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Students from the College of Science and Technology at Deakin University create the home of the future: a compact house with adaptable rooms that will change as needed, and a shared garden and patio for up to 4 members of one family. The house has a single room, but at the same time possesses a dining room, office, living room, bathroom, and more! The students created the concept of “modules” so that the environments are “assembled” in accordance with the time or need.

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• http://www.ab.deakin.edu.au/online/futurehouse/
• http://www.deakin.edu.au/
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SNRzQSBJ8g

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Russian designer Yuriy Dmitriev has developed a refrigerator that keeps food fresh without any doors, drawers or motors. The Bio Robot Refrigerator uses an odorless biopolymer gel, which morphs around the food, creating individual pods. The gel absorbs heat (infrared radiation) and emits it in the visible spectrum, as well as protects from ultraviolet radiation that can damage the products. Food items are individually cooled at their optimal temperature and the Bio Robot Refrigerator can be placed vertically and horizontally, making this innovative appliance adaptable and sustainable.

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• http://www.electroluxdesignlab.com
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG7G8g6TktA

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A plant can be self-sufficient when it lives in its natural environment. It converts sunlight into nutrients with a process called photosynthesis, and needs the occasional rain shower to keep it hydrated and healthy. However, when kept indoors, plants can no longer fend for themselves, and need help to survive. BotaniCalls is an ongoing collaboration between scientists Rob Faludi, Kate Hartman, and Kati London, from New York City. BotaniCalls is a new technology that allows plants to communicate directly to people through the phone. A soil moisture sensor and a phone device allows plants to alert their owners when they are in need of water. Through this innovative technology, a plant will never die prematurely again.

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• http://www.botanicalls.com
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxqX5XM9SUE

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Lithuanian designer Zivile Januskaityte has conceived an all-purpose futuristic kitchen table called Cook ‘n’ Roll, which contains all necessary appliances for food preparation. Cook ‘n’ Roll consists of a cooktop, dishwasher, sink, oven, sanitizer, and a storage compartment for kitchen utensils. The innovative table has an easily movable rolling inductive top that allows people to use all of the available table functions, and the surface is cleaned and disinfected in the under-part of the table using negative ions. The Cook ‘n’ Roll table brings efficiency and innovation to the kitchen, allowing people to multitask like never before.

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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDTT_jfBsuw

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RavenBrick, a clean tech company in Denver, Colorado, has developed a smart film that when applied to a window can vary its tint based on the outside temperature. The product, named RavenWindow, automatically adapts to the outside temperature to reduce the need for air conditioning and heat. The thermo-reflective film, which uses nanotechnology to transition from a transparent to a reflective state, is expected to reduce energy consumption in buildings by 40 percent.

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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh7-57zOmC0
• http://www.ravenbrick.com/

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Technology is leaving the confines of computers and becoming more interactive than ever. Patrick Baudisch and his colleagues at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany, have developed a touch-screen floor prototype called Multitoe, which recognizes individual users by their shoe pattern and responds to such universally familiar actions as stomping your feet and tapping your toes. Using frustrated total internal reflection, Multitoe can sense pressure, recognize foot postures, and identity users based on the soles of their shoes.

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• http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/baudisch/projects/multitoe.html
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spiKgkW1UmI

Designer Boaz Mendel has created a piece of multifunctioning furniture, aptly named the Loop Chair. The chair is made of seven boards of differing lengths which are connected in a loop by hinges. By folding the loop into different shapes, the Loop Chair can be turned into different types of chairs and tables. In less than a minute, the Loop Chair can instantly change from a bar stool to a coffee table; in total there are twelve different ways for the chair to be arranged.

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• http://sites.google.com/site/mendelboazdesign/home/loop-chair
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5iRB8amlw0

Hong Kong is a busy cosmopolitan city with a growing problem of shrinking.  Being one of the busiest port cities in the world a growing number of people are moving there in pursuit of work.  All these emigrating people need homes but the city isn’t able to expand to accommodate the growing need for more housing, forcing large families in to small apartments.  Architect Gary Chang tackled this issue by creating a sliding wall system in his 330 square foot apartment, allowing him to have 24 different rooms.

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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg9qnWg9kak

Imagine entering into an apartment where the furniture, from the lamp to the table, are suspended in midair, and the shelves do not need to be secured to the walls. Most people would simply believe this idea to be science-fiction, but it is actually possible. Thanks to the work of Angela Jansen and Ger Jansen, these pieces of furniture will enter into our homes faster than we can imagine. The Dutch company Crealev, short for “Creative Levitation Solutions”, has been working on implementing and perfecting levitation technology that allow furniture to float. This technology is not only innovative, it allows the designers to express their creativity without any limits.

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• http://www.crealev.com
• http://www.crealev.com/videos/

Swedish designer Camilla Diedrich has found a way to combine wallpaper with electric lights in order to create a fashionable and innovative way of illuminating a room. By incorporating fiber optics into wallpaper, Diedrich delivers a beautiful and interesting way of brightening our homes in a way never thought possible.

Wallpaper and illumination systems allow us to decorate our homes with plenty of space to express our inner designer. Today however, thanks to optic fibers we can integrate the two together.

In 1879 the era of artificial lighting was born under Thomas Edison. Not only was the first prototype of a lamp and an incandescent light bulb created, but also the acceleration of an entire industrial sector. Very few people remember that optic fibers are contemporary to the light bulb, and that significant progresses in the field were only starting to be made in the 1960’s. In reality, the optic fibers are very efficient conductors of electricity, and in this case, also a potential lighting alternative.

Nature Ray Charles is special wallpaper that entwines strings of optic fiber in a luminescent flower pattern, giving the room a truly amazing look. The Swedish designer, Camilla Dietrich, idealized the concept with the intent to find an innovative way to illuminate any room without having to use electrical lighting methods. The Swedish stylists are committed to rendering the design accessible to the public.

Imagine what type of scenarios we would be able to surround ourselves with if this optic fiber was powered by solar energy and sold at a cheaper price. The price of this wallpaper is still too high to be considered a product entering the mass-market, but the energy saving advantages it has will certainly draw public interest.

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• http://online.diedrich.se/