Love playing with your iPad, but never mind what kind of sleeve or stand it is using? No, I couldn’t stand my iPad wearing something ugly, so I decide to buy it this smart Stand Sleeve (if the gadget will finally come into the market). It features a fashionable appearance, with a combination of bright white and red. Besides, the design utilizes an ingenious folding technique & magnets too, to conveniently shift it between a sleeve and a stand.

Designer: Kim Jung-Sik, Cho Jae-Hong, Lim Sung-Won, Koo Bon-Young, Lee Bum-Joon & Shin Jung-Won

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Made from powder-coated, bent steel, the X Hanger designed by Kfir Schwalb is merely a single piece while can function to hang your hats, coats, scarves and other items. When not in use, the X Hanger can serve as a unique decoration on the wall too, refreshing your room with a new look.

Designer: Kfir Schwalb

Coming from Genius, the Ring Presenter is a sleek version of the company’s Ring Mouse that adds PowerPoint functionality, making it extremely ideal for corporate meetings. Built with a touch-sensitive cursor pad surrounded by four buttons, the Ring Presenter gives the users a better control of both their remote PCs and the slide shows. When not in presentation mode, the device can serve as a miniature mouse too, with touch sensitive scrolling and right, middle, and left buttons.

Designer: Genius

For small-apartment owners, the space-saving and multifunctional furniture sets are always welcomed, and on their lists there’s Claudio Sibille’s Sensei. The furniture set includes two chairs that could be used separately; but when you flip the chairs on their sides and piece them together, they would then serve as a table.

Designer: Claudio Sibille

One, two or even ten different shapes of baking pans are not enough to people in deep love of baking cakes, so what they really need may be this Ribbon Adjustable Baking Pan. It’s made of silicon and magnets, attaching onto steel baking sheets in various shapes and sizes, so as to create beautifully-crafted delicious cakes.

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Honestly we seldom see laptop bags redesigned with many new functions, not to mention a bag that actually serves as a charger as well. This amazing design comes from Brad Ascalon, which utilizes wireless charging technology to convert a laptop bag into a charging machine. Now have a look at the bag: its inner tray is in fact the charger and its carrying strap actually contains USB male connector at one end and a plug on the other. So once connect the strap end to another computer or an electrical outlet, and then you can get your laptop recharged wirelessly. That’s not all! The same USB port allows the laptop bag to work as a thumb drive on its own too.

Designer: Brad Ascalon

Quite frequently we see common things endowed with new functions or totally changed into other devices when designers try to use them in a different way, and these smart phone stands are rightly the result of innovative redesigns. As the lenses are replaced with transparent cups, these glasses then performs well to keep electronic other devices in place. They’re still foldable too, thus ensuring an easy transportation.

Designer: Nendo

Several years we were trying to make everything as simple as possible, endowing every device with only one function. But now, the trend is completely changed, since people are in great need of multi-functional machines and gadgets. Yves Behar’s ‘Local Bike’ is rightly created to meet your various needs. It is a three-wheeler built with a small truck, thus allowing for great convenience for people to transport their items within short distances.

Designer: Yves Behar

Your iPhone certainly promises a good quality of photography, but you couldn’t always hold it by hands especially when you want to take a photo of yourselves. Well now, you can shot with iPhone in a stylish and convenient way – introducing the iPhone Tripod Mount and Stand. It allows you to your iPhone to any standard tripod and also doubles as an adjustable stand as well. Quite an ideal gift for iPhone fanciers.

Selling Price: $20
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The Halloween 2011 is coming, so have you gotten something special to surprise your guests? If not, see what Tyler Card has made and maybe you’ll soon get a good inspiration.

Tyler’s costume for Halloween is this wearable Nikon DSLR. It looks cool when put on, and moreover it is fully functional, capable of taking photos with the push of a button. Why? Well, it is because there’s a real DSLR camera built within the costume, also with a DELL screen equipped on the back. So when you’re wearing the camera costume, you can still shot photos of others. Wow, happy Halloween!

Designer: Tyler Card

Apparently the Terrafugia Transition Flying Car is an advanced vehicle we’ll use in the future. It is literally a car with folding wings, thus it can both run on roads and flies in the air.

