Alternative Clothes Cleaner : Washing Machine Which Allow You to Sit On It

How about the future homes having a dedicated room just for washers and dryers? Designed by Harsha Vardhan from New Delhi, India, this Alternative Clothes Cleaner is a conceptual washing machine which doubles up as a large seat. It has two modes of operation, active and passive, though both allow you to sit atop the unit. No detergent or water is required, as either — the inner chamber acts as a pressure washer and also cleans the clothes with ionized air which means no drying, too. So one unique way to conserve water when the same would be in less quantity.

Excellent Furniture for Primary School Children by Simon Dennehy

With all the competition going on in the outside world to do their best, the only ones who are being affected is our kids. With all the heavy books that they are burdened with and also long studying hours that they have at home is putting more and strain on them. Irish designer Simon Dennehy has come up with an excellent furniture for primary school children, who takes care of their correct posture, chair height. To have a healthy back, posture is very important and would reduce problems like poor digestion, nausea, headaches and bad circulation, which arises because of incorrect posture.Perch is the result of a two year research MA in Industrial Design with the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, Ireland by Simon Dennehy. The results show that it is impractical to design a chair for primary school students, without considering the desk as an item of equal importance. The main objective of the project is to encourage students to sit and work in a much higher position.
The seat and backrest benefit from ventilated slots throughout. This reduces weight, increases user comfort and creates a visually stimulating aesthetic for the students of today. The chair’s simple yet effective height mechanism prevents accidental release and requires the student to stand to adjust the height. The chair’s legs protrude from back, while incorporating a footrest. This allows the student complete freedom of leg movement. The front wings at either side of the seat are completely flexible. This patented design prevents build up of pressure under the student’s legs, while the resistive feedback encourage the students to continually move their legs playfully, increasing blood flow and muscle use.
The desk profile incorporates an elbow rest, where students can perch themselves during task work. This decreases load on their mid-sections. The profile, from co-extruded hollow-section polycarbonate, incorporates a soft rubberised working surface (in orange). This provides a warm tactile surface that can resist abuse, prevent books from slipping, and can be easily cleaned. A storage trough, at the rear of the desk, includes a book ledge for when students are copying from text books. An accessories tray hooks onto the desk edge and is replaceable with a Lego base, or arts and crafts palette. This “hot-swap” system is developable, and makes task change-over much faster, and tidier.

New Bambini Adjustable Chair for Babies to Adults

The designer Toshimitsu Sasaki has designed a new quality chair for the whole family. He has named his design as New Bambini which is an adjustable chair fit every one from a baby to adults. The best thing about this design is the ease with which it can be adjusted/converted. The chair of course is very comfortable for any person of any size or height. The ability of chair to rotate at length while also being used as a rocking horse for the little one is just awesome! Thus, it should be a hit with all ages.

Luxury Aircraft Interior by BBDC

Now travel with class, style and luxury with the all-new aircraft. The aircraft has been designed with a complete new look of style and sophistication. With this new design materials used you will get the ultimate luxury and comfort while traveling. Even after the travel there would not be any kind of tiredness as the seats are designed in a manner to give comfort to the passengers. Given a color of classiness and sophistication which is white you feel the king of the world, you can easily move you chair towards the back and lie down as the headrest is also given you would have the fluffiness of that of a pillow. So now get ready to rule in the world of your dreams.

Penta Pendant Lamp by Luca Casarotto

Penta pendant lamp can change the look of your living room totally. “Penta” is designed by Italian designer, Luca Casarotto, during Foscarini Lab workshop by Foscarini. Penta can provide light to every requirement. Once opened, it offers an elegant chiaroscuro light texture with different shades and rotary motion. Its shades can change 15 sides in a pure active optic chiasm. This Pendant Lamp is a plain light source that can light up anything you want when closed. It is made up of solely recycled polyethylene flat components. Have a romantic evening with penta pendant lamp.

Tetra Transforms Breakable Foil of Wood Into Flexible Materials

TETRA is a new ecological product that transforms a thin and breakable foil of wood into incredible strong and flexible materials, without modifying the complexity and the sense of touch of its nature. Table is one of the best example to have a real experience with the new material. The rounded shape is a good geometrical concept to break the ordinary and to use the flexible applications of TETRA. TETRA is Gualeni way to introduce the products and to invite everyone to think outside the box and to be extraordinary.

