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Awesome Designs – The Saverclip
Posted by Jeff Awesome in General Design on June 1st, 2010
Gadgets are always at the forefront of amazing design with a lot of companies making the looks of a certain product almost more important than the actual thing its meant to do (think Apple…) and even when the gadget itself is not the coolest thing ever that doesn’t mean it can’t look amazing.
Take this little gadget the ‘Saverclip’ all it does is show you how much electricity is being wasted by an electrical product by being clipped onto the power lead and yet they have made it into a very cool and sleek little gadget.
Made to help people take more notice of wasted electricity of products left on standby and help stop global climate change it is a small and not necessarily very cool gadget (I mean compared to James Bond type gadgets!) but yet the makers have still gone to the effort of making it look very, very cool indeed.
Being a person that appreciates the aesthetics of things I wish more manufacturers followed this example because far to many ordinary, everyday household items are far to boring!
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The Grow Bra
Posted by Jeff Awesome in General Design on May 21st, 2010
I know it might be early in the year to say this but Best bit of design for 2010…?
The Japanese really are the top of the game when it comes to inventing amazing new things and lingerie manufacturer Triumph have come up with a very weird but very practical (ok maybe not that practical) bra that you can grow rice in!
Rice is one of the biggest types of food in Japan and at the moment they are having a big farming boom and Triumph are using the bra as a gimmick to highlight the advantages of growing your own.
I don’t see why people should stop at rice though, lingerie has excellent uses if you think about them in this way. Who wouldn’t want to meet a girl who had some lovely fresh flowers growing on her chest? Or what about water bra’s that you could attach super soaker hoses too, so you have spare water tanks when having an epic water fight? Or even better filling the tanks up with lovely, lovely cider and having the best drinking utensil ever, although it might get a bit warm… Also you might have trouble trying to hide a big plant pot bra under all your nice dresses
Excuse me while I just go and find some ladies to model my new supersoaker/flower cider bra that I am going to invent.
Dublin Architecture – Guinness Museum
Posted by Jeff Awesome in General Design on May 18th, 2010
If you are a fan of the black stuff known as Guinness then a trip to taste the real thing in Dublin is probably high on your ‘to do’ list. Rent some car hire to Dublin, get on one of them fancy big boats and enjoy a short hop across the water and suddenly you will be in the land of Guinness, leprechauns and erm green stuff?!
The Guinness museum is actually a work of art in itself with it being seven floors surrounding a glass atrium that is in the shape of a pint of Guinness. A tour of the ‘storehouse’, as it is known, will lead you from the bottom floor where you will be introduced to the brewery’s founder, Arthur Guinness and shown the beers 4 ingredients. Then as you go up you will see advertising throughout the company’s history until you get to a live installation of the brewing process.
After watching the brewing process you are at the top of the building in the ‘head’ of the pint, where they have the gravity bar and visitors can claim a free pint of the black stuff. Because the top of a pint is round it also means sitting in the bar you have 360 degree views of Dublin.
It really is an amazing building and definitely one that is worth investigating.
