Although LED technology has already been widely used in our daily life, there’re still some LED related products we seldom know or use, and one on that list is rightly the LED Light Strips. It is thin and waterproof, ideal for both indoors and outdoors use, capable of serving as night lights or decorative lights. According to your needs, you may cut the strips into various sizes as well.

Selling Price: $17.99

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Innvo Labs’ Self-adjusting Robot Pillow is a product that can ensure you a good night’s sleep by automatically adjusting its shapes and heights according to your body’s position. The pillow is filled with a set of inflatable air chambers inside, with a pressure-sensitive thin mat connected outside. When use the pillow, you simply need to turn on the mat, place your shoulders on it, and then your head will be cradled in the most comfortable way during your sleep. The continual inflating and deflating of the air chambers is done so slowly that you wouldn’t feel it at all – thus you needn’t worry that the pillow may affect your sleep.

Designer: Innvo Labs

Selling Price: $250 -$300

To have or not to have a tattoo is no more a bothersome problem, as you can now freely change its shapes or relocate the tattoo with the “moodINQ” Programmable Tattoo System. It utilizes a skin-safe proprietary E ink encapsulated pigment system, which not only lasts a lifetime but can be configured to display any design (or none!) That’s undeniably good news to tattoo fanciers, who could conveniently change their tattoos to suit their moods, while without any pain!

Feel excited about that right? But when you try to buy one on Think Geek, you’ll find that this merely a trick for April Fool’s Day… Still awesome concept, though.

Selling Price: $149.99

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Flaca, which is Spanish for skinny, is an ultra-thin foldable lamp completely laser-cut from a piece of stainless steel. It’s easy to assemble in just five steps, requiring no other tools but only your bare hands. The lamp is adjustable too, offering various heights to meet your different needs.

Designer: Masiosare Studio

Work smarter, not merely harder. FLEXiT is an ultra-flexible light that can be wrapped around tubes, bent into tight corners or magnetically fastened onto metal objects to serve as different types of lights: table light, camping light, work light, directional light and so on. Except for it adjustable shapes, the FLEXiT’s light functions can be changed too, offering low, medium and high light according to your various needs.

Selling Price: $29.99

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One, two or even ten different shapes of baking pans are not enough to people in deep love of baking cakes, so what they really need may be this Ribbon Adjustable Baking Pan. It’s made of silicon and magnets, attaching onto steel baking sheets in various shapes and sizes, so as to create beautifully-crafted delicious cakes.

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With an adjustable design, the brass pencil sharpener can produce three kinds of points: a sharp one for fine and precise lines, a medium one for letter-writing, and a rounded one for sketching and shading. One tool that meets your three different kinds of needs, isn’t that a great deal?

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LEGO, LEGO, LEGO, with repeatedly appearing in my vision, that word (and that toy) has already annoyed me so much that I really don’t want to see anything relevant to that. But except for this LEGO Brick iPhone Case. It’s something better than a LEGO toy, featuring removable block sections for us to neatly organize the headphone wires, and that’s in my mind the best part about the case. Of course the gadget comes with other features too, such as personalized combinations and camera lens protection.

Selling Price: $9.90

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What will the next-generation fluorescent lights be like? “D’Light” from H_Design can offer us a possible answer. Made of heat resistant tempered silicone material and LEDs, the D’Light is expandable and durable, saves both your efforts to install the light tube and your money spent on electricity bills. It can fit into different sizes of lights too, and all you need to do is to hook it to one end and expand the length to the other side. Easy and practical as that!

Designer: H_Design

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Apparently the 2011 Red Dot Design Concept has brought us with many innovative designs, except for those we’ve introduced before, the Adjustable Radiation Flashlight is another one we’d like to show you. It could shift between concentrated spot-light and wide flood-light modes, based on its flexible plastic plate which contains about 40 individual lights. Hence even though it is designed as one light, the gadget is actually something serving as several different types of lights.

Designer: Ezat Dayani

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Time again it proves not everything useful should be high-tech, because quite often we see practical gadgets of low-fi tech, just like the Macro Lens Rubber Band made for cellphones. It’s a stretchable band capable of expanding to a diameter of up to 16-inches, thus to convert any mobile phones into a macro lens.

Selling Price: $15

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Within quite a few days we’ll step in a new year, so at the same time we should get some new keyboards. Designed by Russia-based Art lebedev, the Optimus Populyaris & Optimus Mini Six are compact keyboards and control panels that configure with many options, which can be adjusted according to the user’s needs. If you haven’t gotten used to the standard keyboards on market, you now have a chance to customize your own special ones.

