GNR8 new/s

Interactive Couch

 

Forget couples counseling to tell you you're drifting apart from your lover.  A UK designer has come up with a concept that’s illuminatingrelationships from their living rooms.

This sofa is embedded with patterned lights which react to seating arrangements. As a couplesit apart on the sofa, they are surprised when a cold blue patternbegins to grow around them signifying their distance apart from eachother.  With the pattern changing in relation to weight and proximity,as they move towards each other warm pink petals begin to formrepresenting their closeness.
 
Using light emitting(Electroluminescent) technology in conjunction with trigger sensitivematerials, the pattern is displayed in relation to where a person issitting.  The petals will randomly illuminate around your body anddisappear when you move to another spot, meaning an ever evolving andchanging pattern display occurs. With the thoughtful and playfuldevelopment of the pattern, the wonderment of where the pattern willlead adds to the experience of using the sofa.

Juxtaposed:Religion

Designed by Mike and Maaike
Curated by John Simonian
Reclaimed hardwood
36”w x 5”h x 8”d
Offered in a limited edition of 50.

5,084,000,000 people 5,360 pages 3,700 years 243 countries 7 books 1 shelf.

For the first time, the world’s most influential religious texts are brought together and presented on the same level, their coexistence acknowledged and celebrated.JUXTAPOSED: Religion is the first in the Juxtaposed series of curated bookshelves.

At US $2500, this idea isn't cheap, but how can you put a pricetag on brotherly love.

DECOR8

A shout out to our new favorite design blog Decor8, who are featuring some of our products today.

Decor8 totally gets it. Not only did they pick out some of our favorite designs, but they've also figured out that "8" is so much better than "ate" (in so many ways)...

Thanx Holly!

Nordic Light Hotel

First they came up with the Ice Hotel, and now the Scandinavians have gone one better with the Nordic Light Hotel. Designed by Jan Soder and Lars Pihl, the Light Hotel features interactive, ever changing lighting in all the rooms, and if you're in the right mood, "surprise the love of your life with a night on the light bed. Choose your favourite colour and set the rhythm that fits your mood."

Now that beats ice any night of the week.

WE'RE BACK!!!

Ok, so it's been a bit more than a year, and you probably gave up on us a long time ago, and those of you who cared probably were even pissed off at us, but WE'RE BACK! Seriously.

A lot has happened in the last year at Generate, including a complete redesign of the store, and the addition of hundreds of cool new products, and to tell you the truth we were a bit overwhelmed. But now that summer's over, and we've had a chance to collect our breath, we're ready, able, and totally looking forward to bringing you the best of what's out there in the contemporary design world, and all the new stuff available at gnr8.

So stay tuned. You won't be disappointed. Promise.

Illuminated Bathtub & Sink

LED (or halogen) Illuminated bathtub and sink. Programmable for time, intensity, and color. Finally.

Available now at GNR8!

Airswitch

Designers: Mathmos Design Studio

The newest addition to the ever popular Mathmos London line of lights, the Airswitch 1 & Airswitch are now available. Based on remarkable new Mathmos technology, the lamps work in a totally new, yet intuitive way:

Slowly pass your hand horizontally through the air above the Airswitch to turn it on or off. Slowly raise and lower your hand above Airswitch to brighten or dim.

It's like....magic....

AIRSWITCH1 & AIRSWITCHTC, US$89 (including shipping) AVAILABLE NOW AT GNR8

(not) a lamp

Designer: david graas

The lamp is actually the cardboard box that it came in, if you know what i mean. One of those products that makes you wonder how come you haven't seen it before. Or, have you...

Reading Light

Designers: j-me

Designed by British design team j-me (something tells me we're going to be hearing a lot about j-me), this light encapsulates their philosophy of "design led gifts and accessories for the home". Like most of their designs, it's simple, clever, and functional.

US$229 Available now at gnr8

Automata Lights (Redux)

Designer: Paul Gurry

These DIY lights (they come in 12-72 piece, easy to construct models), designed by Australian designer Paul Gurry, are not your little sister's lamp kits. The finished lights are dramatic, futuristic and just a little enigmatic. In other words, they're way cool.

