September 2007
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Design Lab 07 Finalists Announced
By Press Release:
(Stockholm), September 11, 2007
Electrolux announces this year’s Design Lab finalists in its global competition with eco-design the theme
Electrolux, a leading household appliance innovator, has chosen eight finalists to compete for first place in Electrolux Design Lab 07, the fifth edition of this annual global competition. Hundreds of design students from around the world [...] -
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Bicycle with Couple Seats
Bicycles built for two seem like they’d be romantic, but isn’t cycling a selfish sport? This bicycle clearly has the better solution for a “tandem”, as you get a view of the open road rather than of your bikemate’s sweaty back. That’s industrial design.
But how do you start cycling?
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Sony Video Walkman NW-A910
Sony’s latest Video Walkman series, the NW-A910, is to be released next month in Japan. Available in 16GB, 8GB and 4GB models, Sony claim it’s the smallest and lightest device to watch and record digital TV on. 16GB model can record up to 100 hours of digital terrestrial TV, programmable up to a month in [...]
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Solar Tree
Ross Lovegrove, designer of beautiful, yet useful, things, has teamed up with Artemide and Sharp Solar to produce these solar-powered street lamps that are to light up the Ringstrasse outside Vienna’s Museum for Angewandte Kunste.According to a statement from Lovegrove Studio, the Solar Trees “communicate more than light… they communicate the trust of placing beautifully [...]
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3-Dimensional Textiles
Anne Kyyro Quinn is a London based company that specialises in 3-dimensional textiles constructed with unusual material applications. The collections are produced by bold manipulations of thick felt creating highly textural and sculptural surfaces. With a vast colour range to choose from all items can be custom made to clients’ requirements.Anne Kyyro Quinn’s 100% wool [...]
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Gumnetic Bubblegum Bin
Made from recycled chewing gum too! A street side bin specially designed for the disposal of the gum. Anna Bullus won with her ‘Gumnetic Bin’ the British Councils National Design Award for 2007.A whole new material from chewing gum and bio resin that has unique properties and characteristics some of which enable the formation of this [...]
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Design News
Gumnetic Chewy Pad
This cushion is made from mixture of recycled chewing gum and bio resin. Varying ratios of the mixture enable different material characteristics to be achieved. This Chewy Pad takes on the charcteristics of memory foam and is designed to provoke sustainable and educational opportunities when it comes to the recycling of chewing gum.
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Volvo ReCharge Hybrid Concept Car
This is ReCharge, a C30-based concept car by Volvo unveiled at the Frankfurt Auto Show. This sleek thing will be able to take you about a 100 kilometers on electricity before it falls back on its 1.6-liter Flexifuel engine. According to Volvo, this car generate about 66% lower emissions of carbon dioxide compared with the best [...]
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Nokia 5310 XpressMusic
What’s the possibility of Technogad having first hand news of Nokia’s latest and sexy phones and accessories. Or even a hands on review of it in Singapore… Technogad survived its first birthday 2 weeks ago and had a birthday present (maybe) in the form a Nokia Communications guy emailing me the other day and offering [...] -
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Go Green Stoplight Pendant Lamp
Whether soaring over grass or a suspended above a dining table, this versatile fixture adds a special twinkle to any setting. Light you food and set the mood over a kitchen counter, brighten up a hallway with some accents of color, or add them to your bedroom for a little atmosphere. Where ever these pendants [...]
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Design Green
Uros Hohkravt – Suprise Flower
Life itself has always been an inspiration to us. Not only our life, but also the vital energy of other human beings surrounding us. Beside the fact that growing plants is existentially very important for people, it also fills them with enthusiasm, plants have a very calming affect on people, they produce oxygen etc.
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Triops Panoramic Digital Camera
Finalist for BraunPrize 2007, Triops is a robust digital camera which allows the user to experience new perspectives and perceptions and takes the potential of digital photography to a new level. The camera is equipped with three protected fisheye lenses and allows for an active, spontaneous and playful photography experience.
This product can take images while [...] -
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Nose Pouch
The most practical way to blow your nose. A new generation of handkerchief with a new pouch design. It will help you contain excessive nasal discharge better than ever!
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Design Green
David Graas – Designing Better Garbage
David Graas – Not A Lamp
Lamp packaged in itself. Content: not a lamp.
What do most of you do to the shoe boxes that you ‘bought’ together with your shoe purchases? Do you keep them or throw them away? For me, I generally keep them. I will use them to store my old shoes. [...] -
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Vippig Seesaw
Rocking helps develop a child’s sense of balance and the brain to sort sensory impressions. Ikea has an indoor seesaw made of Birch veneer with clear acrylic lacquer. Simple and nice. But it looks a bit small at 118 cm in length…
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