Etiquette Checker is a very easy to use device that can check both the quality of your breath and the alcohol level. It also features a small size, ensuring an easy transportation so that you can all the time know about the condition of your breath. [Read the rest of this entry...]
About 2000 years ago, the great mathematician Archimedes concluded that anything shaped to displace the same amount of water as that of its weight can float on the water. Inspired by that principle, Muzaffer Kocer and Ayca Guven have collaborated with the Water Scale, a measuring device that can read out the weight of the object placed onto the scale plate. It can weigh anything within 1000grams, and it doesn’t cost any energy or result in any pollution- really a green device for household use. [Read the rest of this entry...]
On a design show held by Triumph Motorcycles and Birmigham Institute of Art and Design, many students brought us with various smart gadgets made out of recycled motorcycle parts. [Read the rest of this entry...]
We’ll all become a lazy person… I mean, who would ever want to do the cleaning any more, especially when they can get the help from the Floor Washing Robot? It looks smart, but performs rather well in cleaning the floors and hard-to-reach spaces in your rooms. Moreover, the robot can even tell whether or not your kitchens need to be cleaned and offer a most suitable service. Wanna have a try now? Check out the video below before that. [Read the rest of this entry...]
So your dogs usually run outside when you’re enjoying a short chat with your friends at the door, and you have to painfully look for them afterwards? Good news is that would no longer happen, as long as you have the Dog Escape Preventer. It creates a 31″ high barrier, which will successively keep your dogs from escaping even if the door is opened. Really practical, but still bit of cruel to these lovely dogs… [Read the rest of this entry...]
Welcome to Parent-Child Sprinkle. It is a creative gadget that ensures the newborn babies a suitable water temperature during their bathing. As the water needs to run through parents’ hands before it touches the tender skin of the baby, adjusting the water temperature will become more easily and conveniently for parents. [Read the rest of this entry...]
A small change in design usually results in a big change in life. The Twist Wrench will offer the users a better grip when they rotate a bolt simply because it comes with an ergonomic handle. Also, a better grip will save the users much effort in applying torque to turn objects. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The play of imagination gives a new life to an old cooking stove, which now turns into a fantastic household acoustic apparatus with four 6.5-inch loudspeakers, one 7-inch touch screen and something else. Doesn’t that look good on the pictures? I even couldn’t wait to make my own one. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The Pajamas Warming Pouch makes your winter much warmer. Featuring some integrated heating elements, the smart pouch can have pajamas, towels and hats reach 118º F in ten minutes while only drawing 50 watts. It also retains heat with a thermal satin interior, offering warm items whenever you need. [Read the rest of this entry...]
In reality there’re many girls who enjoy doing housework, cooking in the kitchen and clearing up the rooms with a cute Dog Broom. Each resembling a dog, these brooms will follow behind closely wherever you go, so that you may feel you’re walking a dog when you’re actually sweeping the floor. [Read the rest of this entry...]
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Most women know that breast cancer is one of the most common female malignant tumors, but they seldom know what precautions they should take to reduce the risks. And to offer them an effective approach, Mi Hyun Ryu and So Ra Park have designed the Smart Pink, which helps ladies make self-diagnosis simply by following the pink path with their fingers. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Since people in Africa and southern Asia have to walk a long way to get clean water, we may also need to do some hard work before using water so that everybody would truly realize the importance of saving water. [Read the rest of this entry...]
See what these Fiskars’ Cuts+More Scissors can do, the results are really amazing: they could cut paper into pieces, cut out wires and ropes, and even open beer bottles… But what’s more important is that all those functions are cleverly combined in one scissor so you can simply have one such scissor to meet your various needs. [Read the rest of this entry...]
It’s not designed for entertainment, so you’d better give us some different answers… [Read the rest of this entry...]
Hang your toothbrushes up in the air as you hang up your clothes, and we bet you’ll then live a much healthier life. Available in red, orange, green, yellow and blue, these Hooking Toothbrushes are now sold at Goodjoy Shop and you can click here to get one. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Replenish is a new kind of household cleaner that comes in small pods of super concentrate and a bigger reusable bottle. It is simple to use: snap the concentrate into the reusable bottle and mix it with water and then done. Not only the idea is unique, but also the plastic waste will be greatly reduced to make the world more beautiful. [Read the rest of this entry...]
We’ve seen a simple but great change from the Yes! Swatter by Zhao Ke. It features a smart niche that lets you pick up the dead fly without having to waste paper any more. But no matter how well the Yes! Swatter would actually perform, we may still have to face the annoying flies. Yes, they’re everywhere. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Well, well, although the Tank Top Safe is believed “a clever design to protect your cash and jewelry from thieves”, I really doubt its practicality, because thieves may take away your clothes if they find nothing of value! But to return, it’s still creative to make a safe that resembles a woman’s tank top. [Read the rest of this entry...]
So you have to do ironing everyday to create wrinkle-free shirts and pants? Forget that and have a try with the Mister Steamy Dryer Ball. Simply fill the ball with water, throw it into dryer, and then you can wait to see your clothes pressed and neat. How does the ball work? Well, we’re only informed that the ball will steam the wrinkles away as the dryer heats up. [Read the rest of this entry...]
No one needs water so much as the fish which would lose their lives without water. So we people are asked to save water for fish. Designed by Yan Lu, the “Poor Little Fish” basin consists of a fish bowl and a basin, and the fish may lose its water when you’re washing your hands. But when the water stops, the water level in the bowl then goes back to the same level. As a result, to keep the fish alive, you need to save water. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Seemingly the designer Jung Jae Yup prefers items with a bounce-back-up feature too… Dubbed “Roly-Poly”, the stainless steel lamp would never fall onto the ground but keep shaking its head back and forth to make you laugh everyday. [Read the rest of this entry...]
