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Grass Balls. No You Cannot Smoke it
Grass Balls. No You Cannot Smoke it
Grass cutting is a bore, but even the most monotonous chores can be remedied if you make it fun. The Muwi concept is an automated mower barreled shape to compact grass cuttings into balls and disks for, get this. . . to play with. Of course if you’re the type that hates grass stains, these [...]
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Muwi Concept Lawnmower Turns Waste Grass into Playthings [Mower]
Gizmodo — ... Ok, so the ball could be considered more a plaything, while the grass disks are perhaps more suited for piling up as ad-hoc lawn chairs. Although there's always the possibility of a game of giant grass frisbee... How many sneezes and streaming eyes would that set off, I wonder? Those grass "bails" would easy to pick up and chuck onto the compost pile too. Nice lateral thinking here, and for once it's a concept that I'd love a manufacturer to get to grips with for real. [Yanko design] ...

Concept Box Squeezes Mower Clippings into Toys, Furniture
Wired: Gadget Lab — ... of a car (which was probably doing around 60 mph). The driver stopped and ran towards us, shouting and waving his fist, I tried to escape through a small tunnel under the barbed wire fence behind us but my "friends" blocked the path. I was roundly scolded, and started to cry, sobbing pathetically in the face of my victim. The Muwi would have saved me. There's no way the motorist would have survived a direct hit from a heavy, compressed ball of vegetable matter. Grass Balls. No You Cannot Smoke it [Yanko] ...

Muwi mower concept turns your lawn trimmings into fun shapes
DVICE Atom Feed — ... Muwi is automated and, after determining the size and shape of the lawn, will get to work all on its own. You only need to clean up the mess — or play with it. Whichever you fancy. Click Continue for an explanatory image on just how the Muwi works. The Muwi is a design by South Korean students Yong Hee Cho, Yuli Sung, Jee Won Lee and Seung Hee Son, and won a bronze at the 2008 International Design Excellence Awards. Via Yanko Design

Best Of August 2008
Yanko Design — ... Permalink Hits: 9829 6) Bend Mobile Phone by Andy Kurovets. Permalink Hits: 10618 5) Motorola Sparrow by Aruliden Studio. Permalink Hits: 12094 4) Holeder Earphone by Yoonsang Kim. Permalink Hits: 13463 3) Silence Alarm Clock by Johan Brengesjo. Permalink Hits: 13849 2) Touch Sight Camera by Chueh Lee. Permalink Hits: 14168 1) Muwi mower by Yuli Sung. Permalink Hits: 28429 No Tags

Muwi Mower
productdose.com — ... The concept of a roomba for your lawn has been around. But this particular mower spits out the cut grass as disks that you can ... play with. Yah. Or you can compost them since they'll be in easy to handle disk shapes so you won't have an excuse not to reintroduce them to the Earth in some usable manner. |via Yanko| ...

Muwi - Innovative Lawn Mower
TechFresh, Consumer Electronics Guide — ... innovative lawn mower. Unlike most lawn mowers, Muwi is a next-generation robomower that “calculates the size of the lawn and automatically cuts the grass. As the grass cuttings accumulate inside the machine, Muwi constructs and compresses them into cylindrical blocks. The blocks can become balls for children to play with or be combined to make a chair or anything else you can think of. After the blocks are used, they can be left to return to nature. Pretty innovative indeed! [YANKO] ...

Best of Yanko Design 2008
Yanko Design — ... by Dmitry Zagga. Permalink Hits: 46196. Comments: 56 17) P-Per Mobile Phone by Chocolate Agency. Permalink Hits: 47605. Comments: 46 16) Saverclip by Tsunho Wang. Permalink Hits: 47971. Comments: 78 15) No-key Keyboard by Kong Fanwen. Permalink Hits: 52217. Comments: 139 14) Flying Stick Camera by Tsunho Wang. Pemalink Hits: 53300. Comments: 80 13) Grass Balls by Yuli Sung. Permalink Hits: 57277. ...

10 Concepts on Grass!
Yanko Design — ... a ticket and a replenisher of clean air… with grass! 2 ) Rethink to Save the Los Angeles Water Supply by CalArts Design Team This kind of post is a bit of an oddball on Yanko as it’s primarily an advertising campaign. But it’s methods are purely industrial. Through wild and beautiful images promoting the use of real native plants and grasses in the area, CalArts students hope to save Los Angeles from itself! 3 ) Muwi Automatic Grass Cutter by Yuli Sung ...

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