AFM-Forest

Well, honestly when I first saw the film of it, I thought it's again something unreal but amazing. It didn't took a long to find it real, amazing and practical!! I am talking about this fantastic AFM harvester from AFM-Forest Ltd.. This "jack of all trades" machine cuts the trees from bottom, then peels, and then chops! And all these integrated in AFM harvester. You will enjoy seeing this masterpiece of design: gallery, brochore and videos.

Camera Printer

I remember we had one of those old instant Polaroid cameras and I would never forget how it felt seeing the picture instantly developed. Polaroid PoGo™, with built-in printer and thanks to the ZINK tech., is a retro-futuristic(in my mind)design that would herald a new generation of cameras. It's a new way to share photos.



And also TOMY xiao™ another camera with built-in printer, that is to be the first of its kind that gives you borderless, full-color prints in less than 60 seconds!

Silver

Silver by Iranian Designer Hadi Teherani and his words on this design:

“I was keen to make technical complexity invisible and achieve the poetic level of perfect seating. A chair that is only used in an office and can always only express the word “office” was not enough for me. In particular I did not want an orthopaedic design with visible gears. Without complexity and depth of development design can outdate very quickly. Aesthetics without ethics tend to be deceiving.”

HAL

HAL - Hybrid Assistive Limb- by Japanese(no wonder) Cyberdyne , is the world's first cyborg-type robot controlled by unique Hybrid System, i.e. integrated autonomous and robotic control system that provides human-like movement. It detects movement in advance via sensing biosignals on the surface of the skin. Though it adds 23 kg to your weight!(if we call it a bug) but is aimed at different environments - disaster sites - and could be applied for the people with disabilities. That's a big change in robotic development. Don't miss HAL in action.

Design for Poverty

Yes We Can Change and I am sure that Design plays a big major role in this change, and I would say all designers are responsible for the Design which could help poverty in the world in any way ...

IDea Selection

InnovationTools reviews how firms could be able to discover new ideas to reach innovation, exemplifying Disney "Gong Show" method and Google idea management system! Most of Disney famous cartoons and Google lovely applications came out of intimate and fair meetings, discussing different ideas of employees, expressed freely and heard unbiasedly. So if there is right people in the selection team - those broad-minded people in touch with markets and customer needs - with well-conceived criteria, it would guarantee those 2 or 3 brilliant breakthrough ideas. There is," no wonder idea selection is fast becoming an established and essential best practice of firms seeking to imbed innovation into their cultures."

VIA [ InnovationTools ]

People's Airbag

Tokyo-based company - Prop - presents a new kind of safety gadget for the people who are prone to get injured - being old or have some disability or special kind of disorder like epilepsy - at H.C.R Exhibition in Japan. The device is strapped around the body - with 2 pockets of airbags behind the head and hips - and inflates in less than a second if it detects accelaration towards ground. Due to large elderly population in Japan, this new designed airbag could provide more physical independent and secure life for such people and that would be a kind of relief for their relatives. But it doesn't support old if falling forward, and that is a big problem. And the question that comes to my mind is that, what if preventing falling down and keeping old (wo)man standing straight?!

VIA [ bbcNews ]

Tongue Drive

Recently I saw on TV some special eye-mouse that people with disabilities could click when wink. I truly believe that IDesign can and must be helpful for people with any kind of disability - in collaboration with scholars from other fields of sciences; add to this my personal interest, eager and desire to think of new ways of aiding disabled people thru Design. This Tongue Drive , developed by Maysam Ghovanloo at Georgia Tech, is on the same way. Attaching a magnet the size of a grain of rice to an individual tongue lets tongue motion direct the movement - of a cursor or a wheelchair. Magnetic-field sensors mounted on a headset outside the mouth detect movement of magnetic tracer. Sensor-output signals are then transmitted to the computer to be processed. Tongue Drive in action(film): moving wheelchair ; and Maysam speaks on the Tongue Drive system

VIA [ MedicalDesign ]

BackTpack

I always keep nagging when I just carry this Lowepro backpack for cameras, because of instant and frequent access I need and it doesn't provide. So it is so helpful for the back if loads are devided into sides instead of back. BackTpack promises to improve posture and strength. besides all the benefits of Tpack, there are some points to take more serious: what if right bag is more loaded? and also I dont see free hands when I am carrying Tpack. It seems a bit more functional. Since back no more plays role in carrying the bag, I guess it should have been called "Sidepack"!

First all-electric sports car

Presented at British Int'l Motor Show, it is to be the first all-electric sports car. Lightning GT, the car with a carbon-fibre and aluminium chassis, gets its power from a bank of batteries that can be 'quick-charged' in just 10 minutes for a range of between 180 and 200 miles. Due to be delivered in 2010, there is some underlying concept behind Lightning design, and that is:" if you really want motorists to switch to green, electric motoring, you have to make it exciting." But guess what their major hurdle: the car is too quiet!. So they are about to add some noise to the lightning, maybe some sound of thunder, just to keep people away from it!