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495 HP at 7,400 Small-Block Ford Build

495 HP at 7,400 Small-Block Ford Build

This is the correct way to build a 500hp small-block Ford that just begs to be revved. Trust us.

While car crafters are more into horsepower than math equations, the one formula most performance enthusiasts are intimate with is: horsepower = torque x rpm 5,252.

Photo Gallery: 331-Inch 495 HP Small-Block Ford - Car Craft Magazine

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MacGyver Tries iPod Speakers

With all the hot-to-trot conceptual design work out there, it takes quite a person to just sit back and kick out the jams on a speaker set like this. Presenting the iPod Ghetto Accessory. iPod with classic earbuds, two toothpicks, no girls, and four cups. What else could a person ask for?

Designer Dmitry Zagga pokes fun at the concept of product design
conceptualization:

This is a fun project. Four single-serving paper cups, two tooth picks (for holding cups together) + iPod with classic earbuds. The increase in volume, of coarse, is radiculous, but hey, you get stylish iPod accessory out of nothing!

Can we trust a person who totally just MacGyvers up a speaker system out of cups and toothpics? Yes.

Yes we can.

Designer: Dmitry Zagga

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Close the Blinds and Turn Your Love Light On

You might not be a romantic at heart or even that great at planning a memorable dinner party. Regardless, it is well known that the ambience of your surroundings can make or break that memorable moment-Some nice mellow tunes, great friends and most importantly lighting. Unfortunately lighting requires electricity which means a high electricity bill. The result is a need for a change in our thinking and adopting a more economical way of using light for our environment. Imagine if you will, closing the blinds and immediately having the perfect lighting effect that you are trying to achieve.

The Solar vertical lamp can give us that and so much more. With the blinds closed during the day blocking the rays of the hot sun, little solar pads are being charged on the back of the blinds and once the sun goes down, your mood lighting shines. The Solar Vertical Lamp is created by Korean designers Yoon-Hui Kim and Eun-Kyung Kim and available in a floor/table lamp or a stylish chandelier. Add one to each window in your home and at night, you have a beautifully lit home and a much lower electrical bill. Frugality and environmental friendliness at its best.

Designer: Yoon-Hui Kim & Eun-Kyung Kim

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Leaky Roof Brightens Your Day

The art of lighting design is finding ways to articulate glaring light out over surfaces without inefficiently wasting too much of the lamp’s power. Daniel Becker accomplishes that in his “Melting Light” by hanging an LED packed ‘raindrop’ below a rippling plastic reflector. The brilliance of Daniel’s light is in the rippling shape; by spreading the otherwise harsh reflection out over three concentric circles, the glare and shadows are softened and become pleasing to the eye.

Designer: Daniel Becker

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Iâ��m Feeling â��Alrightâ��

Born of Japanese and Danish influences, Joseph Riehl’s Alright rocking chair looks like a comfortable addition to any room, fitting right in with that Ikea sofa you just can’t get rid of. While the low rise design may suit gamers more than most, the chair could rock anyone to sleep with the rubber mount that stretches and compresses in any direction. It’s a good thing the bent arcs give the joints extra strength, because I could see myself spending a lot of time in something like this.

Designer: Joseph Riehl

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Welcome to the Glamourous Life of a Full-Time Professional Designer! Watch Yourself!

Car. PC. Car. TV. -These are the days of our lives. Andy Kurovets gets silly with his “Cycle Life,” breaking up life into the four segments of an average computer-using persons working day. Each segment is assigned the machine most used: TV, PC, or Car, beginning with WAKE UP! and ending with GO TO SLEEP! Don’t let the wit-bugs bite!

Andy Kurovets gets stung:

It’s my watch-joke. A clock demonstrate boring and of the same type life of modern man and call to be thoughtful above sense of our life and order of things, which can be designated one pose (sitting) and three objects.

The design of clock is executed as 4 segments of working day. Every temporal interval is represented in the name of object which in this period is used (car-PC-TV). Every person form megapolis is acquainted with a vital rotation waik up- way on work-computer-motion from work- TV-sleep.

For those that live this life, feel free to visit the JOBS listing on Yanko Design. And for those who love to keep track of time, check out all of our other CLOCK and WATCH concepts.
Keep on timin’!

Designer: Andy Kurovets

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Polish Tour De Force

The Slovak Republic is attempting to launch itself onto designs world stage with the newly formed “Exhibition Creator 2008″ While the name is as cryptic as it is uninspiring, the talent being unearthed is certainly worth some attention.

The “Neon Lamp” my look like lighting from space, but for designer Lucia MrvÃkovÃ¡ its inspiration is actually a lot closer to home. Nostalgic for a childhood filled with memories of laboratories and white coats, the Neon Lamp is made entirely from lab equipment. The color is determined by the gas used, and by properties of the reaction, the lamp casts no shadow. Personally this reminds me of long winded chemistry classes with even longer chemical equations, but I still want one.

Its all about the package with the “Picnic ‘n’ Party”, by Slovak designer Klara Zavadilova. This disposable cutlery set is based around a colored and patterned napkin, which is both the aesthetic and functional centerpiece of the design. Each piece of the set is made from clear plastic, and has a hollow handle in which the napkin is rolled up and inserted.

“Adventures of A Little Deer” combines traditional Slovak embroidery with modern cartoon graphics to create a playful collection of homewares with a twist. Instead of the traditional textiles associated with arts and crafts, designer Sylvia JokelovÃ¡ has brought embroidery kicking and screaming into the modern era with fibreglass and plastics.

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The â��8â�³ Challenges the Modern Handheld Communication Device Communityâ�¦ or Does it?

With the Weird on the rise, is there any room for flip phones and extra-small touchscreens? Kyung-Ryul Lim + Miyeon Kim have designed the “8,” a handheld communication device which makes use of two flip-up touch-screens with video, telephone, dictionary, and undoubtedly many other programs. Is there a market?

KyungRyul Lim and Miyeon Kim design moving parts:

The mobile phone has dual touch screen and 8 shape frame which help to move dual touch screen. Moveable dual touch screen is easy to use and has various functions according to its shapes. It can be used electronic dictionary by moving touch screen and can be used to displayphone . These changes in functions according to these shapes will bring out special feelings from users.

Questions!

1. Supposing the screens are strong enough not to break off in your pocket, and are able to easily lock down into the device, is there a sufficient amount of programs and uses for these moving parts?

2. Is this “Odd” enough for the “Odd” wave of new phones?

3. If this were produced in numbers that made them inexpensive enough to be a “standard” phone, would you choose it over the other “basic” models?

Designer: Kyung-Ryul Lim + Miyeon Kim

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3Poeng Lamp Stands on Just 1 Leg

If there was a perfect lamp to go with your leaning shelves, it would be the leaning 3Poeng lamp from Isabelle Olsson and Martin Meier. Inspired by birch tree forests outside Stockholm, the lamp uses just three legs to stabilize itself up against a wall, with rubber to give it traction. Without a static foot to ground it, the lamp invites constant repositioning and movement, something any interior can benefit from.

Designers: Isabelle Olsson and Martin Meier

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The Next Big Thing: Masochistic German Furniture

Designed deliberately to be uninviting, the Unidentified Object Chair by Prime supposedly redefines what our perspective on furniture should be. While the bottom half is comprised of laminated wood, the top half of the painful pyramid is filled with foam for a ‘comfortable sit’. I’m not saying this is a complete waste of fabric and timber, but I’m not a fan of anything that tries this hard to make us think about design.

Designer: Prime

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