Folding Colander

Joseph Joseph is a company that designs kitchenware products. They created a interested product called the Folding Colander. It can be a flat board or fold into a rectangular Colander with handles. You simply fold and snap then lock the four flaps together. This then creates a base and four sides. Since it can unlock into a board, it is better for storing. Regular Colanders are hard to store because they are so big and bulky. This Colander is made out of polypropylene and is dishwasher safe. It comes in various bight colors (red, pink, white, black and green). They are also available online through their website for $20.00.

The Incognito SAFE

Southwest Specialty Products designed a new kind of safe where you can hide your valuables in plain sight. They created the Diversion Save where they have 100% genuine products re manufactured into safe storage safes. They include Ajax container, Scotch Gard-Pet Care protector, Magic Fabric Sizing, food products- Kibbles and Bits Dog Food, Del Monte Fruit Cocktail, potatoes, corn etc. They are all designed with a seamless screw-off top or button to allow concealment inside the container. All "trademarks are registered but the original manufactures and used by permission or license granted by the trademark owners to Southwest Specialty Products". In order to buy these products you must either call or fax a form to them and they will send you the Diversion Safe. I thought this was a cleaver idea because no one will look in a Ajax can for money or jewelry. It's like having a secret book in a book shelf that opens he wall!

Furture Bike?

John Villareal, a senior designer, designed a Futurist Bicycle. He says, it is "a design that shows a peek into the future as materials and manufacturing advance. Our ability to manufacture lighter frames with increasing strength of materials will allow us to make shapes that today would structurally fail." What makes this design really cool are the hubless wheels, hubless pedal-crank assembly, and the connection for the crossbar, which looks like it is adjustable to make the bike smaller for storage. Another cool feature are the wheels. they appear to have only two pieces of rubber and chain in the middle of them. I have seen a prototype bike from students from Yale who had to create a similar bike for an assignment for class. I can almost see, that this is how our bikes will look like in the future, when we have the right materials to actually manufacture them.

Cargo shell

Entrepreneur Renà Giesbers designed a cargo container for trucks to transport items through the country. Its called the Cargoshell. It is very similar to the original cargo containers t it can fold within a min. The Cargoshell can reduce the emission of CO2 because it is manufactured from composites, which makes them lighter than a steel container. Since they are lighter they save energy in transportation. They are also cost efficient. In all the Cargoshell provides " A more environmentally friendly way to transport goods"

Bobble Water

Similar to the ideas of the Vapur, Bobble is a redesign of the water bottle designed by Richard Smiedt and Karim Rashid. This water bottle is very cool looking, comes in various different colors (blue, red, pink, green, black , and yellow), and has a filter cap on the top of the bottle. You can buy Bobble online for only $9.95 and the filter is $6.95. As you drink from the water bottle, it filters the water before it hits your mouth. You have to replace the filter about once or twice a year, it is FDA approved and made from recyclable products. The Bobble team hope to reduce the use of plastic water bottles and in turn make our planet healthier for generations to come.

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Photo assignment

• crop image 8x8in
• save image as EPS (high quality format) more resolution is good for resolution
• Dark parts of the picture are called shadows
• Photographers put plastic over windows to change the color temperature
• use the dodge tool to change the highlight, midtones, and shadows. (start at a low %)
• use the burn tool to darken
  
• still shot "Command+shift+4" select copy and past the pic.
  

Biking at night becomes safer!

Designers Alex Tee and Evan Gant at Altitude Inc. designed what they call "LightLane bicycle add-on". They hope to make bicycling safter at night. It was proven that the most effective method of protecting cyclists on the roads are bike lanes. They are found randomly and rarely in the the city and that is because installation cost $5,000 to$50,000 per mile. So to save the city some money, cyclists can create their own lanes with a laser projecting what looks like a bike lane. Its still a prototype but it might be in stores soon!

Similar concept

MonkeyLectric--revolutionary bicycle lighting
LightLane Beta Testing