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Kandinsky Chair: Abstract Reality

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Untitled Document Designer : Tresenvespa The Kandinsky Chair is inspired by father of modern art – Wassily Kandinsky. The design is extremely playful and is strong enough to play with the perception of the users.

Foldone – Now That’s Class!

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Untitled Document Designer :  NOVAE Architecture How do you perceive movement with structures that have folded surfaces and very irregular geometric angles?

Pirelli Coffee Mug – Weirdo!

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Untitled Document Designer : Behzad Rashidizadeh Well, very in paper, the Pirelli Coffee Mug concept just had a bad luck and the project was shelved. Inspired by Formula One car tire, this cup definitely looks like a concept that could have been a favorite possession for coffee addicts and F1 lovers.

Smart Light: Chang-Chi Shih’s Traffic Light

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Untitled Document Designer : Chang-Chi Shih Redesigning traffic lights is not common for iF Design Talents made it possible! Chang-Chi Shih has come up with the design of Smart Light – a new variant of traffic light that comes with integrated street-view camera.

Fosterlamp: The Minimalist

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Untitled Document Designer :  Mikhail Belyaev Very simple, very modern, very functional – the Fosterlamp by Mikhail Belyaev is one of the simplest and elegant lamps out there.

T-Bike: Share Your Bike

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Untitled Document Designer : Jung Tak Jung Tak has come up with the ingenious idea of T-Bike – the bike that you share! I will call it a social bike. The idea behind this bike is to find a solution to limited parking space in city of Seoul.

Innovation Tower: Stratification Of Building

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Untitled Document Designer : Zaha Hadid Innovation Tower is an example where podium and classic typology are seamlessly blended into one, giving a structure that is visually stimulating and fluid.

Modular Bowl: Freedom Of Infinity

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Untitled Document Designer : Laura Fernandez Everyone I hope has heard of origami where modular systems are used for the creation of infinite forms. The same concept has been borrowed by Laura Fernandez to create the Modular Bowl.

TPM VIPNI Concept P.C.P. Professional Computer Phone

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Untitled Document Designer : Imran Sheikh TPM VIPNI Concept P.C.P. Professional Computer Phone is big name but it is something class apart! Designed by Imran Sheikh, this phone has a very interesting hidden twist!

MusixCube: Control Music On The Go

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Untitled Document Designer : Hauke Scholz If you are among those people who love to create music, here is something that will grab your attention. The MusixCube is device that is hand-held and acts as a controlling unit for production software of any given digital music.

Ocean Guard: Keeps Away Jellyfish!

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Untitled Document Designer : Bao Haimo, Minji Jeon, Kyung-Hong Kim, Kyung-Rok Kang, Kyung-Chan Han, Jung-Hoon Yang and Dong-Woo Kang The designers' list is long! Forget that and thank all of them to present the new Ocean Guard concept. This is a buoy series that is meant for keeping jellyfish away!

One Click Clothing Security Tag

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Untitled Document Designer : Stuart Kellett Security tags for clothing can at times be very time consuming as securing tags and removing them can increase the store stocking time as well as customer checkout time. To simplify the process and to save time, Stuart Kellett has come up with a unique design of One Click Clothing Security Tag.

HTC Apocalypse Droid Concept From India

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Untitled Document Designer : Rahul Sharma The designer from India has again surprised us with a real impressive HTC concept phone. This HTC Apocalypse is powered by Android version 5.1 (Key Lime Pie) OS. Inspired by the motto "Built to Dominate", the design is equipped with nice gadgets and powerful software. This wide phone boasts of a very nice back texture and follows fairly straight forward design ideas, thus appealing to fans that put functionality over form factor. Its impressive width gives the appearance as it there is no real edges, which further accentuates its size.

Nokia L8: PureView 41 MP And Metal Kickstand

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Untitled Document Designer : Saeid Khajevand Saeid Khajevand unveiled Nokia Lumia 8 (or simply Nokia L8) concept phone powered by Windows Phone 8. His creation comes with a 41 MP camera from PureView, a kick-ass speaker right at the bottom and has similar visual appeals of the trendy Lumia models in fashion today.

Old DNA Reveals New Findings For Koala Disease

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Untitled Document The koala retrovirus (KoRV) is well documented to have troubled the koalas' community for long time. Recently researchers Alex Greenwood and Alfred Roca commissioned a study of their DNA using skin samples from koalas kept in USA and European museums. And the analysis revealed that this retrovirus problem may have persisted for far longer period that we have imagined. Greenwood is based in Berlin's Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (LZW) and Roca is an assistant professor in animal sciences at the University of Illinois.

Organic Concoctions On Ice May Reveal How Life Started On Earth

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Untitled Document Icy organics may not be your idea of coffee to die for, but over in Pasadena, California, NASA's researchers are busy making icy organic concoctions, or carbon-bearing molecules. These molecules are then zapped with lasers. The goal is noble: to find out how life began on our planet.

