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Lotus is an air purifier with three portable and rechargeable air cleaning balls. While the main body offers a general purification, the balls can be taken anywhere according to need. These three rechargeable balls named Pure Ball, Odor Ball and Humid Ball aim to accomplish specific tasks. Super Plasma Ion Technology generates active hydrogen and oxygen ions which eliminate biological contaminants and active oxygen where they locate. Portable units are useful in situations where localized purification is necessary such as cooking, sleeping and closet cleaning.
Country: Turkey
Designer: Fulden Dehneli
University: Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Submission: electroluxdesignlab.com/2014/submission/lotus/
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Artwork realized by the Italian artist Edoardo Tresold (www.edoardotresoldi.com) for a royal event in Abu Dhabi in collaboration with Designlab Experience.
Photo © Roberto Conte (2017)
Lotus is an air purifier with three portable and rechargeable air cleaning balls. While the main body offers a general purification, the balls can be taken anywhere according to need. These three rechargeable balls named Pure Ball, Odor Ball and Humid Ball aim to accomplish specific tasks. Super Plasma Ion Technology generates active hydrogen and oxygen ions which eliminate biological contaminants and active oxygen where they locate. Portable units are useful in situations where localized purification is necessary such as cooking, sleeping and closet cleaning.
Country: Turkey
Designer: Fulden Dehneli
University: Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Submission: electroluxdesignlab.com/2014/submission/lotus/
Lotus is an air purifier with three portable and rechargeable air cleaning balls. While the main body offers a general purification, the balls can be taken anywhere according to need. These three rechargeable balls named Pure Ball, Odor Ball and Humid Ball aim to accomplish specific tasks. Super Plasma Ion Technology generates active hydrogen and oxygen ions which eliminate biological contaminants and active oxygen where they locate. Portable units are useful in situations where localized purification is necessary such as cooking, sleeping and closet cleaning.
Country: Turkey
Designer: Fulden Dehneli
University: Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Submission: electroluxdesignlab.com/2014/submission/lotus/
Mathew Gilbride’s modular, wall-mounted appliance provides flexible modes of cooking, refrigeration, air conditioning, lighting, and environmental design whilst reducing space. The appliance draws power wirelessly through ‘powermat’ technology applied to the wall, which is supplemented through solar energy as required. Multiple units and surfaces automatically work together through wireless smart networking, whilst customisation is offered by being able to install the units as the user prefers.
The Pantone Color of 2014, Radiant Orchid, looks great with everything from aqua to pink to soft butter yellow as well as the classic black suit.
— Photo Courtesy Michael Foley/DesignLab
The Pantone Color of 2014, Radiant Orchid, looks great with everything from aqua to pink to soft butter yellow.
— Photo Courtesy Michael Foley/DesignLab
The Peacock Dazzles! Strut your stuff with blues, to greens to purples all blending together. The addition of natural peacock feathers sets the color harmony and adds fabulous texture.
— Photo Courtesy Michael Foley/DesignLab
One of the images captured by me of the latest stage production by Designlab Experience (designlabexperience.com) in October in Kuwait.
The Bio Tank is a dishwasher, composter and pet in one. Plates are placed in to the ‘dish tank’ so that robotic fish can clean plates and dirty objects – effectively they ‘eat’ the plate clean before turning what they eat in to bio fuel. The robotic fish also use filters to clean the water, meaning it doesn’t need to be replaced. The Bio Tank provides a quirky, green way of cleaning dishes whilst ensuring company for those in the growing number of single househoulds.
Berty Bhuruth’s robotic vacuum cleaner concept is a response to a future where people will have less time and less space to store things, making efficient cleaning a problem. The Instinct Vacuum cleaner, a robotic, four-legged device that adapts to its environment, allows it to clean in even the messiest of places. The Instinct chooses the path of less cleaning resistance by consulting 3d models of the room it creates before tackling its task.
The ‘Community Fridge’ minimises space by acting as a grocery storage and ordering facility. Designed for use in communal buildings, each resident is assigned a space within the fridge to store their groceries. When time for a snack or refreshment a wall mounted digital interface facilitates direct ordering of items using a dedicated delivery shaft.
The In-home clothing printer knits, unravels and stores threads on demand, allowing users to print and recycle their own clothing. The interface allows the user to pick their outfit and have it printed to their size based on measurements taken by a camera. Joshua Harris, also predicts that fashion designers will release designs to be downloaded to the device and printed with materials stored in replaceable cartridges, depending on the desired fabric. As well as revolutionising the fashion industry, the In-home removes the need for space-wasting closets.
The Eco cleaner is a portable dishwasher and composter that uses ultrasonic waves to ionise food and turn it in to reusable waste. Ahi Andy Mohsen’s concept is designed for use within the increasing numbers of single households and specifically meeting dual predictions: that future food will be supplied in capsule form (thus reducing the required size of vessels to prepare and eat from); and that there will be reduced time for household chores. The Eco cleaner is simultaneously green and space efficient.
