Saudi Arabia-based telecommunications company STC have designed a wireless internet router that can also be used to hold flowers.
“The STC Router successfully bridges the gap between lifestyle and technology with it’s flower vase functionality,” say the designers.
The following is from Saudi Telecom:
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STC (Saudi Telecom) was in need for a unique router design that would provoke a positive emotional response. Wireless internet, Voice over IP, land line telephone and wired DSL are all incorporated into this elegant device.
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Posted by Matylda Krzykowski
November 21st, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Will this kill the myth that the electromagnetic radiation associated with wireless devices harms living organisms?
And I do love this quote : “The STC Router successfully bridges the gap between lifestyle and technology with it’s flower vase functionality.” Finally! Its what I’ve been waiting for ever since my eggbeater/iPod failed to bridge the gap between lifestyle and technology.
November 21st, 2008 at 3:00 pm
How stupid I have been! Until today I’ve just layed flowers directly on top of my router, but with this invention my life will change! Fantastic!
November 21st, 2008 at 3:01 pm
my internet router can also be used as a paper weight:-)
what is it with designers??..as soon as it can hold an orchid it’s a vase?
November 21st, 2008 at 3:34 pm
water and electrical appliances? hmm
November 21st, 2008 at 3:41 pm
…is it really that important to have flowers on the top of your router?
November 21st, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Dude,
Why just a flower vase? Paperclips, rubber bands, doritos the list goes on!
Wow, I can use it for my famous guacamole dip! We can all gather around the SERVER, AHa! it can be used as a networking server as well as a Guacamole SERVER!
I hope they use a good DPM to prevent shot circuiting!
OLE’
Brian
November 21st, 2008 at 4:30 pm
this could be a cool concept if it just looked like a nice vase with no stupid branding and buttons on the front. HIDE THEM!
ohhh i love your STC vase.
FAIL.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:44 pm
That vase will look really great with a half dozen wires trailing out the side, down the minimalist table near a wall and into a cable track. Oh right, vases are usually decorative objects that act as centerpieces that contain flowers to help freshen up a space, not containers that need to be near outlets and such.
I would completely dig this if somehow the vase used the water medium to transmit or receive wireless signals to turn a flower into an antenna. Otherwise this is a very stranger electrical fire waiting to happen.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:44 pm
water resistant LAN sockets?..
November 21st, 2008 at 4:49 pm
This could have had potential. Move the logo and the status lights to the back with the ports, and get rid of the seams, and you could disguise the router as a vase. The way it is, it still looks like ugly router. It is just sprouting flowers.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Doesn’t merit comment. Oops.
November 21st, 2008 at 5:05 pm
i feel like it will look silly once you have all those cords plugged in. And in my experience routers are usually near the wall, close to the wall and the things it plugs into… not out in the open. All that aside I think the intent to integrate a somewhat mundane technology item into an interior environment is good… but maybe combining two functions into one is silly. Can’t a router just be a router? and a vase a vase?
November 21st, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Hey ! I also designed a mobile phone which could be used as a vase !
but there was a problem when you answered…
November 21st, 2008 at 6:00 pm
it also looks like a nuclear cooling tower. if you photoshopped this into a landscape it’d look like the beginning of a botanical horror movie.
November 21st, 2008 at 6:02 pm
brilliant
roll on careless groggy morning watering of plants
and ensueing arguements with housemates
November 21st, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Are you kidding me? After industrial, graphic, media etc. there should be founded a new department for designers – gadget design. Seriously
November 21st, 2008 at 7:24 pm
This is really… really funny.
November 21st, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Remove the hideous logo and it might be usable. Otherwise, I’ll pass on prominantly displaying the telecom’s logo in my living room.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Awesome! very well done…anybody knows where can I buy one of this?
November 21st, 2008 at 10:30 pm
A wireless router flower pot that tells you the conditions of the plant and light over your LAN. That would be useful. You could even VPN to tell it to release water or vitamins while away, useful for caring for orchids. Then daisy chain other pots like a network hub. Perhaps with a wireless router and LAN, you could control window shades to control the amount of light as well. That’s one seemingly foolish idea inspiring another.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:49 pm
it’s more a nuclear plan typology than a vase
November 21st, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Where can I find this at STC’s site http://www.stc.com.sa/cws/portal/en/ ??