Designer: Art lebedev

Selling Price: 1086

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Pull and fix to provide your electrical appliances with enough electricity, to use an outlet is just as simple as that. Composed of 5 pods along a 15 foot-long cable, the Pod Power is an extension cord that brings the outlets to you, and in the meanwhile keeps your cables tidy and organized. With adhesive stripes included, the Pod Power can be stuck onto walls or tables once you’ve already adjusted the distance between the pods.

Selling Price: $34.99

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Undoubtedly it’s not the first time we introduce some lens accessories for iPhones, but an iPhone Lens Dial that combines three different types of lens? Oh, it’s still the first. On that dial you’ll find a wide-angle, a fisheye and telephoto lens, which can be easily shifted between each other via a rotation. Thus when you’re on a trip, you could take various kinds of photos and share them on Tweet with your friends instantly with your iPhone and such a functional lens dial.

Selling Price: $249

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Sofa is not merely furniture, because it actually has a free soul too, with which the furniture not only creates different configurations, but also offers your room a stylish look. Each piece is built with a giant zipper, which allows several modules to be connected together and then to meet your various needs.

Designer: Cruxflux

From John Ewans Design, the patented Active Tools 2K shoes are created for the sport of rowing. Quite specially, the shoes are adjustable from size 9 to size 14, so as to offer every sportsman a comfortable wearing. All the external parts of the shoe are moulded in EVA foam, which is same as the material used to construct Crocs, thus the Active Tools 2K shoe is both hygienic to wear and easy to be cleaned with water.

Designer: John Ewans Design

Nest is a new thermostat put forward by Tony Fadell, who used to work in Apple Inc. and brought us with the iPod. Designed to be a smart thermostat that can learn about your schedule of changing the temperature and thus makes temperature adjustments based on that, the Nest comes with a stylish metal body, a touchscreen as well as a rolling wheel controller. It features a energy-saving modes like Auto-Away™ and Energy History too, so as to help the consumers reduce down their electricity consumption.

Designer: Tony Fadell

Selling Price: $249.99

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The stability of wood and the elasticity of spring are seemingly two completely opposite characters, however in the “Lights Up” Nakarin Kemseela has successfully combined that two characters together by designing an adjustable wood frame lampshade. The result is quite amazing, coz the lamp not only features an interesting aesthetic, but also emphasizes big convenience for users to freely adjust the quantity of light. Fabulous!

Designer: Nakarin Kemseela

You’ve realized the gadget is a coat hanger? Honestly it doesn’t look like a hanger. However, the T Square Hanger actually features an amazing function, allowing the users to hang their coats with various possible angles. When not in use, simply fold it and it then becomes a compact piece.

Designer: Jennifer Rabatel

An ultra-practical shoe designed by Daniela Bekerman for those who love high heels but still need to wear flat shoes frequently is the Ze o Ze. It means “This or This” in Hebrew, thus the design features several modular pieces that can connect to the shoe’s sole, and therefore allowing the users to adjust her shoes according to their needs.

Designer: Daniela Bekerman

Everybody loves Apple. We love iPhone, iPad, iPod, and maybe many other things that the Apple Inc. will launch in the future. The “Polyply” is just a stand that can hold your Apple products. Made of acrylate polymer and birch plywood, the gadget comes with enough room to hold an iPad, iPod, iPhone and a stylus, allowing the users to manage their devices at the same time.

Designer: Andrew Kim

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Bathe is a modern and multifunctional bathtub that features several attachments for the users to place their accessories. The attachments can be used and combined in any way you want, so that you can freely fit them into the bathtub in any ways you want. For example, you can create a seating at the end of bathtub, make a storage shelf in the middle, or simply get a support for the shower.

Designer: Justin Wagemakers & Blue Sky Design Group

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Especially designed for people who ride a bicycle all the year, this new Heated Ergo Tri grip features micro process technology and internal sensors to offer warmth to riders in cold days. The gadget comes with six temperature settings, which can be easily adjusted with a push of a button. Except for keeping your hands warm, the grips can reduce fatigue and maintain finger dexterity as well.

Selling Price: $199

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The Airsketcher, which looks the same as ordinary fans, actually has an astonishing function that it can automatically “follow” the users and bring them with cool air. How? Because there’s a small-sized webcam built inside the fan, which can track a specially-made flag so as to locate the users. Besides, the fan can also recognize different symbols and act accordingly. Therefore the users can easily switch on/off or adjust the speed by showing certain symbols to the fan.

