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Office Chairs can often be unsupportive and promote bad posture at home and at the workplace. Designed for today’s active users, Buoy is a seat designed by Turnstone that is designed to move as you do. Buoy swivels, turns, tilts, and moves up and down, mirroring the movement of your hips and posture.
The team at Turnstone explain why they created the chair:
After researching multiple small businesses, we noticed something: people are mobile, even when seated. Whether you’re a knee bouncer, a pencil tapper, or you’ve got jazz hands, Buoy lets you move freely. So feel free to pull up a seat. Or lean in. Or hunker down. Mobility matters.
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Meet the camera that is making photography easier than you could have ever imagined. Lytro uses a new type of light senor that records the entire light field. This means that after you take a photo, you are able to adjust the focal area.
The Lytro website features a section that allows you to try out the re-focusing process like you would if you actually owned the camera. This mind-blowing technology has professional photographers scrambling and questioning what photography means.
The people behind Lytro what to reinvent what it means to take a photograph.
“By capturing the light field, you can do incredible things. Like refocus pictures after you take them. Tap the touchscreen on whatever part of the picture you want to bring into focus — or, once a picture is imported into your computer, click to refocus.”
(Full article - Including video of how it all works)
Design that is adaptable, changeable and beautiful is always something that catches my eye. Combined with crafting skill Well Well Designers have developed Pop-Up, a corner lamp delivered in an envelope.
The Pop-up corner light is delivered in an envelope with the electric cord. The lamp is constructed from a sheet of tinted cardboard.The sheet is cut and incised, in such a way to produce a square, triangular or circular module when folded at a 90° angle. Intended for the corner of a room, the lamp creates a luminous shape, interacting with the architecture. It cleverly takes advantage of a space often unexploited in design.
When going outdoors, design shouldn’t have to take the backseat. These enamel steel cups manufactured using World War Two era machinery are beautifully crafted and designed.
What truly distinguishes the cups is that the rim and the handle — the two spots that get the most abuse — are reinforced with a double dipping of enamel, making this the most steadfast cup in the land. Designed by the durable and rustic Best Made brand, it may just be the most beautiful campfire mug ever made.
This stunning Pocket Watch designed by People People is grabbing the attention of many with its super minimal approach. The designers behind the watch made a deliberate choice to develop a pocket watch rather than a wristwatch, the preferred modern approach of keeping time. They aimed to cite the evolution of the timepiece to primarily a personality statement worn less and less for practicality.
“A watch is something that fits into people’s frame of reference, even though the function has gone from showing time to showing style.”
Playing video games is a universal experience, designed for young and old but developing and designing video games is something that takes complex coding and artistic ability, or is it?
Pixel Press, is an iPhone and iPad app that lets you draw your own video game (no code required!) and share it with others. It’s a simple four step process – draw, upload and test, design, play and share.
The team at Pixel Press tell us about the amazingly creative project: With the Pixel Press platform you are designing five floors of a video game level. Your hero will start at the bottom and attempt to overcome the obstacles you create to reach the elevator at the end of each floor to advance up to the next floor. Your objective is to create a level that is progressively more challenging from top to bottom.
This pint-sized printer allows you to publish content that’s important to you. Syncing to a cloud service, you are able to subscribe to local news papers, magazines, social media, and even puzzles to keep your brain sharp.
Printing a receipt sized document, Little Printer gives you portable content in a neat little personalised package. Little Printer sits in your home, but it’s BERG Cloud that does the heavy lifting. Because publications are created in our cloud on the Web, not in your front room, we can offer more services for your Little Printer without the need for updates or a replacement product.
It’s not often that a product can turn an ethereal experience, like music, into a tactile feeling. Rafl allows you to directly interact with songs by touching, covering, and flicking the speaker.
Designer Kihwan Joo tells us more: Just like fumbling in a candy jar in order to find their favorite one, users can pick up a music using their fingers.
Meet Spot, a functional and adaptable lighting solution. Whether being used as a task light, floodlight, or an ambient light, spot can fit into any environment and any lifestyle. While focusing on the function of a light, spot also addresses some aesthetic decisions. Minimal form and color choices easily show where and how the user should interact with the light.
