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Las 10 bicicletas más hermosas del mundo - BBC Mundo - Noticias. Designers Develop A Trendy Mobile, Wooden Shelter For Camping. The Makings of Luxury collection demonstrates craft techniques. Clerkenwell Design Week 2014: curator Nick Wiltshire assembled a micro-exhibition highlighting the relevance of craft in contemporary design for the first edition of The Makings of Luxury (+ slideshow). Wiltshire presented an edit of five UK makers, each demonstrating a contemporary interpretation of a traditional skill, at the Additions exhibition during Clerkenwell Design Week. "The antithesis of mass production, the maker is both the architect and the artisan, producing limited quantities with a very pure expression of concept," said Wiltshire. "For the collector, these makers offer original aesthetics and highly skilled execution, but also the opportunity to commission bespoke works and explore precious materials that you rarely see in large-scale manufacture.

" Katharina Eisenkoeck's collection of portable concrete and leather lights combines the traditional use of leather as structural reinforcement with concrete and LED wireless power transfer technology. 3 | Paper Cut Razor Makes Me Cringe Just Thinking About It. Ah, the cursed paper cut. Scourge of office workers, old-timey readers, and packers of boxes. What possible good could a paper cut do in this world, you might ask. Designer Nadeem Haidary answered that question with a proposition: how about using paper cuts to cut something we actually want to cut? Enter the Paper Cut Razor, a papercraft model of a disposable razor made out of a single piece of paper. On the other hand, the project is a mere concept--Haidary tells us in an email that it's "meant to illustrate a design idea, but it doesn't actually work.

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Envisioning Urban Futures Through An Old-Fashioned Viewfinder. This is how Tristan Randall envisions the future: you’re walking down a city street, and you come across a gadget that looks like an old-fashioned viewfinder. But this gadget isn’t coin-operated, and the binoculars don’t zoom in on anything in the real world. The binoculars let you see the future of the spot you’re standing on--or at least one version of it. Randall, the construction industry manager at Autodesk, is taking steps towards making this vision happen. Last week, the city of San Francisco held a series of public workshops to share design options for its Better Market Street project, which is working on ways to increase pedestrian and bike traffic and reduce vehicular traffic in the downtown area. Attendees had the opportunity to see the design options in 3-D by looking through a viewfinder (when I recently stopped by Autodesk, one of the two viewfinders was in the process of being 3-D printed) hooked up to an iPad Mini.

Mattel's 3-Year Quest To Make A Better Toy Gun. Scott Derman was pissed. The toy designer, whose colorful tattoos peek from under his sleeves, had asked Mattel’s Chem Lab for a substance that could stick but wasn’t sticky. He’d even sent along a scientific research paper detailing a wonder material with micro suction cups. The lab was incredulous. “They were like, ‘Awesome. Mattel isn’t NASA, after all. So the team got to work mixing various polymers and setting them in golf ball like molds, thinking the large perforations might compress and cause a plunger effect when they hit a solid surface. The idea failed in prototype after prototype. Truth be told, Derman had grown restless over the last decade of crafting toys for Mattel’s lucrative licensees like Pixar and Warner Bros. And Mattel had finally given him a skeleton crew to devise a completely open-ended toy line of his devising. Maybe S.W.N.S.B. was possible. “I took this whole ball of crap and just threw it,” Derman says.

Eureka. And not just a little bit! It bounced right off. Behind The Scenes At Nerf HQ And The Making Of The Slingfire Zombie Blaster. When the dead walk the earth, the future of humanity will be fought with Nerf! That's the idea behind Zombie Strike, Nerf's line of foam dart blasters designed to look like weapons from an imaginary zombie apocalypse. Due out this fall, the newest weapon in the Zombie Strike line is the Slingfire, a pump-action, post-apocalyptic, sawed-off boomstick.

But, you know, for kids. It poses a vexing design challenge for Nerf: how do you create a blaster that's appropriate for the ages of eight and up, but looks menacing enough to blow out a zombie's brains? Nerf let us peek behind the scenes of the Slingfire's development to find out, revealing how the design softened significantly over time. Such is the life of a toy weapon: whipsawed by its adult designers' vivid imaginations and the mitigating pressure to please all ages.

