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If you can guess what this is at first glance then you're a better man than I ...
At second glance you might wonder about those pipes. And then you might realize it's actually a radiator, built entirely from 90-degree pipe pieces. It's designed to be a sculptural heater that fits in with any interior, according to designer Vivien Muller. At least there's some physics in there, though: a large surface area heater like this would be a good compromise between heating efficiency and compact size.
One thing, though: Vivien can't do much of the cleaning at home... can you imagine the dust this thing would collect? Just a concept. [Vivien Muller via Yanko designs]
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A compact fluid cooling system?
Oh, I was gonna guess that it was some kind of new CPU cooler.
A Borg's Small Intestine?
Cooler of somekind...My Guess Was Right.
na na na na na
Faslane
This is your brain on "Borg"
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It reminds me of those "do nothings" you get from vendors that are constructed out of quarter circle pieces.....I'm wondering if you could "unwind" it without disconnecting anything in order to clean it.....or you could just try one of these: [www.asseenontv.com]
radiator? wasn't there some sort of design contest for this a while back?
@faslane: Actually, your guess was exactly wrong. It's a heater.
But don't worry, I was thinking cooler also.
I am wondering how much of the heat from the inside coils of the cube would radiate out efficiently. The one on the wall looks nice, but seems sort of high on the wall to use the heat well. I think the flat model placed on the floor would be the most useful, but hard to walk on or clean, and may not be structurally stong enough. A good concept, but needs some refinement.
Looks like its small enough to just dip in a bucket of cleaner.
I thought it was a bunch of neon tubing. Thing would glow like the sun when plugged in.
I was gonna say Ramen of the future. Silly me.
PS-First glace I thought it was a bong.
A radiator, huh? It LOOKS like something that fits into your pocket and makes a small, yet satisfying cracking sound when stepped on!
woohoo, got my first guess right, nice!
sexy time machine nass!
@Curves: Only for the most patient of bong-fiends.
"Where's the hit man???? WHERE'S THE HIT?!"
It's so obvious.... it's an OctoCube!
First glance, I thought it was some kind of fluorescent light. Then I saw the two flex pipes and thought "fluid filled mood-cube."
@Carbonfly: That's what I thought as well
@Curves: I guessed it was a radiator because of the hoses coming out of it, but I think I like this idea better.
"Where the hell is the bowl man?!"
It's actually designed to confuse the water molecules with all the twisting and turning they have to do when they pass through the system. Confused water gives up its heat energy much more easily, and is therefore vastly more efficient than regular radiators.
Conversely, solar water heaters all have very straight tubes running through them. The water is much more focused and alert, and is able to grab the heat energy more readily.
Very interesting new technology, this psychological water energy transfer. Definitely something to look for in the near future.
Dr. Frankenstein's brain collection after going through the car compactor.
I want one, I don't care what it is.
But I don't have much use for a heater in San Antonio =\
I guessed.
its that old windows pipes screen saver gone horribly wrong!
This is how Gene Ray keeps his house warm.
unless it's that well designed, surely there's an issue with placing a heater directly on a floor, especially a laminate wooden one (it wouldn't exactly be aimed at carpet folk now would it?)... think of the damage to the laminate unless the bottom stayed sufficiently cool/cold (which seems unlikely given the design)
My digestive system. I swallowed a Rubik's Cube when I was a kid, and it still hasn't passed.
Imagine the amount of CPU cores you could put in side a cooling system like that. "and now the Intel decasexa (16 if I'm right) (dual octacore better?) core." Plug it in and watch your electric meter just Spin away!
I didn't know that radiators were that much of an eyesore.
any guesses that this thing is gonna leak.
I mean if there is a 99.99% chance one will - then maybe 1-2% chance a wood floor will be ruined.
better as something for occupational therapy.
@Carbonfly:
A liquid or steam radiator and a liquid cooling system are essentially the same things, just using the effect for different purposes.
My honest first guess was CPU water cooling system.
A new Apple product?
But seriously, I don't think it will be efficient heating since most of it will stay within the core, unless you have a fan blowing through it.
My first guess was a musical instrument for the Blue Man Group.
I thought it was a new IUD?
I thought it could be one of those new memristor thingys.
Come on people...
It's Sponge Bob's feces!
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@dqkennard: Nice. I like that one.
Here is an actual link to the product though...
[www.designboom.com]
Imagine the mess if a pipe is broken with a hole just in the middle.
or
How can you empty it when you need to purge it?
I got halfway there on my first guess - got it exactly backward and though of cooling rather than heating. LOL
beer wort chiller! Put the cube in ice water then pump your hot wort through = wort, ready to pitch.
*Jumps on cube*
*crunch*
That would be so awesome for my watercooling rig. Hmm... It's been forever since I did some copper pipe soldering.
@Sean Robertson: That's not backward. Cooling and heating are both heat exchange and both use radiators / heat sinks (same thing).
Windos screen saver.
@FredicvsMaximvs: Are you serious? That sounds so totally OUT there, that it might actually be true.
I guessed correctly!!!
um its obvious a cooling or heating system
@Curves: Hee hee! Sounds good, doesn't it? ;)
Maybe I should start working on a perpetual motion machine, or a career in high-falutin' art...
It looks like a square brain.