When I cook especially when I was frying food, the oil often jumped onto my hands and burned other exposed parts of my body, despite that I tried to be as careful as possible. Fortunately designer Moon Sheen Hyeon has come up with the Hand Guard, something that can be stick onto all cooking utensils to protect your hands and arms from being burnt while cooking.
Go past the break to see how the gadget works in the video. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Sculptures, advertisements, cars, here on INewIdea we’ve introduced you to many innovative collections on different issues, and today we’d like to show you nine cool refrigerators collected from the world. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Though everybody knows clearly that hand pump is more hygienic and easier to use than hand soap, they seldom realize there’re lots of chemicals contained in the soap pump which may hurt your skin. Providing a clever solution to that, Dave Hakkens has created the Breaksoap, a new kind of soap that is divided into small pieces for personal use. Do you need it? [Read the rest of this entry...]
You could guess it already from the scene, right? So you guys believe that’s a creative brush? Well, seemingly you haven’t figured out the exact answer. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Where should we drill, most people asked that same question whenever they needed to drive in a nail. No matter what methods you’ve ever used, we bet the Wise Hammer will offer you a new choice. To find a suitable spot, you simply need to place the butt of the handle against a wall and keep moving it until you see the red light flash. Easy as that! [Read the rest of this entry...]
Do we need a radiator to keep our ass warm in the cold winter? You may think that’s a stupid question, but the Dutch designer Jeroen Wesselink does think it’s necessary to make himself a Radiator Chair. And he has created one using discarded radiators. It’s welded to get the shape of zig-zag chair and still features an interface letting heat pass through to warm your back and ass. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Not like most tool boxes that are simply used to store the tools, this one created by Tim Oelker also makes the tools part of the box. Look, the hammer is cleverly placed into the smart box and servers as a handle for easy carrying. Really good work! [Read the rest of this entry...]
If you’re using high temperature to dry clothes, you should realize that the heat may damage your delicate dress and shirts. But we can guarantee that problem wouldn’t arise again if you have the DryMate designed by Nico Kläber. It uses a new vacuum technology to dry clothes at much lower temperatures than 100°C, and the lower the air pressure the lower the temperature is needed to evaporate water. Therefore with DryMate, less energy will be consumed and less damage will be made to your clothes. Besides, the new clothes drier also features a rounded exterior and a wide mouth that is tilted up by 9 degree, making it a stylish device for convenient using. [Read the rest of this entry...]
You guess it is a defibrillator? Perhaps you are right, but can the defibrillator be used for other purposes? [Read the rest of this entry...]
People tend to lower their heads to check out the exact numbers when they weigh themselves on the scales. But what if you have a big belly? It will block your view and you can hardly know your weight. So you’ll need the Projection Scale, which can project the weight onto the wall. With 550 pound capacity, the scale is a super gift for pregnant women and those who have been excessively fat. The only problem might be that everyone else will also know your weight and we hope that won’t bother you. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Based on the same principles as a hydroelectric power station, Leicester De Montfort University industrial design’s graduate Tom Broadbent invented a creative device that harvests energy from waste water falling through the pipes of high-rise buildings. Though the “HighDro Power” is not that effective in producing large amount of energy, it does have provided us a possible solution to recycle the waste water. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Hooks are useful tools but they’re not that useful to keep towels, jackets or raincoats from falling off. So sculptor and engineer Stefan Bennedahl offered the Clever Hook with a self-grabbing mechanism, to pinch everything in place. It works in a way like this: you hang a towel onto the lower “arm”, the weight of the towel then causes the top “arm” to come down and grab the item tightly. The mechanism is designed to hold up to 40 lbs, and the heavier the item is, the tighter it grabs. To remove, you simply need to lift up the item, and the top arm will retract. [Read the rest of this entry...]
So you have been using flowers, lemons as well as tea leaves to clear the air? But you also have the option of the Bacon Air Freshener, something that smells as good as the sizzling bacon… Hmmm, I feel a little bit hungry now. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Folding up the bathroom? That seems like an impossible task. But here on I New Idea we believe that everything is possible, and we’re always experimenting with new things, e.g. the “Folding Shower”. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Wanna a big meal? Well, these creative pots designed by Thelermont Hupton would like to join you, too. Each of them comes with an expressive and animated face, simulating people’s various facial expressions of eating, growling or yawning, and that’s really interesting! [Read the rest of this entry...]
Icon Phone designed by Elium Studio is a cordless phone & Internet radio. It comes with quite a simple shape to demonstrate a brief beauty, but combines several functions in one, including Wireless DECT VoIP, Hands-free facility, HiFi ringtones, SMS text messaging, HD Sound, Stereo speakers, Portable radio, Huge choice of Internet radio stations, Colour screen, etc. To sum up, the Icon Phone is a simple device with full functions. [Read the rest of this entry...]
What’re they, glittering water droplets or maybe something else? [Read the rest of this entry...]
The soaps never cease to surprise us, and right here are 6 interesting soaps collected from the world, which each features a unique and funny appearance. Better soap, better life. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Honestly, I should thank Hyun Jin Yoon and Eun Hak Lee a lot for the Dews Toothbrush they’ve created, because I used to leave my toothbrushes on the sink and got them dirty from time to time. But the Dews Toothbrush would never flat on the sink surface! All its secret lies in the rounded handle where some weights are embedded, enabling the toothbrush to stand upright even if you set it down. [Read the rest of this entry...]
