Luxury Gadget of the day: Gumavir’s Swiss System Royal bed
By Cheryl | August 23, 2008
Futuristic concepts and designs are a rage. The latest in the category is the “Bed of the future”. If you are thinking that it will be loaded with high-tech speakers and LCDs, you are wrong. Instead of all those techno-features the is futuristic in a different sense. It basically targets your comfort levels.
It works on a technology that makes it an adjustable system via 8 built-in motors that help you adjust the bed in hundreds different positions to give you the most comfy position.
It also brings along an infrared remote control with which you can modify the positions of the bed.
Not just this, the bed also features spacious storage system like the regular double beds and a elegantly designed headboard upholstered in elegant napa leather and is available in a variety of colors adding into the lavishness. Talking about the price, the futuristic Swiss System Royal bed will cost you a crisp $8000 USD and to bring it in your bedroom you’ll have to head to Isreal where it is being sold currently.
Glow rug: The glow when pressed carpet
By Andrew | March 30, 2008
Red carpet is passé….it seems it’s the time for Glow Carpet welcomes now! No, we are not intimidating you about any alterations in the grand ‘Red-carpet welcome’ at the Oscars, but about a futurist carpet concept that is god enough to give a glowing warm welcome to your guests or beloved!
We are talking about the Glow Rug, invented by two engineering students - , co-founders of Zolo Designs at London South Bank University. In a layman’s language, with every step your guests put on the rug it will glow to give them a warm welcome.
Now talking about the technicalities, the rug is treated with touch-sensitive electroluminescence, which glows as some weight falls on it. Electroluminescence comes into process by passing current through light-emitting material, when it is electrified (powdered phosphorous in this case). When excited, it produces an instantly recognizable green-cyan glow, which you usually find in LCD wristwatches and thin film nightlights.
Powered by a set of rechargeable batteries, illumination of the Glow rug finds its roots in this concept itself. So the next time you have some guests…you know how you are going to welcome them. And in case you are sleep walker or a tripping and falling-pro, then you have an extra requirement of the Glow Rug, for with this on the floors you won’t have to search for the switches of night lights. And in case you have a party at your home Glow rug can be handy there too…not just in the glow when press mode, but in pre-set time for flashing mode as well.
Via: Livescience
Curtains get a new fall with Magnetic Curtains
By Andrew | February 7, 2008
Please don’t kill me for what I’ve brought next is another household gadget. But it’s not simple anymore, rather a highly advanced version of your good old curtains, which had been living a life untouched by those techies till now.
But they are no more untouched today…finally they have made it to the technology world and it has transformed the old free-falling cloth curtain into a highly advanced magnetic curtain.
We are talking about the curtains designed by Florian Krautli’s that’s sure to leave the interior designer’s sighing!
The catch here is that the magnetic effect in the curtains allows the user to fold, crush, place, shape their curtains in whatever beautiful, whimsical, unique or bizarre shape they like.
In short, curtains will no longer have a great fall…but unique folds that the curtains and curtain users are accustomed to but will feature creases instead.
Must say curtains have finally moved out of the home into the techie-arena…lets wait and watch for the next new innovation they go through!!
Via: DVice