The A-Laundry portable washing machine resembles a coin dispenser, albeit with space designed for laundry baskets rather than coins. Kai Wai Lee’s design adapts the laundrette for shared building and communal use. Individually owned laundry baskets are kept by users in their own residence until laundry time. The basket is then placed in the communal machine, removing the need for individual washing machines.
Berty Bhuruth’s robotic vacuum cleaner concept is a response to a future where people will have less time and less space to store things, making efficient cleaning a problem. The Instinct Vacuum cleaner, a robotic, four-legged device that adapts to its environment, allows it to clean in even the messiest of places. The Instinct chooses the path of less cleaning resistance by consulting 3d models of the room it creates before tackling its task.
The “Butl-R-Bot” is a robotic kitchen assistant. Responsive artificial intelligence and advanced technologies, such as humanetic arms, fan arrays (allowing movement), cameras and advanced sensors, allow Butl-R-Bot to cook meals, order and collect food, as well as interact with kitchen utensils and appliances. Due to its compact design (35cm wingspan), it fits well in small, urban kitchens. And its functionality allows the user to spend more time at work or play, in an increasingly busy and stressful future.
Butl-R-Bot by Tim Leeding, Coventry University, UK, within the top 25 best Electrolux Design Lab ´09 entries.
Two years in China provided the inspiration for Nicolas Hubert’s external refrigerator. Fixed directly on the outside wall of residential buildings, the concept is an elaboration on a way of life in northern China where food is kept on balconies in the winter to save space and energy. During cold seasons and at night, the low external temperatures are used to provide the right climate for items in the fridge. During warmer weather, the sun is used to transform light into energy through solar panels Nicolas reflects Electrolux design values: the shape and finish are kept pure and simple so as to ensure easy integration with the external urban environment, whilst a range of colours and ambient lighting further facilitate this.
The In-home clothing printer knits, unravels and stores threads on demand, allowing users to print and recycle their own clothing. The interface allows the user to pick their outfit and have it printed to their size based on measurements taken by a camera. Joshua Harris, also predicts that fashion designers will release designs to be downloaded to the device and printed with materials stored in replaceable cartridges, depending on the desired fabric. As well as revolutionising the fashion industry, the In-home removes the need for space-wasting closets.
Duna, the semi-transparent fabric-based installation by Alberonero and part of Gharfa, the experiential pavilion installation presented by Studio Studio Studio, the new interdisciplinary lab founded by Edoardo Tresoldi.
The installation is part of the temporary creative project "Diriyah Oasis", designed and curated by Dubai-based studio Designlab Experience, and located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
© Roberto Conte (2019)
Qumi is a fold out universal kitchen set. It can be used to heat, fry and steam a wide variety of food types (including liquids such as soup or sauces). When in storage the Qumi takes up little space (no more than a dinner plate) and is designed to be hung on an induction charging hook, making it wireless and portable. The concept features no display or control panel, rather all instructions are processed via mobile devices in the network ready home of the future.
UrbanCONE creates healthy microclimates outdoors as it can purify the air around the entire city – as well as in our homes. The device lifts up and flies in the air thanks to ultra light construction and photovoltaic solar panel wings moving according to the resemblance of a jellyfish. The purification is made by exchangeable filters that lie underneath the wings of the cones. UrbanCONE is an automatic, radio-controlled smart device, which clusters in population centers with greater need for filtration.
Country: Poland
Designer: Michał Pośpiech
University: The Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Poland
Submission: electroluxdesignlab.com/2014/submission/urbancone/
The MESO is a food supplement injection device that removes the need for cooking, food preparation and associated cleaning by simply injecting the nutrients found in food directly in to the blood stream from different capsules. The device also carries out blood samples to determine what the best nutritional elements are required by the person receiving the ‘meal’.
Future Hunter-Gatherer is a virtual grocery shopping experience inspired by nature. It projects a hologram that lets the user play a game to gather food by fishing, hunting or gathering the food from nature. The food the user collects in the game is then transmitted to the local grocery store or market, that in turn gathers the goods and deliver them to the user’s door. In addition to making the shopping experience more fun, it also gives kids a better understanding of where the food they eat actually comes from.
Country: United Kingdom
Designer: Pan Wang
University: Masters Industrial Design, China
Central Saint Martins , United Kingdom
Submission: electroluxdesignlab.com/2014/submission/future-hunter-gat...
The A-Laundry portable washing machine resembles a coin dispenser, albeit with space designed for laundry baskets rather than coins. Kai Wai Lee’s design adapts the laundrette for shared building and communal use. Individually owned laundry baskets are kept by users in their own residence until laundry time. The basket is then placed in the communal machine, removing the need for individual washing machines.