Available now only at GNR8

solar wallpaper

Designers: Marta Lwin, Ty Whitfield, Teresita Cochran, and Ramakrishnan Subramanian

In a similar vein to Front Design's Light Sensitive Wallpaper, "solar wallpaper" (designed at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program) uses light (or lack thereof) as it's primary catalyst.

By embedding electroluminescent materials into the design pattern of the wall paper and incorporating a built-in light sensor, the wallpaper can respond to the lighting requirement of a room, acting as a decorative element when a room is naturally bright, and as a flat wallpaper light when the room requires more light. With power supplied from a solar charged battery, it can also be manually controlled to increase or decrease luminosity. Sustainable, efficient, functional, and technologically sexy.

liquid_light

Designers: Büro Für Form

From the designers website:

"A product needs more than perfect function and ergonomics. A product needs spirit, emotion, and poetry!"

We couldn't have said it better ourselves.

Available now ONLY at gnr8

tiretagz

Just in case you were thinking that gnr8 will sell anything with LEDs in it, here's something we don't (unless you want to buy one of course).

Created using technology originally developed for Indy Car racing (where no expense will ever be spared to logofy every last inch of available space),

"tiretagz uses complex electronic circuitry and high frequency LEDs to creat patterns, image, words and even animations within the wheels of you car while you drive!"

These would probably go great with that blue neon underbody light you just bought your car for Christmas.

jacobs light tables

 

Designer: Andrea Antoni

Beautiful. Elegant. Functional.

Only at GNR8

on/off switch

Designer: Tobias Wong

We're really happy to be able to offer this work by one of our favorite designers working today, Tobias Wong. As his entry in coroflot explains,

"Much of Tobi Wong's work plays between concept and beauty, exposing the similarities between art and design rather than blurring their boundaries. Unlike purely conceptual work - which often lacks a real appreciation for beauty, aesthetics, and a desire for consumption - his work often finds expression in real objects. He's coined the term Paraconceptual to describe it: "Of, relating to, or being conceptual."

This wireless switch can control any light fixture you choose, and you can set it anywhere in your house. Simply attach the remote component to your light fixture, open the On/Off box and flip the switch – that light on the other end of the room instantly turns on or off! The switch works up to 100 feet away and comes encased in an elegant lucite box with a magnetic lid.

US$119 Available now at gnr8.

Dear Ingo

Designer: Ron Gilad for Designfenzider

This unique design, basically consisting of 16 endlessly reconfigurable task lamps, isn't new. What's new is that it's just been "handpicked by Marcel Wanders to be part of the moooi collection."

The chandelier is scheduled to have it's "moooi premiere" at Milan this month.

Do you want one?

trophy

Designer:Isabelle Rolland

Hmmm...let's see...does the word "postmodern" ring a bell?...How about "referential"...or maybe...........GENIUS!!!

US$3299. Available now at GNR8

hugms

Designer: Mark Argo

Have you ever wanted to send a hug to someone, or tell them you love them, without getting bogged down in some humdrum chitchat about dinner or the kids or whatever...if the answer is yes, you need a hugms.

The latest in a growing number of "emotional technology" products, hugms is a device designed for sending someone you care about a hug using your mobile phone.

once hugms is connected to your mobile phone all you have to do is send it the phone number of the person you'd like to hug and then squeeze. sensors inside the device read how long and how hard you have squeezed and will format a text message based on your hug.

for example, a long squeeze would look like

'hhhhhhuuuuuuuuuuggggggg'

while a short and hard squeeze would look like

'hhHHUUUUUUugg'

hugms also communicates with light and color. the strength of the squeeze is mapped to a change in color. if the person you're hugging also has a hugms, then your message will also trigger the same color change. finally, your loved one can return the hug to you, either by squeezing their hugms or just replying to the text message. once received your hugms will glow a warm color, giving you the knowledge that you're being hugged in return.

glow brick

Designers: Sam & Jude

The latest from always trendy, always controversial (some people love them, some hate them) design team Suck UK, this nightlight is the ultimate in simplicity: The encased bulb recharges from natural light during the day, and glows at night.

