Simplici-tea: The Electric Tea Kettle, Completely Redefined. Making a nice cup of tea is one of those no-brainer activities that plenty of us do multiple times a day. We rarely think of how much energy is used to heat the water for that tea. Even if you’re using an energy-efficient electric kettle (as opposed to a stovetop one), the minimum water amount is typically at least enough for two cups of tea. If you only want one cup of tea, you’re wasting energy to heat water that you don’t need right now. Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Nils Chudy created an intelligent way to heat water one cup at a time, right in the cup. When the cup and rod are placed on the plate, the rod is quickly heated by an electromagnetic field which only heats ferrous materials. The tip of the rod is coated in silicone to create a safe, non-heated place to grab it by.
The overall design is streamlined and surprisingly elegant for a kitchen appliance. Looping Lounge Chair Wraps Like a 2-Seat Roller Coaster. Sometimes an idea just looks better on paper, or at least when elegantly rendered in three dimensions without all those troubling structural details. Other designs are even more impressive when they go from concept to reality. The Loopita was conceived as a kind of corkscrew – seating the spirals to create more adjacent seating while maintaining a visual and physical separation, and providing chair as a bonus. The real versions are not the glossy segmented bent wood first imagined, but a more practical, permeable, and light-weight stick-frame shell that only has cushioning where needed (along the bottom), and filters rather than blocking light above, creating shade instead of impermeable shadow.
In effect, the concept was cleaned up in the process of creation, adapted to real-life materials and actual needs. Loveseat Literalism: Two-Person Chair for Cuddling Couples. Altered Appliances by Piet Zwart Institute students. Milan 2013: patterned rolling pins that make edible plates and a meat grinder that squeezes out biodegradable bowls are among a set of kitchen products on show at Ventura Lambrate in Milan this week (+ slideshow + movies). Altered Appliances is a collection of four projects by students from Rotterdam's Piet Zwart Institute, all of which introduce low-tech, hand-powered appliances and ideas to the kitchen. Rollware is a set of laser-cut rolling pins designed by Joanne Choueiri, Giulia Cosenza and Povilas Raskevicius to produce edible plates and dishes from dough. One set of four rolling pins is used to imprint patterns on the dough. Above: Rollware movie Another set cuts the dough into four different plate sizes before they are baked into tableware.
Extrudough is a collection of biodegradable tableware made with a meat grinder, which designers Bo Baalman and Kine Solberg describe as an "analogue, human-powered 3D printer". Above: Extrudough movie Above: Flipfood movie Above: CONEformation movie. AirGo : design et techno au service du confort en avion. Voler en classe économique n’est pas toujours une bonne expérience en matière de confort. C’est pourquoi un jeune designer a imaginé un siège gonflable, à la fois confortable et simple d’entretien et ce, à moindre coût. Dénommé AirGo, le concept revisite les sièges en classe économique pour en faire un lieu reposant. Face à l’espace contigu, la solution consiste à amincir les sièges afin de gagner de la place de sorte que chaque siège procure un espace propre à chaque passager. A la place des compartiments classiques, AirGo dispose d’un casier individuel pour contenir les effets personnels. Pour distraire le passager durant le vol, un plateau et un écran tactile ont été montés sur des bras rétractables.
Enfin, le siège comme l’écran sont ajustables en fonction du besoin. Conçu par Alireza Yaghoubi, il reste à espérer que les compagnies aériennes adhéreront à cette vision de la classe économique qui rivaliserait presque avec la classe business. VINCENT CALLEBAUT ARCHITECTE PROJETS TOUT. Work.