Argus One, named after the Greek god Argus who was the all seeing god with one hundred eyes, is a new airship design that features automated control for individual body modules so as to improve its flight stability and aerodynamic control. Besides, the Argus One has come with other characteristics too, e.g. it can be easily assembled and tactically launched in hours from virtually anywhere; it has a several day endurance capability and it can keep working in rigid weather conditions too.

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What’s this, a huge cube? Of course it is, but it’s exactly also a three dimensional kite formed by 1,700 3D printed connected segments. It seems extremely bulky, but can actually levitate steadily due to its lightweight composition of carbon fiber rods and cubenfibre aerospace fabric.

Designer: Sash Reading, Heather + Ivan Morison

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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?!

Designer: Jo Jae Young

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What will the futuristic architecture look like? Japan-based Kisho Kurokawa’s “Nakagin Capsule Tower Building” may offer us some inspireations. Put forward in 1972, the tower building was constructed of 140 individual pods that could be changed and moved freely, thus to create a modular building with full functions. In the designer’s assumption, the 140 pods should get replaced about every 25 years so that the whole building could have a 200 year life span.  To let many more people get in a close touch with the “Nakagin Capsule Tower Building”, Kurokawa recently showcased one pod at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, in which the visitors would find a full-furnished house for temporary living.

Designer: Kisho Kurokawa

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You ever dreamed to own a special tent that may work in the same way as your house? Congratulations, as your dream has come true with the Japanese outdoor equipment company Logos’ Decagon Tent. It is an outdoor modular structure that can be used separately or linked together. Available in four types including ‘decagon link’, ‘link dome’, ‘link screen’ and ‘car joint tarp’, the modular tent each can hold three to four people while the largest tent actually would accommodate up to 16 people. As an additional bonus, the Decagon’s ‘car joint tarp’ is specially designed for you cars, something like the garage for your house. Presented at the “Japan Good Design Award 2011 Exhibition”, the innovative tent has received high praise from the visitors and now launched to the public.

Selling Price: 110,250Yen

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Sofa is not merely furniture, because it actually has a free soul too, with which the furniture not only creates different configurations, but also offers your room a stylish look. Each piece is built with a giant zipper, which allows several modules to be connected together and then to meet your various needs.

Designer: Cruxflux

An ultra-practical shoe designed by Daniela Bekerman for those who love high heels but still need to wear flat shoes frequently is the Ze o Ze. It means “This or This” in Hebrew, thus the design features several modular pieces that can connect to the shoe’s sole, and therefore allowing the users to adjust her shoes according to their needs.

Designer: Daniela Bekerman

Bathe is a modern and multifunctional bathtub that features several attachments for the users to place their accessories. The attachments can be used and combined in any way you want, so that you can freely fit them into the bathtub in any ways you want. For example, you can create a seating at the end of bathtub, make a storage shelf in the middle, or simply get a support for the shower.

Designer: Justin Wagemakers & Blue Sky Design Group

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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

If you’re looking for a special electric guitar – one that only belongs to you, you may get an inspiration from these modular guitars. Their bodies are made of different kinds of materials, as the designers provide customized guitars according to clients’ various requirements.

Goci’s Foldable Kitchen is one of the best-organized kitchens you can ever find. It mainly consists of four parts, including ice hot-fridge/deepfreeze/oven, dishmaster-dishwasher, slidecooker-a cooktop, and panneli-screens. Based on a modular design, however, the foldable kitchen allows for an easy and convenient change of its appearance and the users can even add new elements if they need to do so. Bravo!

Designer: Goci

We all are greedy guys: when living in comfortable apartments we’d like a simple sleep in the nature, but when we’re in a forest… oh God, we just miss the spacious house so much. Luckily there’s something can meet your special needs, and what we are talking about is this Gigwam Tent System.

Several tents can be built together and they allow the users to easily walk to other tents via a foldable tunnel. So just go camping with the Gigwam Tent Systems and you can build your new house in the nature then.

A table constructed with huge poker cards… also works as shelves or a dividing wall if with certain rearrangement. It is designed by BBMDS for Seletti and comes with an interesting name of “À la Carte”. Available in red and blue, these big cards may even build you a poker house just as that one appeared in “Alice in Wonderland”. Wow, crazy idea.

Designer: BBMDS

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Roll & Mix is a multifunctional utensil designed by Marcial Ahsayane. It includes two parts, one is an oil bottle and the other is a pestle. Each of the two parts can be used separately and they’ll double as a rolling pin when fit together.

Designer: Marcial Ahsayane

The market barely provides ideal lamps essential for modern lifestyle, giving rooms a romantic or hip-hop look. Addressing that issue, someone has come up with these Modular Lights-something that can be reassembled to meet your particular needs.

Just admit it that you have always wanted to own something special and different. Good news is that you can now make your dream come true: the Switch is a modular pocketknife and it has 17 attachments for you to mix and fix together so as to create your exclusive knife.

Selling Price: $79

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IVY is designed to grow inside your rooms, just like trees grow outside your apartment. More exactly, it is a shelving system that consists of three branch-like modular pieces, changing its shape to live in various environments.

