Yanko Design - Form Beyond Function

I can only hope that we don’t destroy the earth to an extent that would render air unbreathable, but it seems like it’s an approaching reality. The Air Baby-car is a conceptual baby pram that creates a protective pod around the baby, while allowing the left and right wheels to be inlets and outlets for air respectively. The Air Baby-carriage houses an air purifying unit that gets working on the air that enters through the inlet, so the air your baby breathes is free of contaminants… something that is essential for little children, given how low their immunity is at that age. Not only does the air entering teh pram get purified, the air exiting the outlet is purified too, so that the parent in turn breathes uncontaminated air! Who thought one pram could play such a large role in a family’s well-being?!

Designers: Huang-yiqi, Liu-yiqi, Zheng-yonghao, Zhao-bingcong and Zhou-junbin.

Say you’ve got a small yard but it’s not quite large enough for a full size lawnmower… you’re pretty much confined to using a string trimmer but then you’ve gotta deal with all the clippings! The Brushmaster is an intermediate solution that combines a cutting system with a vacuum motor to both clip and clean up your lawn. Wireless and rechargeable with a dedicated dock, users can hand groom their grass in a similar fashion to a dustbuster vacuum! When you’re finished, simply press the quick-release button to easily dispose of yard clippings.

Designer: Fraser Leid

When you use the word ‘soft’ with the word ‘light’ it usually means that the light’s intensity is soft. However the SolarPuff is a different type of soft light. The lighting device is literally soft! Made out of a fabric that allows the light to flexibly expand like a balloon (with a puff of air), the Solight SolarPuff is a green, reliable source of clean light, meant for developing countries and societies. Eliminating the need for kerosene or other oil based lamps, the LED powered SolarPuff ‘breathes a fresh breath of air’ into home lighting by not just making efficient use of a renewable energy resource, but being an interactive and fun product! The specially engineered fabric is durable, flexible, and water-resistant, while the shape of SolarPuff is unusually pleasing to inflate or deflate! When deflated, it becomes just 6mm thick, allowing you to stow it away for later usage. Plus, wouldn’t you want to own a lamp you could use as a aura-emanating stress ball?!

Designer: Alice Min Soo Chun

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A day in the life of You: Wake up, unhook the phone from the charger – shower – embrace the day – carry laptop, tablet, phone, backup charger, pen drive to work or college or café – use devices and then restart the process of charging various devices on-the-go and yet feel the frustration of ‘why so many items in my hand’ and ‘damn those cables!’ Sounds familiar? My day is more or less the same, and the constant need to keep devices juiced up gets annoying at times. The Xpress-PRO Aluminum Edition is not the fountain of youth but it’s an award-winning charging battery with a 256GB memory drive built in that promises to make things easy.

The purpose of this credit card sized pack is to be efficient and functional; it helps us to manage data and stay connected with full power, all the time. It is the ultimate mobile assistant that helps save time and promotes convenience. The built-in cables, data storage of up to 256GB, and fast charging is ideal for people like us, who are constantly traveling or have packed schedules.

Buy It Here: $69.00 $129.00. Limited to 100. 35 Left ONLY.

Autonomous vehicles are now a reality on land, and the next natural step is to take to the sea! The Algoritmi concept explores this possibility for cargo carrying vessels.

Complete autonomy is made possible by an intricate technology combination that includes on-board supercomputer system architecture with AI for auto management and control, ultrasound and laser sensors, radars and anti-collision systems, as well as 360° cameras, satellite and GPS navigation systems. These technologies will be able to make the vessel full autonomous with an unlimited range of operations

Measuring in at 800 meters, the massive ship is powered by a compact atomic fusion reactor capable of producing 400 megawatts of energy to drive a turbine. Enough to get across entire seas in a clean safe way at 40 knots.

Designer: BelKharmoudi Aziz

Not many people are experts with hatchets. The Hound from Game of Thrones makes it look really easy to tear through timber using an axe, but I’ll be honest, I’ve got the upper body strength of a cheap mannequin. Moreover, it’s important to know how to use an axe too. After all, you don’t want to be blindly swinging such a deadly weapon! The Tomahawk Hawkaxe is designed to not just be efficient, but also promote the correct style of using the axe. Its hollow blade area makes it unbelievably light, which means you need to hold the axe near the blade to exert force, because there isn’t much momentum with an axe this light. This little hack actually gets us to operate the axe the right way!

The axe also comes with a hammer-head on the back, making it a multi-tool. The hammer adds some much needed weight to the blade area, making sure the contraption isn’t too light. The design is inspired by its namesake, the Hawk. The blade resembles the hawk’s raptorial beak, giving it a unique cut-away shape at the bottom that makes it easy for the hand to hold onto the axe right behind the blade to ensure and enhance accuracy. What a wonderfully coincidental bit of bio-mimicry, eh??

Designer: Kevin Clarridge