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Yanko Design’s Online Store Is Retail Therapy For Fans Of Gadgets

Danny Allen — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:26:38 +0000

Yanko loves to tease us with all manner of nonexistent cool concepts, but now they’ll sell you the ones that are real products. Gadgets so far include the d°light Huggable Pillow (pictured), and the magnetic spice rack. [Yanko Design Store]

Hanging Printer Saves Desk Space

Jason Chen — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:30:41 +0000

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]

Cranky Benches Roll Off Water After It Rains

Wilson Rothman — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:50:04 +0000

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]

Desk Grommet With Cable Trap Looks Incredibly Useful

Jason Chen — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:00:30 +0000

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]

Capsule Fire Extinguisher Concept Arms You With Flame-Tamping Grenades

Gizmodo US Edition — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:50:29 +0000

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]

Retro Woodgrain Phone Invokes Synthesizers of Old

Adrian Covert — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:02:39 +0000

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]

E-Paper Slap Bracelets: Like the 80’s…Except Different

Sean Fallon — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:30:44 +0000

If you had a slap bracelet back in the day (and I am ashamed to admit that I did), you will surely enjoy this concept device from the Chocolate Agency. Imagine a full-fledged multimedia device that can be slapped on and worn like a wristband. It would feature an e-paper surface and a battery that can be recharged using kinetic energy. Unfortunately, imagining it is all you can really do, because this sort of device is a massive pipe dream at the moment. But there is nothing wrong with thinking big. [Yanko Design]

Slider Shower Concept— Now You See It, Now You Don’t

Addy Dugdale — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:56:02 +0000

Designed by Sung Hoon Mun, the “Slider” works as both conventional shower and shoulder and back massager, depending on how you deploy the nozzle. Full gallery after the jump.

I would prefer a bigger shower head, myself. [Yanko]

Unique Alarm Clock Turns Your MP3 Player Into a Joystick Controller

Sean Fallon — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:40:33 +0000

MP3 player alarm clocks are nothing new—but MP3 alarm clocks that allow you to use the player as a joystick toggle control definitely are. If this concept design titled YOM by Philipp Goeder ever sees the light of day, you would be able to do just that. When the MP3 player is inserted into the USB port on top, it can be used as a joystick that can be shifted right, left and forward to toggle through playlists. It seems that the YOM would work best with a player with a narrow form factor, and there would be a little hand-eye coordination challenge in the morning, but it is an interesting design nonetheless. [Yanko Design]