Good ideas in and creative bathtubs out, these products here are all my favorites and it’s really hard to figure out which is the No.1… As every of them comes with a unique theme, you can imagine that you’re rightly experiencing some special things when simply taking a bath in it.
Surrounded by dull concrete every day, people nowadays are always looking for something special, bright, smart or weird to give their common life a sparkling shine of light. Fortunately, the lighting unit designed by Asobi deserves our attention: made from lightweight carbon fiber, the lights can be ordered in 4, 6, and 12 LED configurations that spread out in all directions just like a spider’s web. It’s nothing to do with elegance or entertainment, but the light itself is really unique in pattern and function.
Nothing to do with magic tricks, the Standing Broom is designed to stand up by itself merely with a folding action. The benefits of such a standing broom are obviously undeniable: you never need to bend down to pick up a broom, and the broom can last a longer time since its bristles are kept from becoming bent or damage.
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!
Obviously we always need something professional but also simple to help solve difficult problems like a heavy bleeding. The ITClamp, inspired by a hair clip, is rightly a device easy and convenient to use: its curved needles along the “jaws” will draw the wound up into the device and anchor it with even pressure, so as to effectively stop the bleeding.
Possibly most designers should apologize to kids, because they usually forget to make things convenient to children but simply care about the adults’ needs… You see, the faucets are so far away from the kids that they can hardly reach them! But fortunately there’re still some guys designing these faucet extenders to solve the problem: they can help kids to reach the faucet’s water flow without costing you too much money or time, really good work!
Soooooo CUTE! Simply put some napkins on a sailboat-shaped wooden holder, you’re actually building your own boat on the table…
What landscape would you like to bring to your house? This deluge 3D Curtain gives one easy access to an unusual 3D world. The curtain consists of several layers and each layer is painted with different figures in depth, including plants and animals, which makes it work as a 3D panorama. Especially when during the night, it’s really hard to distinguish whether it’s real or virtual…
Outside my yard, there’s always a rainbow… It’s not something away in the air, but really beautiful item close to your fingers. It is the pencil fence, a colorful fence made from giant pencil crayons. Look, it is so amazing.
You’re still looking for a better way to store water for emergency use? Okay, you should never miss this waterBOB Emergency Drinking Water Storage. It can store up to 100 gallons of clean water at one time, while taking merely about 20 minutes to do that. The water would be kept clean and safe for drinking for up to 4 weeks, as it is announced.
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.
Friends are important, but sometimes privacy is more important, that’s why we may need a “Privacy Pop”. It’s a portable household gadget that can stand around your bed to create a private space. Specially designed to fit over beds in dorms and kids’ rooms, the “Privacy Pop” is now available at $199.95.
What is the best method to relax you after a daytime full of work? The answer must be: taking a shower. However the problem is that some of us, especially those taking on energy-costing jobs, really wouldn’t like to stand under a shower. Thus they may need the design by Donbracht. It is a horizontal shower that allows the users to completely lie down under the device, utilizing six water bars to offer water of different temperatures and weights to leave the users a fully relaxed body.
Designed to look like a transmission tower, the Nanton Coat Rack by Palette Industries not only comes with a unique shape, but some profound meanings: a good design can work like a transmission tower, to carry good ideas and important information from people to people.
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.
Basically an outstanding paper-cut artwork is always related to the masterly craftsmanship, while sometimes it is actually all completed by an electronic machine, such as the Silhouette CAMEO. When connected to your PC via a simple USB cable, the electronic cutting tool will then automatically cut out the pattern you’ve chosen on paper, cardboard, vinyl, fabric or other materials.
Something old but classic is back and what we’re to argue today is this Magnetic Soap Holder, which many people may have seen in their childhood… Press magnet into bar, and it can then “stick” onto the stainless steel holder to keep your soap dry and clean, simply easy and convenient as that!
Well, seemingly there’re no excuses for a messy room anymore, because the dustbin can now walk to you if you’re just too lazy to walk to throw the rubbish… By operating the garbage can with a remote control, you could get it at hand immediately, and that’s so sweet!
Still thinking about your Facebook while you’re taking a bath? If you do love the Facebook so much, you may get interested in this creative shower curtain that looks just like a Facebook profile: wow, it even uses your real head as the Shower Head, bit of creepy!
Quite soon in the future we’ll be using solar paint on our houses to harvest energy to power the household electricity, as researchers from the University of Notre Dame have developed low-cost solar paint using nano-sized particles of titanium dioxide, coated with cadmium sulfide or cadmium selenide. Once brushed onto any conducting materials and exposed to the sunlight, the paint will then create electricity with a light-to-energy conversion efficiency of 1%. Even though its efficiency isn’t high enough, the researchers are still trying to improve it, so as to make the solar paint both low-cost and high-efficiency for household use.
The Roman Colosseum is the place that I visit everyday… That’s not kidding, because what I’m talking about is actually my new hot tub that resembles the famous building, instead of the real one.
Who can tell me where the end of human’s laziness is? After years of benefitting from dish-washers, clothes washing machines and other devices, this time we want to own an Extendable Sock Aid that allows us to put on socks without bending… So you like this?
