If you’re lucky enough to live in an apartment with really wide, old-school radiators you should check out Byung-seok You’s Natural Wave. A porcelain tray that sits on the top of your radiator and uses its heat to keep your tea/coffee/brownies/biscuits and cookies warm. How about that. Beats those crappy USB-powered heaters any day.
Here’s the Lamp Lamp by Tokyo-based 100%. It’s a 30 Watt E26/E27 bulb with an extra decoy base blown on it, fitting pretty much all sockets.
Got to get myself a couple of these and get rid of unnecessary lamp shades.
CharlesAndMarie.com: The Lamp Lamp (€28.00, about $41 US)
Here’s the Nooka Zirc, 45mm by 35mm large with an off-center strap designed for comfortable wear - the clock protrudes onto the arm instead of the hand.
You tell the time by looking at the dots that form a circle for the hours and the row of lines for the minutes. Black, Mirror and White Zirc models will be available from mid-November for about $350.00
Here’s the Oberon Watch by S-Mode, a jet black time piece featuring a black ion plated stainless steel exterior and bright white LEDs to tell the time.
The outer ring indicate the hour, the middle ring indicates single minutes and the inner ring indicate the minutes in groups of ten. By pushing a button you can switch to date mode which is shown in a similar manner.
TokyoWatch.com: S-Mode Oberon LED Watch ($135.50, €92.50)
Here’s 8800 Arte and 8800 Sapphire Arte, two new 3G designer phones from Nokia. The brown/coffee Sapphire Arte sports a sapphire navigation button and fine leather details from East India and the slightly cheaper Nokia 8800 Arte is all black. Both models feature a soundtrack by Kruder & Dorfmeister, graphical visualizations by Fritz Fitzke, OLED-displays, a 3.2 megapixel camera, micro-USB and an odd feature; knock twice on them lightly to light up the display and clock.
Nokia 8800 Arte will be available for purchase during Q4 2007 (est. price 1000 Euro) while the 8800 Sapphire Arte will be launched in Q1 2008 for about 1150 Euro.
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Well well, we might not have commuter jet packs yet but the future does seem to close in; Nissan is developing a “paramagnetic iron oxide paint polymer” which can alter the color of the car paint by the press of a button by using an electrical charge (remember the receptionist’s nail polish in “Total Recall”?).
The downside to this is that because the magic paint needs electric current it’ll only be active when the car is running, meaning the car will turn white when you park it and turn off the engine.
Apparently Nissan expects models with this James Bond-ish feature to launch sometime during 2010.
(Via Gizmodo)
Here’s the DeLighTable by Kloss, a coffee table sporting a surface that emits light when touched. This touch-sensitive and light-emitting technology has been around for a while now but now they’ve finally managed to slim it down (the coffee table is only 25mm thick) and make it available for purchase. It’s completely waterproof and runs on a safe 12 volts.
The price is 1200GBP (about $2,300).
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Vestal continues to amaze me with their oversized watches, here’s Emery, heavily influenced by radios from the ‘60:ies. There’s not much to talk about when it comes to bells and whistles (leather strap, stainless steel, 5atm water resistance), but a press on the button lights up the display and negative index.
Amazon: Vestal Emery Watch ($170.00)
VestalWatch.com: Emery Watch ($179.00)
I don’t know if this is a mere concept or available for purchase, but neat idea nevertheless: the Hi-tech Light-emitting Wallpaper by Jonas Samson. As long as the wallpaper is turned off the pattern is invisible, when turned on it becomes animated and glows right through it.
Size: 240 cm x 360 cm.
JonasSamson.com: The hi-tech light-emitting wallpaper
(Via Cubeme)
The Illusion Wine Glasses combines the looks of a delicate wine glass and the comfort of a milk glass. A glass inside the glass, so to say.
“Combining inventive design with delightful execution, the wine goblet fills entirely with liquid and seems to float within the surrounding glass, which remains empty.”
UncommonGoods: Illusion Wine Glasses (4 glasses, $75.00)
(Via Productdose)
