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The land line phone might be outmode, but the phone booth isn’t! Loop is a modern interpretation of one, but it’s not made for sidewalks. Its designed for those who work in open plan office spaces and makes for a cozy, private place to make phone calls, video chat, or simply take some “me time”. With 3 different wood types, multiple color choices for the interior, and even the option to have glass sides, each can be customized for the client!
This world has seen so many good switchboard design concepts that never saw the light of day. It’s funny how we’re still stuck with these problematic switches, plugs, and cords. The Loop, luckily can take care of one of those problems. Cable management.
Designed in a rubber-like material, the loop can be retrofitted over any switchboard. It has one running slit and 6-10 openings depending on its size. Just tuck the wires in and have them exit from either of the openings. The loop is thick and hollow enough to accommodate all your wires so you don’t see a tangled mess of cables on your floor!
The Loop is a winner of the Red Dot Award for the year 2015.
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Designed to combat the global water crisis, Loop is a smart solution for transporting water more efficiently in developing countries. Since most people have to walk miles to access the nearest water source, this product is designed as a multi-feature water tank. Equipped with a guide pole, it can be pushed and pulled over rough terrain, or alternatively can be carried as a backpack if required. It has a capacity of approximately 40 liters, a built-in pump and a hose with an implemented filter. With Loop, people can focus less on something as simple as drinking water and more on family, education and employment.
Created for public spaces, LOOP is a laptop-friendly chair designed so that when the backrest is flipped it turns into a desktop. Both set-ups keep an ergonomic body position with the use of rubber bushing, allowing you to change the angle of the seat. As for its form, the shape of the furniture borrows from the finest designs of the previous decade. The designer uses simple, well-known technology, which translates into lower production costs while the materials guarantee durability!
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Acoustic bliss in an orgasmic sense. That’s the best way I can describe a speaker to you since you can’t hear it. Audio is totally subjective. My review is based on three basic points – how it looks, how it sounds, and how it compares. The Libratone Loop has already won almost every major design award in our industry so it stands to reason the accolades along with the $499 price tag means a really good speaker. Hit the jump for my review!
By far the Loop’s design is the most brazen. It looks handsome propped up with the included stand but was meant to be wall mounted. With a myriad of colors to choose from – seeing a wool covered circular object on a wall instantly changes any space into a modern setting. It’s not something you see everyday and visitors will probably mistake it for art or even an odd lamp before guessing it were a speaker. This is the epitome of Scandinavian design – minimalism with just a touch of warmth and any semblance of boldness usually comes from color.
The saucer shaped disk ingeniously hides components that generate sound belying its diminutive size. Libratone calls it Fullroom sound. In layman terms, that means sound spills out at nearly 360º. From one speaker, you can fill an entire room with hi-fi audio with a surprising amount of bass. OH GOD the bass! I love me some bass. Bass is one of the key markers of a good speaker. The Loop rumbles without rattling. The mids and highs are well balanced even with the volume cranked up. Once you get past the initial setup, you can stream via AirPlay, DNLA, or directly via USB.
It’s expensive but if you’re an audiophile – the price shouldn’t be a surprise. There are a few off-name brands that make pretty decent speakers at half the price, but for this level of engineering and quality, the only other company that competes is Bowers & Wilkins. I had a chance to play with the B&W A5 which also happens to be $499. It’s also Airplay enabled and sounds amazing. Setup on the A5 is a little more straight forward. You just download an app and push a couple of buttons and you’re done. The Libratone also has an app but requires you to mess with your wifi network. Fortunately once you set it up, you never have to touch the app again. B&W designed their speakers to optionally work as a group. You can buy multiple A5′s and control them all from one place. The Loop is meant to operate alone. Besides that one caveat, choosing between the two comes down to aesthetics. The Loop looks like modern art. The A5 looks like a very expensive piece of technology. Which would you choose?
Elon Musk's tunneling and transportation startup, The Boring Company, has been selected to construct a high-speed link in Chicago. The route, called The Chicago Express Loop, will run between Terminals 1-3 of Chicago's O'Hare airport, and Block 37 in...
Tonight at The Boring Company Information Session not all of the talk centered on flamethrowers. Elon Musk and project leader Steve Davis described many details of their visions for an underground network that could alleviate traffic problems in big...
Elon Musk has posted a video of Boring Company's first nearly completed tunnel under Los Angeles, which heads towards LAX and has an extra entrance at the SpaceX Hawthorne HQ. The multi-company chief said the tunnel is almost done, pending regulatory...
If you make fitness trackers, then you probably need to make weighing scales, or watch as Withings or Fitbit steals your customers away from you. It's a lesson that Polar now appreciates, and after a couple of years producing simple fitness trackers,...
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