Friday, December 31, 2010

Mono Is A Perfect Kettle For Single User To Enjoy Hot Beverages Efficiently

The Mono kettle is designed to save energy and time when preparing hot beverages for single users, eliminating the possibility of pouring more water than needed by featuring a kettle with an isolated mug that can be used for both heating and drinking. Heating is done by the incorporated induction system that turns on by turning the mug to its desired heating level. After heating, the control ring will get back to the off mode. The kettle features two modes, first one is up to the boiling point for preparing tea and another is called eCO mode where water is heated up to 80 degree Celsius that is enough for preparing coffee and most other hot beverages. The mug can be safely hold right after the drink is prepared with the safest holding position indicating contours on the ceramic surface.


Philips AirFryer Uses Hot Air To Cook Your Food

When you watch “The Biggest Loser” episodes, you’ll know that eating deep fried food is one of the biggest sins for the contestants. What about air fried food? Is this a healthy option? Well, according to Philips, their new AirFryer product uses Rapid Air Technology to cook the kind of meals that would traditionally be dunked in a deep fat fryer. Philips claims that using this technology to fry food, you’ll get brown crispy foods with up to 80% less fat. Philips AirFryer works by circulating air up to 200C around foods, it’s oil free and far healthier. How does the food taste? Well, you have to try it to know it. You can pre-order this cooking machine at Philips’ website.

The Airfryer is a revolution in home cooking that uses little or no oil as it fries. Airfryer uses patented Rapid Air technology to circulate hot air around a grill component, creating delicious meals with up to 80% less fat. Whether it’s perfect French fries, crispychicken nuggets, delicately browned meat or golden pastries, food is cooked and crisped to perfection, all in just twelve minutes.

Design By Dofft

Dish Dryer Design by Matias Conti

Even the movement of waves can be a great inspiration for Matias Conti. This industrial designer has designed an attractive dish dryer with wave-shaped structure to help draining the water faster while holding the plates, glasses as well as spoons. He says that every line in this sexy dish dryer can change itsposition and size enhancing the visual dynamism. It is designed with a special shaped lip to allow you to add as many dryers as needed by only clipping one over another.



Design by dofft

Lacie S2.0 : Sleek and Stackable External Hard Drive Design

This sleek and sexy external hard drive is designed by Pedro Gomes and aimed for professionals. Lacie S2.0 is not just your traditional “box” shaped hard drive, it offers modern design with its clean and soft lines that break the tradition of plain square box external hard drive’s body. It features a screen display at the front to inform you how much free space you have left as well as the hard drive’s name. You can use this gadget as a solo product, but the stackablefeature offers great solution for data partition. It is easier to organized the data from thecolor codes or the disk name displayed on the screen. At the back of Lacie S2.0, there are 2 USB 3.o ports that allow connectivity between drives. The top docking area and the base are constructed from soft touch material to create better material friction when docking several units.



Design by dofft

Origin Is The Ultimate Food Cultivator For The Future Mankind

Growing vegetables in the backyard or in front of the house is always a common and enthusiastic hobby among a range of people. Many people find this hobby an appreciable one, and others consider this as a total waste of time and energy. But now, its time to rethink.

The most crucial problem the future civilization is going to face is the scarcity of food. Meat and fish would probably be forgotten lot before due to the global environmental disaster and fruits and vegetables are the only food alternative mankind can rely which would also become hard to be produced due to the shortage of cultivating land and the unstable weather condition. Origin, an indoor farm concept, has been designed to tackle such condition by being able to produce vegetables and fruits and lessen the massive storage requirement for those. This compact and stylish capsule resembles a lot with our existing storage water purifier which can take seeds and substrates of the user’s preference as inputs and cultivate the particular item they want.





Win A TokyoFlash Futuristic Watch of Your Choice!

Tuvie in association with Tokyoflash, a groundbreaking Japan based watchmanufacturer, has arranged a competition where everyone will get the chance to win a fantastic watch from TokyoFlash. As a token of our profound gratuity for the utmost loyalty of our valuable readers, this initiative could really be another milestone of our bond of over years in web. A winner will be able to select one from the wide range of futuristic watches available in the TokyoFlash store. We hope, this early Christmas present not only will give the winner a sophisticated position among his/her friends and family with unique style, also willcreate a feel of being together among all other readers of our site.

The best commenter will be announced as the winner and will get the chance of selecting a watch which will be delivered directly on the designated address. The competition will last for the next three days and the winner will be declared on Monday of the subsequent week.

When commenting, place the same name that you are using to follow Tuvie as well as Tokyoflash on Twitter so that we can easily identify you. Tuvie and TokyoFlash reserve the complete authority to select a comment as the best. So, be creative!

UPDATE : The winner of this competition is Mei. Please get back to us with your complete address and your pick of TokyoFlash watch.





Skylifter Can Move Nearly Anything To Anywhere

In the future, we can literally move a building from one place to another. SkyLifter a buoyant aircraft makes it possible to vertically raise and set down payloads, almost anything and anywhere. This piloted dirigible gas balloon system is not designed to fly as fast as jets and rotor craft, instead its main function is the unique heavy airlift capability. Skylifter provides payload capability over 15 times the lifting capacity of an S-64 Skycrane helicopter. It can move a hospital/clinic to provide temporary full service facilities in remote locations or move aluxury resort in exotic places where permanent buildings are not permitted.

