Most of the watches we feature here from the likes of Tokyo Flash are pretty unreadable. Yanko Design’s Scope Watch bucks the trend – with the exact time pinpointed on the watchface. It’s available now for $US190. [Yanko Design]
Imagined back story: Tokyo Flash designer had one too many sakes, attempted to screw a Labyrinth maze game onto the face of an ordinary watch, got fired, moved to Project Designs and is now flogging the watches for $US100. [Yanko]
Dubbed the Amatoya, this concept recon buggy would allow a two-person crew to zip around hotspots and fire fronts to collect intel faster, and more safely than the modified Toyota Landcruisers and light tankers being used today. More »
Our current complaint with our printer is that it takes up too much space around the office, both in the horizontal and the vertical, that we need one individual shelf just to accommodate the thing. Enter the Hanging Printer. It’s a standard printer, yes, but hangs off the side of your desk in order to save on clutter and to keep printouts within reach. We don’t see any downside to this. [Yanko Design]
Anybody who likes to go to the park after a good rainstorm knows the butt-soaking hazard of still-wet bench. Some design gurus in Korea decided to solve the system with a simple crank: give it a couple of turns, and the soggy slats at the top roll to the bottom while the dry slats below revolve back on top. This “rolling bench” innovation solves the problem of water, which will definitely evaporate or just drip off, but it doesn’t solve the problem of other park-bench friendly substances, say the blue puke of a kid who’s gorged himself on cotton candy. What do you got for that, O Mighty Design Gods? [Yanko]
This grommet is just a design, but we wonder why it took someone this long to come up with such a genius (and obvious) idea. Like a regular desk grommet, it’s a big hole that lets cables through. Unlike a regular desk grommet, it’s got notches on the side of different sizes to grasp and hold your cables so they don’t fall on the ground, making you breath in dust for a few seconds as you fish it back out. Again, design for now, but we’d love to see this thing be standard in every desk. [Yanko Design]
This rugged fire-extinguisher concept contains both an oxygen supply to help you breathe and exploding powder pellets that you roll, grenade-like, into a fire to put it out at a distance. We’re slightly worried at the idea of having an oxygen tank near lots of flames, but hey ho, it’s great that designer Woo Seok Park is looking at improving the humble extinguisher with this Capsule concept. Our imagination now has us racing to tackle that burning building with McClane-like shouts of “Yippeekay-ay, Motherf…” Well, you know the rest. [Yanko designs]
The idea behind this phone concept is that it brings ideas together from past and present with its wood styling and smartphone functionality. The designer says the wood and rock casing is supposed bring together nature and technology, but it just looks like a piece of 70s tech to me (see the bluetooth headset with analog knobs). [Yanko Design]
