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When designers contemplate materials, concrete isn’t usually high on the list, but a few enterprising souls with durability in mind decided to break the mold of keeping it confined to sidewalks and flooring and use it for furniture, jewelry and even flashdrives.

Concrete coffee machine (above)

Concrete is an emerging fashion! Imagine a Coffee Machine made of cement. Well it does exist, and looks mystically enigmatic. Israeli design student Schmuel Linkski came up with this concrete-encased Lavazza unit, which makes a bold description of the appliance’s durability. Linkski explains his vision behind using concrete. “Concrete is in the kitchen, and not only as a wall or decorative part. I wanted it to be a desirable consumer product.”

Concrete flashdrive

Shu-Chun Hsiao designed a new form of durable flash drive which is made from concrete. These flash drives can withstand almost any form of hard usage. Don’t just look at how hard it is, because you have a rock amount ofstorage with 64 GB, 128 GB and 256 GB. The weight seems to vary, or you can say it depends on the storage capacity. That’s not all, because the flash drive uses USB 2.0 interface. As for availability, you won’t find them in the market. These are just concept.

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