To match with different conditions of the land and the air, Terrafugia Transition’s tires and windscreens have been improved as well. It is said the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has already granted special exemptions for the Terrafugia Transition, so if you do have enough space to hold the flying car, then you can pre-order it and use it sometime next year.

Can you believe that the “Chopp” is claimed to be the last chopping board you need to buy?! Although I have no liking for exaggeration, I must admit that the ergonomic chopping board does deserve the praise. It’s a board with interchangeable functionality, including a hollow base to hold the chopped food, a cheese grater, a preparation aid for fruit, an egg holder and so on. Made of high density Polyethylene and ABS PC, as well as fused with Antimicrobial material, the Chopp is both durable and healthy for use. Hey, Alastair Crompton, reserve me a Chopp please.

Designer: Alastair Crompton

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We need handles almost everywhere and “Your Magnet” is rightly a multiuse u-magnet for almost everything. It features two suction cup feet, which can stick onto cups, tablets, cellphones or other things to serve as a handle or stand. Thus you don’t need to get everything with handles, but simply remember to get this u-magnet for your things.

Designer: Lufdesign

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Bookmarks and dictionaries are two necessary tools for bookworms, and obviously the item shown here has cleverly combined them together. Named as Electronic Dictionary Bookmark, the gadget comes with a quite simple look but extremely powerful functions.

It is crammed full of 38,000 definitions from the Collins Gem English Dictionary 15th edition so that the users can key in any word they don’t know and check out what it means. On the other hand, when not used as an electronic dictionary, the item can also serve as a bookmark.

Selling Price: £19.95

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The Flower Hoodcap is an amazing design concept that combines lens cap with lens hood for a DSLR camera. Thus it would let in enough light when you’re taking photos, and still protects your camera when used as a lens cap. So next time you’re going to any places, remember that this Flower Hoodcap would go with you!

Designer: Rhie Hyi Joong & Lee Sang Hwa

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No doubt we all need a chair. But which is your ideal one, a chair with interesting shape or one that features a full function? Whatever, you would like these creative chairs shown here.

Laundry Chair

Pencil Chair

Oyster Chair

Walrus Chair

Tube Chair

Corner Chairs

Sugar Chair

Rhino Chair

Mini Cooper Chair

Bamboo Chair

Melting Chair

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Cideko’s Air Keyboard would bring us a new experience with wireless keyboards. It is embedded with a 3D motion sensing mouse, which will detect the keyboard’s motion to control the cursor on computer screen. Thus the users merely need to move the keyboard up and down/left and right in the air, they can then use the device as a wireless mouse too. It is also integrated with an earphone and a microphone, allowing the users to enjoy music or chat online from a long distance. The wireless keyboard is rechargeable, and compatible with both PCs, Macs and Linux computers.

Selling Price: $87

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It is a matter of peculiar interest to purify rain water in places where are short of clean water, and the rain coat collaborated by Hyeona Yang and Joshua Noble is rightly a device that would help many people around the world. It seems like cape, with tall collars to collect rain water and built-in charcoal filters and a chemical purification system to make the water safe for drinking. After the water is purified, it will be stored around the shoulders and pockets of the coat. The coat also has some tubes so that people would conveniently drink the collected water at any time and any where.

Designer: Hyeona Yang and Joshua Noble

German LCD maker HANNspree recently launched its Lounge TV 70 on International Funkausstellung Berlin 2011, which is announced as both a windows PC and a white board except for acting as a HDTV. Even though the device is just a prototype at the time, it would no doubt bring the TV designs to a new age.

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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

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

Aptly dubbed “Catalyst”, Jiyoung Seo’s shelf triggers user to feel, touch and react with the unit so as to build a closer relationship between people and furniture.

It is mainly made of silicon while still built with a wooden structure so that it can hang onto a wall. With its flexible silicon layer, the Catalyst shelf would hold anything you insert into it – no matter it is a pen, a book, a watch or jewelry.

Designer: Jiyoung Seo

This luxurious Bugatti Grand Prix Car Inspired Desk isn’t merely on paper, as you can actually see it in real life. Designed by Luzzo Bespoke, this furniture incorporates a retractable monitor, a height adjustment and self closing lockable drawers. It also looks fashionable, featuring an elegant smart shape, shinny metal gloss and a bright blue color. It is claimed that designing and making such a desk may take up to 3000 hours in total and hence it comes with a quite surprising price: £150,000. OMG!

