The cup is conceived for a broader group of clients. Designed for people with fully functional hands and also people with disfunctional hands. The open handle is created to enlarge the grip area. The inside of the cup is bowl-shaped which makes it easy to drink. The Braille dotted pattern isolate against heat as well as it gives a better grip around the cup.

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As electronic technology advances to the sub-micron level, it’s hard to imagine what kinds of things will exist in the future. Designer Charles Windlin believes we’ll see inanimate objects like rings take on highly compact and intelligent devices. The Digitus Ring concept holds 1,400 magnetic spheres each able to rotate in place. Micro computer circuitry controls which spheres turn to show their darker colored sides. A ring can suddenly tell time and possibly when your wedding anniversary is all without the use of power hungry LCD screens.

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Blue Ant’s alphabet proved so popular that they are releasing a series of design posters.

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Zlatko Antolovic and Alexander Wendlik’s practice COAST completed the T-Bone house last summer. At a modest 150 square metres, this family home near the German town of Waiblingen mixes environmentally friendly technology like Geothermal heating and rainwater collection, with a decidedly un-PC, but very understandable, focus on the client’s pride and joy, a 1974 Porsche Targa.

Set in an established orchard outside Waiblingen, the T-Bone house’s sloping site gives it sweeping views of the surrounding countryside. So-called for the T-shaped form of the structure, the house rises above glazed infills on the ground floor to a monolithic form above, while the kitchen and living area are set into the slope on the lower ground level. One glazed infill houses the Porsche, venerated like an ancient icon, while the other houses the open ‘living room in the landscape’, with large windows on three sides allowing the greenery to infuse the space.

The kitchen is a deliberately sci-fi statement - the architects hint that it references Captain Kirk-era Star Trek - with an angular command bridge-style cooking island. Upstairs things are more introverted, with bedrooms and a small sauna hidden behind a series of sliding shutters. Environmental efficiency has been carefully considered, with a heat pump providing geothermal energy and a rainwater recycling system.

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The new Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Center for Science and Computation at Bard College designed by Rafael Vinoly opened in September. The 49,000 square foot building provides space for the biology, computer science and mathematics departments in a facility equipped with state-of-the-art teaching and research laboratories, high tech classrooms and a sixty-person auditorium. Built in prominent central campus location, the building is organized around a curved spine. The Center’s design incorporates glass exterior walls, a large atrium and an open floor plan. The laboratory spaces face a wooded area through a full height curtain wall that runs the length of the building. Within the lobby are located four freestanding pods clad in copper, stainless steel and zinc that contain the auditorium, two lecture rooms and public gathering space. Faculty offices, located on the second floor, cantilever over the lobby. The second phase of the building, a 20,000 square foot chemistry extension, will continue the formal extrusion and building organization to the South. The new Center provides “an inspirational environment for what is today perhaps the most promising and exciting of all intellectual pursuits”, said Vinoly.

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Philips new Aurea Televisions heralds a new age in TV viewing, TV viewing is completely redefined with the new Aurea technology, which incorporates the popular Ambilight feature of projecting light from the rear of the TV to improve perceived picture quality and reduce eye-strain. The TV is incredibly easy to customize to your preferences and the quality is superb at 6.2 million pixel resolution and 8,000:1 contrast ratio with 4 trillion colours and a rapid 3ms response time – the fastest of any LCD TV on the market.

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Zink means zero ink, as the Zink Integrated Digital Camera and Printer bakes embedded dye crystals on to Zink paper. It’s a 7-megapixel compact with a 3x zoom, scene modes and a slightly 2 inch screen. This prints borderless 50mm by 76mm (2- by 3-inch) colour photos! Your snaps can also be stored on SD cards and shared via email, online storage e.t.c. It can be yours for only $199 (£100).

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South Korean sanitation activists will mark the launch of a global toilet association by lifting the lid on a lavatory-shaped home south of Seoul. The steel, white concrete and glass house, with a symbolic opening in the roof, will be ready to receive visitors next month, said the World Toilet Association in a statement.

“Among its many amenities, the house features four deluxe toilets,” said the group, started in South Korea and dedicated to providing clean sanitation to the more than 2 billion people who live without toilets. The home has a showcase bathroom located in its centre. Other toilets have features that range from elegant fittings to the latest in water conservation devices.

The toilet house was built by Sim Jae-duck, chairman of the organizing committee of the Inaugural General Assembly of the World Toilet Association to mark the association’s first general assembly in November.

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