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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.

Art Center Testifies Before Congress

Art Center testifies before Congress. Geoff Wardle, Director of Advanced Mobility Research testifies before Congress on the bailout and exploring energy independence implications. This is amazing, what other design college gets to testify about the future of transportation? I particularly enjoy during the first video when Chairman Edward J. Markey calls Wardle an idealist.

Link to the government archive:
Auto Bailout Hearing to Explore Energy Independence Implications

Design A Day: Sponge Utensils

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

Good Bye Lucky

found via minor details

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. 

More Good, Not Less Bad

A concept that seems simple enough to think about, and yet so difficult to execute in today's world. We have to keep trying.