Re:energy Bike Will Recharge Your Gadgets When Needed

People use bicycle nowadays to preserve our environment. We saw this bike design as one of finalist entries from Incheon International Design Awardcalled Re:energy. It is not only a bicycle; it’s a generator that can saveenergy from its wheels rotation. Equipped with a socket, the energy saved at the front wheel can later be used to recharge...

Renault Runner : Green Future Taxi System

Renault Runner is a design proposal for our future taxi system. It maximizes the solar energy used for better and green transportation. The roof is constructed from super sensitive solar panels to generate and supply the electricity needed by this vehicle. Aside from being a compact city car, Runner can also be connected to each other up...

Những công nghệ nào sẽ lên ngôi trong năm mới 2011?

Vào cuối mỗi năm, chúng ta thường có những tổng kết về thành tựu của năm vừa qua và đưa ra những dự đoán cho năm sắp đến. Theo lệ đó, tạp chí Discovery vừa dự đoán những công nghệ sẽ “thống lĩnh thế giới” trong năm 2011 sắp tới.Xe hơi điệnChiếc xe hơi đầu tiên chạy hoàn toàn bằng năng lượng điện của hãng Nissan – mẫu Nissan Leaf – đã về đến...

Setting Sail with Bloom

Bloom is a yacht concept that earns its eco-friendly chops by including a wind driven power source and solar panels. We know alternative fuels like hydrogen are being used but a neater idea would be to make sure all building materials come from recycled and sustainable resources. Now rich people don’t have to feel guilty (do they ever?) about...

The Red Cross Needs This

Easy access to water during a fire in the subway is next to impossible. The interim solution is to hold a soaked rag to your face. The Crack Mask is a set of emergency masks you crack open, breaking the water capsule inside. Hold the soaked mask to your face and proceed with the evacuation.Designers: Han Chi-hoon & Kim Yeon-...

Flashlight for Open Air

This project asks the question – why do we hide all of our objects? Why do we keep away our possessions in cupboards, drawers, and the like, when these objects are so beautifully crafted, so useful on the instant? This is a flashlight that deserves its own special out in the open place as its attractiveness cannot be shut away from its light!...

Reading Material, Predictable Magic

We love the tangible side of ID, but the majority of designs will never move beyond concept because there’s a dark area in ID everyone hates to wrestle with – the business side. Predictable Magic empowers you to face the challenge, to make you a better leader and business owner. It’s full of examples of how one creates products that resonate...

Shower Flower!

The River Flowing System doesn’t give you the chance of wondering if you have it set to flow or tap. The design is such that the showerhead is placed above a basin-esque bowl and the water flows down as a stream. Water pressure and temperature settings are controlled via a centralized knob and showerhead is held into place via magnets. So...

Well Timed Sockets

Every little step towards saving energy is a good thing; and thus we have the Ring Socket. The design is based on how a timer works. Set the ring for an hour, two-hours, more-hours; and at the end of it, the power supply shuts off. A thoughtful design but I guess suitable only for single sockets; as a long strip it would look too comical!Designers:...

"Sustainable Refrainables" Poster Design Competition: Deadline January 2nd

Entries are pouring in for Core77's "Sustainable Refrainables" Poster Design Competition in conjunction with Compostmodern 2011. There's still 4 days remaining if you want a shot at winning one of the five copies of Adobe's CS5 Master Collection (and $500 cash for the jury and community favorites). Not to mention all top five winning entries...

Thinking of doing a design PhD? Trust me, I'm a doctor.

In design post-graduation education the PhD is fast becoming the new Masters. This partly reflects the maturing of design research, but is also a response to the need for institutions to beef up their research quota and the attendant external funding. If you want to teach at a design college, the expectations of some institutions are often...

More pre-ID industrial design: The Kelly Kettle

The title of this entry is referencing James H. Boye's early-20th-Century POP design I wrote about a few days ago. I'm always fascinated by great design that happened before anyone knew what ID was--it's more fascinating to me, given the primitive production methods of earlier times--and here's another example.The Kelly Kettle, devised in...