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Ben Rodgers, the man behind Lumiore, created a device that not only will improve the interior design of your home, by removing the closets, but it will also act as your personal fashion designer in a digital kind of way. The Lumiore is a clothes assembler and disassembler. This sounds quite rough, if you are a shirt or a skirt, knowing that your “life” will end in the same machine you we’re pulled out of. Lumiore also, drastically reduces the need for closet space and clothes storage as a person or family’s wardrobe would become almost entirely digital property. Each morning the user or users would choose from their selection of styles and the clothing would be fabricated to their personal size and shape. At the end of the day the clothing would be tossed into the chute on top of the device, to be disassembled and filled back into the correct materials compartment cartridge.

Designer: Ben Rodgers

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This can be amazing fun, it’s like having a clothes printer, only the ink has been replaced with polyester, cotton and other clothing materials we use. Through this technique the dirt and all foreign materials would be filtered out, elimination the need for regular washing. Ben, created the ultimate clothes green machine, a device that not only creates clothes at a push of a button, but also eliminates the washing and cleaning experience. Lumiore has a big digital touch screen display that interacts with its user by showing the types of clothes he/she selected to be created. The top part of the device is the depository port, followed by the OLED display, the center piece and the clothes vending port. The center piece is where the dye materials port, the port handle and the indicator lights are. Lumiore’s materials port is pulled out by the central handle to access the coloring dyes and recycled materials cartridges. The cartridges rise outward in a radial fashion from the center when selected. They can be removed and replaced for customization with different materials which can be purchased from local retailers.

In shorter words, the Lumiore designed by Ben Rodgers is like having your favorite clothes brand in your own home, helping you create a more personal approach on the way you dress.

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If you have an old mobile phone that you care so much about and you chose not to throw it away, but to keep it as it is, a designer from Ireland, Sadhbh Doherty has found a solution to your problem. He created Arcque. An ingenious way to dispose of used mobile phones. The main idea was to find a solution to encourage the return of used mobile phones to manufacturers. This small bead, is what you receive back from the manufacturers, and it stores the digital memories the phone held. It houses the personal messages, pictures and music the phone once stored. We carry our mobile phones everywhere, we use them to communicate with friends and family, listen to music, watch movies and pictures, and sometimes even surf the Internet. Once the phone has reached the end of its life, the files stored are lost along with it. Arcque returns these digital memories to their owner, rather than using monetary gain. The bead contains a memory chip, and the Bluetooth chip from the phone. Its activated by a kinetic motor, if you shake the bead it powers up.

Designer : Sadhbh Doherty

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When enough power has been generated, the bead emits a wireless signal which can be read by a Bluetooth enabled device. Thus the user can access old phone memories. The outer shell of the bead is made from a plastic derived from pulverized circuit boards, and the detailing around the center piece of the bead is made from some of the copper found inside the phone. This center piece comes in different materials, regarding the period the phone has been kept without being used. For a period of more than two years, the finish is silver and if the period is more than three years, the finish is gold. Arcque is also a fashion accessory. The center piece is hollow, this enables the user to wear it as a shirt button, a ring, as earrings if the owner had two used phones to return or as a necklace. The variety of fashion accessories this ingenious bead can be attached to is endless, is all part of the users imagination. Arcque not only helps the users dispose of their used mobile phones properly, but also gives them the possibility to wear their digital memory in a beautiful and unique way.

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