During the last tens and hundreds of years, almost all the designer and manufactures were devoted to improving the functions and appearances of shoes but failed to push the development of shoelaces to a new level…Fortunately they’re now stepping forward, and obviously that’s a quite big step: the shoelaces are completely converted, allowing the users to easily slip them in and out of shoes, with several different colors available!
Nothing could know better of your face than your hands, and thus designer Marco van Leeuwen has come up with an electric shaver that rightly resembles the shape of your hand: it enhances pressure sensitivity, improves users’ safety and maximizes your convenience as well.
It is definitely not the first time we see fingerprint scanners used in product designs, but the Grabit door handle is still worthy of our recommendation, as it places the scanner in a most ergonomically viable place, thus to make the act of opening a door completely convenient.
Rainy days, romantic days, many couples are fond of hanging out on a wet day to experience something romantic…But their good mood may disappear almost in one second as they find their shoes, clothes turned wet due to the wet umbrella. Fortunately we have the Inverted Umbrella now. Currently a concept, the umbrella can fold inside (which is always dry) out after use so as to prevent water splashes, while without changing its fundamental functions.
Hey, chairs, have you successfully held the tables? … To make cleaning floor an easy work, Malaysia-based designer Poh Liang Hock has come up with this Hold Chair concept, which is a winner of the prestigious Red Dot Design Award. It features a sliding design, meaning that the chair can slide onto the table.
Here’s a smart solution for lifting and transferring patients in a better way: Named as ITRI MediRobot, the conceptual device put forward by Pilotfish is servo-controlled, which can display information including weight, blood pressure and so on via a sensor on the sling while transferring the patients to other places. The whole process finished by ITRI MediRobot is slow and safe, without causing any physical strain or discomfort to the patients. Also, it can serve as an infotainment terminal.
“You jump, I jump”, when the 3D movie “Titanic” is on, many people in the cinema get their glasses off and put them on from time to time, simply trying to make sure their 3D glasses stand well against their ordinary glasses… What a hard time you’re going through! Throw those 3D glasses away and have a try with these innovative stickers. Cut out of a shape bigger than average glasses, these stickers are especially good to those who need to wear glasses, allowing them to view 3D movies more comfortably and conveniently.
Exercise to power, the ‘Citylight’ Concept is an innovative design that attaches exercise equipment to streetlights and thus utilizes the kinetic energy people create to energize LED lamps in the light system.
“Double-Bubble”, a futuristic aircraft developed by MIT, is announced to be a super-efficient passenger travel that may guide aircraft designs to a new trend. The airplane utilizes a variety of technologies and ideas to slash fuel consumption, and Double-Bubble is proved capable of saving on fuel by about 70% under certain experiment conditions. Even though it’s a revolutionized commercial aircraft that can benefit both the companies and the customers, the Double-Bubble won’t get launched to the market until 2035 or so.
Dinosaur in your house! What a cool and outstanding concept… Shaped in the form of a t-rex skeleton, the radiator allows you to warm up and get dry almost all kinds of your stuffs: cats, scarves, coats, socks or even your cushions. Definitely functional!
Especially designed for people who may need to row a boat in the dark, the RO Lighting set is a handy tool that features a two-part light fixture so as to fit and work with almost all kinds of oar. Powered by both solar power and the kinetic energy that is generated during the rowing process, the RO Lighting can help a lot to illuminate the area along the sides of the boats and thus to ensure the rowers a better navigation in dark.
Lightweight and durable, the Lift bike strap is a clever design that allows you to take your bike upstairs much more conveniently. It’s easy to take around and washable too, so that you won’t waste too much money or energy on it.
Goodbye yachts, and welcome Wolke 7! Quite soon in the future, the most luxury and comfortable way to travel around the world is probably to fly with a traveling home, the Wolke 7 flying home concept put forward by designer Timon Sager. The glorious flying home is designed with three floors, each of which is well furnished to provide the users a best and most impressed experience of traveling.
Even though the risk of getting hurt is always there, no matter what methods we decide to take during the earthquake, it’s still nice to see designers coming up with new innovations that aim to make people safe when an earthquake happens. The Emergency Door for Earthquake is a design by Sung Young Um, which will collapse from the center to form a reinforced emergency shelter during an earthquake, so as to provide people with a better protection.