Automated cleaning makes a further appearance in the guise of four little robots that will clean your living space whilst you are away or indeed whilst you relax. The robots are charged at a base station where they empty the dust and debris they have collected from your home. This means no more manual cleaning – freeing up time and space – the robots take up little more room than a tennis ball.
Taking its inspiration from the humble steam iron, the Lupe is a hand held waterless ‘washing machine’. At the same time as it cleans clothing, the Lupe also dries and irons, removing the need for individual space intensive appliances. A translucent body magnifies dust, bacteria and other impurities on the textiles, to confirm if such unwanted elements have been removed.
Iosif Mihailo’s vision of the future includes the Bx7, a concept that can be used to mix capsules of zinc, calcium, magnesium, or carbohydrates with water to create a tasty nutritious juice. With less time, the Bx7 allows the user to prepare and consume meals on the go. The Bx7 is also equipped with internet connectivity to facilitate reordering of ‘food’ capsules.
Taking its inspiration from the humble steam iron, the Lupe is a hand held waterless ‘washing machine’. At the same time as it cleans clothing, the Lupe also dries and irons, removing the need for individual space intensive appliances. A translucent body magnifies dust, bacteria and other impurities on the textiles, to confirm if such unwanted elements have been removed.
The Freedge brings innovation to an appliance that has seen little modification since its first inception. Matthew McNaughton’s concept maximises the spatial capacity of a home by placing the bulky storage compartment of the fridge beyond an exterior wall, until it is actually needed, at which point a draw in the wall is utilised to bring the fridge and its contents to the user. This solution also requires less energy – during cold external temperatures the fridge does not need so much energy to keep food cold.
Dulyawat Wongnawa (an Electrolux Design Lab finalist from 2009) has conceived a storage unit that cleans clothes using ‘Airwash’ technology (with ozone being created to remove bacteria and odours, as currently found in industrial cleaning) and steam to remove wrinkles. The Zephyr integrates a number of laundry processes in to one to free up space.
The GAIA Root concept is a self sustaining, wall mounted ‘personal ecosystem’ that creates energy from a living wall of plants providing air circulation, air purification and temperature control abilities. Envisaged as a personal touch of green, the wall units are modular so can be fitted in to homes and apartments of different sizes as required to provide individualised clean air whilst taking a minimum of space.
The Inflower Clothes cleaner completely rethinks the laundry process, drawing influence (in name at least) from a literal combination of insects and flowers. These solar powered miniature cleaners (each no larger than the palm of a hand) use nano technology to clean clothing without water and take a minimum of space. Jianjiang Yin’s invention also doubles as an air purifier and can be used on clothes that are either in use or in storage with the cleaners placed on the spot that needs cleaning.
Andras Suto’s design allows a community to share a washing machine more easily and efficiently. Assuming further population growth and the development of a more eco friendly mentality, more apartment complexes will have communal washing machines. The design is basically an extractable washing machine drum. Each apartment block would have its own individual drum that also doubles as a laundry basket. The portable drum is then connected to the community machine as and when required.
Iosif Mihailo’s vision of the future includes the Bx7, a concept that can be used to mix capsules of zinc, calcium, magnesium, or carbohydrates with water to create a tasty nutritious juice. With less time, the Bx7 allows the user to prepare and consume meals on the go. The Bx7 is also equipped with internet connectivity to facilitate reordering of ‘food’ capsules.
The A-Laundry portable washing machine resembles a coin dispenser, albeit with space designed for laundry baskets rather than coins. Kai Wai Lee’s design adapts the laundrette for shared building and communal use. Individually owned laundry baskets are kept by users in their own residence until laundry time. The basket is then placed in the communal machine, removing the need for individual washing machines.
The GAIA Root concept is a self sustaining, wall mounted ‘personal ecosystem’ that creates energy from a living wall of plants providing air circulation, air purification and temperature control abilities. Envisaged as a personal touch of green, the wall units are modular so can be fitted in to homes and apartments of different sizes as required to provide individualised clean air whilst taking a minimum of space.
Set to Mimic is a set of smart kitchenware that recreates tastes and smells of your food to your preference. By placing a noninvasive transparent gel patch with a microchip on your head, the plate and glass communicates wirelessly with your brain, to make you experience a taste or smell from the past by tapping in to your memory. That way you can eat a carrot but have the impression that you're eating an ice cream or a steak, which makes it easier to lead a healthy life.
Country: Romania
Designer: Sorina Răsteanu
University: West University Of Timisoara, Romania
Submission: electroluxdesignlab.com/2014/submission/set-to-mimic/
Automated cleaning makes a further appearance in the guise of four little robots that will clean your living space whilst you are away or indeed whilst you relax. The robots are charged at a base station where they empty the dust and debris they have collected from your home. This means no more manual cleaning – freeing up time and space – the robots take up little more room than a tennis ball.