The KUG

Kug Ad from Ben Millett on Vimeo.

This product was designed for people with arthritis and is becoming more popular among people with out it. Ben Millet and Alan Harrison designed the KUG for their design class in Ireland. The KUG combines the kettle and the mug. The mug part of the product connects to the port witch is plugged in. When the two connect it brings your beverage to a hot temperature, while still maintaining the ability to hold it. So when your in hurry grab your KUG and go!!!

Interactive Augmented Shadow Environment

Creator Joon Moon crates an environment with encoded cubes that generate light and shadows. It's a table top interface where the user controls the light source and the surrounding environment, which has an effect on the beings of the program. You could be glancing at the future of games like the Sims, with crazy physics engines like this.

Redesigning Barbell Weights

All gyms are different, most of the time each gym has a different style of barbell weights. As everyone knows they all go on the bar the same way, which is you lift it up and slide the weight on to the bar.

As designer Sun Ho Sin shows in his concept the weight has a clamping mechanism which opens and closes when lifted by the handle of the weight. I frequently go to the gym and use barbell weights a lot. In my opinion this design is illogical in a couple different ways.

First, one has to think about the mechanism parts within the weight, this with out a doubt will raise the price up. Secondly, the majority of the time when using a barbell its mostly already racked at waist or chest height. Every time I want to put one of these new weights on I would have to lift it higher than I need to. Also one would have to consider the pinching aspect of the weight, I know I wouldn't like to get my finger pinched in there. Overall I would be fine sticking with the good old fashioned slide on slide off weight. Sometimes redesigning a simple product isn't always necessary.

There's more to your Droid phone than you really think.

You think your all your phone can do is make calls, text, play videos, and check your e-mail. Well now it can solve that dusty old Rubik's cube thats still laying in your junk drawer. In this featured film Motorola's Droid phone can solve your Rubik's cube in a mind blowing 24.02 seconds. Thats faster than... well thats fast. So pick yourself up a Droid phone and show people what you can do with it.

Alarm Clock with no Clock

This alarm clock unfortunately has no clock but guarantees that you will wake up when it goes off. That was the intension of designer Natalie Duckett for this conceptual clock.

One Room Turns Into 24 rooms

In America people usually live in decent sized apartments even in bigger cities like NYC, San Fransisco, LA and even Chicago. Just enough room to get the majority of their belongings in and stored away. In other more densely populated cities like Hong Kong China most people don't have such luxury.

Architect Gary Cheng changes his 330 sq ft. apartment to a space where one room becomes every room calling it the "Domestic Transformer". Just by sliding walls and panels Gary Cheng is able to have 24 different rooms. Not only does he pay attention to space but how each space gives off it's own mood lighting. Now thats what I call "Thinking within in the box."

See Your Toast Getting Toasted part 2

When looking at this somewhat oddly piece of ceramic I was wondering if this was a toaster at all. I looked at it and thought to myself "The shape, color, the bulkiness was not there. How could this thing be a toaster?" After another glance i started to laugh, it reminded me of a fax machine.

In this toaster concept the "GLIDE", the piece of bread is fed into the slot which is then rolled or GLIDE through and comes out as a piece of toast. It's intricate sculptural ceramic body is made from a slip molded bone china, which also provides product longevity. I surely can't wait to get my toast on one of these!!!