Designer: Keita Watanabe

Do you often ride a bicycle? If so, you would feel glad to know this Pump Tire, a new kind of tire that self-inflates. It is the first self-pressurizing bicycle tire, and it can let in some air or stop inflating if the tire is with too little air or too much air. To change your tire pressure, you simply need to adjust the bike’s handlebars.

Designer: Benjamin Krempel

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Ever embarrassed to hold around a rider’s waist when you’re on a fast-moving motorcycle? Go with this Moto-Grip next time. Especially designed for the extra passengers on a motorcycle, the device is a polyester webbing harness that features padded handgrips on the front and back for people to hold tightly during their move. As a result, the stability and comfort of both riders is cleverly maximized. With a strength of 2,000 pounds (907 kg), the Moto-Grip can hold any people up to 300 pounds (136 kg).

For kids, Lewis also created the Moto-Grip Jr.

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Things will be totally different if without Fabian Bernhard and Thomas Burkard: before the item is merely a stretcher but soon after it becomes a chair leaning against the wall to keep its steadibility.

Designer: Fabian Bernhard and Thomas Burkard

The Elliptical Machine Office Desk is one of the most-complicated desks we’ve ever met. It is built with a semi-recumbent elliptical trainer that lets the users to exercise when busy with work.

Its adjustable-height design also allows the users to work while standing. However, even though about 4,000 calories can be burned in a typical workweek, we may still choose to exercise in a gum because such a machine will cost $8000!

Selling Price: $8000

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What’s Maggie? It is an LCD electronic magnifier that can magnify print 11 times its original size. The handheld magnifier not only offers 4x, 6x, 8x and 11x magnification levels but also allows the users to adjust its light conditions and color combinations. Also, it features a ‘freeze’ function to capture images for closer examination.

Selling Price: $215

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Valentin Ruhry’s new display is a huge board built with many illuminated rocker switches to show messages. Whenever you’d like to send some information with it, you’ll need to turn certain switches on while still keep others off.

The “Hello World” you see above is a good example, and also it’s a nod to the “Hello World” computer program – the earliest programs that say hello to the world with a computer screen.

Designer: Valentin Ruhry

Sasan Magic Carpet is a clever design that offers practical sleeping and seating solutions with its adjustable constructions. Its base is composed of 4 different sections, and you can conveniently change them into various shapes according to your needs.

Designer: Alexander Munk Design Bureau

Aptly dubbed “Catalyst”, Jiyoung Seo’s shelf triggers user to feel, touch and react with the unit so as to build a closer relationship between people and furniture.

It is mainly made of silicon while still built with a wooden structure so that it can hang onto a wall. With its flexible silicon layer, the Catalyst shelf would hold anything you insert into it – no matter it is a pen, a book, a watch or jewelry.

Designer: Jiyoung Seo

Goci’s Foldable Kitchen is one of the best-organized kitchens you can ever find. It mainly consists of four parts, including ice hot-fridge/deepfreeze/oven, dishmaster-dishwasher, slidecooker-a cooktop, and panneli-screens. Based on a modular design, however, the foldable kitchen allows for an easy and convenient change of its appearance and the users can even add new elements if they need to do so. Bravo!

Designer: Goci

Italian furniture brand Campeggi’ Casual Bench invites you to experience a stylish and truly relaxing sitting, lying or swinging. Designed by Emanuele Magini, the Siesta bench utilizes a hammock-style seat to take the place of ordinary wooden or metal structure so as to ensure users a comfortable relaxation.

Designer: Campeggi

Finally the Hive by Jake Waitzman comes to make your iPhone4 more awesome than you’ve ever imagined. It can amplify iPhone’s onboard speaker in landscape or portrait orientation, requiring no electronics or other power resources. It also provides a clear 2X magnification of display when its Fresnel lens stands parallel to iPhone’s screen at a distance of 4 inches.

Hive for iPhone 4 by Jake Waitzman

Designer: Jack Waitzman, Dorsey Cox & Zach Griggs

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So your truck never offers enough space for more than two golf clubs? That no long matters as you simply need this 33-In-1 Golf Club. It can adjust to 33 different angels to meet your different needs. Moreover, it would retract to 19″-long to enable easy and convenient transportation in regular suitcases.