Designer: Paris Lowitz

Smaller in size, the new wind power generator however performs much better in producing electricity. And it comes with a nice name, the “Wind Cube”. Made up from blades, a generator, a telescopic shaft, an electric power plug and a switch, one single device can generate 21.6 kilowatt-hours per month and 15 such fans can support one family with four people for a month.

Designer: Liao-Hsun Chen and Wen-Chih Chang

It doesn’t mean that your earphones are no longer usable when something is wrong with them. In fact with this DIY Earphone System, each part and every wire of which is detachable and replaceable, everybody can easily “fix” their earphones to make them work again. To meet your different needs, the module comes in two modes: basic and Bluetooth. You can also hook up two separate sets to the central module,  if you’d like to share good music with your friend.

Designer: Choi Hyong-Suk

Designer: University of Karlsruhe

What should a sofa that suits everybody be like? During the Fair in Milan, we found a possible answer, the “Bobo” Sofa. It is a modular sofa that could be adjusted into various shapes, according to your different needs. And the main concept of “Bobo” is—no matter how many configurations it has gone through—to offer much more comfort to you.

Designer: Michael Kruijne

If you’ve just returned from the Word Join Center, you must still remember the “Light Form”, a modular lighting system inspired by the origami art. It consists of wood panels that can be folded up to expose the energy-efficient electroluminescent lights embedded in them. Encased in rich dark European maple, the “Light Form” can be easily fixed onto any wall, endowing a unique kind of warmth and romance to your home.

Designer: Francesca Rogers & Daniele Gualeni Design Studio

Presented here is the solar-powered bus waiting booth, designed by Yang Mingjie for Ningbo South Business District, China. It features a modular design, promising a convenient adjustment while reducing the maintenance and service cost.

It includes three parts: two rising benches on sides for several people to lean on, as well as an advertisement billboard and a city information board in the center. By doing that, ampler space is created for more visitors to stand. Solar panels are also equipped, to harvest solar energy for the advertisement billboard, information center and lights.

The ‘Drop Light’  is all about changing the light intensity in an interesting and simple way. Each bulb, containing a new advance LED, could be separated from the main body easily. Integrated with a base, these bulbs could also serve as a free standing lamp individually. All the lighting modules are charged via an electric line located within the main body.

Designer: Doosan Baek

All the kids around the world should thank the h2o Architects a lot, as they’ve come up with the piece of multi-use furniture to create you a multifunctional space for you to play, to rest and to study in.

The entire piece is designed to be shared by two children. To meet your kids’ various requirements, Eva’s Bed consists of stairs, aisles, shelves, tables, beds and other pieces of furniture. But perhaps the most attractive feature is the modular design enabling the users to rearrange the multiple spaces when they grow up.

Designer: h2o Architects

Showcased at the Design Museum London, ‘Harvest’ is an installation of chairs and tables made of Gypsophila plant, which has a natural ability to interlock. All the flowers have been put into moulds and freeze-dried for weeks before they’re used to make up the furniture. It will remain on show in The Tank outside the museum until 15 March.

Designer: Asif Khan

Let’s start the article with a long equation: a cup warmer + a foot warmer + a huggable heater + a radiator = Adax Syklus Panel Heater. Wow, that makes you feel excited, right? Designed by Red Rabbits, Adax Syklus consists of a base and detachable heating panels that could be used to warm anything you may want. That also means, simply buy home the Adax Syklus Panel Heater, you could then own a radiator for your home as well as three heaters for your items. Sounds like a great deal.

Want to build your own shelving unit? Right here is a new kind of modular shelf unit that could be freely assembled. Compared to usual modular shelves, this unit ensures you to arrange it into different shapes due to the holes on its sides and the fence form design.

I’m not finding faults with the traditional refrigerators we’re using now, but things always go a way like this: you opened the fridge for a fresh tomato, but as you hunted through the whole drawer, much cold air lost and therefore you had to pay more money for the electric bills. Luckily, the ‘Coolox’ storage system concept is all about saving energy and ensuring you an easy life. It comes with a new look, including several separate modular drawers and special pipes, which transport cold energy from the main module to others. Still featuring a transparent design, each drawers show clearly to you what is contained in them so that you needn’t have to open every drawer to find the item you want. Wait, there’s more! To ensure you always to enjoy fresh meals, each module could be set a certain temperature, due to the individual-temperature-control design.

Designer: Kim Sungi

We all need spacious room but all pieces of furniture, including coffee tables, chaise longues, seats, etc, so how could we make the most of limited available space? That’s a question needed to be solved. As for me, an ‘Urbis’ furniture unit will be enough. Comprising different modules, this set of furniture is available in two versions for both indoor use and outdoor use, meeting your various needs.

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GrowFrame Squares and GrowFrame by Trevor Elliott are just so cool for your holiday summaries, as they’re magnetic-held frames that are applicable to printed pictures of any sizes. Possibly you could gather your kid’s photos pictured at different ages together in a series of frames, just as the name ‘GrowFrame’ indicates. Not only the frame grows, you guys, too.

Selling Price: $12.95

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Build these colorful wooden modules as you like! For both kids and adults.

