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This jolly old, back-scratching Grizzly bear will grate your veggies, herbs, and cheeses!
They say bears usually have a favorite tree to scratch their backs on. Not Barry though, because this lovable grizzly will scratch his back against any of your vegetables, aromatics, herbs, or cheeses! The uniquely playful grater comes from OTOTO, one of our favorite design houses, as a part of their new kitchen and home items catalog.
Barry’s back-scratching abilities work best with carrots and cheeses, as its metallic back grates your produce to a fine pile that gathers right inside Barry’s chubby old body. Lift Barry up and your grated cheese or carrot is collected in a nice pile, ready for you to use in your cooking or garnishing!
Designers: OTOTO in collaboration with Bar Davidovich.
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The TouchBar goes independent!
You know, the touch bar is probably the most loved and hated thing on the MacBook, but it doesn’t need to be that way. Barry, a concept by Alex Pluda, give the touch bar the two things it desperately needs. A. Independence, and B. A more universal, open-source approach.
Barry is a standalone Touch Bar that connects to any device you may own (even a desktop!) regardless of OS restrictions (which means it works for OSx as well as Windows). Designed to push boundaries the way a tablet device like Wacom touch-input devices does, Barry works with most softwares and apps, extending functionality to its elongated Retina touch-screen surface.
Originally an Interaction Designer, Alex designed Barry the way he wanted a touch-screen bar to work. The images show extensions of Photoshop tools on the hi-res Retina touch-screen, truly helping increase functionality. One can select tools, modify brush options, and even precisely tweak and pick colors. Want to mix work and play? The Barry can be used to control music playback too. The touch bar is completely open-source and a partner software allows you to create software mappings based on your needs and requirements in a few clicks.
The Barry was visualized in two variants. The Onyx sports a space-gray anodized aluminum body, and the Alabaster, a white ceramic body. It works off a battery (buh-bye cables), and fast-charges via a USB Type C port. Drooling yet?
Designer: Alex Pluda