There’s a paradigm shift in the science of food. Fifteen ago proper nutrition meant augmenting the kind of foods you ate. Buzz words like low-carb, low-cal, non-fat, low-glycemic, organic, and natural made their way into our vocabulary and yet we’re becoming fatter and unhealthier. Philips Design envisions a range of products that not only identify the true contents of food, but also how it affects your individual body.

The Diagnostic Kitchen enables people to take a much more accurate and personally relevant look at what they eat. The system is comprised of a tabletop, scanning wand, and swallowable sensor. The wand is an interactive device that gives you real time data about what’s going on inside your body, everything from salt to water ratio, hydration, fats, proteins, etc… By docking the wand and placing a food item you might eat on the tabletop, the wand updates to show how this item will affect your body.

The end goal is finding equilibrium. As you continue to use the system, you’ll gain an understanding of how food really affects you. As you find balance, the wand keeps a visual record of your progress and displays it across the surface. This is a provocative and unconventional look at food but one that can have a profound effect on how we eat. Imagine what that wand would look like if you placed a Big Mac with fries and a coke on the tabletop. The damn thing would probably explode.

Designers: Philips Design

So you can’t be a conductor of any musical symphony nor do you have any creativity in painting and art. Tough luck, but what if I gave you this magical wand, that allowed you to transform your ceiling into a magical landscape of color LEDs, that brighten up and dim at the flick of your wrist, wouldn’t you be the Mozart of lights? Draw The Lights makes you a capable light conductor! What I mean is that clusters of LEDs take command from this “light brush” in your hand, and sparkle to create mesmerizing ambient settings. If creativity gets the better of you, how about creating artwork with the lights? Fancy!

Designer: Seo Dong-Hun

Hello there to you, mister eclipse. So nice to see part of you today! This lamp right here is called the “Nissyoku”, and it is inspired by just that fabulous lunar event, the solar eclipse. Join me, if you will, in exploring all the ways you might use its special swiveling pieces held together with magnetics, magic, and wonder. This is a unique lamp, if I do say so myself.

A lamp I’d love to have hanging by my side when I address the world on fabulous alien design. But it’s made by humans! IGENdesign designed the heck out of this little diddy. Two sides consisting of len-form panels move multiple directions, letting loose light where they may.

These two panels move smoothly along their concave hole homes, each of them fixes on the lamp by magnets alone. And how to turn on the light?

All you must do is tap the middle metal ring.

Designer: IGENdesign

Putting it straight enough for you, Wind Up Socket has a timer to it, once you set the duration and time’s up, the electricity supply to that socket gets cut off. For grownups who don’t have many restrictions and can self regulate, this one may seem more cumbersome than anything else. But for moms with teens who don’t comprehend “half hour of TV / Videogames time”; this is booty! I’d only be careful of placing the cords of various gadgets carefully, otherwise its set!

Designers: Dongwon Joo & Jieun Choi

Hey so I know you want to capture everything that you experience. Wait you don’t? Then don’t read this. You’ll get all mad probably. This is a concept design about a set of wireless headphones that also have a 10.1 megapixel digi-cam on one side and a digital image projector on the side. You can capture your world all the time and put that stuff on the internet right away. Instantly.

Here’s basically the manifesto of this project: Support the act of exploration by giving people better tools. Deepen image’s meaning by supoprting as much information as possible. Bring people together by enabling individuals to express themselves.

There’s all kinds of wireless going on with this project. It’s got P2P, automatic backup into your computer, and instant wireless uploading to the internets. And! And! With the projector, you can project as you record. How useless is that? Not at all. I need people to know what they look like.

*Don’t forget to look at that really, just, good looking, guy at the bottom of this post.

**Lookin good, guy.

Designer: William Gerwin

Not that rack. This rack. It’s the “Line.” Designed by Pavel Sidorenko and made to be tied. Made for you modern-headed life-bringers from the city or the small smart towns popping up all over the outside of the big ones. Yes you! I know you’ve got antique stores in your town, but you’ve got to have some of this new loveliness, I know you! If you’d have been born a few years later you’d have been hipsters! As it stands, you’ve just got really good taste. Look at this rack.

This rack is for you. It’s 150mm tall, and one of three lengths: 1450mm, 850mm, or 350mm. Hows that. Anything you want there! To hang you’ve got only to lift your object behind the rack and let it fit between slits, or use one of the addition options. First you can use pegs that come with it, plugging them in the holes there. Second you can use the “Line” set of objects which, incidentally, I wrote about just the other day. Have a peek!

Any way you hang it, your elders are going to have a heck of a time adapting, and your youngsters will figure it out in a moment.

Designer: Pavel Sidorenko of Adsen Furniture

Quick question: How many of us think about product life and recycling Before we buy any items? I belong to the group that said “I don’t”, and yes I am ashamed. Luckily for us Philips is developing a concept where product life, recycling methods, shopping environment and client needs are taken into consideration. Welcome to the Circle of Life, featuring a creative shopping environment that considers the product life cycle with recycling options….all before you make the purchase.