Pacific Ecosystem To Experience Major Shift By 2100

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Untitled Document Imagine waking up one day to realize that your favorite grocery store had shifted out a few miles away again? If this pattern persists, it won't take long for you to embark long trip just to feed your family. It does not make sense in our world yet but it could possibly be a not-so-distant reality for marine animals as climate change continues its threat.

Quasars Light Can Possibly Map Universe's Structure And Spread

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Untitled Document Space scientists must have envied Columbus since he was able to set sail and go to places where no one else has been. But, as scientists at Case Western Reserve University found out, they don't have to travel far to figure out the structure and spread of the universe. Instead of sail, they depend on quasars.

Vesta Received Hydrated Material Package As Special Delivery

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Untitled Document It seems like ages ago when scientists from different camps just kept arguing on where water originates from among the many terrestrial planets. Recently, NASA also gets into the argument now that its Dawn mission to Vesta has suggested moisture was made available through degenerations of small particles at a time when the Solar System was filled with dust.

Motorola Nexus RAZR

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Untitled Document Designer : Bob Freking The following observations are based on a chain of events started by a fellow member, Anthony. Anthony (a reader of Concept Phones) previously requested that all his preferences to be fitted into a new concept phone and habitual designer Bob Freking gleefully took up the challenge.

Nokia Lumia 3310: Humorous Tribute

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Untitled Document Designer : Bob Freking Probably inspired to work on a lazy weekend, renowned creator Bob Freking has a humorous take on this new Nokia concept phone. He equates the new Nokia Lumia 3310 to the Thor's hammer or Chuck Norris's phone.

Nokia Lumia M Concept Phone

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Untitled Document Designer : Michael Schroder Deviantart user Michael Schroder (codename Loki Bartleby) has come out with another creation, a Nokia Lumia M. This concept phone ditches the polycarbonate exterior and goes for aluminum. Yeah, the M stands for metal, I guess! By checking out the artist impression or graphic illustration, you would get a sense that it resembles the good old N8.

Xperia Nexus: Curves In Action

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Untitled Document Designer : Slatd from Deviantart Slatd from Deviantart has come out with yet another impressive work. This time he has his eyes set on Sony, instead of meshing Nokia and Android together as his earlier design.  The result is the next generation Android powered Sony Nexus. Unveiling the Sony Xperia Nexus… a real slim handset blessed with all the right curves. The hint of Xperia TX is hard to miss as the designer did openly claim that he was impressed with its sleek look.

Samsung Galaxy S4 Concept

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Untitled Document Sources : computerbild.de and mobiletechcity.com With all these rumors being churned out about Samsung Galaxy S4 on almost daily basis, you would have imagined that it would be a breeze to gather intelligence on their impending product. Granted, some interesting pictures and bits size info are out there, but they are all one of a kind. So it was a tougher job than what I have imagined earlier. Anyway, my intelligence gathering can be summarized as follows:

Google Nexus 2013 Concept By Rahul Sharma

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Untitled Document Designer : Rahul Sharma Rahul Sharma has always managed to tease us of his many delicious imaginations of next generation handsets, and his latest idea comes in the form of the Google Nexus 2013. The phone is blessed with the combination of AMD CPU and Android Key Lime Pie. 

Google DroidBook Nexus Laptop Concept

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Untitled Document Designer : Bob Freking As competition heats up to dethrone iPad, Google could just be engineering its moves as well. Contrary to popular belief, the cross hair may not be on iPad, but rather Apple's range of laptops.

Samsung Galaxy Tab III: The Killer

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Untitled Document Designer : Bob Freking Really! Who else (except Bob Freking) can Samsung turn to for radical improvements on their flagship Samsung tablet? Freking has boldly declared that both Galaxy Note and Galaxy Note 10.1 are not made for the mass market. Thus it is only natural that a new Galaxy Tab III would have to be created, taking care that consumers have the best Galaxy Tab experience. In his idea, the new pebble blue case could do without a stylus and all those distracting bells and whistles…

CAMER :ing – Bejeweled Camera

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Untitled Document Designer : Jeon Yengwon & Hyeonsik Studio Entry of iF Design Talents 2012 Let us keep this simple. CAMER :ing is a digital camera in shape of a ring and works with tablet-esque platform by syncing with it.

Lévo: Shopping Cart For Simplified Shopping

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Untitled Document Designer : Fernando Ximenes & Matheus Pinto Fernando Ximenes and Matheus Pinto have come up with an exclusive design of a personal shopping cart that will make shopping easy and fun.

EcoCharge: Recycling Heat!

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Untitled Document Designer : Ardavan Mirhosseini Ardavan Mirhosseini has come up with a unique design of a portable device dubbed EcoCharge. This device is capable of recycling heat! Yes, you heard it right! Recycle heat!

Stripped! Lamp Of Nature

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Untitled Document Designer : Floris Wubben Floris Wubben has come up with a unique lamp design. Stripped, his latest design is completely made out of nature.

Energy Bursts From Star-Forming Galaxies In Early Universe

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Untitled Document The early formation of galaxies was characterized by quick succession of new stars. During those early days of universe, enormous energy was released in the form of fireworks, which directly caused a massive central black hole in our galaxies.