How does Nerf fit in? The latest "impossible" thing Nerf does is help you blast zombies. Even so, it's amazing how different many of these versions were from one another. 9 | Is It Actually Possible To Make Bottled Water Eco-Friendly? Environmentalists usually hate disposable water bottles and with good reason: More than 30 billion end up in landfills each year, some float out to litter the ocean, and millions of barrels of oil are used just to make the plastic.

Now a new Kickstarter project claims to introduce a greener version of the standard disposable bottle. But is it possible to actually claim to have a green water bottle, when people can just turn on the tap? The new bottle, called Treeson is made from plant-based plastic. Peel away the recycled paper label, and there’s a mailing label underneath. The whole bottle easily flattens so it can be mailed back to the company to be re-used as fuel in a waste-to-energy plant.

For every bottle purchased, the company also plants a tree, which customers can track through a smartphone app. Is this just greenwashing? “The reality in places like the Bay Area is very different than the reality of the majority of the United States,” says Carlton Solle, Treeson’s founder. Secret Anti-Microbial Gear For The Subway Protects You From Germs. If you’ve ever been crammed onto a crowded subway car at rush hour next to someone with a cough, you know what it’s like to realize there’s no way out: You’re probably about to be covered in whatever gross bacteria they’re carrying. Designers at gravitytank decided to tackle the problem of train car germs, along with other quirks of public transit, with a new line of conceptual designs intended for intrepid riders. A scarf with a built-in antimicrobial layer acts like a secret face mask, and a jacket with pop-out gloves means you’d never have to touch a grimy pole with your bare hands again.

The jacket also has removable elbow patches if you need to cough, and a high collar for extra germ protection. None of the features are obvious. “No one here wants to wear a face mask,” says Nadeem Haidary, one of the designers who worked on the project. “In places like Japan, that works, but not here. The designers also considered ways to redesign a train car itself. Radio Flyer.

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Mobiliario. This Lightweight Turbo Kit Will Turn Clunky Bikeshare Bikes Into A Speedy E-Bike. If you've ever used a bike-share system like New York's Citi Bike and found the 45-pound model hard to handle, here's a nifty invention: A turbo kit that attaches to the front wheel. Soon you'll be riding at 18 mph like the best of them. Developed by electrical engineer Jeff Guida, the ShareRoller is the size of a pack of paper and about the weight of a typical laptop. It has a throttle to fix to the handlebars and extra LED lights to make your journey safer. It even offers a USB port, to charge up a phone while you're noodling along. "The first time I rode a Citi Bike, I thought I was pulling a trailer. It takes a lot more work than riding any other bicycle. The ShareRoller isn't cheap, even at a campaign discount (prices start at $995).

"You're not going faster than someone else who is in good shape and working hard. Guida's invention works with 11 major sharing systems (all of which use the same heavy model), and he's also developing mounts for use on scooters and other bikes. Marie elsa batteux flahault. This Electric Scooter Folds Up So Tiny, You Can Take It Anywhere. Last year, while teaching a class on mobility at the Art Center College of Design, Grant Delgatty gave his students the challenge of solving the "last mile" problem in transportation: How could they make it easier for commuters to get from their homes to the subway or the bus, so public transit finally seemed as convenient as driving? Delgatty, it turned out, had a idea of his own: URB-E, an electric scooter so compact that it can easily squeeze onto a crowded subway car.

He partnered with fellow Art Center profs Mateo Neri and Todd Belle to help bring the new product to life. URB-E launched as a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo today. “It’s for people who don't want to have to pedal and sweat while they're going to work or to a university campus,” Neri says. “It's very compact so you can put it anywhere. You can sit down on a train and have it between your legs.

