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fragile future 2 led lamp made from dandelions

The Fragile Future 2 lighting fixture really lives up to its name. You see, each tiny light source is actually framed by the seed pods of a dandelion. Now why is it called the Fragile Future 2? Presumably, because the Fragile Future 1 was just a little TOO breakable.

Created by Lonneke Gordijn of the…

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October 28th, 2008 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design strange + wonderful

karlsson station hologram: the clock has two faces

Karlsson Hologram Clock

Here’s a nifty clock that’s a bit more dynamic than what you’d typically see hanging on your wall. Depending on the angle you view it from, the face either shows simple hash marks or numerals around the dial.

Named for its similarity to clocks which appear in train stations around Europe, the Station Numbers Hologram…

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July 7th, 2008 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design timepieces

word clock slowly reveals the time with text

Animated Word Clock by Christiaan Postma

This has got to be one of the most amazing clock designs I’ve ever seen. At first glance, the display looks like a bunch of random matchsticks, but over time, they gradually transform into words that tell the time.

Conceived by Dutch industrial designer Christiaan Postma, the clock goes beyond the simple dial and number…

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April 19th, 2008 comments (55) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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ascii curtain has plenty of character(s)

ASCII Curtain by Nienke Sybrandy

This cool fabric curtain may look like a tree from afar, but once you’re up close, you’ll see that it’s made of tens of thousands of tiny ASCII characters.

Created by Dutch designer Nienke Sybrandy, the huge (18′ x 11′) curtain panel was digitally printed with dot matrix characters to give the impression of intricate…

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March 15th, 2008 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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tiktak clock offers numeric overkill

TikTak Numeric Clock byNiels van Eijk and Miriam van der Lubbe

Sometimes it’s a bit of a challenge to tell the exact time on an analog clock. Sure, you can say “it’s about quarter-to-three”, but it really might be 2:47. This intricate wall clock tries to solve that problem by displaying every individual minute as a separate point on the dial.

Looking like a cross between…

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January 31st, 2008 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design retro timepieces

led lighting gets flat

Eureka LED Lamp by Sander Mulder

These minimal lighting fixtures actually are designed to be shipped flat, like a postcard. Each lamp is actually a laser-cut sheet of aluminum with an embedded LED illumination source and powered by a single button battery.

Created by Dutch designer Sander Mulder (formerly of revered design house Buro Vormkrijgers), the Eureka lamp is completely self-contained,…

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January 18th, 2008 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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hundreds of box fans as interactive art

Flow 5.0 by Daan Roosegaarde

This unusual art installation took hundreds and hundreds of individual cooling fans, and tied them together with sensors that detect the movements of passersby to produce an amazing visual and sensory experience.

Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde worked with a team of technical wizards to create this mammoth interactive work entitled Flow 5.0. The display dynamically…

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December 14th, 2007 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design interactive

puhlmann nixie clock is oh so cool

Puhlmann Nixie Clock by Frank Clewits

Here’s a really excellent retro-modern wall clock from Dutch designer Frank Clewits for design house Puhlmann.

To tell time, the clock uses some unique, forward-facing Nixie vacuum tubes that poke out of the face of a brushed steel plate. It’s decidedly contemporary, but with a serious steampunk feel to it.

The Puhlmann Nixie clock is…

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July 10th, 2007 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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rolling treadmill speeds you down the street

OOOMS Speedy Rollator

The guys over at dutch design firm OOOMS are best known for their wooden memory sticks, but here’s another interesting contraption that they also are responsible for.

Looking like a treadmill on wheels, the Speedy Rollator uses a special gear drive system to multiply your walking efforts and increase your pace.

While you won’t look quite…

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July 6th, 2007 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: strange + wonderful

modern flip clock updates an old standard

Will Vanden Vos Bomba Clock

Remember those crummy old alarm clocks from the seventies that used numbers that flipped as the time changed? Dutch designer Wil van den Bos has reinvented the classic flip clock as a work of modern magnificence.

For starters, the Bomba Alarm Clock has rid itself of those boring plain-Jane digits and updated them into a…

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June 18th, 2007 comments (14) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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slurpr: fast free wi-fi access, with a (big) catch

Slurpr

Slurpr may sound like another “Web 2.0″ site, but it’s actually a piece of networking hardware. The beastly device, designed by Dutch hacker Mark Hoekstra, is designed to aggregate a bunch of Wi-Fi access points into one big fat high speed connection.

The device automatically seeks out the six strongest open Wi-Fi channels, connects to…

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May 29th, 2007 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: computing gadgets

dandelight: light up led dandelions

Dandelight LED Dandelions

Dutch artist Lonneke Gordijn of Drift has created these beautiful little lights which create an amazing synergy between technology and nature.

The Dandelight combines a 9-volt battery, an LED, phoshphorusbronze and a real dandelion head to create a fragile, but stunning light source.
[via dezeen via Core77]

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April 25th, 2007 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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