Text from the website about Skylifter design

We have been careful to make the design of SkyLifter as simple and low-cost as possible to build and operate, but without compromising performance or safety.

The design brings together many systems already proven and in use in industry. We have adapted them to our requirements and added some of our own innovations. The result is shorter development time, less cost and much less project risk.

For example, three key features of the design are:

  • The symmetrical discus (lenticular) aerostat (balloon) which removes the need for SkyLifter to turn to face into wind and greatly simplifies payload handling.
  • The even distribution of payload via the suspension lines which removes the need to build heavy and complex internal support structures.
  • The propulsion and directional control is provided by several cycloidal propeller systems, providing almost instant vectored thrust in the horizontal and vertical planes. The system also provides additional active automated stability control.

The vertical tube one sees connecting the aerostat and the pod is simply a flexible two-way service trunk for personnel and systems.

The design is quite different from what one may have seen before. Its simplicity-of-form may seem obvious now but it has taken many years of hard work and investment to create this overall package that delivers a practical and cost-effective turn-key solution.





DongSeo University Industrial Design Exhibition (Part 1)

This post is the first part of DongSeo University 12th Graduation Exhibition of the talented students who major in Industrial Design of the Department of Design. You’ll find creative and brilliant designs in this post. We’d like to say thank you to Sungkuk Park who sent the materials to us.

1. Sunny Place by Kang A Proposal of public space u

sing solar energy.

2. Slide Bath System by Seunghee Kim Bathtub system with a sliding method. This bathtub has dual functions : sink and bathtub. When in closed mode, you can use it as a bathroom sink. Just slide it open, you’ll get yourself a bathtub.3. Open It! by Youngdo Kim An ingenious instant coffee packaging design. Open It! is a package that can also act as a straw after you empty the content.4. Clever Spoon by Yeonghwa Kim Clever spoon is a measuring spoon that you can use to find out the right amount of the seasoning in the kitchen faster and easier.5. Mimong Nanum by Inyoung Kim
Mimong Nanum is a packaging design for nativ alcoholic beverages (Makgeolli). It looks like an ordinary container of Makgeolli, but once the vinyl bag is opened, it will split into 2 bowls. It allows you to enjoy Makgeolli with other people.


6. Dumbbell+ by Taehoon Kim
Dumbbell is usually a single weight fitness equipment. Dumbbell+ is a new dumbbell design to make it possible for you to adjust the weight just with one single equipment.


7. Heaven’s Window Dongmin Park
This is a frame lamp to remind you about the joy of opening a window and welcoming the beautiful sun light through it.
8. The Louvre Vase by Sungkuk Park
Decorate your home as a small gallery by putting various flowers in Louvre Vase.


9. Adjustable Detail Tape Measure by Changhyeon Bang
This tape measure has been designed with wheel control for better measurement.

10. Dishhanger by Moah Seo
A new design of drying rack.

11. Frame Wallpaper by Yiseul Son
This leaf-patterned wallpaper consists of self adhesive double layers where you can easily attach a photo anywhere you want.

12. Hand Wash Bowl by Youngju Song
Organic design emphasizes beauty of a sculpture, hand wash bowl looks like a beautiful installation in a building or restaurant. It is specifically designed to promote the importance of washing your hands.

13. Fashion Stick by Yuri Song
A new t-cane design in a beautiful smooth curve.

14. Stories in Cube by Jeongah Yang
A set of educational toy consists of 27 cubes. Each cube represents a story where your children can combine them to create a whole new imaginative story.

15. A Hidden Chopstick by Sohyun Yoon
A spoon and chopstick in one. This is really handy when you’re on camping trip.

16. Block Light by Eontae Yoon
LED stand lighting utilizes block structure

17. Time Tack by Siyeol Lee
A pushpin design that can also be used as a time reminder.

18. Open Clothes Container by Jungeun Lee
Transparent clothes container to make you easier to find your clothes.

19. Custom Lighting Board by Junhee Lee
A table lamp for efficient and emotional desk environment.

20. Snake Hanger by Sungchuel Jang
A new hanger design to make you easier to hang your clothes.

21. Pick Up The Stick with Foot by Seongmin Jeon
This stick design makes it possible for you to pick the stick without the need to bend.

22. Massage Walking Stick by Kyeonghan Jeong
This stick has been designed with unique shape on the handle to allow senior people to use it as a massage tool.

23. Second by Jaekwan Jung
Second is a stick that has been designed to also function as a hearing tool.


24. Bag Hug Chair by Moonjo Jo
Your backpack can turn into a chair in seconds. A perfect bag to carry when you go camping.

25. The Sandglass by Jaryong Cho
A typical lamp shines at an angel of 360 degrees omni-directionally. This kind of lighting causes unnecessary power consumption when you need the light on a specific spot. This lamp concept has been designed to allow the user to adjust the intensity of light as much as they want and feel the lighting from any angle.

26. Cube Lighting by Boeun Joo
You can control the brightness of this lamp from the number on the dice. Pretty cool lamp design.

27. Smile Again by Boyeong Heo
A wallpaper with a hanger function.

28. Swing+ by Yeonghun Hyun
For small space bathroom, swing+ is needed. Swing+ is a combination of a bathroom sink, a storage, and a toilet.