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One Speaker to Rule Them All

Posted: 11 Dec 2017 11:40 AM PST

If you want to equip multiple rooms in your home with high quality audio, the most popular home speaker systems out there require you to purchase multiple units in their product range. Things can quickly get pricey and complicated when trying to sync. Designed with this in mind, the One Piece speaker system simplifies things to exactly how they should be so you can do more listening and less setting up.

What appears to be an elegant, cylindrical pillar is actual 4 distinct sound-bar-style speakers that can be used in tandem or independently. They’re already synced together, so you save time not having to set them up. Just pair them with your TV, phone or other devices, then arrange them accordingly for surround sound on movies or music from room to room. With their convenient wireless charging station, they’re compact and light enough to move around yet substantial enough to deliver the crisp, high definition audio you expect.

Designer: Do Hyeung Kim

Type 01 – Sound Bar Mode

Type 02 – Home Theater Mode

Type 03 – Bluetooth Mode

CD/DVD player

Wireless Charging

The Anywhere-chair!

Posted: 11 Dec 2017 06:47 AM PST

I remember seeing the Sitpack a while ago and thinking back to the times when foldable chairs were still pretty huge. The Sitpack was the kind of foldable chair that could fit inside your laptop bag, occupying as much space as a 500ml beverage can (and weighing lesser than it too). Sitpack’s claim to fame was that for something the size of an umbrella, it could give you the experience of sitting on a chair. The Sitpack would take most of your weight off your feet, while correcting your posture, working your core muscles, and making sure the blood to your feet kept flowing and your limbs didn’t fall asleep.

Slimmer, lighter, and much more comfortable than before, the Sitpack ZEN is the company’s redesign of their revolutionary product. While the original Sitpack came with two unfolding parts that comprised a T-shaped seat, it felt a lot like sitting on a railing. The Sitpack Zen however completely avoids that problem with its Y-shaped construction and the hammock-esque suspended seat that forms in the middle. The seat feels cushioned as compared to its predecessor, making you want to sit on it for longer intervals, without shifting position or breaking a sweat!

Every single detail of the Sitpack Zen is beautifully thought out and could make a great product design case study. The outer body is made from anodized aluminum, making it corrosion proof, rust-proof, and yet lightweight (in fact it’s said to be the lightest chair in the universe). The telescopic base comes in carbon fiber and aluminum variants. Both have incredible load-bearing strength, and slide in and out beautifully like a tripod. The legs can be height adjusted to your requirement to ensure you get the most comfortable seating experience, and the elastomer foot at the base will rest against any surface without slipping, making it not just ideal for outdoors, but even great for indoor use (at your standing desk at work, or waiting at the subway for your train). The most impressive element of the Zen however is its seat. When in the open configuration, the seat forms a suspended fabric bridge between the two aluminum arms of the Sitpack Zen, ensuring you get a seat that’s comfortable to sit on. Close the Sitpack Zen and the fabric seat turns into a rather nifty strap that you can use to carry the Sitpack Zen across your shoulder.

The Zen, much like its predecessor fits into the grip of your hand, and can even slide into a laptop bag. Designed with the brief of making a chair that occupies roughly the same footprint as a 500ml bottle, the Sitpack Zen is a must-have for photographers who spend a lot of time outdoors looking for the perfect shot, or even for the festival goer. Even suited well for indoor use, the Sitpack Zen is the perfect accompaniment to your standing desk, allowing you to make sure you’re never hunched over your workspace. Once done, the Zen can be folded up and stored on your desk or carried back with you, giving you a nice impromptu seat on the bus or train if there are no seats available or at the subway station if you’re waiting for long. The Sitpack Zen is officially the lightest and most portable seating device in the universe… so no matter where, you’ll always have a chair!

Designers: Theo Ginman & Jonas Lind-Bendixen

Click here to Buy Now: $59.00 $100.00

Click here to Buy Now: $59.00 $100.00

Smart Home Inte(great)ion

Posted: 11 Dec 2017 04:50 AM PST

Smart hubs like the Amazon Echo and Google Home are cropping up all over the place. Considering the fact they’re all new pieces of tech, they come with their own personal and unique forms and designs that we haven’t seen before. The smart hub ‘Triby IO’ released by Invoxia is sleek, highly adaptable to any environment and hints at a few nostalgiac features that make this product likable on so many levels. With programmable buttons, integration with Alexa and many other applications, Triby IO doesn’t skip a beat. Adding to the gorgeous aesthetics and functionality of the Triby IO is the magnetic feature on the rear of the body, allowing the smart hub to be stuck to the fridge, saving space during cooking. This carefully designed smart hub is easily the more exciting choice of smart products available, and it would not shock me to see more products like this popping up over the coming months.

The look of Triby IO is simple; there are no overcomplicating features – what you see is what you get with Triby, and nowadays that’s a blessing. That being said, Triby has several features that make day-to-day life a whole lot easier. For example; when it’s time to wake up – Triby IO puts on my favorite radio station and displays the weather- not only this, due to Triby IO’s smart connections, it brightens your bedroom slightly with an HUE lamp, starts brewing your coffee and turns on the heater in your bathroom too. How about when it’s time for a workout session – Triby IO will lower the temperature in the room, play the music you want to workout to, display the exercises you need to do and of course count down the time for you.

Designer: Invoxia

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Time to Start Using that Free Water

Posted: 11 Dec 2017 02:03 AM PST

Raindrop is a sensationally entertaining product that plays with the banal, limited traditional outside gutter. Raindrop is a rain barrel that makes saving water really easy by providing a watering can that fills up automatically when it rains and stores further water in the body of the barrel, allowing the user to refill the can further after use. The design has received numerous design awards such as the René Smeets award and was shortlisted for several other prestigious design awards, among which the Melkweg award and the Condé Nast Traveller I&D awards. The Raindrop is the production version of ‘A Drop of Water’, one of Bas van der Veer’s graduation works. The design was taken into production by market-leading pottery label Elho. Handmade, the Raindrop is named aptly so, with a rotund lower half of the device fitting on drainpipes from 50mm to 80mm.

Designer: Bas van der Veer

Wake Up to a Cup

Posted: 11 Dec 2017 01:00 AM PST

Ever notice that the days you’re too busy to grab a coffee in the morning seem to drag on forever?! Now you never have to experience another one thanks to the Internet of Things! WakeFast is a coffee maker concept that syncs with your unique schedule to ensure you can always perk up with a coffee or tea.

The WakeFast app works as both an alarm and a control center for the coffee maker. Because no two days are alike, it will always adjust to ensure your favorite coffee or tea are ready right when you wake up whether it’s at 7:00 on Monday or 9:00 on Friday! Better yet, it’s designed to be placed right by your bedside so you can literally wake up with the aroma of a fresh cup of joe each morning.

Designer: Matías Papalini