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Live Smart Daily | A Smart Take on Daily Life
Greenhouses Add Life to the Desolate
The Sahara Forest project will use seawater and solar power to grow food in greenhouses across the desert.
Photograph: Exploration Architecture
Vast greenhouses that use seawater to grow crops could be combined with solar power plants to provide food, fresh water and clean energy in deserts, under an ambitious proposal from a team of architects and engineers.
Piola Wall Bookcase
Piola is a surprising wall bookcase designed to emphasize art and photography books.
Read more →Wrap Up Storage Bin
The Wrap Up Storage Bin ($78) No more hunting this stuff down! In fact, youll feel so organized accessing your paper towel, plastic wrap and tin foil from this sleek, convenient dispenser that youll begin to look for more things to wipe off and seal. (Well, perhaps were exaggerating slightly, but this 3-in-1 concept does [...]
Read more →Black Bird Fly
The “Black Bird, Fly” Superheadz Japanese company which is caught for Rolleiflex. The system of double objective, the sight which rises, without forgetting on the side the small crank of rewinding. The photographs are film of course with the square format like Rollei, but in 35mm only and not in 120mm.
Read more →Sosseco Outdoor Seating
Designer Felipe Zanardi has a rather interesting take on Brazilian popular design culture and his rather interesting design for outdoor seating simply bowls us over with its simplicity and ingenuity. By combining two armchairs and one resting net in one single piece, the Sosseso outdoor seating solution.
Read more →Dyson DC16 Animal Handheld Vacuum Cleaner
The Dyson DC16 Animal Handheld Vacuum Cleaner ($200) Designed for pet hair pick-up, this handheld vacuum cleaner features a motorized brushbar that turns off at the touch of a button to protect delicate rugs and bare floors. It also comes with a crevice tool for cleaning between couch cushions and other hard-to-reach areas and a [...]
Read more →QuarkBase
Quarkbase is a free tool to find complete information about a website. It is a mashup of over 30 data sources and many algorithms gathering information from Internet on various topics like social popularity, traffic, associated people, etc.
Read more →Hay Stack Houses
The small house is made from wood and straw. Inside a desk and chair sit on top of some straw bails and a blanket and pillow denote a bed. The house is only one of 13 projects that are part of the ‘vijverberg vi’ exhibition in tytsjerk. the exhibit is curated by dutch art historian [...]
Read more →The Visual Assistance Card
The card lays on top of the debit/credit card reader and through the use of Braille imprinted on the card, the user is able to keep their personal information private thus increasing their independence while shopping in any store. The Visual Assistance Card is light weight and can be easily stored out of the way [...]
Read more →Environmentally Friendly Umbrella Eco-Brolly
Environmentally Friendly Umbrella ‘Eco-Brolly’ designed by Shiu Yuk Yuen as a part of her degree with an intention to encourage the society to take part in recycling. It has a pocket size, lightweight frame designed to utilize anything that is lying around, it can reuse and adapt objects such as newspapers, cards and plastic bags [...]
Read more →Sweater Inspired Sculptures
Designers Rie Egawa and Burgess Zbryk created these interesting sculptures and floor lamp. What made it more interesting are the unique textures (knitted fabric as texture) and their shapes.
Read more →Stone Age Rock Art
In the Northern England, there has been a discovery of more than 100 elaborate carvings dating back to thousands of years. These include a series of intricate designs of concentric circles, interlocking rings and hollowed cups. The art is in open, but so remote that it had been there undisturbed and undetected for thousands of [...]
Read more →Beer Caps for Awareness Anti-Drinking and Driving
To caution people against drunk-driving Vazir Breveries printed a graphic on the crown of their beer bottles. On opening the crown, the graphic of the car appears to be smashed. The reverse of the crown had the Don’t Drink and Drive message.
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