Philips Design Explains:

Circle of Life is a concept for a truly informed and heightened shopping experience, where old products are returned, recycled and re-used, and where new products are assembled on-site and co-created with the customer. In a closed loop that ends at ‘Ownership’, but starts with ‘Recycling’, it delives responsible goods as well as meeting the customer’s needs.

For the moment there may not be much substance to this concept, but I’m sure since biggie Philips is involved here, we can expect this or something similar popping up in the future.

Designer: Philips Design

Hey Dad, you’ve got to clean some diapers, Dad. This isn’t 1950, Dad, get over here and take care of this baybah! What you’re about to find is three different Baby Beds, not all of them directed directly at Dad, but they’d sure be useful for the baby! And since you’re reading this blog, you know – you know exactly what you wanted when you were a baby – innovation! See below the “Flip Bath,” Dad’s “Changing Bag,” and the “Modular Rocker.” Not for hard rock!

First down there you’re going to see the Flip Bath. It will accommodate the heck out of your baby as he or she grows up. Use one side until the baby’s butt gets too big to butt down in the tub, then flip. If the baby is then still too big, it’s time to get a new Flip Bath.

Next there’s Dad’s Changing Bag. Dad! Change that poopy! This is a bag that probably anyone could use, but it’s aimed at Dad in name. It has all the supplies you’d ever want for changing diapers, as well as some other parental essential items. Fold-out changing station for when you’re at the bus station, clean, raised, nice.

*I have to share with everyone a fact that noone really needs to know, I am just so proud of it: it was only last week that I got to change the very first diaper I have ever changed. It was a moderately soiled one right off my godson’s butt. Please refrain from sending too much cash in your congratulation cards.

Finally the Modular Rocker is for baby rock and rollers. It’s made up of some sleek individual components that can combine into a series of transformers, changing with the baby as the baby turns into a bigger baby. Scary huh? Babies turn into adults!

Designer: Evan Gant of Altitude Inc.

Innovative minds can’t take rest and are always involved in making something unique. Marouane Bembli is one of those. His newsiest project is the Aston Martin Veloce, a 2+2 seater with brand new ethanol engines. The design has clear Aston Martin DNA, with special relations to both the DBS and the beautiful One-77. The idea behind this vehicle is to provide a replacement for the DB9.

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The unique part of the PLAY MP3 Player is the way it works. It functions by either folding or sliding. To play the music, fold the player into half to form the icon ” ▶”. To rewind the music, slide one of pieces to make icon ” ▶▶”. To stop the music, unfold the play triangle to a square or ” ■ “. PLAY MP3 Player most definitely adds a new dimension in MP3 designs! What do you think?

Designers: Jun Pyo Kim, Keun Sol Kim, Sung Mi Kang & Joo Hee Park

Small flat-dwellers are accustomed to having one object perform two functions (my coffee table also stores bed linen, for example), but I’ve never seen a lamp become a garden.

While you can’t grow a crop of tomatoes in Marko Vuckovi’s Grass Lamp, the grass will flourish under the lamp’s light and remind you the grass is always green—in a country house. [Yanko Design]

Send an email to Kat Hannaford, the author of this post, at khannaford@gizmodo.com.

Undo relationship wrongs with this ctrl+z apology card, finely printed with hand-mixed ink on 100% cotton extra soft paper. $3.75. (Note: If things don’t work out, the purchase of the card cannot be ctrl+z’d.) [Etsy via 9gag via thenextweb]

Samsung comes back to the prosumer camera market by launching the Samsung TL500 (also known as the EX1) that adopts several DSLR-level features. As a competitor to Panasonic DMC-LX3, this 10-megapixel compact camera comes with a large 1/1.7-inch CCD sensor, a bright f/1.8 lens, a 3x optical lens with a focal range of 24-72mm, a 3-inch swiveling AMOLED LCD screen, pop-up flash and external flash hotshoe, RAW shooting mode, and full manual control over exposure. The Samsung TL500 will be available in Spring 2010 for $449.99 a pop. [Hypebeast via Digital Camera Blog]

Designed by Soon Mo Kang this concept power supply is a modular strip which allows you to add more power points to suit your needs. However the ingenious part of the design is the quick release switches which automatically eject the power cables when pressed. Check out the video after the break to see the concept in action.

A study at the University of California Berkeley found that 3-D movies can cause eye strain. Normally, when we look at things nearby, our eyes converge. They do the opposite when we look at things in the distance. Martin Banks, a professor of optometry at Berkeley, says 3-D doesn’t allow our eyes to follow the rules because we’re focusing on things both far and near at the same time. That’s called vergence accommodation conflict. As per Martin Banks we have to concentrate our eyes to something near, but focus your eyes on something far. So we have to break that normal coupling between vergence and accommodation. This can lead to headaches and blurred vision.