Plant-in City is a collaboration between architects, designers, and technologists who are building new ways of interacting with nature. Our 21st century sculptural terrariums combine modular architecture, basic laws of physics, embedded technologies, and mobile computing to construct a “Plant City” where the aesthetic meets the pragmatic. Each frame is made with cedar wood and copper piping, with digital sensors […]
Sustaining Plant-in City
Edible Furniture
Design studio Lanzavecchia + Wai has created a sort of Charlie and the Chocolate factory experience. The Italian and Singaporean design studio has released an edible furniture collection consists of the Hard Candy coffee table, Chocolate chair, Grains sofa, and Hardtack table. Each piece in this edible collection includes a basic elemental metal structure. Design studio lanzavecchia + wai used […]
Multi-purpose Cooking Robot
Multi-purpose kitchen machines are the way of the future. Why flood your kitchen counter with a load of single-purpose cookers when you can free up some of that space with a single appliance that can do a whole load of things? The Philips HomeCooker will do exactly that. Designed in conjunction with renowned chef Jamie Oliver, the lone contraption uses […]
Personalized Jigsaw Puzzle
My family is addicted to jigsaw puzzles. When a special birthday came up for one of my daughters, I prepared a photo collage using paint.net and ordered a photo jigsaw puzzle from Venus Puzzle. The puzzle comes in a custom box, shrink wrapped and with a copy of the submitted photo on the cover, commercial quality. Puzzle pieces and printing […]
Suggestme Social City Guide
Suggestme.com offers a revolutionary alternative to your traditional city guide. Alongside the best-known highlights, discover a large selection of unique suggestions assembled from social media that will make your break unforgettable. Suggestme aims to provide travellers with interesting and appropriate highlights for their trips. As well as presenting the most well-known highlights, the website will show suggestions that will make […]
Realtime Sports App
Beyond The Box is an iPad app that allows sports fans to curate realtime coverage, players updates and analysis from their favorite sports teams in one centralized timeline. You can think of it as TweetDeck on steroids — for sports. The founders decided to start with the iPad to offer sports fans curated news, analysis, rumors, video, photos and player […]
Everything Jackcard
The Jackcard is a conceptual device that aims to take all of the cards you use in your daily life and drop them onto one device. Stephen Reon Francisco’s Jackcard would be able to function as everything from a debit card to a passport. It would also be able to identify people using facial and voice recognition along with fingerprints. […]
V-Tent Car Charging and Protection Unit
V-Tent is an ecofriendly parking system that protects and charges vehicles. It is a collapsible canopy that can be used in both personal and public parking areas. Aiming to create a sustainable system for urban environment, V-Tent offers a safe space for electric cars either at home or in city. Functioning as a canopy that prevents weather side-effects such as […]
Billboard with a Social Touch
Conceived by BBDO Bangkok for Thailand-based DIY store HomePro, the creators of the initiative realized that those who can’t afford proper accommodation were using old advertisement boards as makeshift walls for their homes. Instead of its usual road-side billboards, HomePro called on the creative agency to build more sturdy boards which had the advertisement on one side, with pleasant wallpaper […]
Flirting Up In the Sky
Airlines around the world have been pulling out all the stops to make sure their customers’ every need is fulfilled. Our favorite would have to be the fully-equipped bar on Virgin Airline’s flights. Now, there is an entirely new aspect to having an on-board bar that will surely grab your attention. If you happen to be one of the lucky […]