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Hao Chun Huang’s Flexbook, fujitsu award winner
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yuri suzuki: colour chaser 2010
The Colour Chaser is a small ‘vehicle’ that detects colour and translate the RGB data into sound. The user can draw any shaped closed circuit track with a black marker, and then cross lines in any color to create ‘soundscapes’.
the music produced is a little abrasive in my opinion, but the technology is incredible
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Smart design for a butter/jam packaging. Designed by YeongKeun Jeong (Source via Yanko Design)
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snow dust by olga kravchenko. utilizing dust collection, the aesthetics of this lamp change over time as it becomes ‘dirtier’.
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Coat rack by Nick Fraser
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Wire frame lamp by Nick Fraser
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‘ecooler’ by mey and boaz kahn cools a room by running water through the tessellated ceramic room divider
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22 design studio: 4th dimension clock
made from triangular slices of concrete that recede for at every hour mark for a unique spiral effect
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Sunn-frame bike prototype by Garret Belmont
designed for the Seoul Design Week 2010. The ultimate beach cruiser, the rectangular shaft in the middle is actually a storage compartment for umbrellas, chairs, towels, and all other beach accessories.
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Bright Side lights by Rich, Brilliant, Willing
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the deepwater horizon oil spill in the gulf of mexico is said to have leaked 4.9 million barrels of crude oil. while the leak is now capped, the clean-up is still occurring. researchers in MIT’s senseable city project developed seaswarm, in collaboration with walter nicolino - of carlorattiassociati and carlo ratti, an autonomous network of solar-powered oil cleaning robots to handle situations just like this. the small floating devices, skim the water’s surface, collecting oil on a conveyor belt made of a thin nanowire mesh. this patented nanomaterial can absorb up to 20 times its weight in oil. the oil is then digested onboard the seaswarm so that the robot can be continually collecting. the devices communicate with each other through GPS and wifi tackling an oil spill from the edge and working inwards. their small size allows them to reach areas where other oil collectors cannot navigate. (via MIT seaswarm at architecture biennale venice 2010
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korean studio nothing design group and asiana airlines, along with the korea international cooperation agency (KOICA) have collaborated to develop and install solar powered streetlights to a world cultural heritage site appointed by UNESCO in angkor wat, cambodia. the lights have been put there to protect and provide safety for tourists visiting the area. the solar powered streetlight project is the outcome of an agreement made between asiana and KOICA, in which both parties wish to provide ‘free of charge aid activities’ to promote and improve cambodia’s image and brand value. nothing design group and asiana have installed 16 solar powered streetlights around angkor wat, and are planning to install 5 to 10 additional streetlights a year until 2015. in comparison to typical streetlamps that use incandescent bulbs (150W), the contributed solar-powered streetlights lower the CO2 emissions to 240kg - the equivalent to planting 86 pine trees. (via nothing design group: tree solar streetlights
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