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The most famous consumer products, released or not, are usually products addressing young people. What makes those products special are the elegant design and great usability.If this is true isn't it best to let young designers design products for people alike?Butterfly, in all its beauty If you're not convinced and think that in order to make a great design you need years and years of practice I have one example of young designer wit...

We only have 24 hours a day, and when you are living in a big city you usually loose at least two hours a day driving to and from work. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to use some of that time doing something useful, not staring at the traffic lights.Anna Lopez, a young designer, imagined Cario, a laptop especially designed to be mounted on the steering wheel of your car.Cario is not only an interesting concept, but also a beautiful one ...

Luxury and fashion consumer electronics are a thing of the present. We can't deny them any more, so we might as well give them the attention they deserve.Producers seem to do so, ELECOM's latest "treasure" being a luxury memory card reader, the MR-A33H.ELECOM will offer MR-A33H in three colors: white, silver and black What makes it a luxury product? Simple design, clean forms and an expensive look given by the use of higher quality than ...

Ross Lovegrove, the famous designer, has been working with the KEF company from UK, in order to create the ultimate sound system. Their aim was to achieve a futuristic and unique design combined with outstanding audition quality, and the result was Moun.The name comes from Physics, cause a "moun" is a particle charged with electricity. For more details read this article here. On the other hand, like you can see from the provided link, the "m...

Whenever you go away from home, you need to find some pack for your toothbrush, cause you have to take that away too. I used a plastic one, bought from the market, but it's not aesthetic at all.Now, mankind has been given the OHSO toothbrush.The all in one OHSO toothbrush This thing certainly has a futuristic and stylish look. But the functionality is great too. The OHSO gadget was designed to be a travel toothbrush, that's why it ...

Why are concepts so loved? Because they don't take profitability in consideration, they don't have to please anybody and they live by the "love or hate" saying. If you hate them you hate them big, but if you love them, you would die for them.Don't believe me? Think of Apple iPhone, who flamed the minds of millions and now everybody tries to catch some of the strong points of this paper launched product in their next phones.Concept render...

Watches stopped a while ago being just indicators of current time and had become real accessories, things to be proud of, signs of social statute and even perform computer related tasks, like the Fossil PDA watch.Take a look at the amazing design lines below:I love the silver look of the HLs HAUTLENCE, a brand new independent Swiss brand, just launched their second model, the HLs, a watch with an impressive design, modern, yet businessÂ...

I don't usually write about graphics or movies, but this thing here let me speechless. It's a marvelous visual art clip, combined with a fine relaxing sound theme. You really have to see this. I guarantee you won't regret it. Simply amazing...The person from whose hands came this clip is Robert Hodgin, and he worked with an open source programming language called Processing. This development software is used to program images, animations and...

It seems that the accessories for the Apple's iPod don't give any rest to the designers all over the world.From Smart Design comes this dock, called the Dragon I, that looks like a multi-headed dragon (Doh!), although i might say it resembles more with the Hydra...The Dragon I has entangled and Apple iBook And that's because this dock comes with 4 tentacles (or necks...) that have on their top a spherical support that houses a 5 W inde...

German car manufacturers are known for their straight lines with "serious" design, not for passionate forms usually found in Italian super-cars.I'm not saying that as a bad thing, but I sometimes want to see more passion together with their technologically advanced cars.Ugur Sahin, a young designer, has put his vision into LOCUS, an Audi concept, a car inspired by Mother Nature. What does it mean by that is no straight lines can be found ...