Combining a toothbrush and a sterilizer together, the In & Out Toothbrush Sterilizer features a USB port as well, thus allowing the users to recharge and sterilize their toothbrushes at any time and any places. It’s small and smart too, and therefore quite ideal for travel use. Pity that it’s merely a concept at present, which means we may still need to wait for a while before we see it in stores.
Easy to hang your clothes and easy to pack up, the Stretchless Hanger provides us an effortless way to do bothering house works.
Inspired by cat’s retractable claws, designer Toshi Fukaya has thought of the idea of the Biomimetic Pushpins, which would not only successfully keep your fingers from sudden hurt when you reach into a box full of them, but still performs as well as ordinary pins: a smooth silicon capsule encases the pin, while it will compresses under pressure as you stick the pin into the wall. Really clever!
No more mechanical or digital clocks, designer Audun Ask Blaker now brings us with the Lineær Clock, the time of which is displayed on a rotating scroll. The concept is extremely simple, featuring no extra decorations except for the digits. But how is the time read or displayed? That’s a problem left for you to solve.
The best and most efficient way to create portable charger is obviously to make use of human bodies: except for utilizing body heat or human movements, designers have recently experimented to use wind energy from the user’s breath into electricity via small wind turbines, and the final design is named as “AIRE Mask”. The AIRE can be used in any solutions, and considered especially ideal to recharge small electronic devices like your cellphones or music players.
You’re the most special one! For people who would like to behave in distinctive ways, Poland-based design studio WAMHOUSE has recently created the armchair “Paszcza”. It is a cushioned seat featuring tongue shape, with circle-shaped frame wiring around.
Creativity comes from life but also serves your life: designer Su Pin Chia simply makes part of a bathtub inflatable, and then successfully helps the elderly or leg-impaired people to use bathtub in a much more convenient way.
During these days with a cellphone or laptops, we humans are no longer relying on the traditional ways to leave messages, but it’s still nice to get this “Record me” home recorder designed by Luc van Hoeckel. It’s a simple and practical concept that allows you to leave messages with sound, your own voice. That means any messages you leave to others are more personal, all with your own styles, so it must be more interesting to either leave a message or checking a message.
Life is always the main source that designers and artists find their inspirations, and thus Junjie Piao has come up with the Pour-Smart, an L-shaped accessory for knives based on his experience of transferring food from the cutting board to bowl in daily life. It is a plastic piece built with a bar of strong magnet and therefore it can attach onto any stainless steel knives, allowing people to scoop and transfer chopped vegetables and meat more conveniently.
As your little babies grow up day by day, their cradles are no more needed but simply left in a garage full of dirt. To solve that problem, designer Martin Price has come up with this Convertible Rocking Cradle that can be divided into two rocking chairs for average-sized adults to use. It’s really a clever concept, right? We wish it would soon come into production.
“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.
Based on clever design and accurate arrange, the Rozetkcus Wall Socket comes with 9 points to allow you to plug in various shapes of devices effectively. It not only solves that problem that we usually need to insert several different types of plugs in one socket, but also promises endless possibilities of how to configure your devices according to their plugs’ shapes. Except for the 9-point socket, the Rozetkcus is also available in a 16 points version.
Design easy and use easy, Devraj Bhadra’s ISI Desk Clamp is an innovative concept that offers us a really simple way to manage various electronics cables. The flexible steel clamp can be placed on the edge of your table, keeping your computer and cellphone power cables neatly while never taking up you too much (or extra) space.
Named after the famous Italian medieval traveler Odoric of Pordenone, the “Odorico” expandable caravan looks good, functions good, and announced especially ideal for travel use. Its unique expandable architecture makes it transformable too, so it may change its shape and function in different ways according to its user’s needs. But pity it’s not real yet, still waiting for some company to license it and put it into production.