Daniele loves the sense of touch of these materials, the possibility to flex it and to use it to break the concept of planar surface (especially when we think about wood or a mirror we think about a rigid plane). The structure of TETRA is realized in rotational molding process, 100% LDPP. TETRA is easy to re-cycle, you have less than the 0.5% of the product in different materials. The film on the TOP is 100% ecologically friendly, easily removed and to be re-used. Obviously, TETRA is still looking out for a producer.

WoonBox : A Shower, Toilet, and A Kitchen in A Box

The new concept designed by Dutch designers Arthur Rottier and Peter Jongman can be defined in one word as “refreshing”. They call it WoonBox and it is revolutionary in combining the basic necessities which are identified in regular household. This device has a shower, toilet and a kitchen in a compact box like structure. Apart from being chic, it is mobile, mechanized and easy to set up. This makes it perfect for offices, parks as well as for locations wherever temporary set up is required. So surely it is a brilliant idea which takes care of all your basic needs.Designed to serve as temporary residence in places where permanent homes are difficult to locate, Woonbox can be set-up in spaces like offices and parks as makeshift measures. Woonbox would also come in handy for the poor and homeless as well as the class of populace that cannot afford large permanent establishments.

Mistaken Cut Gives Unique But Related Identities to “Delete” Table

The new table design by Martin Sprouse is surely an interesting one. As per the designer, the same was a result of a mistaken cut which led to deleting certain section of the square tables and thereby creating a unique and different identity. Also the different sections are more elaborated with the usage of two different types of materials. The overall look of the table is compact and classy which can be used both as a writing station or to store documents. So, this table is a very practical product derived out of an unplanned mistake! Go ahead and see its usage in everyday life.

Maxdoor Could Be Your Door in The Future

The new front door design by Brazil based design group Nódesign is a beautiful design for a front door. The door is sleek and modern and comes with a remote control. Yup the door can be locked or unlocked at the click of a button similar to what a central locking does to a car. The door also comes with a digital door bell, number lighting i.e. the door displaying the house number. The door also comes with a battery back up of running one week without power supply. So a practical solution for today’s resource crunch times which is high tech yet simple to use.

Helios Lighting System Concept for Elderly People

The Helios system is an automatic lighting system designed to help the elderly live a healthier life through healthier lighting. According to experts, the two major health problems facing the elderly today are falls and bad quality of sleep. The products required for the system are a wall sconce, night light and a system-specific light switch. To address these two problems, a dual-stage approach is required. First, a night lighting system utilizing motion sensors allows seniors to move around at night without having to turn on the bright primary lights. Second, a series of daytime lighting therapies helps readjust the body’s clock so that seniors can get to sleep at a healthier time and sleep through the night more comfortably and soundly.

Minimalist Bahia and Yu Furniture Design from Sequoia Studio

Sequoia Studio has released 2 new furniture designs : Bahia and Yu. Bahia, designed by Nicolas Melan, is a sunbath for outdoor use. Its structure is made of white Corian®, as the supporting foot which is filled with concrete. Bahia’s cushions have loose and washable covers made of Dralon®, filled with latex foam and available in different colors and original graphics. Yu, designed by Pascal Bardel, is an outdoor/indoor chair. Its structure is made of cast in one piece white polyethylene. Its cushion has a loose and washable cover made of cotton and is available in four colors: deep red, green apple, pearl gray and pink. It’s simple and minimalist. If you don’t like sophisticated design, then these new products might be perfect choice for you.

Extremis Gargantua Multi-Functional Garden Table

Here comes something useful and creative for your garden furniture. Gargantua is a multi-functional garden table that can accommodate 8 people at one time. There are 4 benches that can be deranged and replaced by a wheelchair or a highchair. You can install its benches according to your height. If all the benches are in the highest position, this table can accommodate 12 people but you would require some extra chairs for this. This multi-functional table can be used for family gatherings, small get-together and kid’s party. This beautiful creation is made up of stainless steel, teak and gal vanished metal. It serves as a perfect combination of comfort, quality and functionality.

The Matching Tree : Space-Efficient Furniture System

Inspired by the design of a tree, this Matching Tree or Tree House is very useful concept for a librarian. It is shelving unit with a ladder built in to the bookcase in order to have all the books within one’s reach. One can easily adjust or extend ladder from floor to ceiling to reach to the higher shelves. This design submission came from Kuan-Sheng Wu, take a look at the V-shape of this concept, it assists to balance the weight of the bookcase and also protects it falling during an earthquake. The whole design attaches to the ceiling with the help of round discs that makes it completely freestanding. The Matching Tree is also one of IDSA 2008 finalists, congratulations !
Text from designer :

The Matching Tree is a system furniture, utilizing the expansion and rotation of supporting pillars to match the furniture with the surrounding interior of all heights and shapes, without any drilling or destructing the buildings. The Matching Tree also consists of ladder, which is required when reaching for the upper bookshelves; normally the ladder is embedded into the bookshelf, and may be lowered when required.

