String Gardens. Produced by Dutchman Fedor van der Falk, String Gardens are a project he started working on a little over three years ago. Produced using a three-dimensional crochet filled with plaster, soil, moss, and grass, the beautiful Japanese-style botanic hanging gardens are, incredibly, able to lift trees as though there were no gravity. Of course, not everyone wants a huge tree in their living room, so they come in all shapes and sizes and can fit most plants. These are available to buy now from Pompon in Amsterdam. www.stringgardens.com. The iQ Alarm Clock by Oliver Sha. Morning Brain Teasers Dare to get the iQ Alarm clock only if you’re smarter than a fifth grader.
The clock has no snooze button so instead, challenges you with brain teasers to shut the damn thing off! Expect to wake up to questions like “What’s your favorite Design Blog?” Why of course, Yanko Design! You can set the alarm to incessantly ring until you answer anywhere from 1-3 questions. Designer: Oliver Sha. Make Your Own Gifts LIGHT BULB TERRARIUM – Green Holiday Gift Guide. 1ℓimit – Faucet Design by Yonggu Do, Dohyung Kim & Sewon Oh. One Liter Limited 1ℓimit faucet looks more like an elegant test tube inverted on top of a tap.
The glass tube holds exactly one liter of water, sufficient for a quick handwash. The theory being that we waste almost six liters of water and use only one, while washing hands. Once the stored one-liter is used up, you have to turn-off the tap till the next one liter fills up the tube. A cumbersome rationing process that will hopefully drive home the point of conservation!
Bento Laptop Tablet Hybrid by René Woo-Ram Lee. Bento is quite an exceptional and forward thinking concept by René Woo-Ram Lee. It’s quite a plausible scenario that most of use/own a tablet, a PC, external hard drives and a smartphone. Now combine the power of these to have fully customizable Bento Laptop! The Box accommodates all the gear to work as one whole unit or individually; as you see fit. Features Laptop with 15″ OLED screen11″ tablet and 4″ phone sit in shallow depressionsSolar powered lithium-ion battery1TB SSD drive Designer: René Woo-Ram Lee The Fujitsu branding is evident and rightly so, the concept is a part of the Fujitsu Design Award that is organized by Designboom. Soap Flakes : Nathalie Stämpfli. Soap Flakes Soap Blocks instead of liquid Soaps Today, most of the soap we use is liquid soap, which contains a lot of water.
Block soap instead is more concentrated and therefore has some ecological benefits: You don’t transport unnecessary water around. In place of plastic bottles you can simply use paper for packaging. But what about the usage of soap bars? The 25 most awesome mugs ever created « Blog of Francesco Mugnai.