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“So what is the weather today?” Wait, wait, I’ll soon tell you something about the temperature with my hands to feel the Cryoscope. It’s not for kidding, as industrial design student Robb Godshaw’s Cryoscope is indeed an intelligent device that allows you to feel the weather with hands rather than to read cryptic icons with eyes. The Cryoscope is made from a heat sink, cooling fan, and a Peltier element, which are all housed within an aluminum cube to reflect tomorrow’s predicted air temperature by heating up or cooling down. In case that the cube may get too hot for you to touch, the designer also built the Cryoscope with a red and blue colored LED to provide a visual cue to the temperature change.

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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.

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Your favorite books, your favorite designs, your favorite furniture…Any of your paper books can be sorted by this Check Bookshelf designed by Jongho Park.

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Can the movement of sand get kept forever? Well, that’s obviously not a question at all, since we all have a camera. But the industrial design student Leetal Rivlin has managed to capture the movement of sand in another way, by freezing it into a unique bowl. Hand made by mixing the grains of sand with an adhesive, the sand bowl not only features several layers outside to assimilate the movement of sand, but is durable enough to last a long time as decorative articles.

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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.

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What have you seen from these Optical Illusion Paintings made by Ukrainian artist Oleg Shuplyak, a second picture within one big one? That’s rightly the true answers. By cleverly combining different elements together, the artist has successfully created two distinct images in each painting, bringing the viewers with a doubled joy.

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Hard to raise fish, but what’s much harder is to clean the fish bowl, because cleaning the tanks seems always dirty and messy… So why not have a try with the NoClean Aquariums? It’s actually a self-cleaning desktop aquarium invented based on the laws of physics, taking only 60 seconds to work while needing no electricity or filters. Simply pour some water in and then you’ll see the aquarium clean itself, just easy and convenient as that!

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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.

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Honestly I don’t know who invented brushes, but I know clearly it is Valencia-based designers CuldeSac that will push brushed onto a new level, one that may feature evolutionary value. In this creative collection, each brush and roller comes with a unique function, allowing the users and artists to do something that used to be difficult or impossible to them, such as painting on the ceiling or stamping out distinctive patterns with a brush.

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After quite a long time without introducing any innovative packaging designs, it’s really exciting to share with you 9 interesting packages at one time. They’re created for different products including milk, toys, pizza or shoes, but they’re all functional to attract the customers and therefore to promote the sales.

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There’re too many yoga centers in your city and you don’t know how to beat others off? Well, have a look at this creative business card Kapil Bhimekar designed for yoga instructor Danielle Abisaab and you may get some good inspiration. It involves the twisting of body in yoga exercises, featuring flexible paper printed with personal information on both sides, thus the users need to twist the card to read the entire message. Just simple as that, but the result is quite awesome, coz enquiries and new students kept flowing to Danielle Abisaab after the release of this card.

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What is the best car in your imagination? Possibly it should be smart, fashionable, high-tech, high-efficiency but low-cost? Then what you need is rightly the futuristic cars from Mazda, who has come up with an “i-Eloop” system harnessing the energy generated each time the vehicle slows down and thus to reduce your money spent on fuels.

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Although computers are still designed without emotion or spiritual excitement, they now at least can read your emotions. The new computer system is developed by researchers from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, who have looked at 60 acoustic parameters including the tenor of a user’s voice, the speed at which one speaks, and the length of any pauses, in order to let the computers understand the change of your emotions. Besides, based on predictions of where the conversation may lead, the system can even adapt its speech accordingly and therefore to go through a good conversation with the human users.

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“Catch” features a temperature-resistant construction, performing well to prevent the grease or sauce from splattering whenever you rest it flat on a pan or use it as a barrier around the pan. When not in use, simply fold it up and put it in the drawer, and that wouldn’t require too much space.

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“The Bridge School”, running through an old village in Fujian Province in China to connect the two sides, wins Li Xiaodong this year’s “Aga Khan Awards” due to its special structure and multi functions. Contrast to the old village is full of stone-built houses, “The Bridge School” utilizes modern and frugal steel and bamboo as main materials, giving the building a refreshing and stylish look. Except for serving as a school, the structure also doubles as a public library and a performance space as well.

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