US, Japan or Korea market.
Designer : Porsche Design
After casulo, here comes another invention from Japan called Trunk Station Ad, a workstation in a box. I guess we are going to see a lot of transforming furniture design in the future, this is due to saving space issue that we are going to face. The W 906mm x D 615mm H x 1190mm sized melamine resin trunk opens to reveal an efficient work space, complete with pre-drilled holes for electrical and component wires/cables, a fold out desk, and plenty of shelving for a whole lot of extras (including some add-on units). The price tag is around $1,980, quite expensive, well … saving space is never cheap.
Product Page : Caina via Unplggd
Another iPod accessories that you can use in the bathroom. TearDrop is a water-resistant iPod speaker, operated on batteries, giving you music experience in your bathroom. It is said that TearDrop is a hottest gift in Japan right now.
Via HomeDosh
World online gamers? festival, GNGWC2007(Game and Game World Championship 2007) will be held at COEX-Pacific hall on Dec. 1st.
Followed by last year event, more than 90 selected players at preliminary matches from Korea, US, Europe, S.E. Asia, and Japan region will be gathering at GNGWC2007 Grand Final and compete intensively for total reward of 54,000(USD).
GNGWC is a part of GSP(Global Service Platform) marketing campaign which began in 2004 by KIPA to support Korean online games in foreign market and its event begun from 2006 in earnest. GNGWC campaign started to support Korean online game industries in US, Europe, Japan, and S.E. Asia markets and it is accomplishing enough part for Korean online game industries by foreign countries marketing mean even though it has short history.
In this year event, UCC portal site mgoon(www.mgoon.com) and GNGWC official site(www.gngwc.com) will broadcast GNGWC2007 lively with high quality(800Kb) streaming service to all over the world for the first time. Through this, gamer will have more chance to participate this event directly or indirectly by this broadcasting service.
Via AVING
One hundred and two players who survived from online provisional selections will compete to acquire only 17 tickets at Quest Hall, Tokyo.
Starting with ?Navy Field(gamespace24.net/navyfield-neo)? from last September, GNGWC Japan regional final online provisional selections finished with ?Silk Road(www.silkroad.jp)? division. 102 players who selected from online provisional selections will compete to have Grand Final (Seoul, Korea) tickets on Nov. 17th at Quest Hall, Tokyo. Read the rest of this entry »