“To push or to pull?” Almost every time I need to open a door, I ask myself that question. Not because I’m not clever enough, but in fact it is all because the door handles are not clever enough, since they cannot show us the directions clearly. But forget that, as here comes a clever one, “Arrow” door handle that makes “pull” or “push” directions visible to us. Just follow its “arrow”, and you’ll never pull or push a knob in a wrong way.
Because of higher and higher social pressure pushing us forward to survive, we humans are actually suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder, one symptom of which is to ask ourselves repeatedly whether or not we’ve turned off the electricity or locked off the door… Stop that, as our life can become easier, if with the help of Off- Door Handle. It’s a 2011 Red Dot Design Concept winner, allowing users to switch off gas supply and electricity by rotating the dial and flipping it back to activate them. So how do you like the concept?
Use as you read, these Alphabet Furniture sets all come with several individual modules but can combine to create a chair, a lamp and a table as well, just as the words you’ve already seen. So what do you think? Isn’t it funny to surprise your guests with the Alphabet Furniture?
How could we bring a new life into our house? According to Philip Watts Design, we should firstly install the house with a spine, or more exactly a spin-shaped staircase… So what do you think?
Why are designers so innovative? Almost every time I met some new designs I would ask myself that question. So you know, that question emerged again, after I accidentally saw the AudioBulb, Wireless Speaker Light Bulbs that bring both light and music to your home. It’s easy to use: simply replace ordinary bulbs with the AudioBulb, insert you iPod into the included dock, and then you’ll hear beautiful music coming from any places of your house. With warm light filled with your rooms, the AudioBulb is certainly the best thing related to the word “romantic”.
So you’re living in a small apartment and cannot spare any space to place your shoes? If so, we suggest you try to put your shoes vertically, with Martina Carpelan’s wall-mounted shoe rack. Measuring 32cm H x 90cm W x 12cm D, each shoe rack would accommodate up to four shoes and maybe you can create a unique “shoe wall” if you do have many shoes to organize.
Attention, please, those who plan to learn how to fly now would have another choice except for going to a flight school. Your alternative scheme is to learn flying at home with the OVO-4 Home Flight Simulator.
Magical Blow On/Off Light Switch is something especially perfect for lazy people like me. It can attach to any electrical appliances and then lets you to switch on or off them via an easy control of the device. That means, if you sleep with a Light Switch besides your pillow, you can conveniently turn on the light when you need to get up in the midnight… Cool, I love the idea.
Why do we need a Rotating Soap? The reason is obvious: as the soap rotates, it not only allows for a more convenient usage, but also ensures a much quicker drying-out. Moreover, since the soap is hanged over a chromium-plated brass rod, it would seldom result in unnecessary waste as those usually covered by water do, and as a result the a 300 g soap can be used for more than 1,000 times of hands-washing.
I’m fond of house cleaning, but seldom including the window cleaning. You know, though it’s easy to make its inside clean, it’s really hard to clean the outside, especially when we’re living on a high floor… Thus comes Junkyung Kim and Yonggu Do’s TwoFaced Window.
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.
Once viewing the world with the children’s eyes, we may realize that everything convenient to the adults are actually resulting in troubles to them: the door handle is too high to reach, the desk is too high to climb on and still the peephole is too high for them to check out who is standing outside the door… Everything seems too high to kids, thus we need to lower them down, such as designing a special peephole for children to use.
Even though earthquakes, fires and other disasters do not happen frequently, we still should always be prepared. Thus the Auto Parachute is strongly recommended to us, which is used for people to get away from high-rise buildings.
Green Mailbox is a wall-mounted mailbox that features a special roof to collect water and irrigate plants automatically. It is a really simple idea but indeed fantastic for those who cares about the environment.
Led Zeppelin is a step ladder especially designed for the corner. It was named after rock band Led Zeppelin in reference to their 1971 track “Stairway to Heaven”, and we really wish it would lead us to the heaven too. But back to our real life, the ladder can rest flat against the wall and fit into the corner at a 45 degrees or 25 degrees, due to its unique shape of the top and the bottom rungs.
Slim, slim, slim, seeming everything nowadays is pursuing a good figure, even includes the fire extinguishers. Have a look at this one by Jinwoo Kim: it features a slim body design that fits in small storage space, thus makes it quite outstanding among common round-shaped fire extinguishers. Besides, the Flameingo also comes with a replaceable cartridge to reduce waste; its pressure indicator and a built-in alarm also allow users to check out the status of the extinguisher more easily. When there’s fire breaking out, a LED light will soon switch on for people to find the extinguishers quickly.
My passion for cleanliness and organization finally drives me closer to this Corner Power Strip designed by Herald J. Ureña – Umaña. It features a triangular composition, which allows the gadget to be neatly placed in any corners. Plus, its clever design also ensures the power cord to face the direction of the outlet, so as to make it really convenient for use.
Dustpan, trashcan and broom are three necessary things for household cleaning. For quite a long time, they’re designed and used separately, until Brendan Ravenhill’s dustbin that integrated them together. In this design, the dustpan also serves as the lid of a trashcan, subtly attaches onto the top of the trashcan and moves for you to use. The beech wood brush can hang on side of the bin with embedded rare earth magnets, thus making it easy and clean for storage.
