Category: Gadgets

Everyone needs at some point inspiration when it comes to interior decorating and while we’re in the era of advanced technology, why not enjoy all the benefits that come along with it and make visions come to life with little resources and time. As these days Google’s OS gets more and more popularity and became a favorite of the public in terms of smartphones, we turn our attention to some interesting and handy Android Apps designed for interior design projects, whose features serve you as inspiration, to find more quickly what products are available in stores, but also to know the latest design trends. Here you have some free inspiring Android apps to help you improve your home design. You can find them to download in Google Play Store just searching by their name.

• IKEA Catalogue for 2013, a new kind of catalogue

With approximately 350 images, showing almost 1.000 products, this app is, as its name suggests, the Android version for the printed 2013 IKEA catalogue. It’s the official IKEA application for the year to come, full of Scandinavian inpiring ideas and well-designed solutions for home furnishing, no matter what buget and needs. Besides the functions of scrolling through images, pinch-to-zoom the gallery and saving the items, which is extremely useful to take a fast look at what’s available, what is the trend, to get interior design ideas or to show them to someone else, this new 2013 version will make the catalogue to literally come to life. Users will reach a unique way to explore IKEA products, because the app is based on augmented reality. This means that each furniture offer presented in the printed catalogue has a code which is scanned using this app and which allows users to view the furniture items in 3D format. Besides the furniture tridimensional models, customers will find exciting product videos, photo galleries or manual presentation topics for each piece of furniture. This innovation from IKEA comes because it’s celebrating 62 years of the completion of the first IKEA catalogue. Find pages that have the smart icon, scan them entirely and get extra content. Enjoy!

• Interior Design Gallery HD

Whether you want to improve your home, renovate or remodel, but you don’t know how exactly you want it to look, or just simply search for interior design photos, Interior Design Gallery HD is another gorgeous app that will inspire you with amazing decorating ideas right on your phone. Dedicated to all users, it’s packed with a large collection of selected HD images showcasing a variaty of interior design styles for everyone tastes, from ultra-modern designs to contemporary and more traditional ones. You can see inspiration for kitchens, bedrooms, living rooms, baby or kids rooms, small space rooms, etc. Users can quickly browse pictures, save them onto( to) phone’s SD card to set as a walpapers or to share them on your favourite social networking services. Many of the ideas presented here are fiction, but there are also simple things, but that you may not have thought ever.

• Decoration Collection

Decoration Collection app includes beautiful pictures with fresh and creative home designs divided into different categories such as bathroom, bedroom (beds), blinds and curtains, dining rooms, doors and windows, fabrics, furniture or interior design exhibitions. So, users simply choose the category that matches the room they need to decorate and browse through its images to gather ideas. Moreover, the app provides information and proposals on how to organize your future furnitre, how to furnish and decorate home environment.

 

• Make Your Home

This app is one of the most popular interior design application, as you can find a great deal of information regarding home improvement with an ever-expanding database with inspiring pictures. It is a useful tool for Android users, whether they are design professionals or simply homeowners, because they are able to find out immediately, not when the thought has passed, tips on how to make little changes but with great effects, what to keep and what to change in order to achieve either a futuristic or a retro look. In most of the cases, you want to bookmark your favourite photos and to share them with others on Internet, so „Make Your Home” app allows you to do that anytime you want. It’s compatible with all Android 1.6 or higher devices and you should know that it comes with some search links in the form of an icon, homepage and bookmark link, which can be easily removed, if you don’t want to use them.

 

• Color Matcher

Color Mather is another great app for color management, which helps users to save the almost exact colors of the objects from the picture you have taken with your device and keep them organized with title and description in a list to which you have access anytime. It’s very useful considering the fact that taking a picture it doesn’t mean to captured the real colors of the objects. What it does this app is actually allowing you to adjust the hues in order to get the closest to the desired real ones.

• Image Color Picker

Image Color Picker is an awesome Android app which does exactly what its name says: it picks colors. If you need to find out what color is in a picture, then this mobile application is for you. Why is so useful? Acting as a color inspiration tool, Image Color Picker will detect you the Hex Code, RAL System code, RGB and RAL System name of the color you want to know from photos taken with your Android smartphone.

• Interior Design Lesson Videos

If you feel that watching a video instead of reading articles or seeing photos with interior design ideas, then this application is for you. It consists of tones of lesson videos with tips and tricks, advices and information on how to design and decorate everything you want in your home. That sounds very interesting, isn’t it? And above all, it doesn’t cost a thing. It’s free. It may probably show icon adds and notification, but you can opt for deleting them in a very easy way.

