Posted in Concept, Outdoor, Travel on 6 November 2009
It is called 3 Rms, Lk Vu by Michigan-based design firm Jruiter. It is a boat concept that takes your living home to water! Yet, it is not a houseboat one finds in tourist destinations across the world which make up for floating hotels. It is more personalized in nature. You can use it over a day for a picnic on a quite river. You could call it part apartment, or an outdoor living space for its features offer just that.
The pontoon boat houses a kitchen with dining space, a living room with seating, and a basking deck for sun-bathing or just chilling. You can relax and enjoy floating on the water with your family or friends, or move over to the floating kitchen for some quick cooking. All these come with a space heater that is tucked behind a retro style vent.
Posted in Home Decor on 9 December 2008
Versace is…VERSACE!!! Well, what else you say about a brand that is a benchmark in itself. Letting us live life king size yet again, the famous luxury house is celebrating the festive season with the Stone Palace Collection. A combination of beauty with technology and utility, this unique collection of tiles has been done up extensively in porcelain stone.
A collaborative venture by Gianni Versace and the ceramic tile industry mogul Gardenia-Orchidea, this eclectic decor design is available in two different surface finishes. In other words, the collection can be readily used for your kitchen, in the garden or the living room.
Posted in Concept, Designer, Elite Find of the Day, Gadgets, Home Decor, Technology on 30 May 2008
Till date we have been welcoming futuristic creation of homes by various designers. How about lending attention to Microsoft’s reflection of the “Home of the Future”? A software company took it as an opportunity to create a mock home that fits well the title of technology-driven home for tomorrow. The home erected at their campus in Redmond, Washington is now 15 years old but the topical restoration sports Microsoft’s prophecy of how household electronics and amenities should look and can look in coming years.
Through the mock model, it has been clearly conveyed that everything in this home runs on a central network together with cell phones and even home’s doorbell located as nodes on that network. The entry of family members to the home is easily identified by their mobile devices and hence they receive a warm welcome. Equipped with the RFID factor, virtually everything in this home is embedded with radio-frequency-identification technology. There is also a possibility of installing a system, which understands the need for scattered things to go back where it belongs. At kitchen front, while pulling out the needed appliances and ingredients, the “smart kitchen” can sense what they are about to make and hence helps them by enabling the countertop display the recipe.
But this is not all. In order to maintain its exclusivity, Microsoft’s future home does not consist of walls and surfaces covered with PC monitors and screens.
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