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Look At The Time, Watch Your Thumbnail

Big watches are not the trend. The future is calling for more discreet-sized watches: what about wearing them on a nail?
Watch the time and date on your thumbnail
Watch the time and date on your thumbnail
  The time of ostentatious watches is over. Design and technology are setting absolute discretion, a timekeeping device that goes unnoticed and frees your wrists. At least, this is the proposal of TX54, a disposable timepiece that is worn on the user’s thumbnail.

TX54 is a tiny watch that sticks to your thumbnail, a translucent false nail that substitutes the usual nail polish for a more useful time&date display.

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 on 1 Sep 2008 by Alicia Rodríguez Mediavilla in Gadgets, inventions and prototypes

A Water Whirlpool In Your Garden

Water could be the core element of an sculpture. That is so, at least, in Charybdis, a work by water sculptor William Pye
Charybdis, vortex water sculpture
Charybdis, vortex water sculpture
  I’m sure that more than once you were spellbound by watching the whirlpool formed by water as it drains down when you remove the plug from your bathtub. Would you like to have one in your garden? That could happen if you commission one to William Pye, the water sculptor. One of his most admired works is just that, a big water vortex sculpture.

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 on 1 Sep 2008 by Alicia Rodríguez Mediavilla in Art, design and architecture

Listening through your elbows

Being taken back in time to the night of the terrible Dresden air raid on 13th February 1945 is possible at the “Touched Echo.”
Touched Echo balustrade at Brühlsche Terrasse (Dresden)
Touched Echo balustrade at Brühlsche Terrasse (Dresden)
  Dresden, a German city by the Elbe river, was bombed by the allied troops on the night of February 13th 1945, only a few months before the end of the Second World War. Tourists in the city have the opportunity to recreate that fatal night with a curious sound intervention located in Brühlsche Terrasse.

It is a sound railing which takes advantage of bone-conduction to transmit the echoes of that night to the ears of the visitors.

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 on 1 Sep 2008 by Alicia Rodríguez Mediavilla in News and curiosities

Energy Road Asphalt

How many times have imagined yourself cooking an egg on the hot road of any big city when the heat strikes?
Road asphalt accumulates a lot of heat in summer
Road asphalt accumulates a lot of heat in summer
  It seems that the old saying of 'it’s so boiling hot you could fry an egg on the street' might become a reality. No doubt you have realised that on those very hot summer days, the blacktop on the road seems to be melting. What is actually happening is that there’s so much accumulated heat that it can even cause a temperature rise of the area.

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 on 1 Sep 2008 by Alicia Rodríguez Mediavilla in News and curiosities

Eco Brolly, a different umbrella each time

We are always caught in the rain with no umbrella. Eco Brolly could be a definite solution: it turns anything into an umbrella
Despite not looking like one, this is actually an umbrella
Despite not looking like one, this is actually an umbrella
  It does happen, whenever you leave the umbrella at home, it rains; but if you take it with you, clouds seem not to be willing to release one drop. Umbrella makers keep trying to make them more and more light and small, but that’s not enough. Eco Brolly could be the perfect solution.

Eco Brolly is an environmentally friendly umbrella or should we say, the skeleton of an umbrella; convenient to carry in your bag, keep it in the glove compartment of your car, and small enough to even take it in your pocket as it’s only eight centimetres (3”) long.

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 on 1 Sep 2008 by Alicia Rodríguez Mediavilla in Gadgets, inventions and prototypes

Fifer; the Feeding Robot

Feeding the fish in your pond could cease to be a tedious task with Fifer, the smart robot
Fifer, the smart robot that feeds your fish
Fifer, the smart robot that feeds your fish
  Do you live by a pond or little lake but you are fed up of daily fish feeding? If only the could learn to eat just enough, it wouldn’t be necessary to pay so much attention. Unfortunately, you know that fish are quite capable of eating to death, and that’s not wildly exaggerating.

Young designer Ran Xiangfei has found the solution.

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 on 1 Sep 2008 by Alicia Rodríguez Mediavilla in Gadgets, inventions and prototypes

Does your laptop go well with your shoes?

Laptop or designer bag? A good balance: laptop in the inside and bag on the outside
Bag or laptop?
Bag or laptop?
  Laptop computers are not just about technology, it’s more and more a question of design. At Tulip they saw it clearly and they started marketing their Tulip Ego range, a collection of laptops that look like bags on the outside but they are actually portable computers.

Then Tulip became partners with Bentley, a luxury cars brand. And now we have Tulip Ego for Bentley.

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 on 1 Sep 2008 by Alicia Rodríguez Mediavilla in Unusual gifts

Bedroom in a Box

Casulo puts an entire bedroom, including a bed equipped with a mattress, in a box. This is mobile living furniture that fits together in a box that’s about the size of a steamer trunk. It’s a bedroom in a box!
This box fits an entire bedroom
This box fits an entire bedroom
  You have to be really tired of moving houses to come out with this idea a bedroom that fits in a box, the size of a standard pallet, easy to transport! It’s been invented and it’s called Casulo. This concept was designed by Marcel Krings and Sebastian Mühlhäuser as a project for their degree at the Köln International School of Design in Cologne (Germany).

At first sight Casulo is just this big yellow box, but inside it fits an entire bedroom: a closet, a bed equipped with a mattress, a desk, an adjustable chair, a six-shelf bookcase and two stools with storing space inside.

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 on 1 Sep 2008 by Alicia Rodríguez Mediavilla in Gadgets, inventions and prototypes

Wooden Parquet Beaches

There’re beaches of fine sand, dirt, pebbles, rocky beaches... Now there are also wooden parquet beaches, like the flooring in you house
A wooden parquet beach, ideal for a relaxing day
A wooden parquet beach, ideal for a relaxing day
  Many of us have experienced those beautiful beaches with crystal clear water, amazing seascape view and astonishing sunsets. Places where you feel like Heaven on Earth, or nearly, because you still haven’t mentioned the sand.

If we’re not mentioning the sand, maybe the problem might be that there isn’t any sand, and we are in one of those rocky beaches. It’s not only that you find a few pebbles on the seashore, the problem is that the place where you’re supposed to lie down for sunbathing is covered with rocks .

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 on 1 Sep 2008 by Alicia Rodríguez Mediavilla in Art, design and architecture

Flying pictures with the Flying Stick Camera

Taking pictures of yourself, and others, from above and randomly can be fun. You’ll definitely discover something new
This flying stick has a little camera attached to the bottom end
This flying stick has a little camera attached to the bottom end
  Are you bored of seeing yourself in photos taken always from the same old angle? Are you looking for a new way to photograph what’s around you? Seeing things from above is a good way to discover new details. And how about if you could get random pictures, taken automatically, for that extra bit of surprise factor?

And that’s exactly the idea that designer Tsunho Wang offers with his Flying Stick Camera.

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 on 1 Sep 2008 by Alicia Rodríguez Mediavilla in Gadgets, inventions and prototypes
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