Peugeot Touch Me Michael, I Just Drive For You

You love light-up cars, right? You want your car to stick-out and keep the streets bright, right? How would you like your car to be uniquely coded to open and activate based on your touch- your fingerprints and more? Ask Enache Florin to hand the plans over. Here is the Peugeot “Touch.”

Designer Enache Florin keeps your car private, maybe:

[The Peugeot Touch] has a light weight body that in some areas, like the doors, are placed touch-sensitive sensors and finger recognition. [These sensors ensure that] only the owner can use the car. Everything is opened [and activated] by touch. The lights compose symbols made out of LED’s, in this way the car has it’s own identity at night. This associates the car with its parent company, identifying it uniquely as the Peugeot Touch.

Take note: if you want to ask questions about the logistics of the “Touch,” post comments below and Mr. Florin or one of his associates would be happy to answer some way or another, I’m sure.

1. This is no inexpensive car, for sure, but once the price barrier is broken, will a car that’s gotta be programmed to it’s driver be a realistic goal?

2. How about if we take that feature and make it regular for lots of cars?

3. Speed Racer. Time-lapse photography’s gonna be hot with this one.

Designer: Enache Florin

Shefling or Desking Wallwave

When we go out and buy that big piece of furniture, we usually know exactly what it’s for. However, what if that piece of furniture could be reinterpreted differently by people. Take for instance this design by Yoon-Zee Kim. To one person it may simple be funky shelving. To another, it’s seating and a desk. Take a look around at your stuff. Do you see other uses for them?

Designer: Yoon-Zee Kim

Brooch - Soundboard

This speaker concept called Brooch has no built-in soundboard. You have to bring that to the party. With its specially design suction cup, attach it to any smooth, flat surface. Different surfaces have different tones to them. The idea is to experiment. All music controls are projected onto that same surface for simulated touchscreen goodness. What do you guys think? Win?

Designer: KyungRyul Lim & Miyeon Kim

Have an Expresso

An espresso machine is a challenging object to design, on the one hand you have to innovate and appeal to the eye, and on the other hand it has to be pragmatic and intuitive to use as is the original design of an espresso machine.This design is about reconstructing the parts that make an espresso machine, while innovating in its curvature, without loosing its simplicity of use. All you need to do now is pick a cup out of its branch and make yourself a morning espresso.

Designer: Adam Zerbib

Tile - Hexagonal Modular Lighting System

Tile is a clean, unique, playful, contemporary, and multifunctional LED lighting device. Because of its modular nature with the unique joints that allow the lighting units to rotate in both X axis and Z axis, it functions as a work lamp, a floor lamp, and a wall lamp. It can also reconfigure into a decorative lighting device that provoke the mood of the environments.

In the wall lamp mode, the lamp suspends from ceiling with electric core connected on two sides. The lamp lights up from the back and shine through against the wall creating interesting lighting effects.

Designer: Gary Chang

Crystal Telephone

It seems in regard to electronic design, touchscreens are in and anything tactile is out. Tao Ma sees it the other way around. The Quartz Tele concept uses large quartz crystals for each numeric number on a dial pad. Below each crystal is an embedded LED. Pressing each crystal illuminates it like a transformer’s energon cube. They all sit on a base with a sharp LED screen that displays pertinent information like incoming calls, dates, and contacts.

Designer: Tao Ma

Vertical Ice

You love the cold water. For when you want ice in a nice place, there is the “Iced Carafe.” Design team “Officeoriginair” brings you what’s basically a simple contraption, made simply for having wonderful time! Molded plastic with a rubber stopper, made in such a fashion that if you freeze an amount of water in the bottle while it’s on it’s side, the ice will stay put!

Full on cold your entire drink experience.

The ice. It sticks to the inside of the bottle, on the side. It makes the whole drink cold. The whole time you drink it. And if you just sit there and wait to see if the ice will fall off into your drink, you’ll notice that once it does, it’s still a giant hunk of ice, a vertical piece of ice, which is still keeping your drink cold.

I think the design of the bottle is good enough. The idea is ok, and the implementation is not that special as the concept is very simple. One you use the ice for a few minutes, all the ices will be melted and blend in with the liquid, then there is no more interesting stuff to see.

Anyway, Viva vertical ice!

Handy Toaster

As far as innovative toasters go, I’ll stick with the VHS Toaster over this butter-knife type deal. At least with that one I wont accidentally toast my hand in the morning.

It’s a design concept by Kim Been that looks like a knife but is really a handheld toaster. All you need to do is run it across the bread until it’s toasted to your liking. An animated graphic shows you how you are doing, which your you should be able to see with your own eyes.

How are you going to get toasting power in this knife-thing? It would likely take awhile to toast your bread. Therefore this may be more of a dieting tool as you will surely go hungry.

Booze Shot Gun

The Shot-Gun is by far the most delicious way to get shot. Because, instead of lead, it fills you with booze! And booze, my friends, makes the world go around. Or at least the room. Whee, I'm on a carousel!

"Armed with the Alcohol Shot Gun, you can re-enact the most memorable movie scenes from "Dirty Harry" to "Matrix". "Do you feel lucky, sucker" is the only question? Pour in an ounce of your favorite drink into the cartridge, cock the trigger, point and shoot."

