Getting Techie Onsite
by: Yanko Design, 2012-04-23 09:36:00 UTC
SoftSheet is a device aimed at making presentations of blueprints by architects, engineers, contractors and site workers, easy. While tablets do offer a degree of convenience, SoftSheet takes the screening a notch higher by taking advantage of a foldable, touchsensitive, transparent display. The technology is almost here, so it is quite plausible to imagine an architect showing his work to clients using the device and syncing his files from his USB or smartphone backup.
Designer: Gautham Varma for g3 Studio
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The Outdoor Kitchen
by: Yanko Design, 2012-04-24 13:18:42 UTC
N1 Kitchen System is intended for the outdoors but can be fitted into a compact home. The whole unit just shuts-shop and fits into a storage container for easy transportation. The kitchen features the three basic elements – the sink and prep area, the storage unit and the stove system; keeping it really simple and bare.
Features:
- Designed within the kitchen’s prep area is a self-proportioning cutting board that visually divides the board’s surface, up to 6 times, and weighs each division for equal portions.
- Inspired by x-rays, the storage system uses smart glass to visually reveal food quantities.
- As food is consumed the surface’s opacity changes.
- The stove system gets rid of knobs that may break in the outdoors and uses the turning of the stove’s pot to change the temperature.
- As the pot turns and aligns with the different stove’s burners, it changes the temperature from boiling water to low, medium and high.
- The stove’s burner has a groove, which the pot turns in to avoid being knocked around in the outdoors and to maintain efficiency.
Designers: Kyle Thacker, Sarah Fung, Maxine Kim, Paul Methot, Xavier Yee & Jesse Kim
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Flame Retardants May Kill More Than They Save
by: TreeHugger Design, 2012-04-24 16:42:00 UTC
It's time to rethink our practice of adding dangerous chemicals to combustible plastics and putting them in our houses.
Nomad portable solar lighting system launches during Milan Design Week 2012
by: Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine, 2012-04-23 11:26:29 UTC
Although the 21st Century has seen the dawn of 3D printers, the discovery of new Earth-like planets and seen the rise of the convenient smart phone, approximately 1.5 billion people around the globe remain without access to a stable or safe source of light. Commonly in some of the world's poorest regions, kerosene lanterns are the standard form of night time lighting, which leads to the possibility of fires, explosions, asphyxiation and toxic fumes. Safe and renewable solar lighting presents an obvious solution to this problem and the NOMAD solar lamp has been created for just that...
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Salone Milan 2012: Interface design of IKEA's Uppleva TV furniture unit
by: Core77, 2012-04-23 16:00:00 UTC
Uppleva home screen
Much has been written already about the launch of IKEA's Uppleva TV furniture units, but few reviewers seem to have interacted with them.
About 10 of them were publicly shown—in a world premiere—at the IKEA PS show in the Lambrate area of the Milan Design Week event, in different colors, sizes, and furniture combinations. The event ended yesterday and the IKEA Uppleva website is expected to go online soon.
This post concentrates on the interface design—an area which has not been covered so far.
On Putting People First (the Experientia blog that I manage), you can also read more on the user research that went into the design.
The demo units in Milan were running a very advanced prototype software, but the interaction and product design provided an integrated and simple user experience, with only minor problems.
When comparing the Uppleva (which means "experience") with the Apple TV, Dave Smith says that IKEA has now set out a benchmark by "interpreting Steve Jobs' vision of an integrated television."
Simplicity first
The Uppleva home screen has only 8 items—picture, sound, PAP, options, media, smart TV, lock and setup—and direct access to most of the areas is available via the remote control.
Icons are simple and clean: off-white on a blue background.
This theme comes through in all the screens, with the TV (or video) image being turned into a subdued blue-and-white background presence on the internal screens, as can be glimpsed on the screenshots here:
Uppleva options screen
Uppleva setup screen
(Aside from the IKEA-supplied home screen shot, all other photos were taken by me, and this is the reason for the perspective and color distortions.)
The blue background makes it difficult to change the color and contrast settings, as you have to switch between settings and live image to see the effect, but other than that provides a calming and quiet visual experience, very different from the one that sometimes pervades in these types of interfaces.
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studio besau-marguerre: nido stool
by: Designboom - Weblog, 2012-04-23 10:32:00 UTC
the fiberglass and resin threads are wrapped around a standard stool shape, creating a visually light furniture piece that is deceivingly sturdy.
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Viridian Debuts Two Oak Flooring Products from Shipping Pallets and Crates
by: Environmental Leader, 2012-04-23 13:11:23 UTC
Viridian Reclaimed Wood introduced a new line of reclaimed red oak, white oak and rustic oak solid-plank hardwood flooring. Like Viridian’s other flooring lines, the oak is derived from industrial shipping crates. These domestic hardwoods are reclaimed from the southeastern US and are milled in Portland, according to the company. The American Classics line is [...]
Lush Cosmetics Taps the Cloud to Track Its Carbon Footprint
by: Environmental Leader, 2012-04-20 13:20:17 UTC
Lush, an international cosmetics company, has tapped cloud data management firm CloudApps to help it more accurately measure its environmental footprint. CloudApps‘ Sustainability Suite will organize data collection and improve Lush’s sustainability reporting, helping it to better manage its sustainability goals, make carbon savings and reduce operational costs, the companies say. Lush will use the software to [...]
Cleaning could be getting cheaper, with reusable enzymes
by: Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine, 2012-04-19 21:35:39 UTC
Enzymes are catalysts that boost chemical reactions by lowering the activation energy required for the reactions to occur. Added to detergents, they help break down the dirt into smaller pieces that can be more easily removed with water. While enzymatic detergents do work better than non-enzymatic ones, they are also more expensive. But what if the enzymes could be reused? A recent study by C.S. Pundir and Nidhi Chauhan, members of The American Chemical Society, may lead to cheaper laundry days and less in the way of valuable enzymes going down the drain. ..
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Siemens full-surface induction cooktop lets you arrange the pans wherever you like
by: Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine, 2012-04-20 06:01:47 UTC
Earlier this year at CES 2012, Siemens subsidiary Thermador unveiled its
Freedom Induction Cooktop that allows pots and pans of various sizes to be placed anywhere on its surface instead of being constrained to fixed cooking zones. Now Siemens has shown its own full-surface induction cooktop that provides the same freedom of cookware placement...
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