Yuka Nishimura, a famous Japanese vegetable sommelier, happens to be one of my best friends. She was planning to make a website, so I helped her with the design. It’s just launched, so if you have a chance, take a look (all in Japanese). She’s hosting “Vegetable & Fruit Inner Beauty Salon” and has published lots of related books.
Author: Mac
CEO/Designer at Enfani
Multi-award winning designer of products, concepts and all digital things. Leading Enfani, a design team creating designs to go straight to your heart.
Enfani brings out not only your inner playfulness through our designs, but surprise, fun and usefulness that stimulates your intellect. We build a mechanism where those talents and discoveries are shared to harness them for the benefit of people around the world.
Desktop Calendar Wallpaper: December 2008
By the way, I wanted to create a Xmas animation for every Christmas, but I have to give up this year. If you haven’t seen the movie I made last year, take a look.
Christmas movie
Swing, Charge & Study
Swing this many times and you get some electricity to charge your iPhone. This time, its motion censor sends your form data to your iPhone so that you can see your own golf swing animated.
Compare your form with that of Tiger Woods?
Caution: Make sure you are not too close to anyone when playing.
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See also the previous post.
Time-Telling Vibration
This is the mobile phone version of “Touch ‘n’ Know The Time”. Many people use their mobile phones as alarm clocks (including myself), so this might be a little help.
In short, you squeeze the phone and it vibrates for a second. The more “vigorously” it moves, the sooner it is until the set time. So you can FEEL how much more you can sleep without opening your eyes to check what time it is. Oh how lazy we can be!
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Oh, this phone? Yeah I thought you’d ask.
If you are ever able to completely customize your mobile phone on a website or something when ordering one, I’ll definitely make mine something like this. Does it remind you of one brand?
By the way, I heard my ideas (fireworks projection and handgrip charger) were introduced in a British TV “Richard & Judy” and a Colombian newspaper “El Tiempo”. Is there a way I can take a look at them???
User Interface Concept: Light Switch
Switch on and off all the wrong lights to find the right one? What a waste.
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Glassy Glassy
The previous mobile phone concept seems popular, so I made a few more designs with double glassy layers. Your fingerprints would have to be cleaned off so often, but I want to have one like these.
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/32242596]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMlVyY2EpLA&w=420&h=315]
It was used in the TOTOTA official near future mobility life short movie!
Blind-Fold
I remember the blind guy (Al Pacino) in “Scent of a Woman” keeps his bills folded so that he can distinguish which is which. I think this can be done automatically by an ATM. Or has it been already introduced somewhere?
Fold bills button for an ATM
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You Can Work It Out
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See #2 of this concept.
Your Kilo Bites?
This is an idea for a product design competition called pdweb design competition 2008.
Afraid of directly looking at your weight? Why don’t you hide with your foot and slowly reveal it?
Afraid your measured weight being seen by someone else? Don’t worry. It can be seen only from above.
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My Methodology
One year anniversary of petitinvention!
I started this blog on November 9th, 2007, so it’s just one year old. I really thank you all for your comments, pingbacks, interviews, features in magazines, etc. etc. I never thought it’d have this many readers and fans.
It was such a wonderful first year, but I just had by far the most exciting experience last week, which I’ll be able to let you know next year.
As I mention in the about page, I’m having my rough scribbles in my Moleskine rendered with 3D apps to show here. I think I’ve introduced roughly 30-50% of all the ideas in the book. Of 10 ideas I think of, about 3 are usable for this blog, 3 are too trivial and 4 too crazy to show. I hope there will be a chance to show the rest some time.
I’ve never had a chance to say this, but every time I make a new post, I feel ashamed when thinking about the great product designers out there. I respect them very much because they have far better concepts than I do and try really hard to commodify their ideas solving lots of real-world problems with developers and others from various fields. On the other hand, what I do is just dreaming of something and showing them in a blog. So I often think that they’ll just laugh my idea off as a joke or something.
Feeling ashamed, I always think of a question that I often hear ever since I graduated from university:
“How do you stop the water running from the holes on a bowl?”
That is a question as a metaphor of problem solving in many situations. When I was in a service industry, my boss back then reminded me of the question many times, but my answer was always the same. I almost never told the boss about my answer because I didn’t think it was a realistic one, but now I know it doesn’t have to be realistic.
What is your answer? There must be no right answer, but here’s mine.
“Put a magnet that attracts water above it.”
It can not only prevent the water from running away, but also move the water away from the holes (upwards). That might not be a perfect solution for a problem, but that’s the way I think about stuff. Happy-go-lucky, right? But that magnet is what I really want. Creating a magnet is so much fun for me and I believe it’s that kind of magnet that moves the world forward. I can live on that magnet.
Sorry about my poor English, but I hope it makes sense to you.
Well anyway, I appreciate your interest. I hope I’m getting better in many ways.
