The Week in Design: A 'Thimble' for the Blind, Rethinking the Soda Siphon
The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never move from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over their creations, nevertheless.
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Samsung's Blue Earth handset might just be taking the green thing to a whole new extreme. Made from PCM, a recycled plastic from water bottles, the phone boast an "eco" mode for efficiently adjusting screen brightness, backlight duration and Bluetooth usage, and an "eco walk" app / built-in pedometer to tell you how much CO2 emission you've saved by walking instead of driving. The best part? ...
Fight fire with fire we always say -- those bright red canisters attached to hoses are for sissies. Real men fight fires with The Shooter, a concept for a fire extinguisher gun. The premise is simple, yet brilliant; what looks like a fancy Nerf gun is loaded with up to eight pressurized CO2 cartridges that smother the fire. You simply adjust the distance belt, aim, and fire the carbon dioxide ...








