French designer Adrien Guérin has created a new system that provides a solution to handle the plethora of individual controlling systems which are a result of different gadgets that we use in the house. The gadgets may have made our lives easier but the fact remains that we need to really get hassled while trying to control all those attractive gadgets all at once.

He has come up with a new idea called the Home Sound Lifestyle. It is being touted as a virtual key for all your gadgets and you can control your digital entertainment systems very easily and that too, within no time. The media centre works on the principle of senses and thus allows you to organize, receive and share information very easily.

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Parrot, an established brand known for its production of Bluetooth accessories is all set to expand its niche by adding Bluetooth-enabled digital picture frame. Designed by celebrated French designer Andrée Putman, the new Parrot Digital Photo Frame is the first-ever in a line of new, designer-style products offered by the company. Prided at $450, it features a seven-inch screen and uses Bluetooth wireless technology in order to let you transfer photos unswervingly from an appliance i.e. mobile phone. The elite digital photo frame also sports uploading of photos via a SD card or USB and its internal memory can stock up over 400 photos and picture slideshows. Anticipated to be available by the end of this month, it is competent against Kodak easyshare w1020 and w820 internet enabled wireless digital photo frames and DSM-210 digital frame.
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A new concept is ready to hit your mind and its elite theory aim s at not only hitting but dominating it. Called the Local River, it is a creation by a French designer Mathieu Lehanneur and stands upon the theory of domestic “refrigerator-aquarium” that raises freshwater fish for eating and grows vegetables simultaneously. In layman terms, it can be defined as aquaponic kitchen gardens with integrated fish tank. It can be seen as a perfect replacement of ornamental ‘TV aquarium’ by a life-sized ‘refrigerator-aquarium’. For this particular design, Mathieu takes inspiration from a San Francisco based group known as the Locavores who eat foods grown within a 100-mile radius of their city to diminish their impact on the surroundings.

The project enables people to grow their own food at home and thus the growing vegetables in floating pots assures purification of water by eliminating nitrates and other reserves. The concept will be demonstrated at the Artists Space Gallery in New York from 25 April. Well, saying how early it can be devised is not possible now but we are hoping seeing it installed in various homes in near future.

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