Philips Sustainable Toaster runs on batteries recharged via a static bike
Asmita Prasad: For people who want to reduce energy consumption through the course of their daily lives without giving up modern conveniences, Spanish designer Miren Arrieta-Odria has created the Sustainable Toaster for Delft University of Technology. A second runner up at the the 2009 Domestic Appliances Design Award organized by Philip-TUDelft, the toaster is designed [...]
Informer on your wrist for what you should resist
Shallu Sharma: Various concerns like unbalanced diet, food contamination, subsidized farming, poor circulation, GMOcrops, etc. can prove hazardous to our existence. The need of the hour is to design a product that would provide crucial information regarding food and enhance the grocery shopping experience. The aim of the design was to create a physical device [...]
Honda’s Uni Cub Personal Mobility Device is a ripped off Segway for indoor use
Asmita Prasad: Escalators and elevators are somewhat necessary for mass mobility in high rise buildings and motorized wheelchairs are certainly helpful in enabling the disabled to carry on with their routine functions without spending all their physical strength on towing themselves around. However, inventions like the Segway have just made us a lazier race and [...]
Yasher, portable solar electric generator inspired by military equipments
Jaspreet Kaur Walia: A generator proves to be nothing less than a blessing when it comes to providing electricity to power various gadgets/tools or simply lighting up an area where the electricity supply has been cut or absent due to some reasons. This back up power source comes wrapped with a lot of usefulness, but [...]
Tangle is a colorful headphone to enjoy clutter free music
Radhicka S Saxena: This listening device is a two tone earphone and its dazzling colors will definitely make a lot of heads turn. Most headphones have dull colors like white and black. But this one dares to be different and sports full blown jazzy hues like cyan and magenta. The two threads have been daubed [...]
Make calls and chat over the webcam with WAT’UB family phone
Radhicka S Saxena: This outgoing design will make your family phone appear a lot more affable. Its fluid curves and neat layout are a treat to the eyes. The handset has a sleek outline and rests neatly on the machine. This new age design has been drafted by a France based industrial designer Guillaume Faure. [...]
Audio Faucet overcomplicates the bathroom sink faucet
Asmita Prasad: If you thought stand up comedians experiencing writers’ block were the only people who were obsessed with things found in a bathroom, you might want to try conversing with a sanitary ware designer. Not only have big sanitary ware brands invested gazillions of dollars into coming up with “new and improved” designs to [...]
Air Conditioned Flak Jackets will help cops beat the heat this summer
Asmita Prasad: Cops aren’t known to be the coolest, calmest public officers in the world and a cop who’s patrolling the streets in the skin-frying summer time is likely to lose his cool. However, a Swiss materials company called Empa has come up with a way to keep police officers cool through the summer using [...]
Little Sun, solar powered LED lamp to illuminate the third world
Ritu Mathur: For millions of people in the developing and underdeveloped countries the only source of light is the Sun and once the Sun sets in the west their lives become dark. Inspired by the Sun and it’s never ending desire to give light to people, Iceland based light installation artist Olafur Eliasson has come [...]
Loop shower system to unfurl an emotional, multisensory experience
Jaspreet Kaur Walia: Shower time can turn to be one boring daily activity with the same shower gels and bath equipment around. Adding some fun to the task of keeping yourself clean and in a hygienic state is a multi-sensory shower that has been skillfully from Idiha Design. Christened Loop, the shower has been designed [...]