The seat and supports for the bike fold up neatly so the whole thing can be wheeled around like luggage at an airport. 30 Unique Shanks Created in 30 Days. Shank Shack is a sculptural project by designers Chen Chen and Kai Williams in which the duo sought to create 30 shanks in 30 days. Their handmade creations, each a unique specimen of craftsmanship, displays the many ways that ordinary materials can be transformed into lethal weapons. From a toothbrush fitted with a razored stainless steel blade to mirrored glass being attached to a piece of plywood with a pair of zip ties, the collection is frighteningly creative.

The project states: "Sharp, knifelike utensils have been made by humans for the last 2.6 million years. All cultures make use of a form of a knife and there are hundreds of types made from metal, plastic, stone, ceramic, glass and wood… These sharp utensil sculptures were made as an exercise in experimentation of connections and manipulation of proportions and materials. All pieces in the series achieve one goal and show the myriad of methods one could improvise to achieve that goal. " Purify The Air As You Ride, With This Photosynthesis Bike. Bicycles are often cited as the most efficient modes of transportation in the world. They’re five times more efficient than walking, and 100 calories on a bike can send a person three miles. In a car, 100 calories would only take a passenger 280 feet.

What if a bike of the future could perform more than one function, earning even more efficiency brownie points? Answering that question, a group of Thai designers and engineers has developed a plan to turn the bicycle into a machine that actually cleans polluted air while cruising down the street. The air-purifier bike currently exists only in concept, developed by Bangkok’s Lightfog Creative & Design Company. “We want to design products which can reduce the air pollution in the city. The details on precisely how the air purifier bike would work--like how often the filter and battery would need to be changed, and how much air the tool could filter at which speeds--have yet to be determined. Virakul acknowledges this much. The Pencil Gets A Redesign. Ever since a scientist in Napolean Bonaparte’s army invented the pencil, it has served as a paragon of functional design: unlike ink, graphite cannot leak.

And unlike today’s tablets or computers, a pencil never loses its electrical charge. Yet there remains one vexing design flaw: as you sharpen and re-sharpen the pencil, it gets whittled down to a nub that’s too small for the human hand. Around 20% of the graphite stored inside goes unused. Japanese designer Akio Hayakawa fixes that, with his Easy Pencil design. “Even as the pencil gets shorter, we attempt to use it to the end--even though we know it is difficult,” Hayakawa tells Co.Design.

The Easy Pencil’s cleverness is that is solves a strange, self-inflicted problem: people are procrastinators. [h/t Design Taxi] Barbie's Lead Designer Defends Barbie's Crazy Proportions. During a recent visit to Mattel’s design headquarters in Los Angeles, I was invited into the Barbie design studio. At first glance, it’s a sea of cubicles like any other. Then you notice the hundreds of dismembered Barbie heads peeking up over the dividers, and, of course, the pink.

Pantone 219 crops up everywhere it can. Like a resilient weed growing straight from the corporate carpeting, pink sprouts in X-Acto knives, Post-it notes, and clutch purses. A bit of Barbie’s influence permeates everything. But while the omnipresent pink propaganda is infectious, Barbie’s designers were anything but the Stepfordian dictatorship seeking to deliberately crush a young girl’s body image as critics may assume.

Co.Design: What's your stance on Barbie's proportions? Culmone: Barbie’s body was never designed to be realistic. It’s primarily the 11.5-inch fashion doll size we change over time, depending on the needs of the product. You do! It’s not a closed conversation? No. I don’t. Ostrich Pillow Light: For Napping on the Go. Designers Kawamura-Ganjavian and Studio Banana Things continue to work hard to make all of our nap dreams come true (here and here) with their latest, the Ostrich Pillow Light. This head-turning napping device is not only portable, it’s comfortable for those naps on the go. Plus, it makes a nice neckwarmer.

