Toas Printer

This is a toaster designed after an inkjet printer. It is an awesome design concept. You stack the bread on top of the toaster and it feeds it through, toasting the bread one slice at a time. I like the idea of this if you only need one piece of toast at a time but if you were making a sandwich or had to feed a whole family at once this may not be the most practical design for your kitchen. I'm guessing it takes a little bit of time for the bread to toast but it may be as quick as an actual printer. It may have been cool to ad a compartment for butter or jam to be spread on the toast towards the end, being more similar to a paper printer. Overall still a cool idea.

sandwich

The design of a sandwich is a simple yet attractive one. It has all the ingredients of a balanced meal, grains, protein, dairy, and vegetables all in one delicious package. The way the sandwich is built, with the bread on the outside, is designed to be eaten with your hands without getting the contents on your fingers. The bread acts as a protective layer, soaking up any moisture that would otherwise leak out. The bread also acts a protective heat layer. If you want to grill the sandwich the contents will warm up in the middle without getting burnt. The sandwich is easily and quickly made and is a popular food item to take with you to work or school or any occasion where you might be hungry later. The sandwich originated in the middle ages by people using slices of bread as plates to eat their meal and then later eating the bread. It eventually evolved to eating the meal with the bread on both sides. Sandwiches are one of Americas most popular food items.

skoota

This thing is an urban compactable emission less scooter. My main problem with it is the way it looks. I would not feel safe by any means driving this thing down the road whether it had a gas motor or not. It runs off of ion battery technology some how with an in wheel motor on the back wheel and disc breaks on the front. I didn't say what the top speed was but I hope for the riders sake it's not fast. The design concept is for people to use this inside the city with very short travel points. It didn't say how long the battery lasted either or how long it takes to charge it but those things would have to be considered before taking this out. It also harness solar energy some how as well. I found it's target audience to be 20 to 35 year olds. I guessing they would have to be a reasonable weight as well. My main point against this is why wouldn't you just buy a bicycle instead? You may have to pedal, but at least you know you wont get stuck anywhere and its probably a whole lot cheaper.

Castoven

This thing is a microwave oven with an led screen built into the window that automatically plays youtube videos from your computer when you are cooking something. I can see a lot of great ideas that would stem from this design. They way they have it set up now is that your microwave has to be connected to your computer, possibly wireless, but I think they have this prototype wired for now. The program works with a program that youtube has to instantly stream video. This design would be better if they used it for more than just youtube. If they created a way to integrate the kitchen TV into an already existing appliance would save space and possibly money. I do believe they make TVs in refrigerators but how many people want to stand in front of the fridge to watch TV. People already stand in front of the microwave to wait for their food so why not have a TV in there. It might be cool to somehow have the screen disappear when the food is done so you can see the food again through the screen, but also have options to leave the TV on for longer if you choose.

Words with friends

Words with friends is an Iphone app that allows users to create multiple scrabble games at once with different friends and have the option to come back to the game when ever it is their turn. The design of this game is so smart it's one of those things that make you wonder why no one did it sooner. Scrabble games are fairly quick games by design and I know a lot of people who like to play scrabble but the problem is finding the time to get together just to play scrabble. This application solves all of those problems at once. You can start a game through your contacts list on your phone or type in someones user name. I have seven different games going now but I'm not sure how many at once you can have. When it is your turn to play the computer automatically sends you a pop up notification and fills in your new letters for you. There is also a chat button so you can send messages back and forth through the application with the person you are playing. The game also has eyes that pop up in the corner of the screen to let you know that your opponent is looking at the board. I feel that the designers of this free app thought of everything you could want to make scrabble fun again with your friends not to mention strengthening your vocabulary. The only downside is that ads will pop up between plays. There is a 99 cent version that eliminates the ad's I believe.

Anime Simpsons

I found this while searching for fan art. I really like this design because it hits home with me in a way but on strange level. The Simpsons was always one of those TV shows my parents wouldn't let me watch growing up so it always had that mystique about it. I would sneak in an episode here or there and once I became older watched it when I pleased. But the design of this photo has a very nostalgic feeling to it even though it looks like a depiction of what the Simpsons show would have looked like as an anime series. That's maybe why I like the design as well because it puts an interesting yet different spin to something close and familiar. I appreciate all the cast around the TV because that is one of the main family portraits for the show and also in every beginning of the show a there is a different intro as to how the family arrives in front of the TV. I'm going to try and find more pictures of what things would have looked like if other people had created them.

press hop

This is a video done by DJ Steve Porter that incorporates a bunch of famous sports press conferences into a mash up rap music video. This is an incredible design for the sheer creativity and ability to make something like this. I have no idea how he was able to hear the different parts and put them together over a beat that he created. His first mash up video he did was of the Slap Chop infomercial. That video gave him enough views for FOX news to do a piece on him. A part of this video, "Press Hop", was even shown on ESPN's sports center. To put something like this together and submitting it to youtube not only gets his creation out there for everyone to see but also his talent to future employers and possible clients and customers. Famous artists or people in general might seek him out to do videos on them. This is the best free publicity you could give yourself.