Totally environmental. Totally Cool.

US$45. Available now at GNR8

LED Underwear

Designers: Puff Buff

Here's one for the now-i've-seen-everything file:

Polish designers puff buff have carried out LED experimentation to it's logical extreme: LED underwear. We don't have much information about the design or the designers (and please excuse the tiny image), but what's the difference.

What can we say...finally! Or maybe, ok everybody...move along...there's nothing to see here.

Audio Cubes

Designer: Bert Schiettecatte

From the Audio Cubes site:

This is a musical interface I have been working on over the past years. It is a tangible user interface (TUI) consisting of a number of cubes made out of a plastic material. Each cube contains a digital signal processor (DSP) with optical sensors and emitters (infrared, red, green and blue LEDs). The sensors and emitters receive and send audio signals which are generated or processed by the signal processor in the cube. Each cube is powered by a rechargeable battery pack. By positioning the cubes relative to each other and moving them around, a signal processing network can be created. A musician can use this interface to learn a new way of interacting with sound and music.

OK, so technically, this should probably be considered more of an audio/sound engineering creation, but optical sensors and emitters (infrared, red, green and blue LEDs) ARE involved, the cubes are cool, and, if they can change colors to the music, then I definitely want a set.

via We Make Money Not Art

neon chandelier

Designer: Matt Dilling

From New York Magazine's Rima Suqi:

Chandeliers are back in fashion, but if your taste tends to the modern, you’re likely to find yourself left in the dark by multiple tiers dripping with crystals. There’s one exception: this neon chandelier by Matt Dilling, whose work has lit up Stella McCartney's storefront and Bergdorf Goodman's window installations. It’s made from five feet of triphosphor neon tubing—also used to treat seasonal affective disorder, because it mimics natural light—and a 20-by-24-inch model takes about a day to put together. The source of Dilling’s inspiration, appropriately enough, was a turn-of-the-last-century candelabra that could be fitted for bulbs, referencing “the conversion of one kind of lighting technology into another.”

US$2399 Available now at GNR8

On/Off lampshades

So simple, yet so cool.

These little shades are printed on both sides, so, when the lamp is off, you see one thing, but when it's on, you see the "real" thing.

Eight styles available.

US$19.99/set of three. Available now at gnr8.

moi

Designer: pixelpeppy

Moi is a wearable light accessory. A super bright LED connected by optic fiber to a 3V coin battery. But turn it on, and Moi becomes a piece of magic - a sparkle around your wrist, your neck, your ankle...your hair...Treat it right, and it'll last forever. Overuse it, and you can find another 3V battery anywhere.

"I went out to dinner with my Moi around my neck, i got more stares than ever!"  - Meg

"I gave Moi to a girl I liked. She opened the package in the car. When she pulled the tab and the light turned on, her face was awash with light. She was so excited!"  - Theo

$27 Available now at GNR8.

loveJackets

Concept & Design: Despina Papadopoulos

As part of an ongoing series of proposed products, from Studio 5050, that function at the interface of emotion, technology & design, the love jackets takes the concept of "finding each other" to a whole new level.

From the website:

"A  pair of jackets emits, and polls for a particular signal. Once the pair finds each other, in at least 10 feet distance, facing each other, the two beep – emitting a sound akin to crickets mating, and a pattern of LEDs blinks (light emitting diodes; small, bright, energy efficient lights). Each jacket responds only to its unique pair.

The technology used is basic: an infra-red receiver and transmitter, a PIC chip (programmable interrupt controller) that controls the LEDs and speaker output and sends out the “bits” of code that allows the pairs to find each other. The components are all surface mount which means that the technology is as transparent as possible. Instead of wires, the components are attached to the circuit board via conductive fabric “conduits.”

While the project aims to explore social interactional patterns and institute new ones, it also elaborates ways in which technology can seamlessly be integrated in garments. The aim of the project is not to create “cyber” garments, but use technology in surprising and innovative ways and place emphasis not on the technology but on its uses."

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