technogad

“By placing colored felt-tip pens in the pockets of the dress its appearance changes over time.
Within an hour the colored ink bleeds into the fabric and creates a one-off design
for each occasion. The owner can then clean the dress and color it in a different way for each time they wear it.”

Never ending possibilities.

Extract from designboom

Numbered drawers remindered me of the chinese medicine chest of the old days… makes sense and keeps things organised in the house. Even better if you can tag it with names or descriptions…

Extract from Design Milk

Like a precision calliper tool, Aivan Radio lets you find the station you want by sliding the entire radio up and down the scale. Refreshing…

Extract from Yanko Design

Surface Two is made of a steel structure, molded foam and rug. It is an innovative approach for the well known silhouette of the chaise. Extremely cosy, elegant and sculptural, it will naturally play the centerpiece role in a variety of ambients, from residential to public use.

Extract from Ricardo Antonio

Grow barley, malt grain, make beer, bottle beer, drink beer on bench, fill bottle with water, water barley, repeat.
Ecopanchina has won the prize “the best readymade of the bottle” for the Nastro Azzurro Design Competition celebrated in Milan.

Extract from rafavinader

Your old friend updated for the age of the wireless internet.
Use it to save money (every time you slide the credit card trough the card reader a (predertermined) amount of money gets deposited in your account) - or to donate money (imagine a bunch of pigs in shopping malls, banks, post offices).
Just a natural step in the evolution of the piggy bank.

Extract from designeast

Architect Vincent Callebaut came up with this water world that could serve as a luxurious future retreat for 50,000 inhabitants seeking refuge from rising waters due to global warming. He believes the world will be desperately seeking shelter from the devastations of climate change, and hopes the auto-sufficient amphibious city will serve as a luxurious solution.
The whole structure is covered in green walls and roofs, the top portion covered in grasses with the inner portion featuring a palm oasis, and the under portion serving as a bed for natural sea planktons and oceanic plants.
Click on the link to see how he develops the Floating Ecopolis for Climate Refugees.

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This foldable Greenhouse concept is a folding frameless modular plant growing heaven made out of recyclable plastics.  It can be folded flat when needed making it great especially for small spaces like apartment balconies and roof terraces.

Extract from daniel schipper

Harvard Graduate School of Design students Kiduck Kim and Christian Stayner have conceived of a Floating City for New Orleans that will “rise safely in an Archimedean liquid landscape. Housing plats and roads are marked by solar-powered lighting poles. Individual dwellings bob, tethered with RV-type umbilical cords through which potable water, electricity, sew-age, and telephone connections continue uninterrupted. When the water subsides, depositing the city in a new arrangement, a postdiluvian landscape emerges.”
Its a solution but also a very scary image of what the world can become.

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Constant Garden plays sound all day long to soothe your nerves and also act as a secretary by helping you keep up with appointments. It’s designed in rubber, and each of pod holds a ear phone that also lights up.

Extract from Vitorio Benedetti