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Bathtub from the future “excites and relaxes”

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Sci-Fi Bathtub by Spiritual Mode.

Want your bathroom to be “out of this world?” This stunning sci-fi bathtub by Spiritual Mode is just the thing to send all your senses awhirl! The Beignet bathtub features fashion and function, and is designed to relax and rejuvenate. Water fills the tub via two ultra-modern taps. The soft, circular shape is soothing to the sight, while water jets along the tub’s base will calm you at the end of a long day. A great addition to contemporary bathroom design, this stylish new bathtub brings technology, luxury and elegance to “me time.”

True, it looks like a UFO landed in your bathroom.  Still the modern look and the architectural detail of each piece makes for the coolest bathtub I have ever seen.

[Via Gizmodo; trendir]

Burger King to receive a ‘futuristic’ renovation

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Burger King restaurants will be undergoing a significant renovation, transforming their bland, generic fast-food look into a more modern and futuristic model.  According to BK Chairman and CEO John Chidsey: “I’d call it more contemporary, edgy, futuristic.  It feels so much more like an upscale restaurant.”  The revovation, dubbed “20/20,” will affect 12,000 BK restaurants worldwide and will cost between $300,000 to $600,000 per restaurant.  The renovations include “rotating red flame chandeliers, TV-screen menus, and industrial-inspired corrugated metal and brick walls.”  The redesign has already begun and has affected about 60 percent of BK locations globally.  BK has stated that 75 additional restaurants will be transformed by this year’s end, but it will take years for all BK locations to be retrofitted.

Will such a drastic change in look help the BK Lounge in sales and gain an edge against its competition (re: McDonalds)?  It is too early too tell.  I’m just looking forward to playing around with the touch-screen menus.

[Via Gizmodo; AP]

Concept: The Rolltop, a laptop-to-go

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The Rolltop, by Orkin Design, is purely a concept, an idea, a figment of imagination for now.  The Rolltop features a 13-inch flexible OLED and multitouch display that can be fully ‘rolled out’ to transform into a larger 17-inch screen.  It includes a detatchable stand that stores the device’s stylus, has a USB port, and functions as a power adapter.  Although the Rolltop represents the future of the future of what laptop computing might be like, it sure is nice to at least witness such a cool gadget in an animated video (see above).

[Via Gizmodo]

The Burj Dubai, world’s tallest building, superimposed in NYC

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Here’s a cool comparison in building sizes for you.  The Burj Dubai, which is located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is the world’s tallest building standing at 2,684 feet.  In comparison, the Empire State Building is 1,250 feet tall.  Check out the chart in the gallery below to see some more interesting comparisons with other world landmarks.

[Via Gizmodo]

Coke can redesign; gets a grip, is roll-resistant

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Designed by Dzmirty Samal.

According to PSFK.com: “Rather than use the traditional cold forming manufacturing process all cans undergo today, Samal’s concept makes use of a forming process called impact extrusion in which aluminum is pressed at a high velocity into a mold. Besides having a unique look, the faceted sides could make the can easier to grip and would prevent the can from rolling when placed on its side.”

[Via Gizmodo; PSFK]

The mojito shoe looks uncomfortable by design

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The mojito shoe is designed by London architect Julian Hakes. 

Hakes: “The material choice is simple: The shoe is a laminate with Carbon fibre for the core which gives the shoe its spring and strength, leather on the foot side and rubber on the walking wearing side. 3 materials, each doing a specific job.”

See more images of this fashionably unique yet somewhat disturbingly uncomfortable shoe in the gallery below.

[Via Gizmodo; Deezen]

Digital wallpaper

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Created by Strukt Design Studio.

To decorate the office space of Büro Hirzberger in Vienna Strukt realised a digital wallpaper that illuminates the walls. In this self-initated project Strukt was given complete creative freedom by the client, and developed a system to project video and realtime content undistorted onto any surface.

The basic idea was to light up the black and white striped office wall by mapping the architecture with multitple projectors. The program developed by Strukt is scripted in vvvv and is scaleable to any number of projectors and any architectural shape. Several different visualisations have been realised already, amongst it a Pac Man animation as well as moving stripes, and more are in development. The content could also be made interactive, reacting to people passing the ground-floor offices.

Very, very neat indeed.

[Via Gizmodo; Strukt]

The dervish lamp

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Created by Philippe Malouin Design.

While borrowing a friend’s car for the day, I decided to have it washed to show my gratitude. I pulled into an automated carwash, and while inside, I couldn’t help but notice how the carwash brushes completely alter their shape from flimsy drooping hair covered rods to massive powerful beams. Could this quality of transformation be applied to the home sector? Where would a transforming apparatus find use in the home?

The carwash brushes go from limp, to cones, to beams. A lamp could use this whimsical feature to direct light, from a tube of light to a cone, to an open light source. The contraption, with its spinning, would produce a rather considerable amount of wind. Ceiling fans have not changed in the slightest ever since their introduction. Apart from finishes and rotation speed, they have always remained rather dull.

By morphing the ever-changing carwash brushes with a ceiling fan, a new product is achieved and completely redefines ceiling fans. The piece is called Dervish, its spinning qualities remind one of the Turkish spinning dancers going in a trance.

[Via Gizmodo; Philippe Malouin Deisgn]

3D renders of cities created from thousands of Flickr photos; awesome!

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Scientists from the University of Washington’s Graphics and Imaging Laboratory, with the help of over 150,000 Flickr users, managed to create 3D digital models of three different cities.  According to PopSci.com, “each video includes clusters of small diamond shapes, which represent each photographer and his or her vantage point.  ..  The team built a new algorithm that proceeds in two steps — first, by matching the photos by what they had in common, puzzle-style, and then by determining the scene and each photographer’s pose.”  One of the scientists, Steve Seitz: “This is one of the main intellectual challenges here.  We want to see how much of the city can be reconstructed from people’s tourist photos.”

Their next task: to create a 3D rendering of an entire city using at least one million photographs.  So keep taking pictures people, and upload them to your Flickr accounts.  Check out more 3D renderings the team is working on at their YouTube page.  Cool stuff, huh?

[Via Gizmodo; Popsci]