A Single-Seater Helicopter Design

Tags: Automobiles, chopper, Concept, Helicopter, Igarishi Design, Learn To Fly, transport

Ever wondered what its like to have your own helicopter and watch all the fun from the top? Well, now you could go ahead and buy a helicopter for yourself, thanks to a concept designed by Igarishi Design. However, you will need to wait till the concept gets manufactured.

This private helicopter is a single seater, which means you will need to know how to fly a helicopter before you try flying one. The flyer may need to know the basics of physics and chemistry and how the technology works as well. You obviously wouldn’t be able to fly it without any training.

The design strangely reminds me of a weird alien craft and looks pretty cool. It is small and worth trying, if you think you can fly your own helicopter. Moreover, it isn’t everyday you find a design where a helicopter looks like an alien robot or craft and is meant for a single passenger. I hope it gets manufactured soon!

Via: LikeCool/ ID-Performance

Alchemy Vermeil Ink Pen: Double Nibbed for Bigger Impact

Tags: Alchemy Vermeil, Double Nibbed, Ink Pen, pen, writing

They say that the difference between War and Love is that War kills with swords what Love could kill with words. Perhaps you would argue that swords are still more dangerous because there are double-edged swords and no double-nibbed pens. But are you absolutely sure of that?

Prepare yourself for the war of the worlds because the Alchemy Vermeil ink pen with working nibs at both ends of the pen is here. This limited edition pen is beautifully crafted and capped in 18 carat gold at one end and sterling silver capped on the other. With a red body, the use of gold and silver are meant to underline the significance of Alchemy. The pen also allows you to write in two different colours but this must mean you would need to refill the ink holder quite often because it would be smaller than in that of a normal ink pen.

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Aero Train by Abe Karem: No More Flight Delays

Tags: Abe Karem, Aero Train, air plane, flying, travel, vertical takeoff

Youngsters who have always watched planes flying above their heads but never actually set in one may think that flying can be a wondrous experience and feel envious of those who always seem to be running to catch a flight. Someone should probably tell them things are not as great as it sounds, with the constant delays, your luggage being sent in the opposite direction to which you are going, and harried passengers screaming to be served first.

Aircraft designer Abe Karem is going to fix one of these important problems for all of us. His design of a vertical-takeoff airplane will ensure that planes never get delayed because of congestion on the runway. The plane, the Aero Train, has twin rotors that would be kept tilted up so that the plane can rise up vertically from its own helipad, and once it reaches an altitude of 50ft, the twin rotors are tilted forward to fly forwards.

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Le Clochard: Cardboard Bedding by SNURK to Help the Homeless

Tags: Cardboard Bedding, Homeless, housing project, Le Clochard, snurk

Sleeping under cardboard boxes during the chill of the night on a wet and quiet side street can be a chilling experience. Most of us would never have experienced this, and would have no idea how difficult it is to still the cold from creeping into the bones and reminding you every second that Death is just a step away.
SNURK has taken a step towards helping homeless people who have experienced this numbing fear, and continue to experience it night after night. In an attempt to increase more awareness about the homeless and receive some funding to help get the homeless off the streets, SNURK has designed a cotton bedding set that looks like cardboard boxes. Named Le Clochard, the income generated from selling this product would help SNURK set up several housing projects to help youngsters on the street find work or education.

Sleeping under Le Clochard may make you look like you are homeless, but you are still going to be snugly warm and comfortable. Like their tagline says, you can buy Le Clochard from SNURK so that a homeless person doesn’t have to freeze to death sleeping under a cardboard box.

Via: DesignZen

Rainbow Desk by Allan Lake

Tags: Allan Lake, desk, Furniture, maarten baas, Rainbow Desk

A rainbow does not necessarily need to have seven colours mixing into one another. It shows colours blending into one another without any borders, and the beauty of a rainbow is as much in its colours as it is in its curves.
The Rainbow Desk appears to take all this into consideration in being a desk full of curves. Designed by Allan Lake, the desk is reminiscent of the Sculpt Design furniture by Maarten Baas. These objects are made from numerous curves with not a single straight line, giving the viewer a sense of wavering lines and structures that seem to change in size every second. The desk looks both artistic and simple and is made from British native hardwoods.

The Rainbow Desk has three drawers, each curving in shape to be slightly smaller than its predecessor. The handles and legs look beautiful in almost every hue of brown to be found in woods.

