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Invisible streetlights and other lovely designs we could live with

2:15 AM Mon, Aug 04, 2008 |
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Invisible Streetlight by Jongoh Lee: Solar-powered streetlights with flexible bodies attach to trees. Click to enlarge.


And at night, you see fireflies:

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Techpin reports that it's "made of double injection of silicon and aluminum materials, contain a photocapacitor and the nano wire battery with 10 times more storage capacity than Li-Ion models. Besides adding flexibility, this material combination provides high thermal conductivity as well as waterproof capability. " More details there.

Extraordinarily beautiful. If I were to leap into designing a 3-D world, I would want to "furnish" it with functional loveliness like this.


Lee, a Korean industrial designer just a year out of college, also invented the Kangaroo Apron with deep padded pockets that double as oven mitts. Her design for this one won a Red Dot design concept award last year.


Found at DesignZen, a blog full of whimsy, sometimes over the top (chairs -- lovely to look at -- you wouldn't dare lower your butt onto, for instance). But if I were to leap into designing a 3-D world -- my own private Second Life -- I would want it to "furnish" it with functional loveliness like this.


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"Paint Or Die But Love Me" by French designer John Nouanesing. My eye thinks there's a spray-painted gray spot on the floor under the table -- that's not the shape of a shadow.


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Canape By Lila Jang at DesignZen.

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