Traditional wall outlets are ugly and can’t accommodate many AC adapters, leaving you hunting for new places to stash your gadgets while they’re charging. One Japanese company has a fresh idea for how to make the lowly wall outlet look like a positively stylish part of your living space.Node 12050, an innovative wall outlet design from design firm Metaphys, lets you plug in several AC adapters with none of the awkward jockeying for outlet space that you have come to expect from standard wall outlets. It’s like a power strip, but prettier.
he real world is full of some of the most vibrant, beautiful colors imaginable. Artists can recreate just about all of those colors with the right tools, but what if you’re not an artist, want to sketch something quickly, or you don’t have a full set of colors with you? The Color Picker, a fabulously fanciful concept from designer Jinsun Park, could be the answer.
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. Here is acollectionof some of the eccentric laws in the world. We can laugh, we can gasp, we can only wonder…
10. it’s illegal to be fat in Japan
Thanks to an anti-obesity law passed last year, Japanese salarymen across the nation are pulling up their shirts to have their guts measured... and if they're overweight, they face consequences.
If you're male and your waist is over 33.5 inches, you're considered fat. If you're female, the limit is 35.4 inches. Thanks to those burgers, you now have to attend mandatory counseling with a physician. For every grotesquely obese employee like yourself, your company gets hit by a fine; ergo, they strongly encourage you to lose weight with gifts of gym memberships and pedometers.
Transforming and convertible furniture are more demanding these days for their compact design. They take less space and look more attractive for their unique and nontraditional shapes.
Designer Brandon Allen calls this the Calypso Chair. Well, what can I say, it has more moving parts than any of the furnitures listed here today, and I like it. A very versatile looking furniture that turns from a center table, a couch, magazine rack and more. Nice piece of furniture you can use for those small spaces in your house or apartments.
Flat pack furniture is exactly what it sounds like: furniture that starts out entirely as sheets of wood, metal or even cardboard. In addition to being clever and simply aesthetically awesome, flat pack furniture is also eco-friendly and highly creative. Without further ado, here are 20 more examples of incredibly compact and transforming flat-pack furniture for cramped urban living.
The chair that transforms its shape according to the body of the person who sits on it sounds rather like science fiction than reality.
But there are some good enough efforts to make such chairs and one of them is done by Wu Yu-Ying, a young designer from Taipei, Taiwan.
She have designed a chair made from a perforated foam which looks like big cube but when you sit on it it immediately takes a proper chair-like shape creating comfortable environment for sitting in it. There is not any kind of special mechanism in the chair it is designed to perfectly change the shape depending on the weight of the sitter.
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