Living Cube is an All-in-One Living Space

If you’re strapped for space in your flat, then the Living Cube might just be the thing for you. It’s still a one-of-a-kind build for now, but you should be able to make your own or have one made if you’ve got the carpentry skills.

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Designed by Till Könneker, the Living Cube is an entertainment center, living room, open wardrobe, walk-in closet, and library in one. There’s a loft bed at the top which looks comfortable enough. If you’re not into books, then you can just fill the shelves up with your random stuff. The wardrobe has a lot of space for shirts and coats and there’s two rows of shelves at the bottom for your shoes.

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The highlight has to be the walk-in closet, which offers additional space for everything else you can’t fit on the external shelves.

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Study Cube Keeps Distractions out So You Can Study in Peace

Some people can study with the music or TV on while others can’t. If you belong in the latter category, then I’m sure you’ll appreciate the Study Cube.

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It’s a small cubicle that accommodates just one person. Unfortunately, it resembles a public toilet, only it’s constructed from wood and has a desk and chair inside instead of a toilet. It’s meant to help people concentrate while they study by getting rid of all the noises and distractions that normally surround them. In short, it literally lets people shut the outside world out.

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The Study Cube has been released in South Korea for over a year now and is priced at 2.35 million won (~$2,164 USD).

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[via Neatorama]

Lexus LF-CC Concept shows the future of touchscreen interiors

We’re boots on the ground at the 2012 Paris Auto Show and Lexus is one of the first auto makers to roll out its concept hardware for the show. The company had a few machines to unveil, but the highlight is definitely the curvaceous LF-CC. It is, alas, just a concept that is intended more to show the future design direction of the company than give a clue into an actual production model to come, but more interesting is the clues this is hinting about both interior design and electrification on the powertrain front. Join us after the break for more details — and more pictures.

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Google Maps for Android takes navigation indoors for France, helps find your way through Carrefour

Google Maps for Android takes navigation indoors for France, helps find your way through Carrefour

Interior navigation with Google Maps for Android has usually been the province of only a handful of regions at best. But what about Provence? While the deal isn’t all-encompassing, Google is now serving indoor maps for popular locations throughout France. Coverage starts with the major airports in Paris and Lyon, extending to include major nationwide stores like Carrefour and FNAC, shopping centers like the Carrousel du Louvre and museums like La Géode. All told, over 50 venues have signed onboard and should be enough for those moments when you’re rushing to catch a connecting flight at Orly… or just want to find the salad dressings in aisle three.

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Ford wants you to meet its touchy, feely interior quality robot, RUTH 2.0

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That’s RUTH. In the end, she really amounts to a big robot arm with six joints, but Ford clearly has a soft spot for the faceless employee. First utilized in Europe, the Robotized Unit for Tactility and Haptics is currently at work helping to tweak the interiors of the company’s 2013 Fusions, turning data collected from customers across the world into the hard to define concept of “quality,” touching the trim, pushing buttons and turning knobs in the interior of the vehicle, in order to help provide what Ford says is, “the same type of quality they might feel if they were to buy a high-end luxury car.” The version of the arm dubbed Ruth 2.0 is currently being used by Ford alone in North America, and the company has extended her quality checking to include seat comfort in the vehicles. Check out a video of the long arm of the car company after the break.

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Nokia grows Destination Maps coverage to 4,605 venues in 38 countries, coming to Nokia Maps soon

Nokia grows Destination Maps coverage to 4,605 venues in 38 countries, coming to Nokia Maps soon

After covering more than 23 million miles of the world’s roadways, Nokia has focused on expanding its interior mapping footprint. Since its launch during CTIA 2011, the company’s Destination Maps service has grown to cover a total of 4,605 different venues in 38 countries, including airports, department stores, shopping malls and transit hubs. As you can see in the infographic above, the majority of those locations are in North America, with a total of 2,595 mapped on the continent, followed by 1,778 in EMEA, 225 in the Asia Pacific region and just seven in Latin America — that’s 235 million square feet in all. Nokia also promises much more to come in the future, with hints identifying amusement parks and stadiums as possible beneficiaries. The company also reiterated its recent partnership with Bing, adding that Nokia Maps will have access to Destination Maps in the not-so-distant future as well. You’ll find a few more details at the source link below, and while we don’t have precise predictions to share, you can rest easy knowing that Nokia’s indoor effort is far from complete.

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IndoorAtlas uses disturbances in the (geomagnetic) force to map interiors, plot a path to aisle 3 (video)

IndoorAtlas uses disturbances in the geomagnetic force to map interiors, keep us on track in aisle 3 video

Interior navigation is only just coming into its own, but IndoorAtlas has developed a technology that could make it just as natural as breathing — or at least, firing up a smartphone’s mapping software. Developed by a team at Finland’s University of Oulu, the method relies on identifying the unique geomagnetic field of every location on Earth to get positioning through a mobile device. It’s not just accurate, to less than 6.6 feet, but can work without help from wireless signals and at depths that would scare off mere mortal technologies: IndoorAtlas has already conducted tests in a mine 4,593 feet deep. Geomagnetic location-finding is already available through an Android API, with hints of more platforms in the future. It will still need some tender loving care from app developers before we’re using our smartphones to navigate through the grocery store as well as IndoorAtlas does in a video after the break.

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