You know a design is brilliant when James Dyson puts his seal of approval on it! The O’Boil is the only utensil you’ll ever want to use while cooking. Designed with the kind of aesthetic that marries functionality and beauty with pure ease, the O’Boil has a negligible learning curve. Just pop the O’Boil into a slightly larger saucepan, pop the lid off and put in your ingredients, put the lid back on and set the timer (the lid has its own integrated timer…now isn’t that cute?), and you’re all set. Let the O’Boil do its job. Lift it up with ease using the insulated silicone handles. Let the water drain out, and press the handles together like you would a large clothes-peg…Voila! The O’Boil opens its mighty perforated clamps and out comes your delicious food, cooked to perfection!
The O’Boil is the proud recipient of a James Dyson Design Award.
Designers: Romain Haon Faure and Fabien Hybre
Some people are compulsive shushers. Yes. Shushers. People who are constantly shushing other people who are just trying to live a little. The iBooth is the perfect little cubicle/enclosure to shut out the aforementioned shushers. With its minimally classy design, you won’t look like an ostrich with its head in the sand, and with its soundproof panels, compulsive shushers won’t feel the need to constantly be the buzzkills they usually are.
If only this comfortable little thing came with a pillow!
Designer: o4i Design Studio
Author: Sarang Sheth
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We’re not sure who is coming up with marketing ideas at Pizza Hut, or even if it’s all the same person, but we’re impressed. Because to their pizzas with Cheeseburgers, Meat Pies, and Hot Dogs in the crust, you can now add another innovation: the Blockbuster Box, a pizza box that turns into a projector. The box, once emptied of its delicious content, lets you place your smartphone inside, at the ideal distance from an included lens. This lens comes attached to the plastic device that prevents the box from getting crushed in transit. The plastic device itself doubles as the phone stand. So all you have to do is poke the precut hole in the front, fit the lens, prop your phone up inside, and aim at your screen (which could simply be your wall!). There’s a code on the side for customers to scan and unlock viewable content, should there be nothing interesting on their devices.
The Blockbuster Box is the work of Ad agency Ogilvy & Mather Group HK and their Chief Creative Officer Reed Collins, and comes in four styles: “from the horror themed Slice Night, sci-fi spectacle Anchovy Armageddon, bizarrely romantic Hot and Ready, and the thrilling Fully Loaded.” It’s Hong Kong only at the moment, but we suspect this may become popular enough to spread worldwide.
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It’s entirely possible that you stopped yourself from ever making any recipes that required sautéing, like many Asian dishes, because you were worried about ending up with all your food on the floor. There is a certain technique to tossing your stuff around in a hot pan, and we can’t entirely blame you for being afraid. But look at the Boomerang Wok! Doesn’t it make you want to give it another shot? The special cupped edge lets you turn food with a simple push of the pan, making sure that whatever gets tossed in the air always lands back inside. The Teflon-coated surface is non-stick, and the whole thing can go in the over at temperatures up to 320F. It’s a little on the expensive side however, at $133. At that price, we might be tempted to make an effort at actually learning how to stir-fry properly.
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I have always been a stationery fan and have been vocal about it on Yanko Design. Today, I look back upon my favorite muse, the mighty pen in all its innovative avatars. Of course, the credit goes to you designers for thinking out of the box and pushing the envelope on creativity. Just for the sake of integrity and in true spirit of good design, the selection here is based on the highest hits each post got.
The number one spot is claimed by the spiral refill for the pen. Touted to hold more ink than regular refills, I love the ingenuity of the design and all its implications.
It’s hard to miss the humor in the BioErgonomic pen! The structure and design are sexciting!
Multifunctional is the way to go. So imagine a pen and it being a ruler too. One less item to carry in your pencil box!
Love this dropper pen because of its innovativeness; I guess that is why you folks loved it too. This tech pen allows you to pick and drop Apps, text, images and files from one device to another.
Long Tran captures the essence of this design aptly, “I’m not exactly sure why this memo pad comes in the form of a cup disguised as a blended coffee drink but hey, the straw is a pen so I’m sold.”
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While adjusting the temperature of the water, most of us waste a good bucket or two. To make sure we don’t do this kinda stupid wastage, the Eco-shower features an additional holding unit, that takes in the first rush of cold water and heat it up for you. It’s a neat idea and hopefully by the end of this year we should see a working prototype.
Designers: Yu Kwang Kang and Se Cheon Lee
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There is only one word for the Wise Pad – exceptional! Here is a tablet that has a device that is piggybacking on it and can be used to make calls and even juice up via kinetics. I bet there will be some complex tech involved, which only my engineering friends will be able to help figure out. Until then I am going to enjoy this project as a concept and so should you!
Designer: Geng Kaiqian
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Ever on the lookout for unique and innovative furniture, we’re intrigued by Rock Paper Robot’s Float Table. It’s made from a matrix of wooden cubes with strong magnets embedded within. The magnetic forces repel the cubes from one another, but a series of steel guide wires keep everything in place. This gives the table a solid appearance while undisturbed, and a wobbly look when touched. We’re not sure how stable a table it is, and placing a wine glass down on it might be a dicey proposition. But it sure is a talking piece that anyone with money will be more than happy to have in his living quarters. We say ‘people with money’ because it’s one of those pieces with no advertised price, placing it squarely in the “if you have to ask” camp.
Edit: A reader informs us that the table is $10,000 and is available here.
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It’s called the Multi and it’s a wallet made from a sandwich of die-cut Aluminum or Titanium plates. But its wallet duties are kind of a sideshow to everything else it does:
It can also be used as a flat or Phillips head screwdriver, a nested wrench (in SAE or metric), a two-inch ruler, a bottle opener, a twist top opener, a wing nut wrench, a smartphone tablet stand, a can top popper, a box opener, and a keychain.
Using it as a smartphone or tablet stand will require a few steps. The middle piece keeps the tablet propped up, and the credit card on the inside sticks out to keep the tablet or smartphone in place while the device is in use.
It’s also RFID blocking and TSA approved. The fully-funded Kickstarter campaign will allow you to pre-order an Aluminum version for $40 or a Titanium one for $75, with delivery in July of this year.
[ Project Page ] VIA [ Gizmag ]