If you love to enjoy music, like to collect records and travel frequently, then this LP player concept would be the right choice. Fantastic LP Player Concept by Charlie Pyott, a Designer from the USA.
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Siemens and artist Michael Pendry created “the world’s biggest revolving Christmas star” in Münich, Germany. Amazing and magical! 9,000 LEDs were superglued to a wind turbine in just under two weeks. It uses as much energy as a hair dryer. The city of Münich will keep up the Christmas Star until the Day of Ephiphany on Januray 6, which is the last official day of the Christmas season. Continue reading for the amazing Video.
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Mint Cube is a retro style music player designed exclusively for men. MintPass is quickly becoming a source of great new and interesting products. The 2-inch Mint Cube features a striking cubic design that’s punctuated by large analog meters on three sides of the cube. The frontal one is the volume unit meter, another tells you how much battery life remains, and the last one tells you what station the built-in FM tuner is dialed to. The cube may not have a LCD screen, but it has VU meter and other analog indicators that can attract enough attention from your friends. It is great for men who are fashionable and tech savvy.
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By designers Wu Kun-chia, Wang Shih-ju, Chen Ming-daw and Liou Chang, Flexio is a really awesome radio that’s solar powered and portable. It includes a speaker on one side and a solar cell on the other, both of which are light and flexible. The design would be modified to be a wallet itself, with speakers within and the solar panels as the exterior. The only drawback to the design is that the radio only picks up one fixed FM channel.
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This concept is a road guidance tool that is designed to direct pedestrians and travelers to their final destination using existing elements in the urban landscape. It locates the pedestrian with a starting point and provides information on the exact distance and average walk time to the listed landmarks. Designer Kwon also provides a proposal for selling advertising space to local establishments. Map-Hole also provides new advertising space for location based retailers which can be quite effective when provided the information of distance and the short time it would take them there.
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Credit Card USB Flash Drives. They’re available over at dealextreme in both 4GB and 2GB versions. Now we can use these useless lying credit cards to store some digital data. Clever idea!
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The clock “Continue Time” was designed by Sander Mulder. On this Continue Time clock, two out of the three pointers rotate around another pointer, instead of the central point on the clock face, as with traditional clocks. The result is kinetic artwork that changes it shape continiously during a 12 hours rotation.

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Canon Copier was cut in half to essentially show why this device costs as much as it does.  [Via]

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The Web Trend Map 2009 by the Information Architects. The map pins down nearly 333 of the most successful and influential websites and the 111 most influential internet people to the greater Tokyo area train map. The height of a station refers to its traffic, revenue and trend. Amazing!
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Those painted line dividers we see everywhere this days. But Korean designer Ji-Hye Koo has come up with an ecodesign that covers painted lines on the streets with Nature On A Tape - essentially a pre-potted strip of grass that’ll grow with no effort.
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