The team behind Spot is currently seeking crowd funding:
SPOT currently remains as a prototype although we really believe in its functionality. With your support and sufficient funding, we will be able to complete a first production run and bring this delightful product to your household.
Marko Vuckovic, a serbian industrial designer isn’t one for conforming. His designs are bold, ambitious and elegant. After winning a DesignandDesign Award in 2011 Marko went on to develop a mobile version of his award winning Saturn Clock and it’s unlike any watch you have ever seen.
Clocks have the same boring look with three needles, each representing the second, minute and hour hand. The needles move in the same manner, and reading time also does not vary from one clock to the other, it faily remains the same. Designing around these elements was something Marko wanted to challenge.
He explains further: I was inspired by the planet Saturn and I designed a watch named The Saturn. The Saturn Watch has been crafted in a simple yet elegant manner. It consists of a base which has 12 digits placed on it like any other timepiece. Further, the base is enveloped with two disks that have perforated holes crafted on them. Both the disks turn around in a clockwise manner. The holes in the round plate aptly reveal what time of the day we are in. As against everyday clocks, only the digits representing the present time are revealed and the rest remain concealed under the disk.
Using classic European delivery bikes as inspiration, the Faraday combines innovative technologies to create a revolutionary bicycle. In passing, the Faraday might just seem like an ordinary bike with a hint of style, but housed within the frame is a battery and motor to assist in your commute. With a 45-minute charge time and 15 miles of pedal assist, the Faraday adds some pep into your pedaling.
The Faraday team tell us a bit more about the bike:
“At Faraday Bicycles, design is about much more than just appearance – it’s about the entire rider experience. Despite its extraordinary capabilities (it’s electric!), we designed the Faraday Porteur to look and ride just like a familiar, high-quality bicycle. The Faraday Porteur looks and feels like a premium city bike, but it performs in a class of its own. Most importantly, the Faraday lets you work as much, or as little, as you want.”
Since the last time i introduced Google Glass, the product has come along way. Currently being trailed by several people in the US, Google have plenty of eager potential customers. Some questions still remain unanswered such as, What is its purpose?, What does it do? and How do i use it?. Today Google answered some of those questions with the ‘Glass (How to: Getting Started Video)’ What are your thoughts?
Whilst technical function is key to the success of a product, too many companies overlook the importance of design. Jawbone has developed human-centered wearable technology for more than a decade and they have shown their understanding of great design coupled with smart technology, bringing ‘UP’ to the shelves.
UP is a wristband and smartphone app that tracks how you sleep, move and eat—then helps you use that information to feel your best
Tackling the problems that people face everyday, Automatic Labs have developed ‘Automatic’, a Personal Assistant to your car through your smartphone. The Automatic Link (adapter) talks to your car’s onboard computer and uses your smartphone’s GPS and data plan to upgrade your car’s capabilities. Every Link works with both iPhone and Android. Automatic learns about your driving style and gives you subtle audio cues when you do things that waste gas, by rapid acceleration or breaking. All of which is displayed in a beautiful and helpful format, giving you the opportunity to look at your driving performance and save money on your fuel consumption.
Still not impressed? Well Automatic ‘automatically’ monitors the health of your vehicle alerting you to any possible problems and offers solutions to the problems, right on your smartphone. If you do happen to crash your vehicle, Automatic uses your phone’s data connection to immediately report the crash to 911* with your name, location, and vehicle description. Once help responds, Automatic can send a text message to your loved ones to let them know what happened, where you are, and that help is on the way.
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Originally developed by lumberjacks in the snow-covered Canadian Rocky Mountains more than thirty years ago, the Bullerjan wood-burning stove is widely regarded as the icon of all wood stoves
Energetec, the company behind the Bullerjan brand, wanted to create a new generation of Bullerjan stoves, ones designed for the homes of everyday people, so they approached Frog (on of our favourite innovative firms) to help them incorporate the brand’s heritage into an efficient and elegant modern fireplace.
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