Category Archives: Style

Clock displays your energy usage; may promote it

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The Energy Aware Clock shows you the time (obviously) and your energy use by way of cool visualziations on its front display.  This concept device somehow wireless connects to your power meter and shows in real-time your energy consumption fluxuate with blue spikes.  Although the idea itself is interesting and could work, I feel it may cause more energy consumption, at least initially, because who won’t want to show off the awesome blue visualizations, right?

The clock is created by Swedish designers Loove Broms, Karin Ehrnberger, and Sara Llstedt Hjelm and will be shown off at Design September Brussels 2009.

[Via Gizmodo; DVICE]

The Junk Dunk

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Created by Gabriel Dishaw.  It’s the Nike Dunks from the future!

This piece was a continuation of my previous piece JUNK DUNK (Right) I wanted to attempt this approach again, with a more refined and detailed outcome. I used very little wire and more glue to keep the piece more clean, and less bulky. I also added new details, a hinged tongue and nike logo’s on both the tongue and back of the shoe. On previous models I used a real nike sole to build of off. With this piece I started from scratch and build the sole from circuit boards.

[Via Gizmodo; GabrielDishaw]

Potential Kid Cudi x Bape t-shirt design?

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On September 15 clothes, sneakers, and accessory designer Bape will unveil a new t-shirt in collaboration with Kid Cudi in celebration of his new album, Man on the Moon: The End of Day, which releases that day.  The image above has been spread throughout the Twitterverse and is the most likely candidate for the t-shirt design.  If you’re interested in getting your hands on one of these exclusive shirts, be prepared to wait on a long line outside the SoHo NYC Bape store on the 15th.

[Via Twitter]

London’s Shard is beautiful

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“The Shard, a mixed-use tower at London Bridge in London, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop.”

“Construction work has started on the 306 metre-high building, which will sit on an irregular-shaped site adjacent to London Bridge station as part of a new development called London Bridge Quarter.  The design consists of several glass facets that incline inwards but do not meet at the top, and is inspired by the masts of ships that once anchored on the Thames.  The  72-storey building contains offices, apartments, a hotel and spa, retail and restaurants and is topped by a 15-storey public viewing gallery.”  The Shard is “due to be completed in 2012.”

Check out the gallery below for more images of this architectural marvel.  It is very sci-fi-esque; it reminds me of a structure from the Halo series.

[Via Gizmodo; Dezeen]