Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Solar-Powered LED Lights Create the Atmosphere of Magic on Holidays

Most people enjoy arranging for such holidays as Christmas, for instance. It's really great when the whole family is gathered together in order to celebrate New Year's Eve, to favour each other with warm-heartedness and bring joy to everyone. Most people spend a great amount of time in order to set up all the outdoor holiday lights, instead of spending dear hours with their darling families and close friends. More than that, the bill for electricity for December may grieve anyone. The Solar-Powered LED Lights create the atmosphere of festival without the pain of electricity bill.

It iss perfect for people who appreciate stylish design of outdoor decorations and spend his/ her money rationally. The secret of the electric saving is that the gadget is charged by the solar energy. It uses a solar panel during the day and then shines all the night. Its light sensitive switch turns on the LEDs only when it's already dark. Therefore, it isn't necessary to remember to switch on or off the lights. Isn't it suitable at any sense of this world?

The Solar-Powered 102 LED light strand has also an AA battery, which is rechargeable and a stake, which is used for ground installation. The gadget will serve you for years. That is guaranteed, because it is steady to any precipitations.

The color of the lights is homogeneous, but it is possible to mix the colors of four strands (white, blue, green and red), if you wish. It depends on atmosphere that you want to create and your taste.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year with the Solar-Powered LED Lights!

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Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Flybar Does its Part to Support the Darwin Effect

As if a pogo stick wasn't already an accident waiting to happen, now here comes the Flybar, catapulting you four feet (and maybe even six if you push it) off the ground with its heavy-duty rubber bands. To give you an idea of how dangerous this is, notice all of the users are wearing helmets. Another indication: One of its designers/endorsers, Andy MacDonald, is a pro skateboarder who probably thinks nothing of balancing atop a metal banister as he slides down its length that runs alongside a long flight of concrete stairs. If you have an extra $300 lying around, along with some really good health insurance to cover all those broken bones you're sure to soon acquire, this Flybar might just be for you. [BoysStuff, via UberGizmo]

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Swarovski-Encrusted Wii Actually Doesn't Look Like Crystalized Poop

We normally avoid posting things coated in Swarovski crystals like Asians avoid SARS, but this particular crystalized Wii looks spectacular. The console has the Twilight Princess Link/Wolf engraved on one side, the TriForce logo engraved on the other and the actual TriForce (with Kanji labels) on the front. We're not sure how much it costs, but count us and Kotaku in. [Crystalicing]

Swarovski Wii

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Dutch Debate Building Tulip Island in North Sea

The Netherlands wants to redraw the map of Europe - literally.

Dubai built Palm Island. Now the world leaders in land reclamation are considering an island in the shape of a tulip to fight overcrowding and shield the coastline from the rising sea.

The Dutch Parliament has asked a commission on coastal development to look into the idea of building islands in the North Sea that could be used for housing, farming or a nature reserve, while at the same time helping to protect the coast.
A government body set up to promote innovation has drawn up proposals for an island about 50 kilometers, or 31 miles, long, sparking fierce debate.

Supporters of the scheme say it will give Dutch companies a chance to showcase water management skills that are increasingly in demand due to global warming, but critics say the plan will be prohibitively expensive and harm delicate ecosystems. source
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Monday, December 10, 2007

SoundGate - Computer For Musicians by Nicolas Gonzalez Garrido

SoundGate provides musicians with tools for a new rich experience in individual learning, tutor instruction and live playing. The optimal user-experience has been designed taking in account the needs of musicians. The Tablet facilitates the creative process by recording playing sessions, recognizing and transcribing music, prompting sheet music and lyrics, generating electronic accompanist sound and displaying onscreen timing and metronome. [ Click here to download the video ]

Designer: Nicolas Gonzalez Garrido

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S-series - Sleek, Sophisticated Mobile Phone by Simon Enever

Today’s range of phones leaves a lot to be desired in terms of design, the aim of the game being to cram as many functions as possible into a lumpy box of endless buttons.

The S-series however steps back from this approach and sets off in a radically different design direction by combining sleek, sophisticated styling with top quality materials all put together in a compact package, to make the whole experience of looking at and owning the phone just as pleasurable as using it.

The phone is aimed at people who want to stand out and make a statement, without compromising on features. Designed in such a way that almost every key feature, from using the camera to making and receiving calls, is easily operated without the need to flip out the keypad and waste time.

Designer: Simon Enever


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First Ever Stone Skis

Based in the beautiful monastic village of Disentis, Switzerland, Simon Jacomet and his team at Zai have established a gloriously understated reputation for designing and crafting the most advanced, high-spec skis in the world. Only 500 pairs are made a year. Innovation - indeed to blaze a trail for the whole skiing industry - has always been at the heart of their mission. These very special limited edition Spada (the Romanic word for sword) skis are the first ever made to have a heart of Grisons granite. Using stone in skis may sound incredible but stone has ideal characteristics for this application. Rendered bendable by Technocarbon of Munich’s new Carbon Fibre Stone technology, stone has enormous compressive strength (the same specific mass as aluminum) and resilience, retains its shape and dampens vibrations. The result is a ski with incomparable agility, grip and smoothness.

Designer: Simon Jacomet


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Personalizing That Phone

Customizable face plates for electronics is all the rage right? This clamshell phone is all about user customization. The grid lattice structure holds colored pins to mimic precious jewelry. Create all kinds of designs and patterns in full pixelated isometric glory. Limited edition versions with precious metals and gems could also be created to heighten the sense of personal style and design.

Designer: Nils Siegel

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Blank - Customizable OLED Phone by Chris Kujawski

Utilizing a flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) touch screen, Blank is based on the principle that the device that you carry with you most often should reflect your personality as much as the clothes you wear, car you drive or music you listen to. Since those may evolve from season to season, your phone needs to accommodate that. By providing you with a ‘blank slate’ in the form of the OLED touch screen that wraps the entire front of the phone, you are free to express yourself in any number of ways visually by downloading static or even kinetic skins that make your phone come to life, just the way you want it to.

The full coverage OLED has a number of other benefits over traditional phone screens as well, such as a much lower power consumption compared to LCD’s, a higher contrast ratio and the ability to customize the interface and eliminate unneeded functions from sight. When you want to text, bring up a full QWERTY keypad, when you’re dialing, only numbers appear on screen. The removal of a dedicated keypad also allows you to watch media in true widescreen format.

Designer: Chris Kujawski


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PMP With Gasp! No Touchscreen

Yes someone has designed a concept in 2007 with no touchscreen! Can you believe it? It’s like they didn’t get the memo or something. Seriously tho, I believe there’s still a place for tactile or as the geeks say it, “analog” controls. Designers Mathieu Pesme and Jeff Castel embrace other ‘concepty’ technologies without drowning us in all the high tech hoopla-hype.

This PMP (portable media player) comes equipped wit an subsurface OLED widescreen and a simple dropped bevel around the bezel to wind your headphones in. Other noted design elements are the tactile control wheel and integrated stereo speakers.

Designer: Mathieu Pesme & Jeff Castel

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