When designing this timepiece collection for odm, Michael Young altered the conventional mindset of how a watch looks and the result is this gorgeous collection. The position of time panel and buttons are ingeniously reversed for a fresh way to read time, giving its eponymous name  – Reverse.

You won’t find a side button, but a super large knock-sensor on the face. Users simply tap it to activate the EL backlight function that enables a glow below the button. Minimal design of the 3 hands allows only their tips to appear on the outer ring of the button for a new perspective in time.
This exciting new collection will surely arouse much interest amongst the public, and users will appreciate the unusual wittiness of the design. You can get them in four enigmatic hues; coral red, olive green, grey and black. What, no white?
Designer: Michael Young for odm

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I’m in love with the Two Leg Coffee Table. The Corian table top has always been a favorite of mine in kitchens because it reminds me of milk. I adore the way the oak legs intimately meet into the table surface too. Although the description says two legs, I still see four – just not in the traditional sense. By increasing the surface area of the main support legs, you get stability.

Designers: Shay Carmon and Ben Klinger

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It’s not a hot-blonde-Sony or gorgeous Apples, but plain simple laws of physics that causes this Nokia to get an erection! The physical kind! I mean the Kinetic kind! The concept is this, for every incoming call, text, email or alarm, the phone gets super excited and gets…standing tall! Yup the brief was to make the phone as playful as possible…as if a vibration mode was not enough! And if it’s not the right person calling or the alarm too soon…simply tap the phone back to deflate the …erection! Umm…cold shower won’t do!

On a more serious note, here’s more info on the Nokia Kinetic – a seriously playful mobile phone for 2012. The reason behind the erection is an electromagnet in the base of the phone that allows a weight to be shifted, causing the phone to stand up. Digital information gets converted into kinetic movement!

Other features include:

• Camera capture button at bottom right of phone means you grip the phone like an SLR camera when taking a photo.
• Standby mode is perfectly balanced; Screen is raised from the surface.
• Top half is 8mm in thickness with bottom being 18mm.
• The shape and weight at the bottom of the phone mean ergonomically it is much better to hold than other phones.
• 2 taps on power button allows you to manually set stand up mode. (For a clock on your desk, a digital photoframe, or to play music).
• Proximity sensor on front of the phone, means that the stand up feature does not activate when in your pocket.

This is a student project done for Nokia at Central Saint Martins Collge of Art & Design

Design Tutor: Silas Grant

Designer: Jeremy Innes-Hopkins

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i-Mos is a pair of funky looking glasses that a speech impaired person can use for easy communication. Although the user scenario suggested by the designer looks more tragic, like involving physical disabilities as well, I’m going to stick with just the basics. The device tracks your eye movement as Morse-code inputs and then voices it out as speech. One eye is dedicated to “dot” and the other to “dash”. Aids like sentence completion and built-in Morse code learning, add value to the idea and make usage more independent. A well intended plan!

Designer: Wonkook Lee

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God help you if you live by the coast where drainage sucks, it’s puring like crazy and its high tide as well! To top it off, citizens callously litter the streets, which end up clogging the gutters! Sounds familiar to me coz I’ve lived through one of the worst city floods due to all of the above, hence the Smooth Cover for city drains sounds fantastic! The cover has slanted slits that are narrow enough to let the rain water pass through but keeps away the trash. And as you can see, they are perfect for those stiletto beauties, no more clipped heels for them! Hurray!

Smooth Cover is an iF Concept Design 2010 winner!

Designers: Yan-Ting Chen & Hsin Yeh

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Industrial designer Jan Gielens creates a boat called “Breaking,” Yanko Design breaks a post about breaking. The people who read about Breaking have their nose-cartilages broken after having crammed them against their computer screens, and all is well. It’s a giant shape. It’s a tiny boat shaped like a boat you’ve never before seen, let me assure you. You’ll be cruising so hard in this Breaking boat you wont ever want to pilot one of those “old-timey” boats again. Cruise hard!

This boat is a product of studies done by former lecturer (Agora department of Universidad Libre Las Colinas) Jan Gielens. The first of these studies dates all the way back to the 1980s. This vehicle is designed based on sound fluid mechanic principles, using a series of aero and hydrodynamic properties thatmake this boat go very very fast.

The specifics aren’t tabulated yet for actual speed, but with the low motor capacity, aerodynamic nature, and static air cushion it creates, Breaking completely avoids “plowing through” waves and “bult sleep” (which, when translated from Dutch, of course means “hump drag.”)

Think starfighters used in Revenge of the Jedi. Tiny, made for short distances, perfectly powerful. Made to be used like a sharp knife.

Designer: Jan Gielens

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This is the fattest of all the iPhone covers. If you know of a fatter one, I challenge it to a duel! This project/product is called ARKHIPPO and is from the ARK system of coverups, this one dealing specifically in iPhone covering and protecting and standing up. Yes ineedy! Not only does this huge hunk of resin protect your fragile bit of technology, it allows it to both stand on its own and sit in the crook of your neck for easy phonecall use. See the pic for this classic phone pose lost to most modern ’smarts.

All the colors you desire, lovingly produced to huge proportions, and if you find yourself stranded on a desert island, acts as a pillow for your rock-weary head. Survival gear ho!

Dimension: Height 170, Width 83, and Depth 50
Material: Proprietary closed cell resin / similar to Crocs Shoes
Accessibility: Dock connector access window

Designer: HaA Design

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I think this project wins the longest name of the day award with “flight case Pioneer PRO 1400 – FLT.” It’s a DJ table that can be folded up easily and nicely into a rolling case configuration. Inside can also fit all the equipment you’d need to DJ, headphones, CDs, plates, and other DJ gear. It’s what designer Raphael Vivier calls a “mobile disco” and I’m inclined to agree. Wheels of steel on tiny wheels for easy transport.

Whenever you put the PIONEER logo on your project, you instantly have a lot to live up to. My favorite Pioneer product isn’t sound equipment at all but a movie, the perfectly classic anime film “AKIRA.” There’s something forever futuristic because of its perfect aesthetic, simple, colorful yet simple, sharp, amazing. This turntable situation right here is taking up that mantle and busting out with an amazing product.

High five for functionality inside perfect simplicity, all the while obviously very prepared to release some fabulous beats.

Designer: Raphael Vivier

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Mutant Life is a interesting project that explores the lifespan of common home appliances. It suggests we could create a system of products that take on different uses after their primary function has expired . From a technical aspect, all electrical parts are designed to be disassembled and recycled. For example, what if an oven became a microwave only to be come a table and finally a birdhouse?

Designer: Camilla Masi

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Cleaning up after your dog is a tough pill to swallow but anyone who has ever stepped in a pile of steaming crap knows it’s a necessary evil. Make those ugly moments in life a little better with humor. Dog Poo bags comes in 16 recyclable options, each with a humorous or ironic print. Love the idea but why not step it up and go for biodegradable too? Get it from Designspray.com. 12,90 € for 16 bags.

Designer: Jungeschachtel

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