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Netatmo Thermostat

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Netatmo, a company that develops products that monitor weather & environment, creators of the Urban Weather Station system has worked with designer Philippe Stark to create the Netatmo Thermostat a beautiful product that combines great design and functionality to control heating remotely using your smarthphone, tablet or computer to reduce energy consumption.

Netatmo Thermostat also learn your habits and adjust your environment accordingly, it knows when you go to sleep, arrive home from work or when the day starts and ends giving you the ideal temperature for all your activities.

Via Tuvie.

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Kitchen Hub

Kitchen Hub is an electronic device concept designed by Francisco Barboza Grasa. Designed to be user friendly, the device can be used to manage your food consumption properly, as a nutritional plate, to check food stock status, for smart shopping and as a source for recipes. All these high tech elements are constructed inside a round shape and soft material.

The electronic plate splits into 4 sections: fruit, vegetable, grains, and protein. There are 2 smaller circles that you can use for dairy products and healthy oils, it will show you alimentation to fit your diet. Using this device, you can also check your whole family members nutritional status.

Source: Tuvie

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XO Tablet by Yves Behar

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Developed in collaboration with the One Laptop Per Child Association, the tablet harnesses the power of a touchscreen device to create new ways for children to learn. The powerful Android tablet has a new user interface and protective cover that delivers the continuity of the design language of the original One Laptop Per Child with a new learning experience.

“The new tablet is an evolution of all the things we have learned with the original XO Laptop,” says Yves Behar, fuseproject founder and Chief Designer of OLPC since 2006.

www.fuseproject.com

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Urban Beehive

The design of Urban Beehive is modern, appealing, and respect the natural behavior of the bees. There are 2 parts: the entry passage and flower pot outside, and the glass vessel containing an array of honeycomb frames inside. The glass shell filters light to let through the orange wavelength which bees use for sight. The bees can build their wax cells from the frames that provide a honeycomb texture. In order to calm the bees before you can open this beehive, smoke can be released into it.

You should know that global bee colonies are declining slowly, Urban Beehive design will contribute to the preservation of these beautiful species, encourage the return of the urban bee. Bees produce honey and propolis, once people understand the health benefits of honey and propolis, we’re sure, this Urban Beehive can have an important role in the home apothecary.

Designer : Philips Design
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Exclamation Flying Robot

Exclamation Marky Flying Robot was the first creative work of young office “Form & Drang” in Leipzig, Germany. It is actually a mascot to symbolize futuristic, quickness, youthful energy, enthusiasm, and action. The client demanded the mascot represents all that symbols in exclamation point!. That’s why therobot looks like flying exclamation mark. During the design process, the team was inspired by the actual design of computers, mp3 players, and many gadgets, because the intention was to reach young and technology interested people through this robot. Designers : Ronny Sauer and FORM & DRANG

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Eco Design

Dust Ball Robot

From the designer Dave Hakkens:

“Dustball is a robot vacuum cleaner concept designed for public spaces. There are a lot of robot vacuum cleaners on the market but all designed for households. However they are fragile and not made to go over any cables, thresholds etc. This one had to be strong, industrial and flexible. However I did not want to give it an industrial/robot appearance.

Inspired by a hamsterball I came up with dustball. Usually there is no interaction with a robot vacuum. I created a little friend just rolling around and which you could push or kick in a direction to clean. It’s has no trouble with cables or anything like that, it’s strong, and when it rolls before your feet you just kick it out of the way.”

 

www.davehakkens.nl

 

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Industrial Design

Touch vending machine

Local vendor aCure from Japan installed the first operational touchscreen vending machine at Tokyo´s Shinagawa Station. Japanese are obsessed with touch screens and vending machines so it was a matter of time for this to come by. The idea was first introduced by Samsung and Coca Cola at the 2009 version of CES, the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow.

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