BMW Lovos

BMW Lovos concept uses solar technology. The body of Lovos consists of 260 identical interchangeable particles contained in the hinges on the overall structure. These individual elements are mobile and can be closed, as fish scales, or open.

Scales operate as an air brake, and turn with the sun, gathering energy through solar cells located on them. 12 scales, closing each wheel is also functional: As soon as the car begins to move, they change their position, moving into the wheel, creating a semblance of turbines.

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A Drop of Water

‘A Drop of Water’ is a rain barrel that makes saving water really easy by providing a watering can that is automatically filled when it rains. This way, the user doesn’t have to fill the can with our precious tap water, but uses ‘free’ rainwater instead to water the garden.
With the small tap at the bottom of the barrel the watering can can be refilled after using it.

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Yum Nam

Aimed at the daily activity of putting on butter on bread, this is a functional packaging system that do without a butter knife. That will work if the butters that I normally took from the hotel breakfast table is not frozen solid…

Extract from Packaging of the World

Envi

Envi is a foresight urban dustbin, promoting composting from biodegradable waste. It makes waste into nutritious compost for the plant which it carries and lives in harmony with. The big part of the produced compost can be separated from Envi for usage in other occasions.

This project uses bio-reactive substances based on photo catalysis to accelerate the degradation process of waste, remove bad smells and polluting gas.

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Aperitivo Table

Aperitivo Table designed by Eon Ju Park from Korea, is one of the 100 shortlisted entries from the designboom competition ‘it’s aperitivo time’ in collaboration with Peroni Nastro Azzurro.
The Aperitivo Table is a simple and stylish way in which to hold your food and drink. The table looks like a tree with branches of small circles which allow you to place and remove glasses with ease – the table itself appearing like a small party space decorated by colorful drinks and food.

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Gaudi Stool

The Gaudi Stool benefits from the beam-grid substructure-style that support its thin carbon fiber shell. Rapid-prototyping techniques employed in its manufacture ensures that the cost of production stays minimum, thus making it a viable project.

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Personal Irrigation Sanitation System. Products for ideas for ways in which to appropriate outdoor urination by graduate designer Samuel Patience.

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Black & White Clock

Digital clock with only figures and no casing. Each figure has self-contained power supply and independent control. A light sensor will switch the clock to an invert mode: the figures are white in the dark time of day and black at daytime. Nice stuff!

Extract from Kibardindesign

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Matt Brown’s ‘Food and the Future of it’, final project for his masters in Interaction Design, envisions that food in the year 2040 would be synthetic and programmatic, made using 3-dimensional printers and lab-grown meat.
I love it!

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“German designers Ottopal & Lottner Ltd present a play on proportions in their product line of light – space – object. The three objects: a chair in three sizes, or a table and two chairs, or a chair and two tables.”

Extract from designboom