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everybody loves stuff

cubby — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 04:48:08 -0800

Best designed stuff of '06. The Industrial Design Excellence Awards. Winners include the 2 second tent, a new coffin and the hover creeper. Want more design? See what shaking in ecodesign, gadgetr y, or concept cars. Perhaps you just want to know what's cool or what those crafty Germans are up to. Then again, maybe it's all just too much to handle.

By: Serial Killer Slumber Party

Serial Killer Slumber Party — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 05:42:08 -0800

Whenever I see design awards I'm always expecting a bunch of whacky looking chairs. Unfortunately all we have here are a bunch of highly useful and practical tools and objects. Jokes aside, I really like that tent, even though I can tell that putting it back together would be nowhere as easy as they say. It never is.

By: danb

danb — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 05:55:32 -0800

The memory card with the embedded USB connection is brilliant.

By: meh

meh — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 06:09:44 -0800

Those crafty Germans. They're always up to something, aren't they?

By: briank

briank — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 06:18:30 -0800

No awards for IDEO ths year? Unbelievable!

By: jonson

jonson — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 06:29:28 -0800

What's a "creeper", in the case of the hover creeper? Is it what automechanics lie on when they roll under your car?

By: paulsc

paulsc — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 06:34:29 -0800

The endorsement copy for that ResQ hydraulic rescue thing on the first link is wacky brilliant, in a Designer with a capital D sorta way:

"Powerful, capable, confident. Exactly the impression you want to project in an emergency." --Richard Eisermann, founder, Prospect

Because looking like a star is 90% of being a star.

By: octothorpe

octothorpe — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 06:38:04 -0800

A hoverboard for mechanics! What a cool idea since you always have pressured air in a shop anyway.

By: dansdata

dansdata — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 06:50:15 -0800

I suppose the self-opening tent is an improved version or something, because that concept's been around for some time. If, for instance, you watch the 1999 "Brotherhood of Man" episode of The Drew Carey Show, you'll see Drew deploy one with, needless to say, a flourish. Further snarkery may be found here.

By: dobie

dobie — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 07:04:26 -0800

"...brings a new, fresh design to monitoring and surveillance...you'll want to watch it while it's watching you."

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 07:08:25 -0800

Holy crap, a flashlight that can take any sized battery? Where the fuck have you been all my life clever flashlight?

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 07:30:51 -0800

everybody loves stuff That's the main problem with this planet.

By: twine42

twine42 — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 07:54:26 -0800

The hover board thing struck me as crap until I saw you can also use it to power other things. Sounds great for the high end market, although most guys will stick with a board with four castors for £20 and five miuntes work. But who the hell designed the IDEA logo? That is truly awful.

By: kliuless

kliuless — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 09:23:37 -0800

i like portland's south waterfront design strategy (cf.) and panasonic's household fuel cell cogeneration system :P Nutty Buddy® - designed to hold your nuts!

By: seawallrunner

seawallrunner — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 09:35:00 -0800

nice awards site - but you would think that they would add an URL for people to find out more about each products. The 2-second tent site was a bit of a ramble to find, then ggaaaah! flash overload. Nice idea though...

By: jonson

jonson — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 10:04:03 -0800

The is a pretty awesome post, cubby, I must say. I have spent at least 30 minutes sifting through all the various award winners, and I've plenty left to still check out. Thanks!

By: renraw

renraw — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 11:45:44 -0800

That coffin gives me the heeby-jeebies. I'm also not entirely sure why you'd want a coffin "free of the associations of the typical rectilinear casket" since I'd imagine most of those associations have to do with exactly what the "cocoon" is built for: puttin' dead folks in the ground.

By: oneirodynia

oneirodynia — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 13:34:34 -0800

It took me awhile to figure out why the Next Generation CyberKinfe Concept Investigation kinda freaked me out.

By: oneirodynia

oneirodynia — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 13:37:15 -0800

whoops-my first link should be this.

By: alona

alona — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 22:39:25 -0800

i dunno about you guys, but me? i heartily laughed at some of these products, in a good way. i like the hovercraft, and the bike/scooter crossbreed (#32). the chrysler AKINO (#48) was just plain friggin smart). the nutty buddy (#53) made me giggle like a schoolgirl (don't ask), and the disaster relief shelters (#56) were downright ridiculous.

By: luminous phenomena

luminous phenomena — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 22:47:57 -0800

That coffin looks familliar.

By: alona

alona — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 22:54:01 -0800

All of these similarities to Star Trek are making me think that maybe, back in the mid-60's, Gene Roddenberry had a pretty clear and pretty acurate idea of what the future would be like. Who knows what'll come next!?

By: fenriq

fenriq — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 23:58:47 -0800

I always enjoy these design awards posts, thanks!