Selling Price: $199.95

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Probably one of the happiest things we commonly think of is to find something new everyday- a new friend, a new job, a new design or basically a new piece of furniture for our stylish rooms. Then on my way to find a new surprise, I met this Chain-shaped Coffee Table.

It’s adjustable, and its several smaller parts can form different patterns according to the user’s needs. Thus although you have only one such table, you may feel that you own many tables. Great.

Designer: Nódesign team

Rokform Rokstand is a smart mechanical desktop stand for Apple goodies like iPhones and iPads. Each piece is hand assembled and features 6 angles of adjustment to meet your various needs. Also available in different colors.

Selling Price: $169

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Anything that can change to meet our different needs is undoubtedly always welcome, and right here we’d like to introduce this Rubix Transformer Furniture Set created by Dosunodesign. It consists of three chairs and one table: the chairs can be adjusted to a proper height according to the users’ various needs, and the table would work as a tea table or a dinning table in different situations. So great!

Designer: Dosunodesign

These LEGO Computer Boxes fit in perfect to any homes and offices, and particularly they suit anyone who would like to have his own computer box- one that is different from others’. They function in the same way as LEGO toys, so that you can rearrange them to create a unique pattern.

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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.

Designer: Mathis Heller

The Chess Bookshelf is in the Chinese traditional style, featuring magnets to hold the chess pieces as unique decorations. These chess pieces could move too, just as normal Chinese Chess does, can therefore to create various visual display of the bookshelf whenever you rearrange them.

Designer: Kittichai Reawsanguanwong (Naa)

Looking for something to surprise all your friends and guests? Sofa XXXX is rightly the thing you’ll need.

The furniture is constructed from 8000 chopsticks of four different lengths, some metal rings and plastic joints. Thus the chair can be contracted, making it easier for transportation. Remarkably, all these 8000 chopsticks are cut and polished by hand, and the designer spent about three months to finish the project.

Designer: Yuya Ushida

Just admit it that you have always wanted to own something special and different. Good news is that you can now make your dream come true: the Switch is a modular pocketknife and it has 17 attachments for you to mix and fix together so as to create your exclusive knife.

Selling Price: $79

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Usually we call one lamp a “book lamp” simply because it is designed to ensure you a reading time in the night, but now we call this lamp created by Zheyan Hong a “Book Lamp” also because it is shaped like a book. Comprising of 18 layers that go towards the inner structure, the lamp also features two magnets that help you control its light and shape conveniently. So just get the “Book” for your books!

Designer: Zheyan Hong

Commonly there’re different sizes of scissors in one’s drawers and we need to change between various scissors if we’d like to cut different materials. But in the near future, you only need to have one Scalable Scissor, which can extend and contract to cut almost all sizes. The concept features a centrally located button and movable blades and the scissor can be easily shifted between the fully extended mode and the minimum size mode to offer needed lengths and strengths.

Designer: Jie Weng

Just look at the Rotating Squares Table, it’s obviously another piece of furniture meant for the “must-have” of your grocery lists. Constructed from 16 small squares, the table can open up to 1.4 times of its original size when these small squares are moved. Maybe also due to that magic rotating squares method, the table wears a surprising price of more than £2000 though it is simply made from oiled birch plywood. So the price must have made the table “one of the most expensive pieces” in your furniture collection, too.

Designer: Tom Cecil

Soft and semi-transparent, the lamp designed by Martin Bahrij can give quite warm light in the night to create you a peaceful atmosphere. And it is also designed with the ability to modulate light intensity: it can be used as a night light when closed but offer large amount of light when its bottom is open.

Designer: Martin Bahrij

Adlens re-images the concept of eyewear, and offers the users a new experience in the way the eyeglasses can be used and changed. Its invention is the Adaptive Eyewear, a set of specs that are affixed with adjustable liquid-filled lenses. And the magnification of the lenses can be easily adjusted via a simple turn of the dial! So Adlens’ liquid lenses not only provide clear vision to its wearers, but can be shared among other users when needed. And that’s the most important reason why we love the concept.

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Ergonomically designed, the Integrative Chair aims at handicapped kids aging between three and six who need certain help to overcome their physical disability in various activities. The chair features an adjustable seat, the height and shape of which can be easily changed according to the kids’ different needs like having dinners or playing toys. The mobile chair also has a cantilever system to absorb violent movement, so as to ensure the kids a comfortable and safety using. Apart from those, the chair’s outer surface is also a toy, which can be painted with chalks without leaving traces after cleaning.

Designer: Maria Gartner, Floria Kainz, Peter Schanz and Stefen Wagner

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