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As the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympics Games are soon to begin, the London government is now busying with many projects to make the city good enough to welcome guests from all over the world. One of those projects is the LCD smart recycling bins built in London’s streets and public spaces. Each recycling bin features a couple of LCD screens on either side, which will display the latest news from 6 am to the mid-night every day. The bins are fitted with Wi-Fi too, so that they can offer a better and wider connectivity. Since these bins are nearly the most high-tech recycling bins we’ve ever met, each of them will cost about £30,000 to build.

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Hey, what’s that up in the sky? Is it a superman? Not really, as it is RcSuperhero flying mechanism indeed. Measuring 78-inches tall and weighing just 3.3 pounds, the RcSuperhero looks very eye-catching in the sky, making it one of the most-wanted gifts this year. So would you like one too?

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BangBang handle, a unique door handle rightly in the same shapes as pistols. Hence whenever you open the door, you may feel that you’re holding a pistol…Isn’t that exciting? And that’s not dangerous at all.

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With its concept and technology becoming more and more widely accepted and used, the augmented reality technology has already been adopted by designers and scientists to create something unique, just like this “Mirracle” project. Led by researchers from Technical University of Munich, the project is actually an updated version of the interactive mirror systems that display tomography images virtually on the body of the person who was scanned, and it now turns out “more intuitive and easy to use”.

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During January 26 to January 29, 2012, the spectacular Ghent Light Festival held in Belgium and showcased several fantastic light art pieces submitted by designer from all over the world. One of those interesting projects is this cathedral made from no less than 55,000 LED lights. The art installation is very huge, eye-catching, especially when it is turned on with all the colorful lights in the evenings. But quite surprisingly, the cathedral, though has used over 55,000 LEDs, consumes only 20Kwatt / h of electricity, thus making it both a charming art piece and energy-saving project as well.

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Why haven’t we realized that even the bottle corks may have lives before? Fortunately it’s still not too late for us to know that truth, and welcome you to this new world of bottle cork animals. They’re made by two Israeli design studios, who packaged all the required body parts in with each bottle of wine, for people to build out a bear, buffalo, bunny, crow, deer or monkey with the cork, so as to recycle your resources in an easy and interesting way.

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Utilizing a photochromic screen-print composition, designer Solenne Morigeaud has constructed the “Hide-and-seek with the Missing” floor that will reveal a vivid color palette whenever exposed to UV light. By designing such a color-changing floor, Solenne aims to bring the public with the awareness of many floral species extinction threat, as well as to inform them the importance of preservation of nature.

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Quite commonly we say that there’s valuable knowledge in books, but sometime there’s a comfortable soft pillow inside it too. It is disguised in the same appearance as a dictionary, allowing you to trick others for fun and to enjoy a sleep anytime and anywhere you may want. So how do you like it? Just work hard, and sleep better!

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A new paint made of carbon nanotubes and fly ash is announced as a cheaper and easier way to monitor facilities like bridges, mines and wind turbines. The development is put forward by researchers from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, who explain that the nanotubes’ conductivity will change if they get bent, and wireless transmitters placed throughout the structure would receive the data and resend it to the system, using the conductivity change as a sign of defect in the structure to alert people of possible dangers. Also, the paint is said to be cheap too, allowing it to be used in a wide range of buildings, bridges, coal mines, etc.

The future of weapons is indeed quite unpredictable as scientists are developing and launching new devices with at a really fast pace. Recently the Sandia National Labs has just tested a prototype laser-guided bullet that can steer itself and home in on targets. It doesn’t look like a bullet, as you may have seen from the picture: it is four inches long, with fins, optical sensor, actuators and other devices built in and outside. The fins can correct the bullet’s trajectory 30 times every second, not only ensuring a more accurate shot, but indicating that the bullet can even strike moving targets.

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Undoubtedly everyone loves coffee – while most of us are used to enjoying a cup of coffee every day, the American company Virus is intended to produce comfortable base layer fabric that traps heat close to the skin, using recycled coffee grounds. The new fabric is announced capable of increasing skin surface temperature by 10 degrees Fahrenheit, and it features anti-UV and anti-odor properties as well.

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Those days you carefully kept your various tools in drawers or cabinets have already passed, and from now on we’ll need to show off our delicate tools by hanging them on the wall – this not only lets you use your tools as wall decorations, but allows you to find the needed tools more quickly and conveniently. To offer you some functional and practical holders to organize your tools on the wall, we strongly recommend the Tool Dots and the drill bit holder. They’re both easy to operate and use, though function in totally different ways: the Tool Dots is especially useful to hold tools like hammers or wrenches, while the drill bit holder can keep nails in place, just as its name implies.

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“Watpack” is a pet shelter concept that can be molded into various desired shapes to offer your pets a personalized house. It’s stylish in looks and easy to use, and thus offers us a simplest way to build the pets a unique home, one that is different from others on the market.

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Let our opinion become clear and unbiased now: PC games actually can offer something more important than the great fun we usually get – it provides us with creative inspirations too! Look at this Ultimate-battlefield PC Case: it’s designed and made by a PC gamer, with a really cool appearance, good functions and even a beverage storage space.

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White, square, square, white, why is every outlet so similar to others? Can’t they have their own personalities?  Of course they could, with the aid of these stickers. Printed on glossy vinyl, you can combine them in any number of ways to give your outlets an attractive look.

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