Portable Kitchen and table top combined

Coox: the rollaway cooking table, by Antoine Lebrun, L'Ecole de Design Nantes Atlantique, France.

Have your kitchen anywhere you want - is the idea behind this design. You can cook alone or share with your mate, just like those tenppanyaki (where you cook and eat at the same table).

Lebrun says that the concept was the result of an extended process, not a sudden insight. “When I started this project, I didn’t have any image in mind,” he recalls. “I wanted a fresh start without any preconceived ideas. My only desire was to develop a simple and useful appliance.

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Hate sharing a dirty,unorganised and messy fridge?

Flatshare: the modular fridge solution for shared living spaces, by Stefan Buchberger, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria.

For Stefan Buchberger, the idea grew out of a semester-long theme about keeping personal space clean and tidy. He decided to create Flatshare fridge because he could not stand a dirty fridge in a shared flat. "At the time, I was living in such a flat!", he said.

The fridge consists of a base station and up to four stackable modules. The modules allow each individual user to have his or her own refrigerator space and can be customized with various colorful skins as well as with add-ons like a bottle opener or a whiteboard.


Handles on the sides of the modules make them easy to transport. “If you move to new flat, you can just transport your module like a suitcase and hook it up to the base station in your new flat,” Buchberger explains.

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iBasket - the future solution to washing machine?

iBasket: the Wi-Fi-connected clothes hamper and washing machine, by Guopeng Liang, Tongji University, China.

If you have ever wondered, how much time wasted in transporting your dirty laundry basket to your washing machine and then have to wait for the machine to do its job?

The solution would be iBasket - a see-through laundry basket cum washing machine. It stores dirty clothes and automatically wash them when it is filled up. It is also has wireless that can send message to your computer advising that the laundry is done.


Guopeng Liang commented, "As a member of the Internet generation myself, the inspiration for this came from everyday life. We are busy working for our dreams and don’t have a lot of time to take care of clothes, nor do we like to. But today, people store their clothes in a laundry hamper until it fills up, then carry the basket to the laundry room, wash them, come back, take them out, throw them back into the hamper, carry them to a clothesline and then hang them out. I believe that iBasket offers a much more convenient alternative."

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Wooden Mobile Phone? The Green approach

We have seen many cool concept mobile phones with cool design, shiny plastic, but this is extremely bizzare, taking the concept of material has no bound literally.

The Silver winner at the International Design Excellence Awards 2008 (IDEA) duo, Hyun Jin Yoon and Eun Hak Lee created "Maple Phone", a camera phone concept covered in thin wooden film, with touch sensitive buttons that light up through the housing when you touch the phone. Very cool and environmental-friendlier than plastic. [Designzen]

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Nokia Futuristic concept mobile phones

Best concept mobile phones?
Companies all around the world has race against each other to come up with the best design that will appeal and encourage sales.

Futuristic design are far beyond your normal clamshell or bar design. Some goes flexible, others wearable. Check out this several Nokia concept mobile phones.

Nokia Morph
a joint nanotechnology concept, developed by Nokia Research Center (NRC) and the University of Cambridge (UK), it demonstrate how shapes are no longer bound nor rigid.

With this technology it can make flexible materials, illumination, also repel water (so virtually water resistant). What's more, it is able to self cleaning, energy harvesting and sensors to detect information. Wow, Let's hope it will make it to production.

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Enhanced video technique! Amazing...

It is a bit hard to explain what it does. But if you just looking at the photos above - you might think, this is normal. Any photoshop will do it right? Wrong!

The amazing part is that it is enhancing video recording image that is normally not sharp to sharp (yet maintaining the video effect), best yet, without manual labour from the user.



They do mentioned that limitation of their work is still bound to the static video image - means no moving object. But hey, did a pretty good job! [Source]

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