Not totally the same as the principle that “one plus one is two”, Hong Kong-based designer Li Jianye’s Telescup is a clever combination of two drinking glasses, which coordinate to become a smart and functional telescope. So maybe when out of mathematics, especially in the design fields, any principles would find their new values.
Light appearing on your cellphone screen or laptop screen annoys you from time to time? Get rid of it then, with Nippon Electric Glass Co Ltd’s “Invisible Glass”. Exhibited it at FPD International 2011, the new glass can reduce the reflection of light by forming an anti-reflection film on both the front and back sides of the glass substrate. As a result, only about 0.1% of the light is reflected on it, which means you can see almost no light on the glass substrate. Moreover, the glass is even invisible if you don’t see carefully. Wow, watch out on your way if these glass is applied everywhere one day.
Creativity is everywhere, and it even appears in your messy kitchen. So here we’d like to share some creative cutting boards with you guys, and hopefully they would add some fun to your dull cooking hours. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Researchers from the University of Southampton have recently developed a new type of nanostructured glass that can optically store data forever. [Read the rest of this entry...]
They’re not ordinary glasses as they look. With detailed calibration on their bodies, these glasses can be used to play music when they’re filled with expected amounts of liquid. So interesting.
Everyone loves transparent items, from the Bubble Tent to this Italy-based Glass House. Built by the sea, it is made almost entirely with a variety of ultra-clear and strong glass. So when you look at the house, you’ll directly see its interior and may feel like that all its furniture is floating in the air. Fabulous! [Read the rest of this entry...]
Transparency is obviously a main trend of modern designs and we’ve come up with transparent cellphones, transparent shoes and transparent sculptures in the past few months. And soon we’ll see a transparent television. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Valentine’s Day is soon coming. So what have you prepared for your girlfriends? If you’ve gotten no idea, you may just try putting yourself into a bottle and make that as a present. Haa, that’s just for kidding, because you can have such “Boyfriend in a Bottle” to represent you. [Read the rest of this entry...]
One may guess the power of the sunlight over the hottest and driest days in summer, while Eric Jacqmain takes on an experiment to find a more accurate answer by building a fiberglass satellite dish with 5,800 tiny mirror tiles. [Read the rest of this entry...]
“What you want to sit on is nothing–like you’re supported by air”, sticking to that concept, Ben Alun-jones comes up with the Affinity Chair that features invisibility. The chair is not really invisible, but reflects its surroundings with the help of plastic acrylic sheets in conjunction with one-way mirror film. It is also built with ultrasonic sensors activate pulsing LEDs, which acts faster as the visitors come nearer while stops glowing when someone sits onto it. [Read the rest of this entry...]
No one would believe that glass can be stronger and tougher than steel, if they hadn’t seen the new type of damage-tolerant metallic glass collaborated by Berkeley Lab and the California Institute of Technology. [Read the rest of this entry...]
At the Eco Products 2010 exhibition Sony showcased these ‘Flower Power’ Solar Windows that can convert sunlight into electrical energy. Compared with other solar windows on the market, the ‘Flower Power’ not only features an aesthetic design but can be specially customized according to the consumer’s preference. So what do you think? [Read the rest of this entry...]
What if your glass windows can work as speakers? That sounds really amazing, right? But before that, you should firstly learn something about the “Glass Speaker”. Measuring four feet tall and weighing 80 pounds each, the transparent speaker can produce a full 360° of sound and that’s about as perfect as other speakers. So how does the speaker work? According to the folks from Greensound, the base of each speaker can vibrate and the different areas of the glass slabs can create different frequencies of sounds, and hence a 360° of sound is produced. As mentioned above, you may one day see the window act as a speaker, too. Let’s just wait and see. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Unlike humans, birds cannot see transparent glass and they’re always in danger of flying towards such “open areas” at a high speed. So to reduce bird-strikes, glass specialists from Arnold Glas have invented a new type of glass that features reflective UV coating. Although practically transparent for humans, the UV reflective coating is clearly visible to birds and therefore helping them to avoid the obstacles. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The sunlight filters through clouds, glints through the leaves, and finally shines bright on a girl’s faces, dancing on her eyelids and hairs… That sounds wonderful, right? But the beautiful scene wasn’t seen in the wild country where are full of trees, but in a white box with a few square meter footprint. So welcome to the Unlimited Urban Woods, an illusory forest installed by DUS Architects in a public plaza in Oosterdokskade, Amsterdam, using a series of strategically angled mirrors and one single full-size tree. Really magical! And we bet the forest inside the box is no less unusual than the Wonderland that Alice has come across. [Read the rest of this entry...]
