Ichiro Iwasaki designs Lotta, a new phone for mobile provider AU by KDDI. The phone is part of AU’s iida line of design-friendly handsets, joining previous models like Naoto Fukasawa’s PRISMOID and Hideo Kambara’s PLY. Lotta is available in three colors (yellow, white, and green).
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Unveiled earlier this month at CES, Pentax's latest digital cameras—the Optio H90 (above) and I-10 (below)—offer budding photographers a high-tech device at an affordable price. Solid, impeccable design, derived from the pursuit of functional beauty.
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Leica and Hermès have joined their creative teams to develop the Leica M7 Limited Edition Hermès. Beautiful and timeless as Leica should be this Special edition model has plenty of the old-fashioned details to keep you nostalgically happy. Although Leca’s style is always subdued, serious and technically superb, this one uses Hermès’ colorways with cool chrome accents. 100 each of the orange and brown options will be produced, and they’ll cost a nothing more then $14K. [via limited hype]
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VOID Watches is a new, independent boutique watch brand launched in 2008 as the single vision of Swedish designer David Ericsson. VOID Watches has a unique take on watch design using simple yet expressive shapes, giving our watches an almost architectural expression. Just like a great building is designed to fit its environment, all VOID Watches are made to sit perfectly on your wrist
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In an era where fashion companies are stepping beyond their traditional domain into the world of industrial design, Swedish street fashion company WeSC has brought in Norra Norr to develop a range of bespoke headphones, Maraca and Pick-up, which have already hit the stores around the world.
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Zaha Hadid is a celebrated architect who works and lives in London, or I should correct myself by saying she works around the world but her home base is in London. After an array of proactive but stunningly beautiful architectural projects that she created in the course of her long career she decided to turn to a shoe design for a breeze. After all developing a provocative looking shoe is just a bit easier then developing a provocative architecture.
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Sometimes a small detail like a light switch can make a profound impact on your guests. This touch sensitive quadrant switches designed by Basalte. All toy need to do is to swipe your finger across the cover or just touch the edge and your lights are on. Also by touching several quadrants you can control light intensity in several areas in your house. Great looking case that comes in the variety of finishes also has a build in LED’s that make it easy to find it in the dark. [via trendir]
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San Francisco designer Yves Behar of Fuseproject has designed a sex toy in collaboration with Ethan Imboden of sex toy brand JimmyJane. The design features two tips independently-powered and simultaneously pleasing I should add. It has rechargeable batteries and is waterproof for all your favorite water sport activities.
“FORM 2 is a definite departure from the typical products in this category. It has a refined and simple presence, but behind the smooth and ergonomic geometry we concealed a great number of engineering, material and manufacturing breakthroughs.” says Béhar.
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Studio Dror from New York invented an original solution for maximization of living space. Their furniture called BBB Pick Chair isn’t only functional furniture but a wall art. After or instead its primal function you could hang them on the wall and turn your sitting solution into a wall art solution Clever....?, yes stylish ...? for sure, marketable ...? IKEA , I said IKEA!!!! WTF is going on we have a hot product here. Several .
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