Digital Extinction Haunts Several European Languages

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Untitled Document It is estimated that over 20 European languages could be wiped off the digital space for a lack of technological support. This observation is made by Europe's leading language technology experts. Scientists from The University of Manchester also participated in the study.

Cosmic Seagull Has Vivid Colors

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Untitled Document The La Silla Observatory from the European Southern Observatory has unveiled yet another breathtaking cosmic image. Essentially made up of gas, what was previously known as Sharpless 2-292 is now more popularly referred to as the Seagull Nebula, its nickname rather than the scientific name. It resembles the head of a seagull right in the midst of it is a very hot young star, whereby its high energy radiation contributes to that bright glow. The highly detailed image was made possible with the Wide Field Imager software with the help of the MPG/ESO 2.2-m diameter telescope.

Sorena: An Elegant Folding Bike

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Untitled Document Designer : Mahdi Momeni An amazing folding bike concept, the Sorena is perfect design of locking levers that will allow the owner to seamlessly switch between carrying position and riding position.

Electrolux Aeroball: Clean Air With Ethereal Vibe

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Untitled Document Designer : Jan Ankiersztajn Electrolux Design Lab entry and a top 10 finalist. If this thing ever comes out, I will do whatever it takes to get these Aeroballs. Even if I have to rob World Bank, I am gonna have these. What a concept it is! Amazing!

Tree 2.0: Finally A Tree For A TV

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Untitled Document Designer : Hall Design Hall Design proudly presents the new Tree 2.0. Sounds more like software update but it is not. It is actually a TV tree. What?

Branca-Lisboa: Impeccable Craftsmanship

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Untitled Document Designer : Marco Sousa Santos Branca-Lisboa is the name for a whole new label for home accessories and products. Inspired by Lisbon City's magic light, each piece that you can see in the images below is an outcome of experimental approach.

Remnants of 2012's Largest Earthquake

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Untitled Document On April 11, a '8.6 magnitude' earthquake shocked Sumatra, off East Indian Ocean. Thankfully, the casualty was not major even at that magnitude. However, analysis from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and University of California, Berkeley confirmed that it did trigger quakes around the world in the week immediately followed that earthquake.

PIPETTE: Jewelry That Every Woman Wants

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Untitled Document Designer : Danica Skriniarova PIPETTE is a piece of jewelry that is extremely beautiful and very functional and a design that every woman will love to have.

ICE: Enhance Your Cooking Experience

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Untitled Document Designer : Julen Pejenaute Contest : Electrolux Design Lab 2012 [Top 10 finalist] ICE is not ice. It is something different. It is a design concept that combines technology with futuristic concept.

FILA X NOOKA: Step Into The Future

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Untitled Document Designer : Matthew Waldman Matthew Waldman's concept is different from ours. He believes that it is our feet that help us to walk into the future literally with one single at a time. So, now he is with Fila to give us some really futuristic shoe designs.

Ebie Award Design For UGC

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Untitled Document Designer : Mark Pernice Mark Pernice designed the Ebie Award for the Urban Green Council. The motive behind the creation of this design was come up with some that had the following characteristics:

APOLLO: Surgical Illumination Redefined

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Untitled Document Designer : Entwurfreich Lights in surgical room are very crucial. They can turn out to be the thin line between life and death. Meet the new APOLLO concept of surgical illumination. Based on laser technology, it is one state-of-the-art design that gives unmatched flexibility.

Q-Ring: Playful Teeth Cleaning

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Untitled Document Designer : Yunfan Tan Is your dog really stubborn and never lets you brush his teeth? Well, Yunfan Tan came with a unique solution to this.

Retractable Printer: Size Never Matters!

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Untitled Document Designer : Neilson Navarrete Ever thought how many printers you will have to buy if you are planning to start a new printing business?

Kudu Stroller: Beauty Of Savannah Wilderness

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Untitled Document Casualplay has come up with a new design for a stroller that is inspired by the Kudu antelope of the Savannah. Inspired by the antelope's elegant body, this new stroller comes with invisible welds and simple lines that give the stroller a whole new aesthetics that's minimalist and seamless.

8.7 MMS Earthquake Added To Breaking Of Earth Crust

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Untitled Document While the breaking up of the Indo-Australian plate of Earth's crust has been long anticipated, seismologists were still left in awe when at least 4 faults broke in an earthquake measuring a magnitude of 8.7. That great Indian Ocean quake on April 2012 may make itself the largest ever recorded.

Computers Understand Art Same As Humans Do

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Untitled Document Art appreciation is a tricky subject. But most would agree that this is an activity exclusive to mankind. Is that right? It is almost fashionable for society to push the envelope in modern age. So it is not surprising when computer scientists ultimately come together and design experiment that attempts to convince us the alternative view'. But this experiment is interesting nevertheless as the programmers have put together some algorithm to demonstrate computers do "understand" art, in a way not dissimilar to how arts buyers and valuators process their thinking in evaluating a piece of art.