Gizmodo: starck

Modular Shower Lets You Arrange Your Bath Gadgets Like Building Blocks

Odelia Lee — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:00:00 EDT

This designer-friendly shower kit is for people who really like squares. The simple, elegant 5x5 modules can be arranged freely and serve several functions, including thermostat, speaker, volume and diverter controls, showerhead, lighting and shelving.

No word on whether each block can be removed from and reapplied to the wall for even more bath time fun. However, the large "ShowerHeaven" overhead component this thing comes with does rain water down on you like a luxurious waterfall. [core77]

Phillipe Starck's Zikmu Parrot Wi-Fi iPod Speakers Are Even Prettier in Person

John Mahoney — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:01:00 EST

These Parrots stand at attention, (Monsieur Starck looking on), wirelessly bumping with an iPod perched on top. They're beautiful, but wait until you see the box that brings them to your mansion's loading dock.

If these showed up on my doorstep, I would thank whoever sent me the French intergalactic trumpets from space. Then I would take them out, pair 'em up with Bluetooth and stream my iTunes from my computer over wi-fi. They're $1,500, and available this spring.

Democratic Ecology: Philippe Starck's Cheap Designer Wind Turbine For Your Home

Brian Lam — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:30:55 EDT

Famous designer Philippe Starck recently revealed he felt a certain shame that all the things he'd designed were not essential for living. This turbine, which he designed with the help of generator company Pramac, can theoretically provide a single home with 20-60% of all the electricity it needs. The name, which needs work, or at least the prefix "turbo" in front of it, is "Democratic Ecology." If the performance is indeed true, at $633, it's actually a steal and I'd order one right now. [inhabitat via Boingboing]

Super-Designer Philippe Starck At TED

Brian Lam — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:04:21 EST

Philippe Starck is the super designer of many Gizmodo fetish pieces, including watches, lamps, toothbrushes, toilet brushes, and soon, spaceports like Virgin's in New Mexico. In this recently released TED video, he goes on and on for 18-minute video about design. He brushes up against the different kinds of design, some built to market goods, some as ego-pieces, and some as pure function, which Starck aims for. And somehow, over the rest of the talk, he ties design into a way of recording and expressing human evolution. I think. [TED]

Philippe Starck Rolls Out Wild-Looking Watches With Cantilevered Faces

Charlie White — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:20:00 EDT

We're always a sucker for designer Philippe Starck's latest creations, and here's a couple of watches he adds to his Fossil collection that have a strange cantilevered look we haven't seen before. Check out those hands, placed on that hanging face at an odd angle, making them look positively peculiar. Well, what would you expect from Philippe S+arck, a guy who takes out the "t" in his last name and replaces it with a plus sign?

If you have really hairy arms, this see-through design might not look quite as clean as it does in these pictures, but maybe the chance to wear an object of such style and grace would be worth shaving off that gorilla hair, at least on your arm.

On the other hand (arm?), we hear these S+arck watches are more of the "just a pretty face" variety, because their innards are cheap as a dime store windup toy. But for some, appearances are everything. No pricing was announced, but Fossil says these models will show up on its website this fall. [Technabob]

Starck Veiled Watch Tricks Your Eyes

Charlie White — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:32:14 EDT

If you like famed designer Philippe Starck, you won't be able to resist his latest creation, the Veiled Watch. Its electroplated crystal looks so much like the band that it's hard to tell where one stops and the other begins. First appearing to be merely a stainless steel bracelet, if you look carefully you can see the watch's hands nestled underneath, teasing you with their minimalist subtlety.

This gorgeous design is available for men and women, with the women's model built slightly narrower. Each is $247, which seems cheap for such high style.

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Starck Watch for Fossil: O-Ring Digi Has a Doughnut Hole

Charlie White — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:48:54 EST

That kooky designer Phillipe Starck (or S+arck, for the hoity-toity) is at it again for Fossil Watches, designing another sculpture you wear on your wrist that will tell the time only to those who know how it works.

Sure, everybody else is using cellphones to tell the time, but all you have to do is glance at your wrist. This design, called O-ring Digi, has a doughnut hole in the middle, displays hours as numerals, and minutes as cumulative segments building around the ring. Neat. It's relatively cheap, too, at $110.

Product Page [Fossil, via SlashGear]

Starck Smart Clock, the Key to the Universe?

Gizloco — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:59:45 EDT

Do you wake up to the sounds of your local morning zoo radio program? Hate the over-affected voice of the host? Why not get a real alarm clock, like this Starck Smart Clock and be done with it already?

Designed by Phillipe Starck with the intention of better understanding the universe (yeah...), the Starck Smart Clock has an automatically regulated clock, so no more blinking "12:00." There's seven different melodies that you can wake up to and the minimalist design, apparently, has the same effect as the Axe Effect.

The digital LCD displays time, date, temperature, barometric pressure and moon phase, all things you need to know as soon as you wake up. The background of the LCD is available in red, gray and yellow.

$100 unlocks the mysteries of the universe. – Nicholas Deleon

Product Page [Hive via Gadgetizer.com]