• Living Room Design

Through this nice app you will discover a large selection of the most exciting living room designs. Easy viewing, it’s a mobile phones picture album with high-resolution adorable images to create you a real visual experience. It’s great to look at for ideas and save them on your Android device.

• ColorSmart by BEHR™ Mobile

ColorSmart provides users multiple posilibilites of curstomization associated with color matching. Very easy to use and more intuitive than the website, this paint app is very good for getting a geenral idea of how colors in different rooms work together. Through it, you can find, coordinate and preview a BEHR® paint color anytime you have a paint project. It’s great if you are looking for paint to match a furniture item in your room, browsing the color palletes even if you’re not looking specifically for Behr paint. After you’ve make your color choices, the app allows you to save any of them to your mobile phone and share with your friends via Facebook wall. Moreover, it has a Store Locator feature with which you can find the closest store and a Paint Calculator feature if you want to know how much paint you’ll need before starting your decoration project. Be aware that mobile devices’ screen displays may not show you the most accurate color representation and it might not match BEHR color standards.

Do you like to keep up with new trends in fashion and adapt your outfits every time you go out according to these trends? Now you can have some inspiration on what to wear when you leave home thanks to Pimkie Color Forecast, a brilliant idea belonging to France-based fashion retailer Pimkie, a brand that targets young women creating international collections with a wide variety of clothing, shoes, cosmetics and accessories, in a balanced mix of lines for very day wear and the latest urban trends or party/club outfits.

Pimkie Color Forecast is a cool digital tool through which you can find in real time, online, what the colors of the moment or the hot color trends are in Europe’s fashion capitals: Milan, Paris and Antwerp, so you see the most popular color choice that people are wearing out on the streets and you can choose your colors right.

How is this information identified and shared in order to have an accurate picture? Well, the apparent simplicity of the idea is made possible by a new technology for the first time applied in a fashion and business context. Exactly, the tool runs on a software application developed by interactive artist and developer Pedro Miguel Cruz, which anonymously identify, scans, collects and analyzes every minute the key trending colors. High definition cameras installed in key locations throughout the three cities are feeding live streaming data 24/7 into the ColorTrack System which  makes compilations and then generates instantly highly detailed info-graphical design per hour, day or week of the colors that people are wearing right now.

In this manner, you don’t see what shades are worn most often, but also how trends evolve. After you have this fashion-insider view, Pimkie Color Forecast links colors directly to matched items of clothing from the Pimkie collections that consumers can buy online for home delivery or at one of over 700 Pimkie stores in Europe. In this way, as Dorothee Braure, Marketing and Digital Director of Pimkie, said “Color Forecast is a distinctive and competitive way to inspire our digital native customers in their choice of fresh fashion,” the tool is a definitely a unique idea to engage customers with the brand. The online graphics and color charts are shown in a captivating and clear design on their website, so anyone can see hat has been trending in Paris in the last few minutes for example. So, if tomorrow morning you won’t know what to wear, check out the interesting Pimkie Color Forecast.

 

 

See how Pimkie Color Forecast works

One way to exploit mobile cuisine comes from Sapori dei Mobili, A pan furniture is basically an object that helps to obtain very interesting cake shape similar with the furniture forms , using casting technique could make a new typology of the objects, but at the same time a new tradition.

At the table we can serve our  favorite furniture forms, you can create a room using comestible for these cookies.
With this object the kitchen can offer us a variety of culinary combinations for interior appealing design.

 

 

 

 

Do you enjoy using Apple products? Well, we spotted a cool iPad stand design, which can help you keeping your Ipad in any position you want without having to hold it. Created by designers Guido Ooms and Karin van Lieshout from OOOMS, this Ipad stand design is simple, yet versatile and came up from their own needs when talking about Apple products.

This wooden tablet stand is adjustable, which allow your iPad to be placed on 4 different angles, supporting both portrait and landscape viewing modes. Whether you are on a couch, in the kitchen or at your desk, the stand is ideal not only for iPad, but also for other tablets or books. You can take it also with you because due to some tiny magnets, it can be folded to fit in a bag or suitcase. Do you think this a great solution for you too?

 

Photos: © Oooms.

 

” Live the future today” seems to think those designers that create such exciting gadgets for our bathrooms like this mp3 mirror. Not long ago we show you The World’s First Intelligent Mirror which amaze us by its stunning characteristics worth of SF movies, and we realize that we’ll see and have more things like that even sooner than we expected. The Maitre mirror is another great example of revolutionary bathroom mirror which is already produced by Italian luxury bathroom specialist Stocco and which will certainly complement any contemporary bathroom style and will bring an understated elegance to your private spa-inspired space.