Catch some zzzz’s on the train, plane or even at your desk with the help of this micro ball filled pillow. Kawamura-Ganjavian and Studio Banana Things are looking for help raising funds on Kickstarter to help bring this portable napping sensation to the masses. Photos by Alfonso Herranz – All rights of Studio Banana Things. Neotoi Family: Furniture With Personality. The Neotoi Family of furniture is a cast of characters dreamt up by Italian designer Roberto Giacomucci for Emporium. Combining a bit of imagination and a touch of quirky, this collection of storage pieces come complete with whimsy and playfulness, stripping away the seriousness that often comes with furniture. I dare you not to smile every time you look at them! Burton (first image also) – Table with drawer unit. Small, functional, animated containers that are capable of weaving together strong interpersonal bonds: more than objects, they are subjects, emotional entities with a clearly delineated personality, capable of transforming, through their catalyzing aura of vital beneficial energy, every modern living space.

Baobab – Storage unit with three sections. Crocodilia – Crocodile-shaped storage unit with two sections. Dipasqua – Storage unit Dodo – Dodo-shaped table with one upper flat surface and one lower shelf. Facelook – Screen Fichetto – Storage unit with two doors and a drawer. A Bird Cage-Like Swing by Ontwerpduo.

Saietta R: World's First Electric Sports Bike to be Unveiled in Colorado. A Bike With A Trunk, Hidden Inside Its Wheel. This Transformable Bike Basket Might Get More People Out Of Cars. Have You Ever Considered That You're Pooping Wrong? First Look: The 9 Winners Of Fab’s Latest Design Competition. 2 | Design Fail: Why Isn't There A Standard Way To Swipe A Credit Card? Smart Handlebars Give Any Bicycle A Bluetooth Brain Transplant. 6 Kooky Concepts For Foodies Of The Future.

3 | This Bill Gates-Backed Super-Thermos Saves Lives With Cold Vaccines. 6: 36 Volt, Electrolyte | 11 Of The World's Hottest Bikes. TIENDAS. On Sale For $150: One Laptop Per Child Is Now A Touch Screen Tablet. Most interesting photos from Bionicle Without The Bionicle - no more humanoids or you die pool. Cartoon Perfectly Depicts Challenge Of Using Office Printer. Office Furniture Designed To Spark Inspiring, Random Encounters. Can Bud's New Beer Can Become An Icon Like The Coke Bottle?

Next For Nest: Building Out The Smart Grid, One Home At A Time. Brooklyn-Made Furniture Built From Sandy's Scraps. Oneness stackable furniture by Kyuhyung Cho and Hironori Tsukue. Keepod Stores Your Computer On A Card. November wooden chair by Veryday. A High-Tech Makeover For The Payphone. 3Doodler - The World's First 3D Printing Pen. Experimental Airline Seat Plan Designed With "Dignity" In Mind. Making Fun of Snowboarding Since 1997 » Every Third Thursday: The Glass Snowboard. Shino Takeda in Inventory Magazine.

I used Google Glass: the future, with monthly updates. Lehmann LA100 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle - The First Flying Platform for GoPro Users. Why NFL Helmets Will Never Be Concussion-Proof. 15 | From Phones To Tablets: 26 Apple Designs That Never Came To Be. Saddle Lock Bicycle. For NASA, Bigelow Aerospace’s Balloonlike Module Is Innovative, and a Bargain, Too. Facebook’s Cafeteria, By The Masters Of Rustic Chic.

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Buenos conceptos malos desarrollos. Al limite del desarrollo. Suitcases And Travel Accessories. About Greif, A Manufacturer of Industrial Packaging. About | Solid Gray. Mobile Student Supplies. Kickstarting Great Products Is Hard, Even With $800,000. iTypewriter: Yes, It's An iPad Typewriter. O passado e futuro das bicicletas. An App That Turns Any Surface Into An iPhone Keyboard. Meet the Deadline: 20 Abandoned Payphones.

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3-D Printed “Magic Arms” Let A Toddler Hug And Play. Gadgets. How Teen Inventor Went From Sketch to Prototype in 6 Months. Device Offers Partial Vision for the Blind. 40 Origami Inspired Designs. Origami Tessellations | Eric Gjerde Origami. Modern Bicycle Concepts That Will Blow Your Mind. Cannondale's Chainless CERV Concept Bike Transforms as You Ride It! Projecteo. Ceramica.