Tzung-Yu Lu has designed the Toy Guardian as a new alternative to toy boxes. It is a monster on wheels, moving around the rooms to “eat” up all the toys and return them to the kids when they’re needed. And still, the box itself is a cute toy!

The Toy Guardian is a 2010 IDEA Design Winner.

Designer: Tzung-Yu Lu

Everybody knows clearly that daily consumption of water could be recycled by rainwater, which could then be purified and used again to meet our daily needs of pure water. But the problem is: we seldom know how to ‘harvest’ and recycle rainwater effectively. Possibly the ‘Capture The Rain’ skyscraper will show us a new way. The concept building features a special roof to collect as much rainwater as it possible, as well as reservoirs under the roof to store large amounts of water. Apart from meeting its inhabitants’ daily need, rainwater collected by the skyscraper will also be stored in reservoir under the building for other uses.

Designer: H3AR

Well, just another table introduced by I New Idea…Hasn’t that hit you too at the first glance? Mm, you should have more trust in us, actually. Just see what the table reveals to you when it is unfolded! There’s a series of drawers, to hide whatever you wish to store in them.

This table is specially designed for a cleaner workplace, as you no longer need to rummage all over to find the item you want. The table could also serve as an art work provided that you put everything in an ordered way. It is particularly well adapted for printing-paper (A5-A2, etc).

Designer: Lucie Koldova

With the social development, energy-saving has been gradually advocated and one of the most valuable resources we need to conserve is water. But how could we conserve water effectively? To save and use rainwater is a good solution. The Rainwater Collector pictured here is just a cool tool that helps you to conserve rainwater without occupying too much space. Measuring 2-inch wide, the tank can hold up as much water as up to 650 gallons, meeting all your basic needs. What’s more, as the tank is made of UV stabilized high-density polyethylene, it is also free of algae.

As there’re fewer and fewer people still buying CD albums from a record store, it’s quite a proud thing to show off your classic CDs and here is an innovative collecting case for CD albums. Fix the collecting case onto your wall, fit the album case into it, and you’ll find the CD fixed to a foam on the front. Pretty groovy decorations！

Designer: Kenneth Lylover

What have you seen in the pictures, books? Not necessarily. Shaped like an assortment of colored books, the cute article is actually called “BooxStore” that is designed to hide your stuff in a clever way.

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As almost every battery looks the same, it’s often difficult to figure out the discharged batteries from the usable ones. To deal with the storage problem, the new-style battery collector is not only designed to keep several batteries in different standards, but can measure their dump energy with a battery test device on the top.

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Rainwater, moisture, etc, almost any water in the air could all be absorbed by the water collecting machine through the collector on top and both sides. After running through layers of filters, the collected water could then get pure, which is therefore suitable for drinking.

Sure, we all know that paper can cut your finger, but it seems impossible to cut down someone’s head. Yes, it is impossible. This is just a interesting business cards collector.

Price: $11

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You may not realize that our planet is fairly lack of water. Actually, saving water is much more important than saving gas. Without gas, you can’t drive, however, without water, you can’t live. This so-called Rain Drops designed for collecting Rain water from the roof. Sure, they are not drinkable, but you can use it to water your garden or washing your hands!

What’s more, the wasted plastic bottles can be reused.

Designer: Evan Gant

Before you read this article, first check out your office desk. Is it chaotic? If it is, keep on reading, if it isn’t then ask yourself whether you need more space for so many different stationeries? If you need, keep on reading, if you don’t need, you will, so keep on reading too. Haha…

This is a good idea for those lacking of enough desk space. Not only the vertical storage can keep things for you without occupying any desk space, but also the magnetic board itself can hold staples, pens, clips vertically.

Price: $35

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Unlike normal rain water harvesting systems, this one collect and guide water through a series metal chains rather than pipes.

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If you like to read newspaper, you will surely need a box to place the old newspapers. However, what you can do when the box is fully filled?

Just following the instruction of the picture as blow, life gonna be easier.

Constructed of durable, rip-proof fabric, the new 56-pocket organizer from Bucket Boss improves on what was already a great idea.

Price: $20

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This small gadget is actually a weir collector. It’s a good idea to give you a clear desk.

Put your scissor on it , this rack gonna have big eyes. Pretty cute! Huh?

$ 10.95

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If you still remember the Socket Safe we introduced before, you like this two safes. They are as weird as the socket one.