


As our ideas began to focus on combining LEDs with a fluorescent, we sketched several forms that tried to create harmony between the two technologies. The idea of creating a separation between work and home life through the modulation of the color output drove some of our early forms. As soon as we chose to use only high-output LEDs, our forms changed significantly, rendering the old concepts no longer valid.
As designers are inclined to do, we started to create beautiful forms that revolved around the advantages of the new technology and the form factor it lent itself to. This may have been our biggest wrong turn. With LEDs, that form was flat and thin; but this would not solve the problem we had defined for ourselves. To create the biggest impact on society, this design had to keep the barriers to acceptance as low as practical—which in part meant no super-sexy, fluid designs that would only be found in high-end design stores. Any unnecessary styling would cause a rift in its mainstream acceptance.
Some of the best ideas in this world are the simplest ones, and this modular coatrack is a nice and simple idea with a lot of potential. It uses a single element that works both as hook and support. Just combining the same element you can create many possibilities: one sided or two sides coatrack, more or less density, more or less stability or even use it as a support, for tables and inclined or vertical surfaces.
The joining mechanism is very clever and it just uses a cylinder and a wavy steel spring ring. Therefore, there is no need of tools to assemble it and you can store it carelessly because there is no need to sort different elements.
Also, transport and assembly is fast and effortless because the elements are very light and due to its compact design there is no waste of space.
The designer has created it just to hang clothes, but with some modifications surely it could be used in many other ways, like sorting, displaying, or just storing lots of different things: tools, hardware, food, video games…
Hard day at work can cause you eager to beat something/someone after you get back home. That’s why, in my opinion “Stress Buster” lamp series is an innovative design. This product is based on the law of conservation energy: “Energy can neither be created nor destroyed; it can only be transformed from one state to another”. It tries to convert your stress into usable energy. “Stress Buster” consists of punching bag, kicking column, and squeeze ball where each of them has been designed with piezoelectricity layer that has the ability to generate an electrical field or electric potential in response to applied mechanical strain.
These lamps produce energy that is stored in the built-in rechargeable battery every time user kicking, punching, or squeezing. The squeeze balls are portable gadgets that can also be used as emergency lights. The more you squeeze and play, the more energy these balls can keep. User can also utilize them as smallpower generators since each of them has been designed with power outlet socket.
I’ve always been fascinated by the stars in the sky. I can spend hours lie down and watch the stars in the sky at night. There’s something mysterious and beautiful about them. The main idea of Starry Night Light is to recreate the same fascinating starry night sky while using the energy efficiently. The exterior lampshade is constructed of a transparent light-collecting module (thank you to Mechanical and Systems Research Laboratories [MSL]/Industrial Technology Research Institute [ITRI]). It collects light energy when the main bulb lights up and converts it to electricity to charge a battery that powers the starry LED nightlight.
When this lamp is switched into nightlight mode, it uses recycled energy collected from the light to power its LED to establish an enchanting atmosphere. This product offers green technology that blends perfectly well with our everyday life.