Beolit 12

There are plenty of iphone speakers came out in last 4 years. But there a few that wins in their design and sound quality. BEOLIT 12 is listed in the best gadgets to own if you are an Apple fan. You can do lot more than playing just music, if you are watching a movie in your iPad you can airplay that too. If are an outdoor person, still you can carry it around and it will provide you flawless music all across. More over you can't find from where the sound is generated if you keep it hidden. Ain't it cute ?? Its costly though, but you will like it.

This land is mine

An amazing animated history of Palestine.. So much of bloodshed had happened there. Here's the original post by the designer Nina Paley 

Note : Keep the sound on

Anamorphism

Anamorphism is a trick from the renaissance age where you use a contrast of colors to make a picture look 3D. Street artists use this trick to make a waterfall in the street or a raging bull rushing towards you. And it amazingly look real. Here's a small video by which you can draw images like that within 10mts. And for sure it will wake the artist in you.

Thabto Creations UK

Absolutely cute and stand out designs for most simple things you use in life. Some nice picks from them are featured in Newyork this week. This time of the year with ThanksGiving around the corner, if you are looking for some quick gift purchases, this can be one place to look for. Beautiful coffee mugs and pepper & salt tablewares etc etc.  Have a look - Thabto

Mustang V6 - Pony Package 

The Fundamental Shop

Here's a cute design from a German firm Fundamental Design. A cute corner shelf-cum-display stand where you display your costly artifacts and store some small pieces which you keep safely. Nice wooden block design. Check out here The Fundamental Shop

Its Simply Beautiful

If you are looking for furniture with royal touch, but couldn't find fine one's for a good price ( still considerably more than IKEA ), you just struck gold. Here's a small company from Austin, TX producing high quality furniture for much lower price than any famous furniture studios making it.

The problem was that, even if you are willing to you pay top dollars you don't find such a high quality furniture at one place. And the shop owners and mall owners adding their cut, the price is already sky rocketed. Still you have very limited choice, that's the worst part.

What's amazing about this company is, the amount of craftsmanship and details they put into each piece is really phenomenal. And its an order to make, that means they don't have cost of running a shop or maintaining inventory. They ship all across US and US only. And no returns please, so be sure what you want. See for yourself here.

Lo and Sons

Lo & Sons is a true success story in which a mother and 2 sons found a solution to a health challenge Helen Lo faced, and came up with intuitive designer bags. Lo was facing troubles with her back and apparently couldn't find light weight bags for travelling. She thought many other women might be facing same problem and did something daring.

She asked her 2 sons, Derek & Jan to quit their daytime jobs in advertising and product design to join her. They did and altogether started Lo & Sons in Dec 2010. Their first collection was sold within 3 months. Most of their sales are through online even-though they have small shops in Charlottesville and Chicago. 

The threesome work from 3 different locations. Jan take care of the procurement in Beijing & Hong-kong check everything before production. Derek share office in the Nilita office space in New York and Helen Lo work from Germany. They recently ran a show in NYC SoHo house entertaining select customers directly which are very important to them to get customer insights. They briefly meet and discuss in Derek's NYC apartment and next day back to airport to work on next season. Checkout their site Lo & Sons

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Creativity @ every level

While talking to one of my friend from NYC tech startup seen, he mentioned that the biggest challenge he face today is to find right people and letting them do things @ their best. Its not raising money that's tough, its not finding projects or clients. They are relatively easy while compared to finding people and retaining them.

Other point he made in that discussion is that most creative people are not in tech, they are in media and ad's industry. This add from IBM 's mainframe team boasts just that. Its the way you communicate to thousands of people without a speech but conveying thousands of words. IBM house a pretty good team for creating interfaces, but this is class apart. Who Says Elephants Can't Dance ?? !!

Invention of the decade - Eole Water Systems

The fastest depleting resource and the most wanted for the existence of human life on earth today is unquestionably clean water. Many parts of world is already feeling the crunch and just stretching into next possible resource to get them for existence. And in many developing nations drinking water provided is already contaminated and people use their own purification mechanisms to make it usable for household purposes. But the point is, there should be water at-least to purify it.

There are many companies providing waste water management systems, but its hard to believe they can make it 100% drinkable water because water can be maligned by various sources and there are many sources getting added daily. Water being lowest level of resource underground, when earth takes bath and wash all dirt on it, its pretty obvious that everything is getting logged into underground water. That make it even more dangerous.

Here's a company which came up with a best possible solution, not to clean the contaminated water but to make it from thin air. Yes, they are successful in it. Eole is a french company founded by Marc Parent. While he was living in Caribbean he found a way to extract water from air-conditioners for his daily usage. He put this idea to make water from moisture when he returned home. Water is collected through a heat exchanger and sent to a cleaning system which makes drinkable water.

Best part is this, its already making 62 ltrs/hr in Abu-Dhabi test site, which means 1488 ltrs/day. That's pretty amazing !! isn't it ?? And this entire system is mounted on a wind-mill which can even produce electricity. Now that's what we call True GREEN. Price is little bit high though, ball park of 600K USD, may be its still in consumption face. But someday somebody can mass produce this concept and save the world.