October 2010 Archives

If you've tried any kind of carpentry work then you know the hassle of carrying your supply of nails while you're hammering.  Like any average carpenter, you might be carrying the nails with your lips or maybe inside your clenched fist or inside your pockets.  Dropping the nails or being jabbed by it while you hammer is a very big possibility, and not only is this dangerous, it can become really inefficient to work with. 

Designers Jinsoo Cho & Ahjin Choi have made a simple yet effective modification to the hammer which will make carpentry works not only safe but effecient.

Being paralyzed from the waist down, paraplegics often rely on wheelchairs to get them where they want to go.  Without a cure for their legs, their movements often is limited by their wheelchair's design.  While some designers have modified and reinvented the wheelchair's design to facilitate more flexibility in the user's movements, the company Berkley Bionics have done a more advanced and technological approach by producing an exoskeleton that paraplegics can wear, helping them to stand and to walk again.

We're living in a time were the fantasies and science fictions of our grandfathers' time or even their grandfathers' time are slowly becoming a reality.  The technology of today have become so advanced that even fairy tale stories seem to come alive.  A mirror was recently developed to do more than what other mirrors normally do.  Like a commemorative honoring the mirror from snow white's fairy tale story, this mirror will show you a lot more than just a reflection of your face.

I'm sure some of you at certain moments in your life gets pressured or anxious as you see a watch or a clock.  Some may feel that time seems to move too fast if they're chasing a deadline and while others feel it seems to move really slow when they're anticipating an occasion or event that they just can't wait to happen.  Designer Jose Hurtado have designed a watch that won't tell the time unless you really want it to.

When I was a kid, toys that transform, fold, slide in and out to form a shape from another shape really excites me that is why when I saw this table, how simple it may look, really caught my attention.  It's a semi-circular wood and metal table with arching patterns on its top, nothing really special, but lo and behold it transforms to become one full circular table.  This table, designed by Isariya Boon, calls this the "Rotension Table".

300,000 hours of continuous light, this is what this lamp by Davide Stupinan promises to offer.  He calls this the Gira Lamp and it will definitely save you a lot of energy while producing the needed light for a very long time.

As technology gets more high-tech each day, a lot of things seem to get smaller and lighter as it progresses.  The image above which shows a large ball in the middle of the room is actually a compact kitchen filled with all the high-tech stuff any modern home owner would ever need.  It's an amazing kitchen in a ball!

Many clothes have already been sold and have already been bought through the internet.  One common problem consumers usually experience is that there is no real way to fit those clothes to see how it looks on their bodies and so when it gets delivered, the clothes doesn't fit right on them.  Fits.me, an Estonian company, have developed a mannequin that shifts its form to your body's dimensions that would fit the clothes for you online.