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The new Bubble Chair
Here is a new version of the famous Bubble chair revisited by Rousseau and INSA designer. This new version armchair ball illuminates in dark.
The light effect is spectacular in a subdued atmosphere. The bubble chair gets sexed up by Insa in this collaboration with Rousseau. Light sensitive material forms the graphic structure.
A 60’s Eero Aarnio creation. The whole thing is a contemporary twist on a retro classic.
Whirlpool has just introduced the concept futuristic green kitchen to recycle 60% of water and heat for its use.
Guided by the cycles of nature, this eco-kitchen optimize the consumption of energy resources for the greater good of our environment. For example, the heat from the refrigerator compressor is used to heat water from the dishwasher. Even the design of this kitchen was thought to reduce unnecessary wastage of energy, such as refrigerator drawer which limits the spread of cold air when it opens.
A new eco-project that will reduce of 24% your energy bill compared to a standard kitchen. Awesome!
- Enjoy it on Whirpool.com
One of the entrants for the competition this year Electrolux is the kitchen drawer. This mini kitchen is designed for small spaces.
There are four major parts in this product: a stainless steel plate for meals, electric stoves for cooking a dish drawer for storage, and mini-refrigerator. It’s perfect for someone who eats at the office or have small space.
- All concepts on Design Lal Electrolux 2008
The good old post-it and other magnets or magnetic slates on the refrigerator are they going to be relegated to the archive section?
With the digital tablet Homebase digital message center, the company Audiovox offers an alternative to these high tech solutions QuickList traditional. This accessory for geek who looks like a tablet PC, attaches to your fridge and offers a 7-inch screen to leave video messages or view photos (up to 100 shots with the internal memory of 512 MB), a digital clock …
And for unconditional pen, worry, you can still be paste your post-it or leave a message on the whiteboard!!
- More Audiovox!
Already awarded the prize “Nomad” Taiwan International Design Competition, HandShake is a concept of “social ring” imagined by designer Hideaki Matsui.
The principle? Handshake is a ring appearance classic contains basic information on your profile, which allows the user to interact with another carrying the same ring at a handshake.
Fully autonomous, it is powered by the energy created by the heat from the body and can be placed on special media to read the information it contains.
This gadget works with single action “Fresh Blue technology”, which is used successfully in some refrigerators.
We all love fruit but in general they require to be consumed soon enough if they rot. But what is this great tool? It is a fruit basket design that through its “Fresh Blue technology” kills bacteria and helps to prolong the lifespan of fruit, not diminish their nutritional content.
A great way to eat fruit and not cunsume so much wather. Awesome!
If you really love jogging and music too, Philips create a new kind of mp3: the knee mounted power generetor!
Just put it on your knee and run! The new mp3 is powered by your energy. Kinetic energy is trasformed into elettric power that charge your mp3.
Your new PHILIPS mp3 (prototype) won’t stop playing music until you won’t stop running. Great!
