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.

Designer: Palette Industries

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.

Designer: Nikita Kovalev

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.

Selling Price: $269.99

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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!

Selling Price: $40

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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!

Selling Price: 1,600Yen

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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!

Selling Price: £14.99

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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.

Designer: Daniel Incandela

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?

Selling Price: $14.98

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“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.

Designer: Eun Ah Kim, Jinhyuk Rho & Maria Rho

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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?

Designer: Eun Ah Kim, Jinhyuk Rho & Maria Rho

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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?

Designer: DDB Group

Selling Price: $290-$ 800

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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?

Designer: Philip Watts Design

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”.

Selling Price: $299.00

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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.

Selling Price: €78

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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.

It features a life-sized cockpit, also with seat, faux-windows and other equipments you can see in a real aircraft. As an additional bonus, the pod-shaped device would make you feel that you’re really flying in the air, with artificial turbulence, lurching during take-off, rumbling of the engines and light-change inside the cockpit. However, as with all things wonderful, the device will certainly cost you quite much money- £35,995. So will you try the OVO-4? Before I get myself such a machine, I should firstly get myself enough money.

Selling Price: £35,995

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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.

Selling Price: $15.99

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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.

Selling Price: 25Euro

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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.

It can rotate to a full 360 degree, allowing the users to conveniently clean both the sides. Besides, if you’re someone prefer to keeping green plants within house, the new conceptual window can help to nurture the plants according to the weather too.

Designer: Junkyung Kim & Yonggu Do

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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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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.

It allows the kids and adults to use peephole at the same time, and therefore cleverly solves the old problem of how children can safely open the door by checking out people on the other side. Pity that it’s merely a concept at the time, coz I really want to get one for my little niece who is curious with the world outside. But really good work, Hyun-june Yang!

Designer: Hyun-june Yang

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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.

It is built with a wind hole that helps users to jump distant enough from the building, a sensor that sends out singles to make the device parachute automatically, as well as an LED light that blinks to give the rescuers indication of the location once the user gets a safe landing.  Moreover, considering that escapees may need some medical attention when waiting for the rescue, a first-aid kit is also equipped with the Auto Parachute.

Designer: Hoyoung Lee, Jinyoung Yun, Hejin Yeo and Jaesik Heo

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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.

Designer: Marcial Ahsayane

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.

Designer: Arthur Analts

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.

Designer: Jinwoo Kim

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.

Designer: Herald J. Ureña – Umaña

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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.

Designer: Brendan Ravenhill

Time again the MobiUS SP1 proves smaller is better, but also more expensive. Wearing a surprising high price of $7495, the ultrasound machine is small enough to fit into your pocket so that you can use it anywhere. The system is capable of fetal, abdominal, cardiac, pelvic, and peripheral vessel scans, which make it an ideal personal device for medical use. Coming along with a wireless and 3G connectivity, the system can conveniently send images to hospital, therefore allowing the users to keep in a good touch with their family doctors.

Selling Price: $7495

Chirp is here to pull you up from your warm bed. The alarm clock comes with two separate parts, a pillowcase clip that wakes you up with gentle vibrations and a backup alarm that sounds if vibration doesn’t work. So will this new alarm be useful to you? Just have a try and let me know.

Selling Price: $39.99

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Simpler is better. This Water Climb is constructed with merely a watertight bag and a cylindrical marked glass tube, but it still indicates your weight with accurate figures. The only drawback I need to point out is that the weighing scale may not work well with those who’re too fat, because I can see the item turning into a water fountain if it is added with too much weight. Just for kidding.

The Designer: Jaeyoon Park, Dajeong Kim & Jeong Heo

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Amazing… I mean, these plugs come with really cute look that can make us smile. Additionally, they also feature a good function to help us unplug them from the sockets easily and conveniently. Simply push the knob on its back, and then you’ll see your plugs out of the sockets slowly. Just think of the practicality!

Designer: Jeong-woo Han & Seul-gi Oh

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Anywhere you want to clean, get the “Bana Bender” close to that. Anytime you need to exercise, do some fitness with the “Bana Bender”. Collaborated by Hong Ruei-Hong with Lin Pin-I, the conceptual product subtly integrates exercise with a shower machine, making it the best choice for gym bunnies.

Designer: Hong Ruei-Hong & Lin Pin-I
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“Just Fold It” is a flexible and portable room divider that fits in different locations. Its unique design allows the room divider to be adjusted by adding some extra modules. The product is wind-resistant too, as there’re some perforations built on the surface.

