Creative and Unusual Cutlery Designs Modern cutlery and creative silverware designs that will spice up your dinner table and impress your guests. Bite Silverware Mark Reigelman has designed a set of “bitten” silverware to help raise awareness of worldwide epidemics such as starvation and obesity. [link] Wrenchware Wrench-handled knife, crescent-wrench spoon and ratchet fork. Shape/Form Cutlery Beautiful cutlery set designer by Lukas Peet from Canada. Dexter Cutlery Each piece of cutlery is hand crafted and has it’s own character. Ribbon Cutlery Creative stainless steel cutlery designed by Makoto Yamaguchi. Flat Cutlery Five pieces from the Flat Model flatware series by Josef Hoffman. Exhausted Cutlery Cool cutlery follows the shape of objects it appears to collapse onto. Origin Cutlery Unusual cutlery inspired by the very first human feeding means: teeth, nails, and hand palms. Natural Cutlery Beautiful cutlery set merges traditional silver cutlery with the elegance of wood. Appetize Cutlery Fish Cutlery
Street Lights of the Future Will Be Powered by the Sun and Wind Secrets of the first practical artificial leaf A detailed description of development of the first practical artificial leaf -- a milestone in the drive for sustainable energy that mimics the process, photosynthesis, that green plants use to convert water and sunlight into energy -- appears in the ACS journal Accounts of Chemical Research. The article notes that unlike earlier devices, which used costly ingredients, the new device is made from inexpensive materials and employs low-cost engineering and manufacturing processes. Daniel G. Nocera points out that the artificial leaf responds to the vision of a famous Italian chemist who, in 1912, predicted that scientists one day would uncover the "guarded secret of plants." To make these devices more widely available, Nocera replaced the platinum catalyst that produces hydrogen gas with a less-expensive nickel-molybdenum-zinc compound. The author acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation and the Chesonis Family Foundation.
NOTCOT.ORG Absolutely Genius Ideas data-original="images/genius/29.jpg" class="lazy image"/> data-original="images/genius/75.jpg" class="lazy image"/> Tea-time – Tea Steeper Design by Pengtao Yu Timely Steeping I am in love with the Tea-time tea steeper for its intuitive design and simplistic interaction between tea leaves, water and steeping time! A flipping action, akin to starting the timer, sets the tea making process into action. Designer: Pengtao Yu Tea-time is a 2011 Spark Awards entry.
Self-Healing Material Imaginative Package Designs - Design Imaginative Package Designs Packaging is a very important marketing strategy to glamorize a product in order to attract the consumer's attention. Often however, packaging can be neglected by business. Here I have compiled a selection of beautiful packaging designs, some conceptual and some that made it to the shelves but all great examples of the designer going the extra mile to ensure that all important first impression is a positive one. Enjoyed This? Face-Recognizing Billboard Shows Ad to Women Only Sporting a Y chromosome? A new high-tech, outdoor billboard being tested in London won’t let you see its advertisement. Developed by Plan UK, a non-profit organization that helps children in third-world countries, the billboard will promote the group’s “Because I’m a Girl” campaign. (LIST: 8 ‘Misleading’ Ads Banned in the U.K.) Located in London’s West End, the ad is equipped with a high-definition camera that is used to scan passers-by’s facial features, determining their gender with a 90% success rate. MORE: Follow Your Nose: Food Company Launches ‘Smell-Vertising’
Men: Pee And Wash In The Same Fixture! Lenny Bruce would have had such fun with this, but this just makes so much sense, a sink built on top of a urinal! And designer Yeongwoo Kim has made it look good, too. The theoretical sequence is that you use the urinal, then wash your hands and the washwater rinses the urinal, saving water. Since of course, everybody washes their hands after peeing, right? It makes even more sense in multiple units in mens rooms, saving both space and water. The designer writes on his website: To save water, Eco Urinal is designed to use the water that was used for washing hands to flush the urine. This in some ways makes more sense than a waterless toilet and probably saves as much water. More on urinals:No Splash, No Flush Urinals from KohlerWaterless Urinals Introduced for Home UseUrinals Disguised as Trash Cans: Everyday Objects vs Anti-Social BehaviorPee in Style and Save WaterPopup Pissoir Solves Wee Problem
17 Vowel-Free Words Acceptable in ‘Words With Friends’ Don’t be down about your next panel of consonants. Instead, take the challenge as an opportunity to show off your newly acquired vowel-free vocabulary. Three-Letter Words BRR – The way you tell people that it’s super chilly and the way you tell your WWF opponents that you don’t care what they think of you. CWM – Oh, boy - pronounced “koom,” it’s another name for a “cirque,” which is a bowl-shaped mountain basin often containing a lake. HMM – Accepted (in addition to “hm”) as a sound of contemplation. NTH – Having the quality of being the last in a series of infinitely increasing or decreasing values. PHT – An interjection used to signify mild annoyance or disagreement. SHH – Also accepted (in addition to “sh”) as a means of urging someone to be quiet. TSK – An interjection often used in quick repetition (see “tsks,” “tsktsk” and “tsktsks” below) to express contempt or disdain. Four-Letter Words BRRR – I really don’t know. PSST – An interjection used to attract someone’s attention.
Lost & Found: Comfy Chair Cushioned with Built-In Storage Lighters, keys, coins … cushioned chairs and couches are notorious for nomming all kinds of things that slip out of our pockets or otherwise get left behind and slide into the cracks. This design simply celebrates that existing phenomena, like a giant-sized pin cushion. It may come as no surprised that this clever-but-boxy furniture piece was developed by architectural designers (of Daisuke Motogi Architecture), who have a knack for exposing and expanding uses for classic furnishing types. Pixel-like pads cover the entire surface of the seat both inside and out, forming slots in which one can accidentally drop a small item or intentionally stick a book, magazine, remote and more. Cleaning this piece would not be trivial, but for those who enjoy the occasional boredom-induced, couch-cushion treasure hunt, who knows what you might find that you or someone else left behind.