Designer: Luzzo Bespoke

Selling Price: £150,000

Tomm Velthius has successfully blurred the line between furniture and toys. He built many railway lines in a wooden table, let small electric trains run through them and therefore changed tables into toys. Great work!

Designer: Tomm Velthius

Welcome to a new time with your personal robots Luna. It is the world’s first personal robot, which is announced to have the ability to handle almost all kinds of works and even comes with its own app store where additional functionalities such as face recognition would be sold.

It is also built with 8-inch touchscreen, two cameras, wireless connectivity, a three-mic array, and a variety of sensors. Coming soon before the end of 2011, and you may reserve one now.

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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

Even though we’ve already had cellphones with built-in alarms, we seldom have a watch that doubles an alarm. Except for the “An Alarm”. What makes the watch special is that it gives a vibration on the wrist instead of sound. Isn’t that cool? You’ll never miss any dates.

Selling Price: £290

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A really clever gadget for the elders… The Flashlight Cane is designed to offer the old with needed support, to illuminate their way in the dark and more importantly to protect them from certain danger with electric shock generated at the bottom.

Selling Price: $103

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There’re various ways leading us to a better life and actually you could easily have your life improved by using ordinary gadgets in other ways. And to give you a demonstration, the projection screen here is used as a sunshade. Do you like the idea?

Belts are always used as an ornament, and we don’t see them function in the other ways if they’re not there to keep up the trousers. But for $55 you can then be a cool guy using a belt in many different ways, such as removing a screw or opening the beer. So to sum up, the Tool Belt is really a smart toolbox you can easily take everywhere.

Selling Price: $55

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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.

Selling Price: $19.99

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Almost no words are needed, and just look at the pictures you’ll know clearly what the Rhapsody Children’s Beds can offer: a comfortable bed for resting, a slider for entertainment, cute toys and delicate decorations… All those have built a fantastic dream world for your kids!

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What would you want to have if your apartment can accommodate merely one piece of furniture? You’ll need something stylish, multifunctional and also environmentally friendly at the same time, right? Then what you’re looking for is rightly the Curv. Getting an inspiration from the 1960’s era, the furniture set features a simple shape but can be used in many different ways: a set of table and a chair, a dinning table, a workstation and also a relaxing cocoon. So whatever you may need, change the furniture and done. Easy as that!

Designer: Tiffany Roddis

Everyone would need a multifunctional scissor like this. Ergonomically designed, the innovative scissor can be used both left and right handed, allowing the users to easily cut paper, open bottles and crack nuts.

Selling Price: $14.99

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Seasons change as the time passes, so every year we begin with the spring that is full of green leaves and harvest in the autumn when yellow leaves fly in the air. But with the “leaf carpet” in your home, you can simply turn the carpet to feel the two different seasons whenever you want.

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Despite that we cannot dedicate a pretty serious amount of space to large furniture like beds and tables so as to accommodate our guests, we can still create them a comfortable “living room” with the “Somnys” transformer furniture. Designed by Fabien Rolland, the modular coffee table can pack flat for easy storage when not in use while transform into a guest bed when needed. It’s also easy to assemble and collapse, allowing the users to convert it from a table into a bed in quite a short time.

Designer: Fabien Rolland

On a fine afternoon, put the books aside, open the Happy Window and have a pleasant chatting with your buddies when enjoying the beautiful scenery outside—what could be better than that? Just start an easy life with the “Happy Window”.

The funiture set can fit into any environments, so you can either use it as a worktable or change it into a tea table with two seats.

Designer: Yonghee Cho & Saehee Lee

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.

Designer: Elium Studio

Although the E-book service has provided potentially new means for people who enjoy reading, most of them still prefer to use paper books. If you’re one of them, we bet you’ll need the Bookmate designed by Kwon Jieun. It is a multifunctional device, serving as both a book cover and a bookstand via simple folding. Apart from that, the Bookmate also features illuminating strips and edges to help you easily find the books in the dark.

Designer: Kwon Jieun

We bet nobody would refuse the Occo, if he/she wants to live a both convenient and comfortable life. Created by Melisa Indra, the Occo features a minimalist design, and therefore won’t occupy too much space. Also, it’s a perfect combination of the modern design and the Asian tradition of sitting on floors. As shown in the pictures, the Occo includes several circular-shaped seats piled together, using a shaft and a table top to form a composite piece. So with the Occo, you’ll still keep a traditional life in the modern society.

