Abri-Boca Living Pod Gives You Your Own Little Space in a Bigger Place

If you live with other people, then you know how difficult it is to get some privacy sometimes. People barging in your room, people barging into you while you’re in the shower (hopefully, unintentionally), and people walking past you every other minute while you’re in the den.

The good news is that you can get a little bit of privacy – even just a little – by getting furniture like the Abri-Boca Living Pod.

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You can’t exactly live in it, but you will be able to do stuff like take naps, read, or work on your laptop in relative peace. It provides you with an extra dome-like barrier that should tell people that you want them to leave you alone when it’s up. And when you’re ready to join the rest of the world again, just push the dome down and carry on.

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The Abri-Boca Living Pod was designed by Philipp Sussmann. It was recently on display at the ‘Meet My Project‘ exhibition during Milan design week.

[via designboom]

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Urchin Bluetooth Speaker is Ready for Anything

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Its design also makes it shock and water resistant, so it’ll be fine in the rain or even in the shower. I like how it’s got a carabiner so that you can hook the Urchin on a belt loop or backpack and keep the music going no matter where you’re going. It even comes with a suction cup attachment to stick it to the tiles in your bathroom, as well as a screw mount for your car.

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It also has a built-in microphone, so it works as a speakerphone. The Urchin comes in blue, red, or black and retails for $149.99(USD) from the Boom Movement shop.

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[via The Gadget Flow]

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The uniquely designed watch by typographer Daniel Will-Harris reminds everyone that it’s more important to live in the moment than to dwell on the past, or think about what will happen in the future. The past is in the past. The future doesn’t exist yet. The time is now. Will-Harris is a computer graphics pioneer, and works in typography, design and publishing.

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[via Enpundit]