You are publishing this as facts and I could not find the source
November 21st, 2008 at 10:51 pm
… and with flower it’s tropical flower it’s not only funny
http://www.tnema.org/Word%20Docs/SEQUOYAH%20NUCLEAR%20PLANT%20RESPONSE%20PLAN_files/image001.jpg
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:07 am
This is really great, where can I get one and how soon?
How much to ship to USA?
November 22nd, 2008 at 6:55 am
i’ll never put flower there…so bad taste!
November 22nd, 2008 at 7:12 am
Really cool design, wish more gadgets come with cool design.
November 22nd, 2008 at 3:50 pm
well, this made me laugh!
November 23rd, 2008 at 12:03 am
some dry ice and we’re set.
November 23rd, 2008 at 12:16 pm
u’ll thrashin it cuz its arab? uglier designs have been lauded as better than taj mahal on this very site.. if ur a designer.. dont be biased.. i personally think it adds charm to the router.. forgot how hideous routers are?
November 23rd, 2008 at 7:50 pm
well, congratulation guys: it´s the ugliest vase AND the biggest router in one !
awesome!!
November 23rd, 2008 at 9:30 pm
My stomach hurts from laughing……….definiltely to most amusign thread so far, some of you guys should be stand up comedians!
Dezeen, please do puts more ridiculous design, it just made my day!
November 23rd, 2008 at 10:46 pm
This would have to be from Saudi Arabia wouldn’t it?
November 24th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Youst another stupid gatget! Obviously made to get people to stand it where they can se it, and there by get a lot of free adverteisment space inside peoples houses!
Why not make it so small that it could be hidden in side a vase instead?
November 25th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
So I guess they are kinda sending us the message that we should put our routers under the sun? I theres a flower on top no harm done??
November 26th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
You comenteers are so full of hate.
I think it’s cute. It’s just a bit of fun. You can pretend you’re in some kitsch 1960s sci-fi future world.
LOOK at my new flowers, I just picked them from the flower market ON THE MOOOOON…
etc.
Lighten up, design snobs!
November 27th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
My..My, I think they should work on making their network and connection become better instead of thinking about a stupid router that can hold flowers.
God how did we reach this point, this is so silly =S.!!
November 29th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Nice concept, you are right Manal.. we look to have better Network. since mobily and zain are really bad. i’m a citizen and suffering from the new tow companies.
STC has the finest network … after i try the others.
BR,
December 2nd, 2008 at 1:13 pm
I consider it ts a elegant design.
December 2nd, 2008 at 2:53 pm
dONT CARE IF IT IS araB OR aNTARCTICAN, IT IS AN ATTEMPT AT BREAKING OUT OF THE BANAL INTO THE ABSURD!
(NO OFFENSE TO THE DESIGNERS!)
December 3rd, 2008 at 1:17 am
I think it’s plain georgous,
it’s amazing for those offices that try and keep the cable and hi-tech jungle out of tact…
December 4th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Dude! It looks like a nuclear powerplant http://www.inkycircus.com/jargon/images/nuclear_power_plant.gif
December 9th, 2008 at 12:26 am
I love it! Frankly, it looks a lot better than any router that I’ve ever used, even if it doesn’t meet the design standards for a typically “attractive” vase (psst – I have a feeling that it isn’t supposed to simply look like another vase). You people need to lighten up a bit. Perhaps it’s intended to look like a nuclear power plant’s cooling tower, and so what if it has its manufacturer’s logo on the front. As it’s the first of its kind, I doubt it violates any established criteria for router-vases. Talk about a conversation piece! I want one.
December 9th, 2008 at 3:26 am
hmmmm.. really it has no function and there is no new invention but it looks quite nice ^^
well. i do live in Saudi but i dont find any ?!
So…. is it true?
plz make sure about that!!
it is not shown even in the site :S
December 14th, 2008 at 10:46 am
I predict a disproportionately high number of unfortunate events involving careless or unassuming housekeepers and badly aimed refilling attempts
September 22nd, 2009 at 8:07 pm
All I need now is some baking soda and vinegar and my kid has his science far project.