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Showing posts with label industrial design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label industrial design. Show all posts

Sunday, August 30, 2009

A solar-powered shelter for campers


Self-sufficient outdoor habitat for camping industry.

Mostly all campsites are far from cities and require fuel-eating generators to bring illumination after dark. Industrial designer Benjamin Charles is out there to help the camping and the hotel industry with semi-nomad structures that are almost self-sufficient

Coupled with solar thermal panel to provide hot water for kitchen and bathroom the shelters ensure that your camping vacation isn’t a threat to the ecosystem. To give more autonomy to the campers, the shelters are equipped with dry toilets, which save a lot of precious water.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

PC studio


With the growing needs of modern education, technology has become an integral part of contemporary classrooms to complement conventional methods and compete with the best in business. Blending modern style with traditional structure, the “pcStudio” from Zukun Plan is common yet flexible school desks that molds conventional classrooms into a hi-tech computer lab, allowing teachers to control the class pace and organize content to all of the workstations in the classroom. Supporting a digital course structure, the pcStudio lets students download all the assignments onto a small flash drive, which they can install on their home PCs.

With latest developments of a particular subject or topic at their disposal, students can definitely enhance their knowledge and skills not only for examination but for job careers as well. Allowing students to display videos, web pages, text pages or notes, installed by the teacher, the pcStudio functions like a regular PC, enhancing their working computer skills without spending time and money for special computer courses. Moreover, the pcStudio comes with a touch sensitive display that permits the use of a stylus to write papers, solve math equations, highlight text and take notes, creating a digital classroom environment for students.