Every driver knows the feeling… When you drive nicely under the speed limit towards a speed bump, this frustration starts growing. You already know that, even though you drive slow, your car will be launched. And that is exactly the same feeling as being punished while you didn’t do anything wrong. Why are you being punished for following the rules? Finally some designers have tried to come up with a solution.

On Yanko Design we found a product by designers Jae-yun Kim & Jong-Su Lee. THey designed “a speed bump that’s based on retractors that open if the impact with them is small enough. These speed bumps can be configured so that if a car is going below 30km/h, the speed bump flattens; over 30km/h, the force causes the retractor to stay closed, keeping the speed bump active.”

The fact that all drivers are being punished by speed bumps will finally end. People who drive slowely will finally get a positive advantage over people who speed. Smart and hopefully soon to be developed.

Although gesture based interacting is really hot at the moment, we still don’t fully use the power of gestures. That’s what London based designer Zinc Chan must have thought when she came up with the gorgeous looking telephone Icono. Her design was based upon the “iconic hand gesture people use to represent the telephone.” When you want to make a phonecall you don’t pick up the handset like on current telephones, but you put the earphone and microphone around your fingers. By making the telephone gesture you create a phone with your hands.

Beside the fact whether it is practical, I think this is a great way of thinking. Zinc closed the gap between human thinking and physical objects. But that’s not all… because she also redesigned the dials. “When the user dials the numbers, an animated path is shown on the touch screen. Therefore, people start to remember the person by their unique pattern rather than the numbers.”

A beautiful concept.