Let’s start a green journey—never using any kinds of fuel, but simply relying on wind power. Sounds incredible? Not necessarily, because Dirk Gion and Stefan Simmerer have already completed a 5,000km journey with their electric vehicle powered by wind. They built their car with both electricity-generating wind turbines and a kite, which produced enough electricity power for use during their 18-day trip. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The Sbyke was firstly revealed at the 2011 International Toy Fair in New York, and it was designed to offer a much safer scooter for kids. It’s also a cool device for adults, as the Sbyke comes in various types. Being a lazy person who avoids complex exercise, this Sbyke is quite perfect for me! [Read the rest of this entry...]
People nowadays seldom have a chance to see mushroom growing out of trees as they’ve been used to spend most of their time in cities. Fortunately with the Easy-to-Grow Mushroom Garden, you can now have an urban mushroom farm inside your kitchen! Specially made for indoors, the Easy-to-Grow Mushroom Garden can exist in any places as long as you offer it with needed water. Within about ten days, little mushrooms will come out and you can then harvest them twice or even four times everyday. Just so easy! [Read the rest of this entry...]
For all those who want their gates to have a unique look but feel upset about designing and painting them, designer Mathis Heller has created the iGate. These high-tech gates can easily change their appearances, getting new colors, patterns via changing the built-in LEDs. [Read the rest of this entry...]
How could one make a white living room into a magnificent room within only a few seconds? The answer may be quite clear: he needs to use magic or this unique physical 3D video mapping technology created by Mr. Bram. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Designer Xie Chen Chen wants to save your trouble with messy wires with this Plug Socket, which not only has a multiplug to hook up to three plugs, but features a foldable design to hold your items when they’re on charge. It’s not the most complex or most delicate plug we’ve ever seen, but we do like that the Plug Socket keeps it simple while ensuring us a more convenient using. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The Otoko Kaoru Shirt is a brilliant idea. It comes with an integrated scent capsule, which will release scent when it rubs against your skin and therefore to everybody a good smell all day long. The scent capsule can last for about 10 washes and the shirt costs $35. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Bacon, cupcake, pickle… all those things are usually found on a dinner table, but this time you’ll find them in toothpastes. Different with common toothpastes, these ones will leave users a lasting and pleasant taste of fine food while still ensures them good teeth. Hmmm, they will be my favorite toothpastes! [Read the rest of this entry...]
Quite a long time after laptop computers were created, we finally see a printer that also features a simple book shape. It’s super compact, measuring 50 X 257 X 182 mm so that you can easily take it anywhere. Even better, the Book Printer can be connected to other devices via Bluetooth and therefore allowing you to have files saved in cellphones or iPads printed. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Already fed up with remote-controlled aircrafts? Have a try with the Air Swimmers then. They’re balloon fishes that can swim in the air—filled with helium and controlled by a remoter. As the Air Swimmers are lightweight and recommended only for indoor use, they’ll be quite suitable for the kids to play with. Here you’ll see two molds, a flying shark and a flying clown fish, and both of them will be available on July 2011 at a retail of $39.99. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Fold, fold and fold, and you would have another box of Doritos… Designed by Petar Pavlov for Doritos, this packaging box is reusable, allowing the users to keep their chips closed after opening. Wanna have a try? Check the video below for more information. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The Push and Store Cabinet is always full: usually filled with thin wooden beams, but sometimes with books or either items if you push them into the cabinet. It is entirely awesome, keeping changing its faces so that you’ll find new fun with the furniture. [Read the rest of this entry...]
One Swedish company recently released this PowerTrekk, a portable fuel cell charger that utilizes water to produce electricity energy. Over ten milliliters of water, either clean water or domestic sewage, is announced enough to have a cellphone or flashlight to work well. Good news is that you’ll soon find it in market and use it everywhere. [Read the rest of this entry...]
In the nature there’re many eccentric plants like pitcher plants that live on small insects, and now there’s a weird clock that can get energy from flies and then creates electricity supply to keep it working. But in fact the clock also gets electricity energy from other apparatus, so it cannot be deemed as “an independent clock that works on itself.” [Read the rest of this entry...]
Cycling in water is really mad and exciting, even though we seldom have the chance to try that. But these sculptures designed by Zoltan Kecskemeti are quite lucky, because they can ride on the River Danube everyday—as the water moves on, it drives these unique sculptures to act too. [Read the rest of this entry...]
