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landscapearchitecture:

““recycle bin” / Entry for MUJI Award 01. Proxy designed a paper recycle-bin that can be recycled with its contents. Folding down to a small square, the bin is patterned to create a unique view of your recycling.”

(via Proxy « Scriptedbypurpose)

unknownskywalker:

A Watch With No Face

Designer Jihun Yeom created a watch that doesn’t have an apparent dial. He decided to perk up this analog piece by including funky laser light beams for the hands. They appear only when you tap the bevel edge around the watch ring. The red beam indicates the minutes and the blue depicts the hour. [Yanko Design]

pratt:

Printer Pencil

umm, what?

pratt:

kinkou:

16 Cellphone Concepts (Impossible!)

Dial and Colbalto are cool; question is, how far can something deviate from it’s perceived form while still be thought of as practical and positively radical? obvs, that also depends on design. so far, I still prefer my iPhone interface, lol. imagine the glare during the day with the see-through phones…

davidkaneda:

The iPad
After months (nay, years) of speculation, Apple has released their tablet: The iPad. The device has a 9.7” IPS screen, is 0.5” inches thin, and weighs 1.5 pounds. Some other hardware highlights include a whopping 10 hour battery life and Apple’s own 1GHz “Apple A4” ARM chip, likely made from its acquisition of P.A. Semi-technology.

On the software side, the iPad features all new user interface for default apps like Calendar, Address Book, Mail, Maps, etc. Safari still does not have Flash, sorry Adobe. It can also run every current iPhone app, either windowed with a black frame, or at 2x scale (fullscreen). Select developers were given pre-access to the new SDK two weeks ago and demoed their new iPad apps—including New York Times (which syncs reading and offers inline video), Brushes, and EA’s Need for Speed. Developers can also now take advantage of the new resolution, and likely new features, with the new SDK out today.

Most impressively, the iPad will also support a new, modified version of iWork. This means documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, all on-the-go. Each app features an all new UI and will be sold for $9.99 on the App Store.

The iPad will offer WiFi 802.11n—a huge advantage over the iPhone’s current limitation of 802.11g. Certain models also have 3G capabilities and Apple is announce a $29.99 unlimited data plan that will be offered through AT&T (contrary to many rumors saying Verizon would be the new carrier). This data plan is pre-paid, so there’s no contract.

The iPad costs $499–$699 for 16–64GB of space for a WiFi-only model, and $629–$829 for a 3G-enabled model. The WiFi only devices will start shipping in 60 days, and the 3G-enabled ones will ship 30 days after that. There are already a variety of accessories created, including a dock that has a keyboard and a case which doubles as a stand.

All in all, it looks like it’s going to be an amazing device. While you can’t quite purchase it yet, you can sign up to be notified. If you enjoyed this coverage of the iPad and want to discuss, or just poke fun of its name, further, let’s chat on Twitter.

not incredibly innovative, but I really want one anyway when I don’t feel like lugging my mbp around or blogging from the iPhone

(via age-of-ecology)

cute concept!

nobodyplace:

I New Idea Homepage » Geocentric Watch

What came to you on the first sight of the watch? It’s an image of the earth revolving around the sun? Yep, just as its name ‘Geocentric’ implies, Geoffrey Cooper’s watch has simulated the revolution of the earth around the sun. It has three rings, and it is the two bigger rings that are in constant motion to display both the hour and the minutes. And what is the red spot on the smallest ring is pointing to is rightly the current time.

I digg.

unknownskywalker:

PACKET phone

Packet is the winner of Istanbul Design Week 2007 where it won the first place for this concept phone. It is a cell phone concept that measures 5 cm x 5 cm, about half cigarette package when folded and when opened it reveals 5 surfaces with the keypad, display, 2 mini keyboards with letters, and the center face with touch-sensitive button areas.

In fact, the entire cell phone is made of a material similar with the e-paper and is touch-sensitive. On the back it shows the time in large character format. Packet is extremely thin and lightweight, easy portable and would probably be made of eco-friendly materials

unknownskywalker:

Iiamo Go by Karim Rashid

Designer Karim Rashid has created a baby’s bottle that heats milk to body temperature without using electricity.

hmm, this is kind of cool! and cute too.

I know someone in Taipei who designed this color-changing sticker to put on baby bottles to tell you how warm/hot the liquid is inside.

wpeng:

check out my girlfriend’s sister’s eggcups eggventures on etsy. apparently they’re all the rage in europe. they were just featured on the etsy homepage! how eggciting!

so adorable!!!!

chrbutler:

Amazing! This laptop is made from recyclable paper pulp.

Writeup from Dvice.com:

It’s something computer companies are already striving for, but designer Je Sung Park is taking the idea of a recyclable computer to its furthest limits. His Recyclable Paper Laptop is made from pulp and reprocessed materials, and would be broken down into the same when all is said and done.

people are too vain for this to work—but I appreciate the concept anyway

karenh:

Pentagram’s UI Design & Identity for the Litl, ”an innovative new web computer, or webbook, that marries the communication functions of a laptop and TV…” —via Pentagram

esquareda:

dailydesignbits:

Why hello there sexy magic mouse…

Indeed. [WANT]