Via: DesignZen

Antonin Dvorak Concert and Congress Centre: Heavenly Design

Tags: Antonin Dvorak Concert and Congress Centre, concert hall, design, Future Systems, Heaven Cultural and Commercial Spaces

When we are asked to imagine what Heaven might look like, we are often bombarded with the same images. Golden gates, white spaces filled with slow moving clouds and angels with wings singing and playing on harps. If you wish to deter from this age old imaginary sight, then you could opt for something a bit more futuristic.
Future Systems has designed the Antonin Dvorak Concert and Congress Centre to give you a sense of Heaven Cultural and Commercial Spaces. From the grand entrance, the space will lead in restaurants, cafe lounges, dance floors and music halls. The concert halls would allow 1000 people and the music halls can accommodate 400 people. You can almost see the Heavenly light shining down on these enclosures with beautifully artistic and imaginative designs.

The halls have amazing sound quality, apart from ravishing looks. Each one appears to look more futuristic than ever. Now you know what Heaven would look like, stunningly futuristic.

Via: Tuvie

Bag Stuck in a Tree: Pendant Light

Tags: Appliances, Bag Stuck in a Tree, ed vince, garbage, lamp, Pendant Light, plastic bag

You must have walked through your neighbourhood and seen this sort of thing a dozen times a week. Children playing would leave kites and footballs stuck high up in the branches of a tree, and it looks good because it tells you that the kids in the neighbourhood are an active lot. What is not very appealing is to see plastic bags stuck up in trees; garbage on the streets is more than enough.
However, Ed Vince has a more artistic vision of this occurrence. Vince saw a bag stuck in a tree and decided it would be a great design for a light. His Pendant Light, also called a Bag Stuck in a Tree, looks much like a bag stuck to the branches of a tree and with an ominous glow from within. Vince states that the sight of a plastic bag stuck to a tree and flying in the wind, glowing with the warm light of the sun is a mesmerising sight.

To make his lamp even more realistic, the stand is made from actual tree branches and the light of the lamp is kept diffused with a real plastic bag. Altering between different coloured bags would also give you the option of changing the look of your room.

Via: YankoDesign

Peugeot EGO Concept Car

Tags: Automobiles, car, Concept, Concept Car, EGO, Peugeot, Peugeot EGO, Technology, Two wheelers, Urban, `

Here is a concept car that is designed for an urban user and also a single user. The Peugeot EGO is a lean vehicle, which has been specially designed to tackle the traffic and carry only one passenger. The weight is just one fourth of a sedan and is practically very light and manageable.

It also has only two wheels, as four aren’t enough for just one person. It is also the safest two-wheeled transport as it is closed and does not leave you vulnerable to any danger. It has a flexible windshield and a head-up-display and steering is perfor9med independently. The EGO is so agile that it has no match whatsoever.

The driver needs to use a joystick to pedal and not a boring old steering wheel or a pedal. This unique two-wheel car concept will surely catch a number of people’s attention. Moreover, it is practical, green and user friendly and is just right for a single passenger in an urban setting.

Via: Peogeot

A Unique Folder Design

Tags: bluetooth, Concept, Designer, Folder, futuristic, Gadgets, Technology, webCam

Here is a design, which aims to take digital technology to a greater level, a level that we still have not heard of. This sleek and chic folder comes with detachable processing unit and also a textbook feature, which allows you to read books or not down in minutes.

It has double-sided transparent flexible screens too, to add to the chicness. The design consists of 3 expandable, foldable, and flexible screens and they come with an extra wide central view which helps you read your notes or books in a better way. There also are multi touch screens, which have touch-evoked keyboards which can be resized according to your wish.

If interaction is what you are looking at, it comes with 3D projection module and a web cam and conference facili8ty. The green product is shock proof so it wouldn’t hurt to drop it once or twice. It is Bluetooth enabled and is designed ergonomically. This has to be one of the coolest folder designs ever.

Via: NextGenDesignComp

Ferrari Motorcycle Design by Amir Glinik

Tags: Amir Glinik, Automobiles, Designer, Ferrari, Ferrari Enzo, Motorcycle, Technology, V4

Ferraris are the ruling monsters when it comes to super speedy cars. Nothing can compete with them, and Ferrari lovers are just waiting for them to join the world of motorcycle designing so they can conquer that world with a twist of their drawing boards. Perhaps Ferrari fans need not wait much longer, because one of their own has already come up with designs of what he believes a Ferrari motorcycle should look like.

Amir Glinik submits his own designs of the Ferrari motorcycle and it definitely looks like a mean monster, sure to overshadow any other bike on the road. Ferraris have extremely Italian designs, are aerodynamic and sleekly stylish and Glinik’s design of the bike incorporates all of these important points. His bike also follows along the line of a V4 based upon the engine of a Ferrari Enzo and thus uses DbW technology.

Glinik’s design also has several high-tech gadget attachments, reminiscent of Ferrari cars. Apart from he traditional Ferrari red, Glinik has also designed a yellow version. If Ferrari is going to enter into a new field, it might just as well incorporate more colors into its designs.

Via: MotorBiker