At first sight this Maitre mirror seems like many others, a simple and stylish mirror, but looking carefully we’ll discover some functional and fun features that few mirror have. We call it mp3 mirror because it integrates a touchscreen console in the lower-right corner on the mirror surface through which we’re able to control a radio, MP3 player, barometer and also a clock.  It is polished and flush-mounted on an aluminum frame which makes it fashionable addition to the bathroom decor. We wonder how it would be to wake up and set our mood with  some great tunes!  We love this product!

Source: geeky-gadgets.com

 

Product designers Enrico Bosa and Isabella Lovero from en&is imagine Megaphone, a passive amplifier with an attractive  and original look that isn’t actually similar with an ordinary megaphone regarding its aesthetic, but rather has the form of a blowing horn used in medieval times. Simple yet ingenious solution, it’s created especially for using with iPhone, it’s meant for those of you who want listening to music without headphones or for those who are in an audio conference. Megaphone is special for some interesting features.

The creative combination between ceramic with glossy finishes in white, black and gold for the passive amplifier’s body and natural wood for the support, give the product a surprising and charming modern appearance. We find it really beautiful as a decorative object too. Designers didn’t choose its form randomly, this one amplifies and optimizes the best sound output. But it doesn’t make this with batteries or electricity, it uses pure acoustic amplification.

Its thin wooden frame designed as support has the role of increasing the vibration of the object and  optimizing the emission of sound by allowing it to float off the table. This Megaphone speaker is compatible with iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod Touch (from the second generation onwards) with case. Check out these images and tell us how do you find it.

Photos: © en&is.

 

MegaPhone – Passive Amplifier for iPhone

We all know that not everybody posseses chefs’ techniques when preparing food, especially when stir-frying and turn ingredients and this things make you get frustrated sometimes. Boomerang Wok designed by Nikolai Carels designed for Dutch brand Royal VKB makes you forget about normal woks which aren’t good enough, if you don’t know how to handle them to turn ingredients correctly and they tend to end up next to the pan.

Apparently Boomerang wok is like any other wok you know: made of  aluminium, Teflon, with a plastic handle. But a closer look reveals a unique, patented cupped edge at the front, which makes your cooking process easier than before by preventing food spilling out of the pan. It lets  you toss the food with a flick of the wrist, only to return safely into the pan’s center. Moreover, this interesting wok help you turn easier even the larger pieces of food, such as a fillet of fish or meat. Available in three models (warm grey, dark grey and tri-ply), Boomerang wok is suitable for all heat sources. So, if you love stir-frying your food while reducing possible mess, we think this product is a perfect choice.

 Photos: © Nikolai Carels.

 

Eating breakfast or lunch at office has never been so simple and stylish. These versatile storage containers for food are the perfect way to have healthy meals wherever we go. Ideal for adults and children alike, they are the most fashionable kitchen tools we’ve seen, very chic and fun. The award-winning British company Black+Blum came up with these ingenious products cleverly designed to solve the issues of everyday life in the home and office. The whole concept is about making your food look good and make it a pleasure to eat from and we think they achieved this and even more. This family of storage containers for food deserve our attention because they are just fabulous: simplistic, highly functional, practical, with a modern, original and stylish design and even eco-friendly . They are the best thing to happen to left overs since the ziploc bag!!

What else can you ask more? Who wants to buy anymore pre-packaged lunches instead of creating a healthier own one when we have such super-handy gadgets which work great for noodles, soups, stews, oatmeal, fruit salads, rice dishes, and so much more? They are sold through selected stores around the world and their innovative designs have already won many awards. Packaging with these storage boxes from Black+Blum you’ll make your life easier and you’ll enjoy healthy meals in a stylish way without worry about mixing up different dishes.

Easy to carry in the Box Appetit Bag, they are more like ceramic bowls than standard food boxes. Their design is improved so that now you can pack more than one dish due to interlocking and removable food compartments and separators inside the box which they have. Each one of them feature „glass- like” lid with a clip specially made to hold a durable fork with a deep curve for scooping and an angled edge for cutting or a spork, and also a watertight locking seal which allows you to pack soup, yogurt, or oatmeal. Made from polypropylene and copolyester (BPA free), the Lunch Pot, Bento Box and Box Appetit are microwavable and dishwasher safe.

 

 Lunch Pot with Interlocking Food Containers

Bento Box Storage Food Container with Separators

 

 

Box Appetit Food Storage with Sauce Pot

 

 

Box Appetit Bag

 

Photos: © Black+ Blum.

For more information about these great accessories, visit Black+Blum website.