Call me crazy, but I want one. PEW! I feel better already. PEW! Mmmm, so warm in my belly. PEW PEW! I think that gfirl is lwooking at me. PEW PEW! i called her ugly a whorew . PEW PE? WHO ASE YOU CLALING DRUNK! Oh, ohs no -- PEW PEWK! PEEEEEWWWWWWK! ack, IthInk i popped A BLOODVESSEL in my eye. ugh. PEW! Oh yeah, that's the stuff.

Amazing Glass Harp

I just got into Metacafe and found out this amazing skill video about a person who is doing a glass harp. It's just amazing when he play the harmony, from one octave to another. The way he dedicated his life to learn to play this instrument. I love this video since he also play the 'Joyful Joyful' song, although it's not Christmas, I think his music brings tranquility to us. Well, who knows if there are some record companies interested to make an instrument album. Hm....=) Good Job, keep up the good work!

Amazing Glass ! - More amazing video clips are a click away

Cool Iris

I just suddenly run into my add-on in Firefox Browser and found this really really cool add-on. You should use it.
It will put your broweser into a 3D view with cool pre-saved content in cooliris, updated daily (I assume) and you can have your own favourite, you can still search for your content, and do anything you love in a stylish way.

I put the embeded testing page…go to cooliris.com for the free software! =)

How Tall Are You Mirror

Are you mini like Kylie? Or a mountain like Hulk Hogan? Measuring your height with numbers is so last decade, we all gauge our heights by celebrity now darling. This tongue-in-cheek mirror lists 120 celebrities by height and guarantees to have people loitering in front of it trying to make themselves more James Dean instead of Ben Stiller.

WIPER MIRROR

The text on the picture:
If you've ever been the victim of unsightly watermarks or abusive messages written in the condensation of your bathroom mirror, then here is the answer. Fitted with a car windscreen wiper you can vamoose that pesky condensation with one fail swoop. No more ugly wet hand marks or toilet paper fluff left on your looking glass and also doesn't it just look pretty slick? Quirky and practical, you'll always be able to see your lovely mug in this mirror.

My additional idea is: to have the mirror shape design patterned by the wiper way, sort of curved and put a holder under the mirror to take the dripping water from the wiping and collect all the water in one place in the bottom of the mirror.

I wonder if they have an automatic wiping or not. But manual wiping with the wiper is still cool (no cable or wiring).

Chromed Steel Dart Coat Hooks

Chromed Steel Dart Coat Hooks with a Screw-in wall fixing.
Good quality design especially if you have a masculine room design.
I think it will be good if they also provide the target practice to put on the wall.

Anyway, they look so cool you may not want to cover them up by hanging your coats on them!

170mm long - Pack of 3.
Original design by Anthony Chrisp.

"Come in" / "Go away" Doormat

This mind boggling doormat reads differently depending whether you are walking in or out of the house.

It's got to be seen to be believed but from one side this really does read "Come In" and from the other "Go Away". And when you have finished marvelling at this remarkable feat of graphic design you can wipe the mud from your boots too!!

650X400mm
All natural materials

Hidden Bathroom in your Closet

Not a day passes by when I don’t wish I could fold away my bathroom and hide it so that my room is made up only of comfortable fluffy pillows and rows and rows of shelves filled with books. But they don’t make it that way, or so I thought.

Cirrus MVR is a modular bathroom, designed by Michael Trudgeon, that can be relocated any place you wish. Cirrus MVR is equipped with all the basic necessities with built-in bath, shower, toilet and hand basin. All these utilities can be folded and pushed back into the main body of Cirrus MVR, even the man-length bath tub. The Cirrus MVR also contributes in its own way to keeping the planet going by reducing your water consumption.

Designed to help solve the climate and space saving problems, Cirrus MVR is equipped with a central water recycling and purifying unit which explains how it reduces the water consumption.

500XL Earbud, The BIGGER The Better!

Awesome good looking design, great creative idea to bring this one up. If I see it, I will definitely buy it as it really looks like an earbud/earphone for iPod but hey...watch closely. It is claimed 500 times bigger than the original earbud size.

These so-called earbuds are compatible with your PC, PMP, CD and MP3 player. Since it comes with a 3.5 mm audio input cable, a USB DC power cable and a built-in amp, the speaker system can be used with a variety of gadgets. By the way, it can be powered either by the included USB cable or three AAA batteries. We guess you can also plug it into the wall to a generic power supply.

About the sound quality, hmmm...still don't know yet. Try to put it inside your ears. =)

A thought about how Blackberry and Facebook shape our life

Isn't it just amazing how a lot of people are using Blackberry (BB) in their life nowadays? Despite the lifestyle reason, I think BB will make a new way of culture in our life. How BB will shape our ethic, how we socialize, how we can always communicate with other like the world has no boundary. It has it's own good and badness...As long as we can use it wisely, it should be OK. Even though some people will become addicted to BB (they call it Crackberry for the addiction to BB), I believe someday they will get bored or somehow, people will realize how BB took their time vigorously. Should I say people using their BB for messaging, they also use it mostly for Facebook. They communicate and comment about a lot of stuff that their friends and relatives do. Somehow BB and Fb keep us closer, and ironically BB does makes us further apart phisically. The advantage or the disadvantage depens on us. Should we be the slave of the technology, or can wes use technology to ease our hectic life? Just like the pager-cellphone era, it will definetly shape our lifetime. But telephone did help our life a lot. How about BB and Fb? Not that I say it's not helping at all, but this will be a simple friendly reminder for us not to be carried away to forget how to have a great social ethic and how we really need to meet each other and really really socialize. Looking forward for the great future technology ahead!