Once realized that more and more bird are getting injured by skyscrapers in cities, an architecture studio “Stone Design” has decided to build the Urban Aviary, a tall building especially designed for birds that not only offers a house but can help to bring down the death rate. It will be located in Central Park, New York, standing at 1,050,000 square feet. It will let birds build nests outside the building because of the presence of vegetation and food inside the structure. Besides, a strong beam of light will be built to attract the birds so that they can give up other high buildings which may result in hurt to them.
Love playing with your iPad, but never mind what kind of sleeve or stand it is using? No, I couldn’t stand my iPad wearing something ugly, so I decide to buy it this smart Stand Sleeve (if the gadget will finally come into the market). It features a fashionable appearance, with a combination of bright white and red. Besides, the design utilizes an ingenious folding technique & magnets too, to conveniently shift it between a sleeve and a stand.
Climbing up the rock … to live in the Barcelona Rock Hostel designed by Polish architecture firm UGO is one of my goals for the next following years (if the concept will finally come into reality). The proposed building will feature real rocks on its exterior, while coming with fifty rooms, movie theater, spa, cafe, swimming pool, gym, bar and even shops inside. Thus whenever the rock climbers need a rest, they may either check into the Barcelona Rock Hostel or simply spent the night on the “mountain” using special equipment. So do you like it? Hopefully we’ll soon meet there in the Barcelona Rock Hostel.
With no wind, no road, or speed, to ride on the Biker Chair may seem bit of boring to someone, but who cares? At least, it’s the safest and the greatest laborsaving way to ride on a bike… That’s enough to me!
PumPing Tap is a 2011 red dot design concept winner, which can cleverly solve the problem of wastage of electricity by automatically ejecting a plug when the appliance is switched off. About ten minutes later after you’ve turned your device off but haven’t unplugged it, the socket will then eject the plug, so as to completely cut off the electricity.
In order to help the visually handicapped people better find their ways independently, a team of researchers from the National University of Singapore have collaborated an electronic cane that lets its users explore through unfamiliar ways with no difficulty.
How popular do you think the Facebook is? Normally we’re no longer contented with using it for most time of the day, as we’re in big favor of sleeping with Facebook! You got it? We need a Facebook Bed simply the same as this one designed by Tomislav Zvonaric. It’s amazing, combining almost all features of the Facebook website, but so pity that it’s merely a concept at the time.
Angel Mommy Pack is a smart design especially good for babies and their moms. It’s a clever combination of a breast pump and a feeding bottle, which not only makes it easy for moms to get their breast milk into the bottle for storage but also promises a safe reheating and easy cleaning so as to reduce the housework a mom needs to do.
Honestly we seldom see laptop bags redesigned with many new functions, not to mention a bag that actually serves as a charger as well. This amazing design comes from Brad Ascalon, which utilizes wireless charging technology to convert a laptop bag into a charging machine. Now have a look at the bag: its inner tray is in fact the charger and its carrying strap actually contains USB male connector at one end and a plug on the other. So once connect the strap end to another computer or an electrical outlet, and then you can get your laptop recharged wirelessly. That’s not all! The same USB port allows the laptop bag to work as a thumb drive on its own too.
Hot egg is the most popular food in my family whenever the winter comes, as it not only warms my hands but also warms my stomach. It’s a pity that the eggs cannot keep hot for a long time, and they usually become cold after my way to offices. Thus I need something to reheat them. The ultra-portable Heater Egg Card seems like a good choice. It utilizes a wire-web and thin skin that envelops the egg to reduce heating time; features a collapsible casing that can be folded as thin as a credit card, thus to ensure us an easy carrying; still, it also comes with a USB charging style, which makes it practical in places without an electricity outlet.
Any good idea about towel racks? To redesign their shapes, coat them with unique colors or endow them with new functions? Of course the last one is our option, so why not have a look at this Breeze Rack, a 2011 red dot design concept winner? It’s a multifunctional towel rack, serving as a hair drier, a bathroom ventilator and a sterilizer except for hanging towels. In other words, almost everything you would need to use in a bathroom can be found in the Breeze Rack, isn’t that great?!
Handycan is a concept design comes with grooves that make it easy to grip. The clever design will reduce the volume that cans take up in recycling trucks too, saving both space and money. But does that also mean the can may break open more easily if it is applied with high pressure? Arman Emami gives us no answer to that question.
