“Ministar” is a portable electric guitar featuring both a smart body and a full function. It’s only nineteen inches long, composed of a neck and head while lacking a guitar body. Even so, the guitar can still perform well in creating beautiful music, just as you can see in the video below.
How could we bring a new life into our house? According to Philip Watts Design, we should firstly install the house with a spine, or more exactly a spin-shaped staircase… So what do you think?
No doubt the nature is always offering good inspirations to designers, and Donghee Suh’s new earphone is just inspired by the suction cups on an octopus’ tentacles. Its two earbuds are each fitted with a silicon flap, which will retract to stick onto your iPods or iPhones to help you wrap up the earphone cord in a neater way.
Honestly there are no USB storage devices making me feel safe enough as my data seems completely open to those who get a good control of computers no matter which kinds of lock I use. But Crypteks’ USB storage is announced to be an exception. It is double locked, with both durable solid-aluminum housing offering mechanical security and a built-in 256-bit AES Hardware Encryption. Its aluminum housing features five twisting rings displaying 26 letters of alphabets, thus to improve the safety level. If that’s not enough, the 256-bit AES Hardware Encryption will provide you with another lock that is claimed to have seldom been broken before.
What do you usually do during the boring time caused by traffic jam, to play your iPad, have a chat with beautiful ladies or just sit there without thinking anything? Maybe you should get some better alternatives, such as the Car Bluetooth Rearview Mirror Kit. It includes a 4.3 inch touchscreen, a built-in GPS navigation, multimedia on-the-go, DVR capabilities, and a wireless parking camera, once installed to replace your normal rearview mirror, the device would then allow you to play games in car. Isn’t that great? It offers you great pleasure while never taking up you too much space or costing you too much money.
After quite a long time without introducing any innovative packaging designs, it’s really exciting to share with you 9 interesting packages at one time. They’re created for different products including milk, toys, pizza or shoes, but they’re all functional to attract the customers and therefore to promote the sales.
Why are designers so innovative? Almost every time I met some new designs I would ask myself that question. So you know, that question emerged again, after I accidentally saw the AudioBulb, Wireless Speaker Light Bulbs that bring both light and music to your home. It’s easy to use: simply replace ordinary bulbs with the AudioBulb, insert you iPod into the included dock, and then you’ll hear beautiful music coming from any places of your house. With warm light filled with your rooms, the AudioBulb is certainly the best thing related to the word “romantic”.
Time to make a change, within 12 to 24 months Tech Company Senseg will release “Feelscreens” to take the place of “touchscreens”. But currently shown to us is still a prototype tablet, which allows the users to feel like they’re touching something textured as they touch the flat screen. The tech is mainly based on an electrostatic-field-based system that makes different parts of the screen to produce varying degrees of friction, so that anything displayed on the screen may send a real touching feel to users.
There’re too many yoga centers in your city and you don’t know how to beat others off? Well, have a look at this creative business card Kapil Bhimekar designed for yoga instructor Danielle Abisaab and you may get some good inspiration. It involves the twisting of body in yoga exercises, featuring flexible paper printed with personal information on both sides, thus the users need to twist the card to read the entire message. Just simple as that, but the result is quite awesome, coz enquiries and new students kept flowing to Danielle Abisaab after the release of this card.
As a 2011 red dot design concept winner, the Tooth Guardian offers us a good and convenient way to take care of our teeth conditions, by integrating a camera and UV system in the toothbrush. So when you’re cleaning your teeth, photographs of them will then be displayed at the same time, allowing us to get closer observation of them for daily check.
Scribbled Line People is collaborative work between Ayaka Ito and Randy Church, who have used applications like Flash and Photoshop to reconfigure images into interwoven portraits. It seems bit of weird, as the artwork isn’t something beautiful or elegant, but it’s truly amazing.
Why does Alireza Alavi build the conceptual burner with a same shape of mosquito coils? I’ve no idea of the possible reason but actually the device concerns nothing to mosquito coils. Its real feature lies in the double knobs, a gas control knob for adjusting the flame size and a burner control knob for adjusting the spiral burner size. With that unique design, you can get a better control of the fire during cooking and thus to save fuel at the same time.
America-based Advanced Bionics has recently launched Neptune, “the world’s first and only swimmable, waterproof sound processor” that will offer deaf people with new alternative of cochlear implants. The device is completely waterproof, thus allows people to wear it underwater; besides, it’s also easy to operate so that both young and old people can manage it without pain. Currently the Neptune has received certification for the US and Canada, and will soon be released to the market.
Love music, love sport, the stylish Feats Per Minute bike from Merel Sloother, Liat Azulay and Pieter Frank de Jong is rightly something brings us the fun of both rhythm and cycling. It’s equipped with turntable inspired wheels that play vinyl records, thus beautiful tones will come out of the megaphone like speaker on the back of your bike as you ride it in the streets.
Typewriter could only print out words? Oh, man, you seem to have gone out of the date, coz typewriters actually make beautiful scenery drawings as well. Modified by Washington-based painter Tyree Callahan, a 1937 Underwood Standard typewriter has successfully created several paintings that are worth of praise, which not only entertain our eyes but also provide a new functional way of art creating.
