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Believe it or not, coffee has an ideal drinking temperature. It isn’t a fixed unit, but for most people, just a 5° deviation in their coffee’s temperature can be the difference between liquid gold, and an undrinkable gruel. Integrating the ability to carry your coffee around with the ability to keep it exactly at the temperature you desire, the Muggo comes with its own heating unit, battery pack, and a display system that makes it much more advanced than your regular to-go coffee cup.

The idea with coffee (or any beverage, if you think about it) is that the tools exist to make sure that the taste is calibrated exactly to your liking. You can choose your own beans, decide how much they need to roast, grind them to the exact fineness, and even decide brew-time. The Muggo extends that control by allowing you to also decide what temperature you want to consume your coffee at. Available in a black avatar with stainless steel construction, the Muggo allows you to set the temperature you want your drink at (right to the degree). The self-heating cup comes with a construction that makes it easy to carry around. It fits in the palm of your hand, and into traditional cup-holders, and comes with a detachable battery unit that snaps to its base, giving you the power to heat on the go.

The Muggo also features a coaster which not only prevents careless coffee-rings on your desk, but also acts as a power-dock for your Muggo. With two slots, you can not only supply power to your self-heating mug right at your desk, but you can even use the free slot to charge Muggo’s battery pack, that conveniently snaps on using powerful neodymium magnets when you’re ready to make a move, so you can have the perfectly hot mug of coffee, tea, or milk quite literally anywhere.

Designer: Bruno Lin

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Muggo is a smart portable cup that can keep your coffee or any drinks warm and maintain a temperature of anywhere between 35 – 65°C or 95 – 150°F.

Muggo has LED display lights and uses touch technology to set the temperature.

Muggo has a revolutionary, magnetic, detachable battery that keeps the heating element warm for 5 hours.

There is also a convenient charging coaster with a USB port that can be used in your office or at home. Set the Muggo on its coaster to keep it fully charged and warm for as long as you need.

Muggo’s design and sleek appearance makes it great for everywhere-carry, from the home to the office, outdoors and on car.

Innovative Engineering Solution

They developed a patented conductive wireless charging technology that is both convenient and efficient. Just place the Muggo on the coaster and let the neodymium magnets do the work!

The battery module is detachable and can be charged separately or with the cup connected. There are 4 LED indicators, and one cup can be matched with one or more batteries.

Their battery makes use of cutting edge of Lithium-Ion battery technology which can be easily removed and recharged by a standard 12v charger.

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Les moteurs du studio de design Nastplas sont l’illustrateur Fran R. ‘drFranken’ Learte et la directrice créative Natalia Molinos. Ce duo madrilène combine des éléments numériques et des motifs abstraits pour produire des œuvres d’art merveilleusement élaborés qui enchantent, choquent et étonnent. Leur projet Botanique explore la géométrie, la couleur et la lumière dans une série de compositions complexes, fabriquées numériquement, de plantes et d’objets. L’étrange combinaison de textures et de formes s’unit pour former une image conceptuelle et cohérente, en phase avec l’esthétique visuelle de Nastplas.

Most electric concept cars address environmental and sustainability issues. Autonomous concept cars speak of a future where transportation is a service. And with their new 360c electric, autonomous concept car, Volvo goes a bit further to ask: What impact will such cars have on us as individuals? Might they influence our choices in terms of what jobs to take or where to live?

Where would you live if you could commute each workday in an autonomous driving, fully-functional, connected, comfortable, mobile office space? What if the service was provided via an on demand subscription basis? Or what if it was provided by one employer yet not another – which company would you work for?

The concept environments reflect the potential for change in the fundamental structure of how people live, by transforming unproductive or boring travel time into useful and enjoyable minutes or hours on the road.

…Fully autonomous and electric travel…opens up possibilities for more residential freedom, reduced pressure on real estate pricing and more affordable home ownership.

“People becoming less reliant on proximity to cities is just one example of the impact of removing the burden of unproductive travel time,” said Mårten Levenstam, senior vice president of corporate strategy at Volvo Cars. “The 360c driving office makes it viable for people to live at greater distances from crowded cities and use their time both in a more pleasant and more effective way.”

The concept presents four potential uses of autonomous driving vehicles – a sleeping environment, mobile office, living room and entertainment space – representing an attractive travel option that could rival air, bus and train providers, but with competitive advantages in comfort, convenience and privacy.

