Smart Fridge by Ashley Legg

Kitchen Cabinet by He Ruimin My Kitchen Is A Cabinet! Really No Kidding, but if I were to listen to He Ruimin then my kitchen would be just a cabinet with everything imaginable within it. Refrigerator, electric cook top, garbage bin, storage, and indicator lights on the fridge and stove to warn me about hot and cold surfaces! Good for the LOHAS gang, this concept makes me smile and frown.

Sink dishwasher Split-Face Sink, Very Nice! It’s so natural for us to put all the dirty dishes into the sink and come back later to tackle them. Wouldn’t it be great if our sink got intelligent enough and cleaned up the mess automatically? Designer: AHHA Project

What Does Love Mean to a Four-Year-Old? | John Mark Ministries A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, “What does love mean?” The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. See what you think: “When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn’t bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That’s love.” “When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. “Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.” “Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.” “Love is what makes you smile when you’re tired.” “Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.” “Love is when you kiss all the time. “Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.”

X – tape, Hinge Print Tape by Hyoungmin Park & Jeongmin Lee for mmiinn &... Sealing With A Hinge So far you have been sealing your cartons with either duct tape or normal transparent scotch tape. If you were to have the option of the X-tape, I’m sure you would have used it. Design is not always about problem solving or functionality. Sometimes elements of surprise, like this optical illusion “hinge” tape gives creativity the fun-edge that it requires. Mr Lee & Mr Park, how about sealing it with a kiss next time? Instant dishwasher Not Your Typical Dishwasher Most dishwashers are the size of a washing machine, taking up as much space. What if you are a small family unit or a singleton? Designer: Robert Lange In Collaboration With Bosch

Kitchen Sink by BLANCORONIS Ultra Utilitarianism BLANCORONIS and its unique accessory concept is utilitarianism at the highest level. The round bowl with steep bowl wall, base radius and large diameter are suitable for bulky cooking utensils. Storm Drain Graffiti Great pictures of storm drain graffiti taken in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Added 5 Nov, 09: Less is the New More: Making the Most of Small Spaces Good Design For Living in Small ApartmentsAs people migrate to smaller spaces, good design helps a lot. This is something they figured out in Europe long ago, that if you don't have a lot of horizontal room you can go vertical. Tumidei in Italy makes some of the nicest stuff, like this unit with lots of storage under the bed. This unit just raises the floor high enough for beds to slide under. This one looks a bit clinical, but has two single beds plus a pull-out double bed in between. None of this stuff is cheap, nor, as far as I can tell is it available in North America, but there are ideas here that demonstrate how people can share a space and still get a little privacy, a good place to work and a lot of storage in a very small envelope. Like this?

Dreamfarm Clongs Eat Regular Tongs for Breakfast Never fans of the “if it ain’t broke don’t fit it” mindset, Dreamfarm sets out to take everyday things you wouldn’t think twice about and turn them into something incredible. This time they’ve improved upon an already highly functional kitchen utensil: tongs. You may have never once thought to question your trusty tongs, but Dreamfarm Clongs make the flaws glaringly obvious. First off all, tongs make a mess all over the counter, which isn’t exactly sanitary. Clongs fix this problem with a sit up design that keeps its silicon food safe tips from touching anything other than your food.

Shinybinary - Art and designs of Nik Ainley Strange Red Wine Glasses Set or Bloody Brilliant Design? « Dornob It is hard not to notice the visual similarity between red wine and blood, but this one-of-a-kind set of wine glasses and decanters plays up this colorful relationship in a creative (if disturbing) way. Though the shape is playful and humorous the craft reflects training in the creation of fine crystal. The heart-shaped drinking glass is perhaps the most amusing as well as dynamic piece in the set, each valve filling together from the center. This limited-edition, hand-blown glassware set by Etienne Meneau has other funky objects as well outside of the drinking glass shown above, including large custom decanters that similarly fill up along variegated veined lines that converge only toward the top. Because these do not fill from a central point they can fill and empty in strange ways and at different rates, making the experience of pouring into and out of them part of the fun of using them.