Flat Extension Leads

December 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment

I can’t tell you how many times I have managed to trip over extension leads running across the floor, especially at Christmas time when the house is full of family that need all sorts of appliances  plugged in.

This is why when I saw Chen Ju Wei’s flat extension leads, I got super excited. Currently a conceptual project, the Post Line Flat extension lead uses circuit printing technology and an electrostatic paste material. The flat extension lead sticks to almost any flat surface and can be easily wiped clean.

* More information can be found through Yanko Design

Micasa Lab Creates Life In A Cocoon

November 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Swiss Design Group, Micasa Lab, has developed the Cocoon 1. The Cocoon serves as a retreat where you can do whatever you like without being completely removed from the outside world.

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Personalised Ring Alarm

October 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Nobody likes being woken up by someone else’s alarm, especially if you really don’t need to wake up or got in super late. This personalized Alarming Ring by Meng Fandi eliminates that problem. You never need to be woken up by your other halves alarm again.

The Alarming Ring consists of 2 rings that fit on each person’s finger and an electric plate that charges the rings. The rings can be set for each individual alarm time and vibrate on your finger when it’s your turn to wake up.

These conceptual rings are designed for couples that have to wake up at wildly different hours or even for the hearing impaired.

* More information can be found on Yanko Design

Zen Player

June 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment

This conceptual MP3 player designed and developed by Li Qing dares to break away from anything Apple related, Li Qing has developed two MP3 Players called Grasp and Water.

Both are minimal in the amount of buttons and jacks to deal with and completely white, with the only colour coming from the backlight on the play button of the Water MP3 player.

There are more images and information on these conceptual designs on Yanko Design

Collapsible Concept Bike

April 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment

This Velo Chic bike is Raymon Hung’s thesis from 2011, he wanted to promote bicycle riding as a form of transport to non female riders.

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Smart Phone For The Blind

March 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Shikun San, a student from Sheffield Hallam University has developed a smart phone especially for the blind called the DrawBraille Mobile Phone. It’s a phone, a book reader, email and music player, there are even buttons on the side to show how much charge is in the battery.

The concept was released through Yanko Design

Pencil Printer

February 14, 2012 By 1 Comment

The Pencil Printer looks like the end of printer ink cartridge woes for every office, ever. It’s a printer that uses pencils to print text, this might induce rampant yawns, but let me explain, the printer uses a pencil to print your documents, making the text erasable with the eraser that comes with the printer. Because of the printer bed’s curved shape, the eraser dust naturally falls of the page and does not interrupt the printer’s printing.

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Curve Cat Bed

January 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Curve cat beds are delightful bits of whimsy that can be mounted onto your wall. They are strong and can hold a reasonably sized cat or a small dog.

You can buy the Curve Cat Bed at the Yanko Design shop 

Finder System That Works

November 9, 2011 By 2 Comments

Find your keys or remote easily with the Finder Until we got our key rack by the door, I could never keep track of the house keys. They were always being left in different places, or being moved from where I had left them and it frustrated me to no end. Hopefully this will help others with the same problem, The Finder, designed by Chu Wang, Qiujin Kou, Qian Yin & Yonghua Zhang operates in two parts, one is a sticker that attaches to what you will eventually want found and the other is a main terminal that is used to pinpoint where the lost item is.

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What The Future of Cyber Cafes Might Look Like

October 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The future of Cyber Cafes

Internet cafes have been around since the early nineties and since then they haven’t really changed much. Although with the prevalence of smart phones, they might be losing their functionality. Youri Hong, Moonhwan Park & Hyoshin Kim [SADI] have designed the internet cafe of the future, this conceptual design incorporates smart phones and the trappings of modern life as opposed to trying to compete with them. The internet cafes will have multi-touch tables that will pull information from your smart phones and display the information for use in meetings, they are just one more step into a world that is progressively more socially integrated.

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