[The 360c has] potential as a lucrative competitor to short-haul air travel, a multi-billion dollar industry comprising airlines, aircraft makers and other service providers. The 360c sleeping environment enables first-class private cabin travel from door to door, without the inconvenience of airport security, queuing, noisy and cramped airliners.

I’ve done a fair amount of surface travel in my time, and I will say two of the best overland journeys I’ve ever taken were an overnight bus from Tokyo to Kyoto, and a sleeper car in a cross-country Amtrak. To fall asleep in one city or state and wake up refreshed in another, without you having had to drink coffee and drive all night, or deal with the hell of air travel, is a pretty magical sensation. If Volvo’s vision of the autonomous-car future is the one we’re going to wind up with, I look forward to it.

Blloku Cube – a mixed-use block with a facade of aluminium triangles, designed by Stefano Boeri Architetti – is now under construction in the Albanian capital.

The seven-storey building is set to boast an intricate facade made up of three-dimensional aluminium triangles, which will act as a sunscreen to shade its glazed walls.

Blloku Cube takes its name from its form, and the central Tirana neighbourhood that it is located in.

It is roughly the shape of a cube, with a square ground floor plan measuring approximately 30 metres by 30 metres. The lower two floors of the 1,116-square-metre building will contain a shopping centre, with five storeys of office space above.

A roof garden restaurant will occupy the top of the building.

The bespoke facade will front all of the office floors, as well as the upper level of retail.

Renderings show the triangles taking on a range of golden shades, as they reflect light from different angles.

“The resulting effect is that of a vibrant and iridescent surface, a pattern of aluminum triangles playing with the sunlight to create reflections in different nuances of colour,” said Stefano Boeri, founding partner of Stefano Boeri Architetti.

“This particular cladding solution, specifically designed for our first Albanian project, plays an essential role in defining the uniqueness of the building and contributes to underling its importance as a new landmark of this urban district”, added Francesca Cesa Bianchi, project director for the studio.

The block is one of several big architecture projects buildings underway in Tirana.

BIG has designed a bow-tie-shaped theatre for the city, while MVRDV is planning to convert the city’s pyramidal monument to communism into a technology education centre.

Stefano Boeri Architetti is also working on three new schools for the Albanian capital, which will remain open 24-hours a day to double up as community centres.

Images are courtesy of Stefano Boeri Architetti.

Project credits: 

Architect: Stefano Boeri Architetti
Client: Invest society
Consultants: SCE Project, E.S.A. engineering, Albana Kocollari (ANK Architects), Helidon Kokona, Llambi Karamani (Xhenlux), Petrit Hoxhaj
Design group: Stefano Boeri, Francesca Cesa Bianchi, with Jona Arkaxhiu, Orjana Balla, Marco Bernardini, Agostino Bucci, Carlotta Capobianco, Moataz Faisal Farid, Yulia Filatova, Shilong Tan, Andrea Zucchi

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Dezeen promotion: the latest Dezeen competition offers readers the chance to win one of five Number Cruncher watches from Mr Jones Watches, created in collaboration with artist Onorio D’Epiro.

Number Cruncher is designed to be a playful way of telling the time, with a monster holding the hour in his hand, and the minute in his stomach.

According to Mr Jones Watches: “Number Cruncher is a hungry monster, he stomps around cities on the hunt for tasty treats – he steals from clocks mostly, but he’s not fussy – he’ll even eat cars and the odd person!”

“Number Cruncher is plucking the hours from the sky, while the minutes churn around in his stomach, mixing with all the debris of his rampage.”

Individually printed and assembled in London, each watch comprises a stainless-steel strap with a polished silver finish. Rather than requiring a battery, the watch is powered by the wearer’s movement.

“With Number Cruncher I wanted to try and tell a miniature story – the watch is a snapshot of a narrative and the viewer feels a range of emotions for the monster in his new surroundings,” added D’Epiro.

“The idea that someone may be wearing this little rampaging creature stuck inside a city in a watch brings a smile to my face.”

We have five Number Cruncher watches to give away. Alternatively, the watch is available to buy from the Mr Jones Watches website.

Competition closes 8 October 2018. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email, and their names will be published at the top of this page.

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