Sunday, January 31, 2010

Samsung Young Design Award 2009 Finalists

Samsung has organized young design award for the third time this year aiming to find out the creativity of young Italian design students focusing on sustainable and functional digital household solutions to improve the living quality of the future civilization. Following are the 9 finalist projects that was exhibited in the award ceremony held at Triennial in Milan.

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PAD is a digital pet family that improves the consumption of energy by monitoring the status of the environment.

samsung young design awards 2009

The main controller of the ‘Stand Off’ is the accelerometer that can detect the exact location of an object and sends Bluetooth signal to switch the appliance on or off.

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Cobalto and Zafiro : Futuristic Devices That Are Inspired by Sci-Fi Movies

Cobalto and Zafiro are two futuristic concept devices that have been designed by getting inspired from Sci-Fi movies like “Minority Report”. Cobalto, the glass screen of this mobile phone concept has been envisioned to be able to produce 3D objects in the air which is really exciting. The device features deformable metal which will allow the user to function either on traditional number buttons or a dial like iPod.

cobalto futuristic mobile phone

cobalto futuristic mobile phone

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iPetals : Solar Charger for Your iPhone

The iPetals is a solar charger concept that has been specially designed for charging an iPhone through solar power. This innovative design resembles a lot with a sun flower and was inspired by the great Sunny Flower design from Fandi Mang. iPetals has been envisioned as a bunch of petals that can be folded and unfolded with different color lightness which can be used as an iPhone stand too when all the petals are folded. Aside from the petals, the only peripheral it has is a connecting cable with iPhone charging port, allowing maximum convenience for the users. This gadget is ideal when traveling.

ipetal solar charger for iphone

ipetal solar charger for iphone

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The Strictly Limited Leica M7 Edition Hermès

Leica M7 Edition Hermès is a special limited edition digital camera of the series with 35mm rangefinder in silver chrome striking calfskin leather finish. It comprises an anodized Summilux-M wide-angle lens which was specially developed for this model only. The top plate is imprinted with the name Lecia replacing the previous red Lecia logo. All control parts are made exclusively with metal and silver chrome has been used to furnish the back of this Lecia M7. The red color of the imprinted auto and 7 settings on the speed dial has been substituted with the particular color of the camera’s leather. Moreover, a leather made carrying strap with matching color of the camera presents the elegant finishing touch

leica m7 hermes edition

leica m7 hermes edition

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Elite Net Phone by Shane Crozier

The Elite Net Phone concept handset has been designed for the age of social networking and acts to align social networking with our real life. Contacts of the phone are added automatically by linking with social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook and then it stores other available contact information from the user’s friends list. This stripped back minimal handset can handle inbound and outboud calls but don’t features camera, music, video, speakerphone and internet functionality considering the ease of use and functional transparency of the phone. The control unit is minimal, containing just 2 dial interface, one scrolling interface and 2 buttons, which can do everything necessary.

elite net phone

elite net phone

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Bubble Clox Is Not Your Traditional Flat Clock

Have you thought of the time clock based upon the revolving of the earth around the sun? The sundials had been introduced to many people years ago, thus, the traditional clocks, which was flat, 2 dimensional became boring to lots of people already. Bubble Clox is a new timepiece that will change the way you look at clocks. The Bubble Clox has 4″ dm round and spherical metal with hour, second and minute clock hands that are wrapped elegantly at the clock’s body, thus, bend the space and time.

bubble clox

bubble clox

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Black Mouse Sensor Works Like A Joystick

At first glance it look like a spaceship. Would you believe that this is a mouse? Well, Black Mouse Sensor Technology got this type of appearance. It will surely be a hit to teens and those professionals because aside from sensor technology, it moves with your wrists. There is an ease on usage as well as reliability, very convenient as well as fast scroll on documents with no clicks needed on scroll bar. The design ergonomically are created for your right as well as left hands, it fits wide ranges of sizes, in hands. This mouse adds so much control and comfort in your experience.

black mouse sensor

black mouse sensor

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