Designer: Kutarq

Wanna to experience any modern but comfortable ways of cooking? Have a look at this 3D Food Printer. It utilizes an electronic blueprint system called “FabApps” that not only allows people to print out their food but also to design something with their imagination. All the “ink” this printer uses is edible, including melted chocolate, cheese or cookie dough. Once the users draw up the food’s design on a computer, the blueprint will then show the printer what goes where, and finally builds up your food with prepared materials. It is said that the 3D printer would soon be launched to market, helping both families and restaurants to customize interesting and healthier dishes.

Designer: Cornell Creative Machines

Nissan Leaf, as the first all-electric production car, has long been concerned during the past days. Recently Nissan issued its 24kWh battery that can power a Jananese house for up to two days, to support a faminly when their electricity power goes out. According to the company, the new battery will come into production at the end of this year and then be tested at the beginning of 2012.

Shaped like a stapler, the device is in fact a bag re-sealer that helps you seal the package again if you don’t want your opened bags to sit in the air for too long a time. It also works on bags with liquid in, except for bags that contain solid materials. The gadget is easy to use, simply slide it across the bag and then done.

Selling Price: $12.99（2 Pack）

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Undoubtedlly hand-washing is always the best way to make your clothes clean, and we believe more people will get interested in that traditional washing method again after they met the Pond-washing Aid collaborated by Zhong-Fa Lie and Yoori Koo.

It’s a ridged cover that fits on a sink for users to hand-wash their clothes more conveniently. Moreover, the device can work as a protective gadget to keep your sink away from dirt.

Designer: Zhong-Fa Lie & Yoori Koo

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Is it surprising, this is actually a Garlic Crusher? Created by twin designers Richard and Anthony Joseph, the garlic crusher features a sleek one-piece body and completely made of steel, which make the gadget both easy-to-clean and away from abnormal smell or taste. It is also easy to use: simply press through garlic and then you can get delicious minced garlic.

Designer: Richard & Anthony Joseph

Selling Price: $15

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Weed Spinner, a weeder that works together with electric drills, is a powerful device removing weeds with their roots. It is made of carbon steel and therefore tough enough for a long-time usage.

Selling Price: $19.99

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Remember your mom telling you never to mix clothes of different colors in the same load? She wouldn’t say that again because the Shout® Color Catcher™ can absorb and trap dyes in the wash. As a result, you not only can mix colors as you like, but also keep your clothes vibrant and new after the wash. Save your time, your water and also your money. So great!

Selling Price: $9.18 (24 ea)

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Let GATR’s new satellite antenna solve your troubles with taking these equipments around. They’re inflatable, making them quite portable and easy for transportation. They’re also compact, measuring 1.2 meters in diameter when unfolded and inflated with air. If you’re someone that needs to bring satellite antenna around, these ones from GATR are obviously your best choices.

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Aha, the concept is quite interesting: we get a cactooph cactus, remove its spines and use them as toothpicks.

Selling Price: $14.95

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The Catit Design Senses Massage Centre offers us a good reason why a cat would feel like to be a cat. It is the ever best way cats could find to relax themselves. Simply lie near to the massage device, a cat will then feel its face and back glands stimulated and then to get fully relaxed.

Selling Price: £9.99

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Tape Strip Hooks – simple but practical idea to hold your items. With three hooks of different colors in one set, they look just like strips of curled tape when fixed onto walls.

Selling Price: £7.75

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Nowadays we’re living in a world full of USB-powered items, including our cellphones, music players, laptops and many other things. As a result, we all need this U-socket USB Wallplug that converts 110 volts coming out of wall outlets into 5 volts of USB power to recharge our devices. It is really convenient for use.

Selling Price: $24.99

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Clever soap saver that effectively lets water run off so that the soap can be kept dry. That is rightly the thing I’ve been looking for. Great!

Selling Price: $4.95

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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

Those who have been wading through stacks of bikini for their most-satisfying one would soon finish that boring work with the world’s first 3D bikini printer. Created by Continuum Fashion, this revolutionary device can print out ready-to-wear bikini with a material called Nylon 12, which is soft and endurable. Also, it’s comfortable to wear, easy to clean and feels to be quite refreshed when wet through.

Designer: Continuum Fashion

Good news for girls who wants to adjust their pants and skirts from time to time is that they can now own these reusable adhesive gadgets. The Style Snaps can attach to any fabric, easily heming your pants without sewing and more importantly allowing you to conveniently change your pants’ lengths.

New and clever ideas are almost needed everywhere, and they’re main reasons that can make we feel much happier. With innovative items, we would live a comfortable day in offices, find more funs in schools and also make more delicious food in kitchens. So if you’re looking for more creative gadgets, these listed here are rightly for you.