“Polaris” is a new type of mobile phones, which has a learning function, and shows a “life log” of users. It combines the functions of a mobile phone, robot, and television. The AI(Artificial Intelligence) of a robot can help us “rearrange” information, and it can provide us with optimized information which facilitate our life.
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The red dot design award team submitted us the 2009 winning concepts from Japan.
Here are the three concepts:
Designer: Ben Ryuki Miyagi
Made by folding and gluing layers of industrial felt, Elephant Seating draws conceptual content from many elements of design history. The result is a sofa that is mysterious yet humorous, soft yet dense, and conceptual […]
Japanese mobile network provider KDDI has released “Light pool” by collaborating with product designer Hironao Tsuboi and visual artist Masakatsu Takagi. The phone contains 22 super luminosity LEDs, and that makes it possible to have over 100 patterns of movements of the light.
Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki designed “White noise machine” in Delhi, India. This machine calculates the quantity of street noise and generate the same amount of “white noise”.
Legendary Japanese designer Sori Yanagi’s work will be exhibited at Yokohama museum art gallery from July 7th, 2009. Yanagi’s design is well known for its simplicity and functionalism and is considered as one of the most important designers in the history of Japanese industrial design.”Butterfly stool” has been selected for permanent collection of MoMA in […]
Lexus has been working with some of the top Japanese creators since they started participating in Milan Design Week. This year they chose architect Sou Fujimoto. The title is “Lexus - L finess Crystallized wind”. It is all made of acrylic.
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Lexus will return to the Milan Design Week this year with an art exhibition […]
Japanese mobile phone manufacturer KDDI and internationally renowned artist Yaoi Kusama collaborated and released a new mobile phone series called “iida”. These are very exclusive models since there are lots of manual works and high-tech involved. Even though these phones are based on Kusama’s art works, function wise, they are also very sophisticated. These phones […]
KDDI, one of the largest mobile phone operators in Japan, and YAMAHA collaborated, and exhibited their latest work, which combines a mobile phone and instrument.
Canon announced that it will release a new multi-function mouse (mouse/calculator/keypad) in July. It will be available in Japan for 3500 yen or 33 dollars. You can transfer the result of calculation to your computer.