Divide and Drool

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Even the people who did pathetically at maths in school will create a ruckus if they get a slightly smaller size of a cake, pie, or pizza. They become geometry experts only when it matters, and cakes, pies and pizzas definitely matter! I say this because I’m one of those guys! The Sharing Knife’s design is quite engaging in the sense that it allows you to equally cut and distribute pieces of cake without having to sweat over geometric accuracy. The knife has a flexible blade that can be adjusted so that pieces can be made larger or smaller, depending on the number of pieces to be cut. The cutting tool’s design also ensures that the cake pieces can be removed easily instead of the tricky slide-your-knife-under maneuver. A guide near the handle allows you to know where to position the flexible blade.to get the desired number of pieces. Just set the setting and slide the knife-tool downwards into the cake to cut a perfectly proportionate piece. Slide the piece outwards and onto a plate and it’s ready to serve! Too bad you can’t reserve the largest piece for yourself anymore!! :(

Designer: Ryan Jongwoo Choi

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Go home, lamp, you’re drunk.

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This elegant and playful upcycling project was made possible by using one glass bottle and one piece of wood! To create the illusion of the lean, the bottle was taped and precision broken before being attached to the wood base for support. To hide the seam, the light’s colorful red cord was wrapped around the bottle’s base. Placed inside the bottle, the light provides a subtle, romantic glow perfect for lighting the mood at dinner!

Designer: Ryan Jongwoo Choi

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The Upcycling Project

By simply adding an aesthetic cap to it, designer Ryan Choi hopes to extend the useful life of a plastic bottle. Many bottles get dumped and wasted, so adding this cap not only extends the life but also adds purpose; for example making a vase out of the bottle – Upcycling the form.

Ryan explains, “The cap protects against unwanted elements entering the bottle and as easy use lid that opens and closes quite simply for usability.”

Details: H 50mm X W 68mm X D 68mm

Designer: Ryan Jongwoo Choi

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Clever Kitchen Tray

The Smart Tray offers a lifestyle solution to those who live in cramped apartments and could do with fewer dishes in the kitchen. Aimed at the next-gen who prefers eating in front of the television, this kitchen appliance facilitates a more positive attitude towards housekeeping. The smart materials used in the tray allow it to be transformed into various dishes and are easy to clean at the end of a meal.

Designer: Ryan Jongwoo Choi

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Cup Burns

Burning Cup offers a solution to reheating or microwaving your tepid coffee (or beverage) and losing its flavor. The cup prevents the drink from cooling down due to heat release to the outside. It uses sodium acetate to get the heat going. This what the designer says, “The sodium acetate contained in the inside of the cup design can regulate the heat of beverage. The liquid solution breaks the balance of liquid state with a tiny impact and hardens it solid, and it then generates heat momentarily.”

This heat generated by such an impact maintains the temperature of the beverage in the cup for a longer period of time. Every time you feel the beverage going a bit cold, simply crackle the sodium acetate from the outside once again and restart the heating process.

Designer: Ryan Jongwoo Choi

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Water and Light

The ES Pipe Waterwheel concept works as a mini turbine to harness hydropower from regular water taps and converts it to energy. However this energy is for a specific use; to power specialized bulbs. The intended area of use is a country like Africa where there is severe power shortage. On paper, the idea looks good enough to execute, however how large scale can this go, remains to be seen.

ES Pipe Waterwheel is a 2012 IDEA awards entry.

Designer: Ryan Jongwoo Choi

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