Design WOO

You do recollect the Crank Up Battery, right? Close on heels to that concept is this Eco – Twinkle Light. Just like how you would crank up the battery or simply sharpen a pencil, you rotate Twinkle’s handle to charge it up. Twinkling fairy lights with loads of imaginary fairy dust, sparkle up this gem of an idea!

Designer: Kenan Wang

A lamppost powered by trash seems like a strange idea but if you think about the ratio between city trash and energy needs – things start to make sense, kinda. This lamppost composts trash and uses the methane byproduct as a fuel to power the lamps. The compost can then be retrieved to re-green our cities. I like the idea but it’s not clear how much trash is needed to keep such a system going.

Designer: Haneum Lee

Rewave is essentially a design using Reverse Osmosis for desalinating the sea water. More for private consumption in coastal regions where fresh water is scarce or at-sea disaster situations, the Rewave is quite self-sufficient. It floats in water and harnesses the energy from the waves to power itself. Since a great amount of pressure is required for RO, the aperture has been placed at the bottom of body, allowing the seawater to get through to the motor area. After desalinating, the fresh water accumulates at the top and comes out via a pipe.
The only caution needed to be taken with Rewave is that the filters get worn out and need to be changed frequently. When the filters discolor, you know it’s time to change them! Bright side, the filters are made from recycled materials.

Designer: Yu-Hong Chen

Designed by Paul Cohen

Winner 2006 Interior Design Magazine’s
Best of Year “Roscoes” Award, New York, USA

In keeping with its name, the EcoSmart Vision fireplace offers a ‘see-through’ effect via its double opening, maximising the free flow of space and sense of area without impairing the integrity of a room.

Rectangular in shape, the Vision is a freestanding, double sided fireplace with clean modern lines. Its clever design features a toughened glass back, adding extra durability.

With the EcoSmart Vision Fireplace, you have the ultimate flexibility to position the fire anywhere to suit your living environment.

Designed to accept the EcoSmart ethanol burner, the Vision fireplace also comes with a Wind Screen Static. The Vision has been designed to meet the most exacting contemporary interior styling requirements for apartments, houses, bars and restaurants.

Like other models in the Designer Range, the Vision is a fully portable work of art – a freestanding fireplace fuelled by denatured ethanol, an environmentally friendly, renewable biofuel.

If you like the style of the Vision, but need a more compact model, then the EcoSmart Fusion is an ideal solution.

There are two things make the NNew Can stand out; one it has a deliberate spiral shape and two its opening-clip has an uplifted indent. The reason for the spiral shape is obvious, it makes it easier for you to twist and crush the can with hand and dump it into the trashcan. And the reason for the indent in the clip is so that you can open the can easily withoaut chipping a naail. I endorse the second reason wholeheartedly coz I always manage to clip mine while opening my soda-can!

Designers: Jiwoon Park & Kwenyoung Choi