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03Sep2010 |
Wooden Bikes |
Woody Bicycles hand make bikes from eco-friendly woods such as oak, mahogany, ash, birch and walnut. Any hardwood used comes from "maintained" forests. They've got a kind 1970s feel to the design - Chopper. Yours for USD 2,500. Documentary from YouTube embedded below: |
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02Sep2010 |
Robotic Plant |
Kyushu University student Akira Nakayasu has made a robotic plant which he is displaying at the Ars Electronica 2010 Repair Festival. The plant reacts to hands waved over the top by slowly moving its leaves and changing the sounds it makes. The 169 robotic leaves are driven via a PIC controller which processes input from an overhead infrared camera to determine how the leaves should move. Video of the installation is embedded below from YouTube: More at designboom and Flickr. |
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01Sep2010 |
Bamboo Windmill Sails |
Dutch designer Gijsbert Koren replaced the steel sails of a classic Bosman Windwatermill with sails made from hand woven bamboo. The bamboo sails are lighter and cheaper than the steel ones - so the windmill is more efficient and more eco-friendly. Marv. |
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31Aug2010 |
Concrete Sofa |
This concrete Chesterfield sofa was made by Gray Concrete for the 100% Design London exhibition. The mold was taken from a real Chesterfield complete with authentic bum prints. Gray have made some stunning pieces in concrete. Turning concrete from something you walk on and ignore to something you admire for its beauty. Who'd have thunk it? |
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30Aug2010 |
Wooden Mirror |
Daniel Rozin made a mirror out of 830 servo-driven wooden blocks, a camera and some software. It makes a cool sound as the angle of the blocks changes - to change the pixel brightness. This is from 1999 not new but very cool. See video below embedded from YouTube. |
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27Aug2010 |
RocKandRoll Radiator |
Karim Rashid has designed the RocKandRoll radiator for Idee. It's a beautiful pile of hot rocks. Gedit? Also available in pink and blue. Right, that's enough radiators for a while. I'm off to lie down in a cool room. |
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26Aug2010 |
Radiator As Art |
The I am furniture project from Studio vRaay explores the possibility of radiators becoming pieces of funiture. They're electrically heated. The pieces can be seen in the Autofficina exhibition in sunny Eindhoven. |
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25Aug2010 |
Transparent Glass Radiators |
Saint-Gobain Glass make a product called Thermovit Elegance which is transparent glass which can be electrically heated. No moving parts. No pipes. Just beautiful radiators. |
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24Aug2010 |
Art Glass Radiators |
Tell Me First has developed a radiator system which fronts the radiators with glass. Any picture can be printed on to the glass front - so your radiators can look beautiful. A video of various designs is embedded below from YouTube. |
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