Cake Table and Stools

What do you think it is some kind of dish or cake? Well, it is a collection of a table and 5 stools designed by Thailand based Moban. This unique furniture piece has a central stainless steel and tempered glass table which is designed to have room for five low seated stools. Once assembled, these stools form a circular design along with the table in the center. Like you cut pieces of a cake, these stools can be separated and positioned wherever you want. This design is environment friendly as it is made up of recycled plastic and waterproof and UV resistant polyamide-jersey base cloth in the stool. You can easily carry and assemble this furniture for a small gathering in your lawn or balcony.

Lotus : Mobile Furniture by Zaha Hadid

Get ready to seduce and engage the instant and more distant world with “Lotus”. It is a room of enfolded furnishing that can be packed together and expanded into planned areas for resting, sitting, storage space and browsing. This room is designed in an innovative manner offering 2 options. One is highly reduced and exclusive of its surroundings and second one is spread-out and interlocked into its environment. The furniture is mobile and incorporated within the room including chair, bed, shelving, wardrobe and a table. You would not have ever seen such a design with increased variety and possibilities for people.

FrogWare Light Bulb Design Offers Better Energy Efficiency Than CFLs

This is not an ordinary bulb but it is known as a LED bulb recently created by Frog Design to provide more sustainable lighting choices. They have used LED lights because they believe that LED lights tend to produce a lot of heat and are less influential than incandescent bulbs. They have created Led lights inside a glass fixture that looks like incandescent bulbs. The power LED is set inside the bulb which dissolves its heat to the aluminum base. The main concept behind creating this bulb is to make it easy for the consumers to change their light bulbs.Text from the website:
Our original goal was to improve the CFL bulb, both in color and usability, but the technology to do so was not obvious. We began to explore colored filters and realized that any filter would reduce the lumen output. We then looked into adding LEDs to change the overall color output. This led us to the realization that florescent lights have huge environmental drawbacks. CFLs use ballast, which contains mercury, electronics and plastic housings. Most consumers just throw fluorescents out with the trash, even though they should be disposed of as toxic waste. CFLs are not dimmable and therefore use their maximum light output each time they’re turned on. In addition, the form and cold color of CFLs keep them from being widely accepted as a replacement to the incandescent bulb.

As our ideas began to focus on combining LEDs with a fluorescent, we sketched several forms that tried to create harmony between the two technologies. The idea of creating a separation between work and home life through the modulation of the color output drove some of our early forms. As soon as we chose to use only high-output LEDs, our forms changed significantly, rendering the old concepts no longer valid.

As designers are inclined to do, we started to create beautiful forms that revolved around the advantages of the new technology and the form factor it lent itself to. This may have been our biggest wrong turn. With LEDs, that form was flat and thin; but this would not solve the problem we had defined for ourselves. To create the biggest impact on society, this design had to keep the barriers to acceptance as low as practical—which in part meant no super-sexy, fluid designs that would only be found in high-end design stores. Any unnecessary styling would cause a rift in its mainstream acceptance.

We realized the easiest way to create acceptance was to deliver the technology in an already widely accepted form. The form of a standard light bulb was then the obvious choice. It would not ask consumers to change their form of power, their light socket or replace the lampshade attached to the bulb. And it underscored the notion that good design is about solving problems for the whole ecosystem of the product.

“Creative Wedge” : Customizable Foam Furniture

Nowadays, companies are paying attention to comfort while designing and manufacturing furniture for customers. Check out this concept design called “Creative Wedge”. It has been designed in two different colors for promoting creativity in office space. This customizable foam furniture is a simple concept using a wedge as a means of creating custom positions. The shapes of the foams can be arranged in a number of ways to giving a range. So, lie down whichever way you want in order to get rid of your stress and workload while you are in office.
Designer explanation :

This customizable foam furniture is a simple concept using a wedge as a means of creating custom positions to promote creativity in office space.

The foam shapes can be arranged in a number of ways to giving a range of positions that allow a rest from the normal seated posture, creating a space to think, talk, rest, create, eat, meet…or just have a cup of tea while you unwind for a few minutes.