A ring that features a mini book to record your sweet time. Or a book that comes with a small ring to create the easiest-to-carry memo pad. Whatever the item means to you, it’s obviously the thing that makes everybody smile. Yaps, we love the idea. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Time to get up—somebody smiles, somebody knits his/her brows, and there’re also someone too sleepy to open their eyes. Indeed, the same morning begins with different facial expressions, and each one has a distinctive way to enjoy their first cup of coffee. All handmade, these porcelain mugs not only come with a cute facial expression to reflect your mood, but feature a double wall insulation to keep the drink warm inside while your hands cool outside. So which do you like best, Happy as Larry, Monstrously Moody or Seriously Sleepy? [Read the rest of this entry...]
The designers never cease to bring forth new ideas. The latest invention is the Swing Clock, the dial plate of which keeps rocking from side to side as its hands turn slowly, creating unique hypnotic effect. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Surely what we’re to argue today are the best gifts for men— cool ties, but they can also be used for other purposes…Can you figure out a possible answer? [Read the rest of this entry...]
See what happens when the designers turn the common movement of pouring water into a piece of art, the result is quite incredible and of course amazing!
The sculpture ‘Pouring Jug’, measuring 320cm x 300cm x 410cm in size, is a gigantic bronze vessel from which black crystals are poured out. It is made from polished bronze, created by Dutch-Belgian Studio Job. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Natan Linder and his LuminAR make us love MIT more and love lamps more. The MIT student integrated a small scale digital projector with a robotic arm, creating an innovative interactive system that can help the users to check out images and emails directly on the table top. Its articulated robotic arm can also be used in combination with a laptop or a mobile phone. For a demonstration, continue with the video after the break. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Nearly a quarter of all the advertisements we come across are about cars, but have you ever met some advertisements which uses real cars? Luckily you’ll see them here on I New Idea. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The “Biway” is an amazing vehicle concept from the Michelin Challenge Design 2010. It works in a way like this: the zero-emission public transportation individually acts as an electrical bus on city roads, but turns into a modern train on a fiber freeway when two or more are combined together. Each of the Biway has an onboard battery, which will get charged when the vehicle moves on the fiber freeway. More importantly, the passengers can switch the buses directly, therefore saving their time and energy. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Special soap, smells like beer…Perfect enough for those who love beer, but it must be cautiously used when you’re going to drive a car. [Read the rest of this entry...]
It is BMW Z4. You’re totally right. But have you noticed something different the BMW car has compared with others? Oh my god, it’s indeed made out of stone but still features transparent glass windows! So we bet it must be the world’s heaviest BMW. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Thanks for Nico Smeenk, the patients will live a more comfortable life when in the hospitals, and their family (or the hospital staff) will ease their jobs of intensive care. Because in the future, they’ll use the innovative ICU bed! It features a single touch screen for the staff to check out all the data and also a foot-operated interface panel for hands-free operation. But that’s not all! To ensure the patients an easier and more convenient using, the bed is designed to be set in various shapes, e.g. an ordinary bed and a wheelchair. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Stunning ceramic stacking cups inspired by the traditional Native American Totem Pole have been quite popular on the internet recently. Not merely for containing water, but also for decorating your stylish home! Also available in gold and silver. Each set includes four cups. [Read the rest of this entry...]
MotoCzysz E1pc is a futuristic-looking motorbike made by Michael Czysz. It’s also the world’s most advanced electrical bike, featuring hand-assembled lithium-polymer batteries that can be swapped out in seconds to have the motor run at volts with a top speed of 140 MPH. In other words, the MotoCzysz E1pc has 10 times the battery power of a Prius, and that’s really amazing. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The sun rises in the east and sets in the west everyday to indicate the changes of light; the spring, summer, autumn and winter rotate to indicate the changes of seasons. And now, the 12 figures that indicate the hours emerge and disappear to tell us how the time elapses. Dubbed “Re-clock”, the time-telling device features no minutes but merely 12 hours, which are indicated via 12 figures that gradually appear on the layers of cloth-face from midnight to the noon while then disappear successively from the noon to the next midnight. Simply put, the Re-clock changes everyday, “from zero to something, and vice versa”. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Tornado and vase seem to be unrelated to each other. But the French design studio A+A cooren has proved they do have some relevance, with the Tourbillon Vortex Vase. It has two parts, an inner vessel that is shaped like a spiraling vortex and a small cup on the bottom to receive the water. [Read the rest of this entry...]
