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Wacky Cuckoo!

As you may already be aware, Little Thoughts Group is holding an exhibition by the name of Imprints: Designing for Memories at the National Museum of Singapore. This project (and one other we wrote yesterday, plus more) are currently up at that museum until January 11th, 2011. Take a look! Take a peek here first, of course. This project goes by the name of Kampong Cuckoo and it’s a clock of memories. It recalls the designers time as a child in 1970’s Singapore, where the sounds of growing up are now instilled inside the clocks works.

The number “5″ is mirrored in the clocks face because the designer had some mishaps with the number (and it’s a favorite!) The white wind-up key is held on with a magnet and can open the clock body from the side. Inside the clock is access to its batteries and some nice shelves.

As this clock chimes, it reveals new sounds for each impression. Recalling a childhood is as simple as counting the hours in a day:

1am : mosquito
2am : owl
3am : bats
4am : cricket
5am : mouse
6am : rooster
7am : wash cloth
8am : kick start ride bike to work
9am : my pets
10am : kampong games
11am : sewing machine
12pm : “ah gong” parrot
1pm : pond
2pm : play “goh li” – Marbles
3pm : chicken farm
4pm : sell food
pm : read & write
6pm : cook
7pm : favorite show
8pm : music
9pm : 70s TV program
10pm : count sheep till you sleep
11pm : kampong insects
12pm : snoring

Notice the lack of a certain hour in the PM.

Designer: Chan Wai Lim of Little Thoughts Group design collective

Planting Paper Flowers

How many times during the day in the dead of winter do you just sit there and think, gosh! I wish I could plant a flower right now! Well now we all can! Sandra Bautista’s designed a collection of flowers on paper that, with a bit of rolling and basically a simple cup or vase, you’ve got a loverly flower any time of the day!

Take a look at these instructions, and be sure they are followed to the t! Especially make sure to heed number five:

1. Choose a flower.
2. Place it as the cover.
3. Make a roll with all pages together.
4. Put it in a vase.
5. And of course, don’t water it!

32 Flowers. 29×37 cm.
Everyday a different one, everyday a beautiful one!
Flowers make people happy, give flowers as a gift!

No dunking! Flowers for the love of looking only!

Onedown Rat

About IDEA
Started in 1980, the IDEA program fosters business and public understanding about the impact of industrial design excellence on the quality of life and the economy. For the second year, The Henry Ford will house the IDEA award winners in its permanent collection to continue to tell the story of American innovation.

About IDSA
Founded in 1965, the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) is the world’s oldest, largest, member-driven society for product design, industrial design, interaction design, human factors, ergonomics, design research, design management, universal design and related design fields. IDSA produces the renowned International Design Excellence Award® (IDEA) competition annually; hosts the International Design Conference and five regional conferences each year; and publishes Innovation, a quarterly journal on design, and designBytes, a weekly e-newsletter highlighting the latest headlines in the design world. IDSA’s charitable arm, the Design Foundation, supports the dissemination of undergraduate scholarships annually to further industrial design education. The organization has more than 2,300 members in 27 chapters in the U.S. and internationally.

Ctrus Football

Ctrus is an airless, see-though soccer ball with position-detection technology and is constructed with an inner structure (skelle-core) and an outer net-embedded shell made with reinforced elastomers. The difference in hardness of these two layers and their flexibility brings about the bounce in the ball. The electronic components in its nucleus communicate wirelessly with control stations at the stadium, giving essential feedback and functions like inner light color changes at critical game situations (such as goal, offside, and out-of-bounds); recording of kick force and travel speed; location of the ball relative to the field (thanks to an interactive detection system via GPS/RFID); and point-of-view camera footage (with a software-stabilized image).

Color Copying Chameleon Lamp

This is Huey the chameleon, and he is a lamp that has the power of changing colors.

All a user has to do is place Huey on any surface, and he will emit a glow equal to that of the ground below him.

There is a video of this after the jump to show Huey in action, and I was surprised at how quickly he can change color. I sure that even real chameleons don’t color shift as fast as this one does.

I believe that Huey works by having multiple LEDs of different colors mixing together to form the precise color needed. That color will be whatever Huey detects on his optical sensor, located just below his belly.


According to my Source, Huey will cycle through the various colors in his spectrum if left alone, and he can be “locked” in a specific color if squeezed.

Eco Memo Pad

Special items

Eco Speakers

Chopsticks Aid

If you find yourself in Asia without chopsticks chops, consider the Chopsticks Aid.The sleek-looking fork face attached to sticks was designed by a Czech man namedJaroslav Kucera. Because, you know, those Czechs are always looking out for our chopstick dexterity. Or you could just learn how to use chopsticks.

Animals Transformer

Bandai released a new series of trading figures in the form of kanji that transforms into its animal counterpart. The product is called "Mojibakeru" [もじバケる] which is a compound word of "Moji" [文字] meaning "character" and "Bakeru" [化ける] meaning "to change into."