The KOR ONE Hydration Vessel is a 750mL, BPA-free re-usable water bottle. Designed by KOR Water, in partnership with RKS, it is dishwasher safe and it has a hinged cap that’s always attached to the bottle so you won’t lose it and it’s always at hand. Available August 1^st from around $30 directly from their site. More images after the break.

My friend Daniel yesterday showed me this documentary produced by Autodesk in partnership with PBS, narrated by Brad Pitt, about the work headed by Bogotá’s ex-mayor Enrique Peñalosa, making the city one of the most sustainable in the world by implementing innovative ideas like the “TransMilenio” bus system, and causing crime rate to be reduced by 70% in only three years. Even though the documentary omits other important changes implemented by Mr. Peñalosa (along with other mayor’s before and after him), that greatly improved the life of Bogotá’s citizens and reduced environmental problems like the “pico y placa”, it is still a great eye opener. It is nice to see inspiring solutions coming from my country every once in a while. Watch the documentary after the break.

Completely unnecessary, but cool nonetheless, the iRetroPhone application aims to emulate an interface left in the 20^th century: the rotary phone. In development by ObjectGraph, available soon through the App Store. Watch the video of this app in action after the break.

Brothers Tej and Sach Chauhan of Chauhan Studio designed this futuristic phone for Suncorp Communications, fittingly named after famed Italian designer Joe Colombo. They state the design seeks to re-establish the lost relationship between earpiece and mouthpiece in modern telephones. The flash and html versions of Chauhan Studio’s site state both Spring and August of 2008 respectively as the availability date—so I’m unclear about that one. Let’s hope it’s soon. More images after the break.

Denis Guidone designed this beautiful watch, Ora Unica (Single Hour), in which the hour and minute hand look like a single doodle that seems to magically morph as they turn to indicate time. More details and images after the break.

Imprecision and defect manifest a fullness of sense, an inherent pluralism of inflections. These aspects let us calibrate communication with an idea of imperfection that isn’t “negative”, but which it simply presents itself as a more complicated concept of perfection, often an insignificant and anesthetic value within its “compliance” characteristics.

The imperfection becomes the “ruling principle” of new rational configurations that certify contrast, that wish for irregularity and the break from symmetry, which become distinctive traits of our times.

Ora Unica wishes to be a provocative clock; its aesthetical principle is inaccuracy. Lack of discipline, a childish and irrational gesture to define time, which is precision and rationality. The hour and minute hands are represented by a single line drawn on two circular faces, which turn one inside the other. Both faces together resemble a graphical gesture, a doodle that changes as time passes.