Clever furniture pieces from Italian designed Resource Furniture.
When turned off, the LED SAMURAI Faceless Wrist Watch looks like a simple metal bracelet. Turned on, the device becomes a digitial timepiece that displays the hour and minute. It retails for around $1,000. Steep!
Diesel has been coming out with some wicked watch designs lately like the DZ9044- a faceless wristwatch concept that displays 4 different time zones on its sides. The watch comes in silver and black and retails for around $365.
Also by Diesel, this watch features a stainless steel case with mirror electroplating and finishinga scrolling digital display with red LED numbers. Simple, futuristic and retailing for $170.
This feminine design by Robin Lapo Bigio & Olivero Zanon emphasizes the accessory factor of a watch and hides the technology. The “i/o” concept is a cuff bracelet with a glossy mirror surface that only allows light through from underneath where there is a hidden digital clock. When not in use the face shows a simple digital dot. When you want to use it, simply touch the dot and the time appears.
At first glance the Aurora, designed by Jihun Yeom, looks like an empty watch frame. If you touch the glass laser-like lights around the inner face show you the time.
The Circular Walking Bookshelf (Archive II) is part of the Archive series by architect David Garcia. The series aims to blur the border between art and design. Archive II transforms into a “micro room” where walking and reading coexist as refuge and transport in the imagination.
Trace of Time by Il-Gu Cha is a clock that incorporates a whiteboard-esque erasable face and an eraser built into the hour hand.
Le Whif was invented by Harvard professor David Edwards in conjunction with the art and design innovation center in Paris Le Laboratoire. Marketed in this neat package, it’s essentially an inhaler packed with hundreds of particles that enter your mouth as you take a puff. Le Whif was introduced in May of 09′ and is now available in over 40 countries. It also comes in a variety of flavors from mint chocolate to coffee. Puff puff pass.
Designer Gonglue Jiang from Tongji University in Beijing, China has created this clever new USB concept. Linkable USB device plugs would increase the amount of ports available for users. An external AC adapter would supply the additional charge needed to run multiple plugs. No word on production yet.
For frequent travelers who are not worried about looking a little, um, out-of-the-box, meet Israeli-born designer Sruli Recht’s latest “non product” Masked In Flight.
Recht constructed a series of four masks from folded laser-cut parchment, incorporating a respirator and replaceable N95 filters into each. Other features include light filtering sleep masks and sound reduction ear covers.
This product is perfect for a germ-a-phobe like myself, but if I did ever get the courage to whip it out on a trip, how do you get through customs?
To pre-order you own mask, email [email protected]
[Photograph by Marino Thorlacius]
German and Swiss product designers Fabian Nehne and Martin Meier created this lamp inspired by the additive color model RGB. Fabian Nehne is working as a senior designer at Deutsche Telekom and Martin Meier is the senior designer lead at IDEA Munich. I haven’t been able to find out if it’s being sold anywhere yet or if it’s still in the prototype stage.
Check out the Sharky tea infuser by Argentinian designer Pablo Matteoda. Sharky won 3rd place last week at Designboom.com’s Beyond Silver Competition.
Meet the Padouk Wood Business Card Case by Masakage Tanno. It’s elegant and held shut by a magnet. The price tag is a bit rich for my blood at $82 USD, but it’s still a beautiful piece. Click here to get yours.