Design A Day: Sponge Pillow

The sponge pillow would be great for going to sleep with wet hair. Theoretically, it would also absorb your dreams during the night, which you could then squeeze out the next day in a cup. And if you so choose, you could ingest your dreams to remember them again, or wash your hands with them to be done with confusing thoughts. The stand by of sponge designs is helping me out in this time of idea shortage. Like a faucet being turned... oh, that gives me an idea.

Design A Day: Smoking Watch

Using the cigarette as means to tell the passage of time. I enjoy watching the passage of time through the decay of something. I don't enjoy cigarettes though.

Design A Day: Sponge Bed

Another sponge idea. It would be good for hot climates, one could water the bed before going to sleep, and the evaporation would help to cool you down throughout the night.

Design A Day: Sprout Sponge

The Sprout Sponge is designed to have strategically placed openings to place seeds for sprouting. Sprouts are an excellent source of nutrition. With the Sprout Sponge, a person could purchase the seeds  in bulk and create a handful of seeds everyday by adding a little water to the sponge to supplement their diet in a natural means. (A sponge probably doesn't even have to be designed for this, you could go out and do this right now with a regular sponge).

Design A Day: Milkshake Tshirt

The concept for this t-shirt originates from the film There Will Be Blood. If you saw the movie, you understand. The straw that comes off the t-shirt can be sucked on to create the slurping sound of an empty glass, so that people around you know who gets the last drop.

Design A Day: Fire Prevention

This is to protect houses in Southern California from the seasonal brush fires. The heat from the fire triggers balloons to inflate in the house, lifting it up and away from the flames. The hotter the fire, the greater the inflation. Its a natural reactionary system, that will act in kind to the threat at hand.

Design A Day: Coffin Bookshelf

This one is a two for one. A Coffin Bookshelf will be the only bookshelf you need. It constantly reminds to carefully examine how much you possess, because you can't take it with you. It has a function of organizing the items you do end up owning. Then, at the end of your life, the coffin aspect becomes functional as all items are cleared and willed away to others, and you inhabit it. It's made of sustainably harvested douglas fir from Oregon.

Design A Day: Exacto Earrings

This is what I do with all my left over Exacto blades that don't give a clean edge while cutting foam core.

Design A Day: Cell Phone Privacy Mask

Do you find yourself cupping your mouth in public spaces while talking on a cell phone? Do you often long for the privacy and convenience of being on the phone at home while out and about? Well now you can, with the bluetooth enabled Privacy Face Mask. Muffle the sounds of your awkward conversations so people on the Metro don't eavesdrop anymore.  (iPhone and Blackberry compatible)

Design A Day: Plant Word Dry Erase Word Bubble

This just came to me at 1am in the morning. Let your plants remind you of things by sticking the dry erase board in the pot. I was reminded of friends who say they talk to their plants. And while I haven't began having conversations with mine, my one indoor English Ivy does have a name, Steve. What would Steve's first words of conversation be?

Design A Day: Spring Lamp

This design works best with CFL bulbs. Once those are phased out by LEDs, or some as yet undiscovered technology, I'll have to revisit the concept. It should be possible to power this with magnetic induction by dropping a magnet down the center of the coil.

Design A Day: Flavor Dice

Can't decide what to have for a drink, or dinner, or a late night snack? Try out the flavor dice. Roll the dice to find out what random combination you should try. From the top, a pear martini, avocado popcorn, and habanero oreo. Originally created as a personal project for Scoops Ice Cream, where the owner asks customers to suggest flavor combinations for ice cream.

Design A Day: Hand Cuff Watch

The actual watch would not be connected with handcuff links. The idea originally came from thinking about time as a restriction, then making a device that mimicked the way ones arms are held together while in handcuffs. The hours would read out on one arm, while the minutes would read out on another. This also gives the user the option of seeing the time very specifically, by looking at the minutes, or generally, by looking at the hour.

Design A Day: Empty/Full Measuring Cup

If you look at the measuring cup from one side, its half empty, and from the other, its half full. Its been done before, I needed to get this out of my system though. Done, and move on to the next one.

Design A Day: Pie Cup

After almost twenty four hours of Twin Peaks, this is the design I have for today.

Design A Day: Sponge Utensils

Now you can literally clean your plate, or so the advert for this might read. 

Design A Day: Sponge Chair

There really isn't much of an explanation beyond what the design is. Sponges can be soft and comfortable. Why not make it into a chair? Also, it would absorb anything that got spilled on it, which might not be such a bad thing. This is the 25th of at least 50 sponge ideas.

Design A Day: Hanging Lamp

This lamp can be put out with the clothes on a sunny day, then brought in at night to provide light inside the house. It might also be hanged out on a porch or apartment deck. 

Design A Day: Wine Storage

This concept is a wine and bread/cracker (maybe even cheese) storage unit that is in the shape of the cross. There's also space for Reidel glasses in the top. There's not much more too it than that, other than the religious references. This idea was one in a series of ideas while designing a refrigerator for a class project. It wasn't usable for the class, but works great here.

This Design A Day series is started by Robert as sort of design calisthenics.