Loupe is a new generation concept remote control of a smart TV. The design focuses on creating a "Telefriend", opposite to the simple-minded mechanical "Telecommande" of today. This futuristic remote is the user's highly personalized friend, following the trend of individualized "smart" technologies and devices.
The main idea is a "magnifying glass", a remote that would reveal all the intricate and complex features to the user. These industrial designers focus more on the older generation peo...
Posted in » Designs and Concepts, Gadgets
1. Defender by TENG Xuan, YANG Zhaonan, ZHANG Mingxi, ZHEN Zhiliang
Sandbag is still a popular flood protection device because it’s cheap, easy to use and really effective. Defender is a sandbag concept that uses absorbent recycled paper fiber, it becomes heavy only when it’s wet, but when it’s dry, it’s really light. Because of this, Defender features easy handling and high portability, it won’t slow down the process of setting up flood defense lines.
2. Jarpet by CUI Ming...
Posted in » Advertisement, Design Competition
A cool transparent watch, this is what Tokyoflash Kisai Spider LCD Watch offers you. It reminds us to Vain Watch by Tao Ma, yet this one is available for you to buy. It’s an innovative watch design that uses transparent LCD to create illusion that the time is floating on your wrist.
After great attempts from many industrial designers to predict what iPhone 5 would look like, iPhone 5 is finally here. It features gorgeous longer body, thinner and lighter compared to iPhone 4s, so you can say that this by far is the thinnest, lightest, and fastest iPhone yet. Beautiful 4-inch retina display that boasts 1136x640 pixels of resolution allows you see everything in more vivid and lifelike, although the display is bigger than previous model, you can still hold it with one hand as t...
Posted in » Apple, Cell Phone
Electrolux Design Lab 2012 has announced its top 30 finalists from over 20 countries. Be inspired by these talented industrial designers’ works where each concept represents the philosophy of Electrolux that creating home appliances that stimulate, engage and enlighten all of our senses.
On October 25, 2012, 10 finalists will be invited to join the final event held in Milan Italy where they have to present their concept in front of the jury of design experts.
Here are 10 finalists of El...
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Holding a unique name, Razer Ferox is an ultra portable stereo speaker that intends to prove the world that size isn’t a matter at all. Physically more petite than any other stereo speakers available out there, Razer assures that the user will have an out of this world experience with a sonic attack like none other.
AmoebaBAND was inspired by amoeba, a shapeless unicellular organism which is able to adjust its shape to its environment. Based on this concept, these industrial designers have come up with improved band-aid concept design, so that the same band-aid can be used in different areas after tearing into shape.
Hands are our body parts where band-aid is most frequently used. Innovative AmoeBAND uses a simple tear action to create a suitable shape for the affected area. According to German EMFT* lat...
Posted in » Designs and Concepts, Life Science and Medical, Protection
Do you have a habit of peeking into your microwave oven while it’s cooking the food? You would love to know that these industrial designers try to develop a microwave oven with built-in projector named Proinjector. This means you can observe the process of cooking from a distance, since this device will project your food image onto the wall. So there’s no reason for you to danger yourself by standing in front of microwave oven, this action can pose health risks due to radiation exposure from...
Posted in » Designs and Concepts, Home And Kitchen
If you prefer to travel and camp alone, you shouldn’t travel without Kando backpack. Kando is a combination between an Alpine backpack and one-man tent, dual functions product. These two Swiss industrial designers characterized the perfect interaction of these two components perfectly. The materials and components have been chosen very carefully resulted in drastic volume reduction, weight optimization as well as easy handling.
Designers : Damian Schneider and Matthias Scherzinger
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Posted in » Designs and Concepts, Outdoor, Travel
I travel light, but some people don’t, there are people who seem to love carrying everything, everywhere. If you are one of them, Pumpack suitcase would be very handy to you as it contains a vacuum pump that compresses your clothes to create more space.
You’ll be able to find a hand-operated vacuum pump inside the handle, by compressing your clothes, you can maximize packing space. These industrial designers claimed that by using this tool, you can reduce the volume of your clothes by 70%...
Posted in » Bag, Designs and Concepts, Fashion, Travel
PumPing Tap is a smart spring loaded socket that will automatically eject your plug when any associated electronic device is not in use. Do you know that even when your electronic devices are switched off but if you don’t pull the plug out of the socket, there’s still power flows? Yes, this means that you are wasting power even though you don’t use your devices. Power is also wasted when you recharge any of your electronic devices when you don’t keep an eye on the charging process, you h...
Posted in » Designs and Concepts, Domestic Aid
We often take electricity for granted, because it’s invisible and intangible, but please take a minute to consider how much it helps in our everyday life. Zwei21 Interioricity lamp has been designed in respect of electricity, let’s face it, we really depend on it and hardly can survive without it. Electricity can become dangerous and complicated technical thing but on the other hand, it helps us operate so many electrical devices to make our life easier, from coffee maker to washing machine....
Posted in » Designs and Concepts, Interior Design, Light
KIDETIC is a fun project to teach children about relationship between energy, interaction and fun. This project addresses this connection by installing power generator mechanism onto playground’s recreational equipments. Electricity is a basic necessity that is in high demand globally, however there are areas where proper electric grids are non existent or power supply is not constant. As the result, the need to develop autonomous power generation system has become increasingly important. By p...
Posted in » Designs and Concepts, Games and Toys, Green, Outdoor
Zoquete Nomadic Light has been designed as part of experimental project for a local contest EXPOLUZ in Guadalajara. It’s a portable lamp that user can carry to almost anywhere, the iconic shape of the bulb features nomatic style and definitely not your regular bulb. The good thing is, these industrial designers already have full working prototype, let’s wait and see if they are going to launch this product to the market.
Designer : Claudio Monterrubio, Roberto Iñiguez and Alejandro Limó...
Posted in » Designs and Concepts, Light, Travel
Givi motorcycle top box was designed by these industrial designers during their exchange period at Istituto Europeo di Design. This top box project is intended to be used on motorcycles and has to be realistic enough to be released in the market by the year of 2017.
At first, we came up with many ideas that would make this an ambitious target, but during the process we moved toward actual reasonable scenarios and implementing only those features which were likely be available at that time. We h...
Posted in » Accessories, Designs and Concepts, Motorcycle
You can save a lot of money if you use water wisely, however it’s difficult to know how much water you use every day. This concept Quantum tap helps you measure your water consumption in easy way, not by turning a knob of lifting a lever, but rather by pulling up a pump-action handle. You can control your water usage based on the scaled markings on the stem of the handle, it indicates how much water will be released based on the pulled handle height. In this way, you’ll have to choose the am...
Posted in » Bathroom, Designs and Concepts, Home And Kitchen
Plastic bag is a very useful item for consumers due to its durability and stability, however plastic also raises a problem in marine environments. If you take a walk along any beach anywhere in the world, you’ll notice there are many drifting plastic trash washed ashore. The growth of plastic waste in the ocean is already at alarming rate, this Marine Drone concept has been especially designed to provide an innovative way to collect plastic waste and clean the oceans.
Together with other dr...
Posted in » Designs and Concepts, Green, Transportation