Designer: Melisa Indra

Vuzzle Cube designed by Christopher Daniel is a transformable and multiuse chair that comprises of 59 removable cushions. Each poly surface-shaped cushion comes with a built-in neodymium magnet, due to which these cushions can keep a cohesive status. Also, the magnet ensures an easy transformation of the cushions, enabling you to change the cube into different shapes. For example, you can remove 13 cushions to turn the cube into a chair; or divide the complete cube into separated cells and use them as stools or footrests. Both Vuzzle Milk and Vuzzle Bloody Mary are available now, and we bet they’ll definitely give your modern room a cool looking.

Designer: Christopher Daniel

Designer: University of Karlsruhe

You love the Foldable Bedside Crib? If so, then you must be glad to see the Koo Transformer Baby Gear, something that the babies and their moms can use together and enjoy together. Created by Lunar, the Koo can shift between a rocking chair and a bassinet, therefore easing the babies’ transition from feeding to sleeping.

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Well, what do you think it is? A cylinder? Why not come in and check out the answer…

Just as shown in the pictures, the cylinder is in fact a compact foldable workstation. It will not occupy too much space when not in use, but will offer you really much convenience after it is transformed into a fully functional workstation. So how do you like it?

The future of furniture has arrived! Thanks to the two Dutch designers Carmela Bogman and Rogier Martens, we could still have a bench, a stage and a lounge area even in a small park. Let’s introduce “Pop-Up”, whose name might derive from the motion of pumping out during the periods of need. The furniture is made out of three retractable bollards, which can be fixed at various heights, forming a bench or a table to meet the users’ different needs. Several keys are distributed among the neighborhood for the local residents to get an access to the pumping system. The first pop-up installation can be found in the city of Utrect, Netherlands.

Designer: carmela bogman & rogier martens

Who would ever consider recycling the toilet paper core except for Kim Ji-eun? I mean, the designer is quite unusual, but still ingenious. The Day Re Toilet Roll comes with a creative core that can unfold into a memo pad when you pull the sticker on it. But do we really need such a design? You are the one to decide.

Designer: Kim Ji-eun

I love the idea. Inspired by natural defense mechanisms of animals like the armadillo, Marc Graells has come up with a unique defense system that is quite different from those on the market. It not only raps around your motorbike to protect it from sunshine and rainwater, but guards the bike against thieves using a burglar alarm that comes along. Simply put, the Protect 486 looks like a portable private garage for your motorcycles.

Designer: Marc Graells

Some of us just adore the iPhones, iPods and any other beautiful items launched by Apple. And that’s also why many design firms tend to develop new products, say the iWatch concept from the Italian firm ADR Studio.

Like most Apple style products, the new concept also features an eye-pleasing appearance, coming with a shining aluminum casing.

It can be connected to iPhones or iPads via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, allowing you to use a wide range of applications (e.g. displaying RSS feeds, weather or photos).

And there’s more! With a pico projector built inside, the iWatch ensures you to enjoy the movie whenever and wherever you may want.

Designer: ADR Studio

Charm your guests with our Double Sided Vase. The interesting vase created by Endrit Hajno can serve in two different ways: it holds a bunch of flowers at one end while  merely accommodates one single flower when flipped upside down.

A guaranteed conversation starter for you and your guests.

Designer: Endrit Hajno

Aside from motor vehicles, Mercedes-Benz also produces helicopters, which are still impressive and deluxe. Its new design is the Mercedes-Benz Style EC145 luxury helicopter, a collaborative work with Eurocopter.

The twin-engine turbine helicopter has eight seats, which are all mounted on rails, ensuring an easy and quick reconfiguration to make enough room for luggage.

It borrows the interior furnishing style from Mercedes-Benz’s new R-Class range: the floors and ceiling are equipped with sumptuous wood, and the seats are made of exclusive materials.

There’re also three multi-function boxes, integrating a cool box, cup holder, table, 15-inch monitor and DVD player.

Considering the different needs of business and private travelers, the EC145 also comes with a partition wall that separates the cockpit from the cabin.

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