For those looking to get the most out of camping, it’s essential to not skimp on your shelter. While cheap tents will get you through a few weekends here and there, going the extra mile and shelling out for a premium tent will…
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For a gadget that tells time, the exact release of Apple’s rumored iWatch are still a mystery! Until then, get your fanboy fix with this concept by Francisco Costa, because it’s probably not far off from the real thing. The designer has not only mastered the Cupertino company’s signature minimalistic style but also the ingenious marketing that goes along with it. So, for a sneak peak at the clever commercials to come and a really good guess at the iWatch hit the jump! You’ll do a double-take to make sure it’s not the real deal!
Designer: Francisco Costa
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All Unitasker Wednesday posts are jokes — we don’t want you to buy these items, we want you to laugh at their ridiculousness. Enjoy!
Do you like snacks? Do you like buying snacks in really large quantities from big box stores like Costco? Then, do you feel it is too much trouble to unscrew the lids on those snacks and scoop or pour those snacks into a bowl or onto a plate? Do you love to drop your snacks onto the floor as they fall from between your fingers? Do you love to get the bacteria off your hands onto your snacks and then eat the contaminated candy? If you answered “yes” to all of these questions, then we have a unitasker for you! The Snack Spout:
The Snack Spout wants to make eating junk food even easier … because apparently it was too hard to eat junk food before now! For people who buy snacks in bulk, they can attach the large container to this device and then use their hands to repeatedly access the snacks. The product description claims it’s more sanitary to use your hands to get the snacks from this device, but I personally think it’s more sanitary to use a scoop and bowl when eating snacks (and hey, look at that, science agrees with me).
Sure this thing is kind of cute, but thinking about the amount of bacteria on this dispenser also makes my tummy a little queasy. Blergh.
Thanks to reader DK for helping us find this unitasker.
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L’artiste américain Shawn Huckins s’amuse à reprendre des peintures des siècles précédents en y incorporant sur la toile des acronymes ou raccourcis qu’utilisent les américains aujourd’hui lors de leurs échanges via écrans interposés. Un anachronisme qui propose un aspect décalé et pop à retrouver dans la suite sous le nom de la série « American Revolution Revolution ».
Norwegian architecture studio Snøhetta has designed a series of wooden hives for the roof of an Oslo food court to encourage bees to take up residence in the city (+ slideshow).
Snøhetta installed the Vulkan Beehive project at the Norwegian capital’s Mathallen food and dance centre.
“Bees are among the world’s most important food suppliers,” said Snøhetta. “One third of the world’s food production is depending on pollination, where bees play the largest role.”
Collaborating with beekeeper Heier Du Rietz, the architects designed the pair of wooden structures to house 160,000 bees.
A pattern of distorted hexagons covers each hive, with six sides around the top that split into twelve sections around the bottom.
A zig-zagging line is created where the panels meet at the widest point around the middle.
“The natural honeycomb geometry was our inspiration for the form and pattern,” said the architects. “Two intersecting hexagonal volumes create the form, which were then adjusted in height and width to fit with the need of the beekeeper.”
“Using a light-coloured wood with a finish that is honey in tone was also a relationship that we wanted to create and present.”
The bees enter through a small slot towards the base of each hive, where a flat lip for landing extends from the gap.
The insects are able to find pollen and water at a nearby riverside park and other green spaces in the surrounding area.
“By creating these beehives, we bring more bees to the city,” the architects said. “We want to give visitors information on how they can contribute to the environment and create involvement around the bees.”
Honey collected from the hives has been sold in the food hall since the project was unveiled in June.
Photography is by Morten Brakestad, unless otherwise stated.
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Photography by Mark LeBeau for Core77
The Outdoor Retailer Summer Market Tradeshow in Salt Lake City, Utah, is known for featuring the latest and greatest in outdoor sports gear and apparel. To put it shortly, it’s very much an industry show. We sent photographer Mark LeBeau to check it out and take some shots of the gadgets we should keep an eye out for. He noted the proliferation of electronics, chargers and smart devices, as well as the throwback to the much-loved “mom and pop” general-store aesthetic. A practicing designer himself, LeBeau—also shot the event for us in 2013.
LeBeau’s favorite design? A magnetized climber’s grip by Garret Finny.
La ville de Copenhague a travaillé avec les équipes de Dissing+Weitling Architecture pour imaginer cette superbe rampe et routes pour vélos et piétons toute orange et située près du port. Cette voie appelée Cykelslangen Bike Lane offre de la sécurité pour les personnes voulant l’emprunter tout en rajoutant une touche de couleur.
Don’t let the bland name of Scottish start-up Design LED Products fool you. At last year’s Lux Live 2013 lighting exhibition, DLP showed off the flexible resin-based LED tile you see above, considered to be a potential game-changer in lighting design. The tiles are flexible, modular, inexpensive, highly efficient (roughly 90%), can emit light on one or both sides, and “can be produced in any shape or size up to 1m, offering up to 20,000 lumen per square meter,” according to the press release. They also do not require external “thermal management,” i.e. bulky heat sinks.
Well, someone noticed, and that someone was KIEA. Today it was reported that Ikea’s GreenTech venture capital division plunked down an undisclosed sum to invest in the company, giving them access to the light tiles for their presumed inclusion in future product designs. “The tiles are unique as they are extremely thin, flexible and low cost and can be seamlessly joined together in exciting new designs,” Ikea said in a statement. “The partnership is a clear strategic fit for IKEA and our goal to make living sustainably affordable and attractive for millions of people.”
While you can still buy halogens and CFLs at IKEA today, by the way, the company is reportedly planning to switch exclusively to LEDs by September of 2015.
Anyone want to take a guess at what they’ll be designing with these? Kitchen wall cabinets with these tiles on the undersides seem like the obvious choice, but those would be flat; I’m most curious to see how they’d exploit the curvability of the technology.
For weeks before opening its doors in 2009, the Ace Hotel New York was filled with artists-in-residence and walls were being graced with the work they’d leave—all of which still stands today. Visionary founder Alex…
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Love this laser-empowered, Tron-inspired dartboard that can be put up just about anywhere. The great news is that the darts can be color-coded and divided as per the teams and they are not needle pointed. They stick onto the dartboard via special glue and won’t end up poking someone in the eye!
Designers: Seonghyun Kim and Yunjo Yu
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