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Nintendo’s alarm stops when you get out of bed
Alarmo responds to movement with game sounds and stops when its user leaves the bed. Its camera-free sensor tracks movement, while its designers chose to leave morning scores out.
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Even a piano has gone up the mountain for the autumn leaves
A restaurant beside the summit gondola station in Niigata, Japan, has welcomed a piano anyone can play. Yamaha’s LovePiano travels between public places, from stations and airports to a mountain.
Finding room for saxophone-like resonance in a small instrument
Yamaha Venova combines a branched tube with a winding body. The design brings a saxophone-like resonance into a compact instrument while keeping the tone holes within reach.
Toio turns a car headlamp into a living-room light
Designed by the Castiglioni brothers in 1962, Toio combines a car headlamp with fishing-rod line guides. Its exposed cable and transformer each have a practical role.
A restaurant with room for mistaken orders
At Japan’s Restaurant of Mistaken Orders, people living with dementia serve guests. Menus and the level of assistance are adjusted so staff can take orders and hand over meals themselves.
Pour in cold water and the scholar’s face turns red
Tipsy figures from a Joseon-era banquet painting have moved onto small glasses. Cold drinks make them blush in MU:DS’s playful color-changing set.
Under, a restaurant where you can have dinner 5 meters underwater
Norway’s Under places a dining room beside a real underwater view. A descending route from the rocky shore leads to a large window facing the sea.
Moisture collected at night in the desert becomes water droplets during the day.
MIT’s window-shaped panel captures airborne moisture at night and releases it with sunlight during the day. Water held in a gel then condenses into droplets on glass.
Choose a collection object and the V&A will bring it out
The V&A offers free appointments to view selected objects from storage. Visitors can request up to five objects at one location and examine them with staff guidance.