The NNew Can, designed by Jiwoon Park & Kwenyoung Choi. Interesting, but are we creating a solution in search of a problem? Via Yanko Design

Genius work on Behance by Peter Trueblood.

Seriously inspiring. The Future Duo-Wheel Transport BMW bike. Electric Powered, designed by Pierre Yohanes Lubis. Via Yanko.

Great concept for a desk or wall light, the Spoticam created by Antrepo Design Industry.  Thanks Scott!

Always inspiring to see conceptual work like this:

The ATNMBL is a concept vehicle that represents the end of driving and an alternative approach to car design.

Upon entering ATNMBL, you are presented with a simple question: “Where can I take you?” There is no steering wheel, brake pedal or drivers seat. ATNMBL drives for you.

The ATNMBL project is meant to provoke a broader conversation about the future of cars and to promote a shift from styling cars to redefining the entire experience. More pictures over here and after the jump!

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Our pal Alice Wang dropped us a note letting us know about her latest project, Commodity Love. She’s at it again making us scratch our head wondering what’s true here. She says “As products get more and more attractive, can they replace the feelings we have towards our loved ones? Will you love your phone more than your girlfriend? Or will you love your car more than your wife? And how would you feel if your wife told you she suddenly loves chocolate more than sex?”

Depends what kind of car I guess.

The badges are made out of stainless steel with a piece of magnet at the back that can be attached to any garment.

They are on sale at Galleria Nina Lumer in Milan:

22-27 APRIL 2009
GALLERIA NINA LUMER
VIA BOTTA 8 20135 MILAN

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Who ever thought something rolling on 30-inch bicycle wheels could look so good? Mercedes Benz has unveiled its F-Cell Roadster (the F stands for fuel, and yes, it’s a hybrid), an unconventionally attractive ride incorporating every era of the seasoned carmaker’s pioneering design style. The F-Cell embodies the company’s innovative technology with the simplicity of the first epoch of automobiles. While it may top out at 25 km per hour, it’s the progressive concept of this prototype that counts.

Via Clusterflock

All chairs are not created equal. Especially not if you’re short. So we give props to Alice Wang. The brilliant mind that thought of a friend-calling alarm clock brings us her ingenious line of conceptual chairs for the dysfunctional.

Beyond her Equality Seeker (pictured), a chair with adjustable legs that allows everyone to sit an an equal height of 140cm, there’s also a seat for fidgeters that will record the calories they burn as they just…can’t…sit…still. But, our favorite? The Silent Farter. For those who like to stink up the room and get away with it, this tattletale chair amplifies your gaseous problems to the rest of your dinner company so you can’t blame the dog. Which is really quite unfair to the canine.

We like our usual scale just fine. It tells us our body fat percentage, so we know when it goes near 25, it’s time to cool it with the brie. For those of you who dread what the LED reads, industrial designer Jim Ruck’s conceptual scale might seem like your worst nightmare. Though it looks intimidating– being composed of hundreds of pins and all — the device would allow your body weight to be distributed evenly. Look at the bright side: at least he didn’t put the pins in the other way.

The Nat 2 Shoe that’s buzzing around the blogosphere has me in stitches today. It’s reminiscent of those old school REI pants that zip off into shorts. The ones I had to have to go camping as a kid. More than 20 perplexing styles are for sale by this company– and all I can think to myself is– seriously? What happened to some good old fashioned flip flops and chucks in your bag? And something about the glitzy zipper around the sandal has my toes curling up to avoid scrapes and cuts. But the concept looks fun, almost like an art piece. What do you think, readers?

Via Core77 and Daily Mail

This fall, you’ll be able to purchase the Hello & Goodbye backrest coat hanger, one of the first production pieces from concept artist John Nouanesing. What are some of his other concepts you may ask? How about a dog urinal for the lazy pet owner? Or maybe Pong 3D, a working table tennis set made to look like the Atari game. But, right now we’re loving the walnut and aluminum rack. Half design piece, half functioning coat hanger, all hot.

Judging by its $300 million plus take at the box office, you’ve probably already seen The Dark Knight. Remember that part where Batman tries to track down the Joker with that crazy cell phone contraption? Well, if you thought Wayne Industries’ secret project was shockingly original you’d be sorely mistaken. It looks to be derived from Listening Post, an art installation created by Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin of Ear Studio. The exhibit featured pieces of text gathered from public forums, bulletin board, as well as thousands of unrestricted Internet chat rooms in real time, which are then spoken by a voice synthesizer and plastered across a grid of over 200 tiny electronic displays. The installation had been shown around the country in various locations from 2002 to 2007 — plenty of time for Christopher Nolan to rip it off … and frankly we don’t blame him.

via mikearauz.com

It isn't exactly clock day at JoshSpear.com (see the review of San Francisco's Clock Bar from earlier), but we need to update you about The World Clock Project. Launched earlier this year by the guys at Iridesco, this fun project of collecting pictures of clocks from around the world for every minute of the day has amassed plenty of big hands. Check out the site and submit a picture, or have a look at the flickr group. While you’re at it don’t forget to check out Hear, Hear — an online magazine Iridesco publishes about innovative small businesses in New York City. Now if we could only get the Clock Bar to submit a photo to the World Clock Project then we could have blog harmony.

Up until recently, the term “interactive fashion” really only meant one thing: Zippers that were easy to get your boyfriend (or girlfriend) out of at the end of the night. Di Mainstone wants those words to take on a new meaning — one that can involve way more than two people.

Sharewear, a pair of electronic dresses that work together to create pools of light, were designed by Di while in residency at V2 in Rotterdam. They represent an absorbing new take on both interactive media and fashion. Designed to be worn by two people in unison, the dresses physically slot together, and in doing so activate different pools of light and shadow. The unique dresses (which, to be fair, might be better described as costumes, because even the ballsiest of fashionistas would consider them pretty futuristic) play with the lights and darks to create new lightscapes, and can be manipulated by both the dress wearers and the audience — should they choose to be involved.

If all of this is sounding terribly techy, get your right brain cranking with the visuals in this video, which could be best described as Power Rangers meets stoicism meets, well — you know — Europe.

Lately, all we’ve been hearing is sad news about the plight of the honeybees and their declining numbers. Thank goodness for conceptual artist Jonathon Keats‘ newest endeavor. Next week (July 19th to be exact) Keats will choreograph the first ever bee ballet.

By planting hundreds of precisely arranged flowers in neighborhoods in San Francisco, Keats claims the bees will “dance according to the locations of the flowers they’ve found.” Except, well, you won’t really be able to see it because they’ll be dancing back inside their hives. Says Keats, “The bees will dance for themselves, not for us.” Dance bees. Dance like nobody in is watching.

Check out the bee lines (sorry) after the jump

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