Designer: Joachim Jirou-Najou

Is anything made of paper as weak as paper? Not necessarily, and the Eco-Modular Furniture here is really solid, stable and strong. Constructed with 99% recycled paper, the eco-set of furniture is not only 62% lighter than those made of particle board, but also allows you to assemble different modules into any forms you may want. Just peel, stick, and a new piece of furniture is done!

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Well, indeed I don’ think we may need so complicated a pen like this, a modular pen that includes a pen-point part, a key functional part and a terminal part. You may use it as a ball-point pen, a pencil or an electronic pen, as here’re several kinds of pen-points available. As for the key functional part, it is constructed with a player, a LED light, a charger interface, a memory and a battery. With a Bluetooth on the end, the modular pen also doubles a camera, a microphone, a laser pointer, as well as a wireless network receiver. It’s amazingly powerful! If you’re someone pursuing multifunctional products, you should never miss the module pen.

Designer: Peter Vardai

Now here’s something worth your attention- a Modular Bathroom System that can be assembled into different forms. It is composed of several separate parts like one modular including a water closet and wash-basin, a shower modular, a storage modular and another component that serves to enlarge the bathroom. Just make up your favorite one with it!

The world won’t be so fabulous if we haven’t come up with numerous creative ideas, and we do need plenty of imagination to explore the essential part of every product. On seeing the ‘altavoz modular shelf system’ from Spain, we may imagine it an expanding box that extends continually to an end. Angled interior sides, slight shadow and the classical blue, all these have come to create a stereoscopic visual effect.

Designer: Carlos Tiscar

Speakers tend to stick out in any room, no matter in which ways they are fixed. Thank God, the speaker modules from Italia come to match your room perfectly. Made of various colors and materials, they can be used as shelves to become a natural part of your room.

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This is one modular seating system that could be twisted and opened in different ways. No matter you press it, pull it or even twist it, at least one drawer that is a kind of secret compartment will be revealed when needed.

Designer: Steffen Kehrle

The triangular dish rack is composed of several resin modules, which looks so simple and portative that it is quite suitable for your fashion kitchen. Though there’re only ivory racks on the market at present, the manufacturer will continue to launch more products in other styles, including orange racks, grey racks, oak-colored racks and striped ones.

Designer: Ernest Perera
Selling Price: $129
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Made of recycled materials, the module office is equipped with all office necessaries and takes up an area of 2.1×2.1 square meters. Because of its module design, we can quickly build up a studio in a new place. Once it is simply set, the office can obtain energy supply through the external pendants immediately, and the telephone could then work through wireless networks.

It is hard to get a perfect refrigerator for students. Although living in the same dorm, everyone wants a single space and the number of the students in every dorm is not the same. Besides, you can not lock your own space to prevent your milk from being stolen.

But this brilliant design from Electrolux Design Lab competition 2008 is give us a good solution. The fridge consists of a base station and then you can stack modules on it. The number is totally based on your own demand. The most important is that your milk will be safe because you can lock your own mocule.

Designer: Stefan Buchberger

Puzzle fans might be interested in this cube game. Different from classic puzzle card, this one is made of 4 electric cubes. It can provide puzzle randomly and you can get 300 picture puzzles and 300 word puzzles. But only four cubs seem too easy to resolve.

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Price: $39.99

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Multi-touch screen is very popular recent years. iPhone is a good representative. But the can not be assembled into a huge screen like traditional LCD products.

But this new product is dubbed MultiTouch Cell.Each LCD screen unit is available in both 32- and 46-inch sizes and offers Full HD capability. MultiTouch claims users will get 50,000 hours of use compared to 3,000 hours for projector-based offerings — as well as improved image resolution, contrast, and color quality. The key point is that they are modular, which means you can assemble a huge multi-touch screen by your own.

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In order to maximum the efficiency of your bathroom, many ideas might have been carried out. The previous spacesaver is a perfect one. But I bet you will like this one. It is actually a modular bathroom and all the modules can be on its own rack. So you have not need to worry about lacking space.

What you should do is to slide the modules, including the shower, toilet, sink and cabinet, totally depending on your favor.

Oil price is nearly crazy now, and electronic bike might be the most popular transporting way in the future. This design from a China designer is pretty innovative. It actually is not an independent bike, if you have partner who has a same one, you can assemble your bikes into one and drive together.

Designer: Jiang Qian

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If you always dissatisfied with the hanger, you should assemble one by yourself. This modular hanger from Kai Richter comes with many different modules, allowing you to make a new hanger totally depending on your own favor.

Designer: Kai Richter

This is a good concept. It only features three main components which are the projector, the keyboard, the power supply. If you need any other component, you should purchase by yourself. They could be assembled like LEGOs.

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Better than modular cord socket, this product provide more functions beyond normal sockets, such as USB port.

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If you never feel comfortable with your mouse, you gotta like this concept. Made from lightweight moldable clay covered by a nylon and polyurethane fabric, this mouse could be shaped in any style depending on your own favor.

Designer: Liao Wei-Chueh, William W. Huang, Antonia Hsu, Amy Liu, Shi Yimin, Tiky Tao, Salem Zeng