If you ever had a dream to sleep within a book, Yusuke Suzuki’s Child’s Play is rightly the thing for you. It is a page turner of a bed shaped like an oversized book, with its pages serving as quilts and bookmarks as pillows. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Jaryn Miller aims to have thieves away from your bikes with this innovative Senza Bike Lock System. It transforms the bike’s handlebars into a bike lock, so a thief will find it unable to ride the bike after he has broken the lock and then bike-theft is expected to be reduced. But will that really work? Not necessarily, if a thief simply wants to get a bike rather than rides a bike. [Read the rest of this entry...]
If there’s any possible wrapping design that fits everyone’s need with their every gift, it must be this Word Puzzle. Merely with printed black letters on white paper sheet, the Universal Wrapping can cleverly present your wishes such as “Merry Christmas”, “Happy Valentines Day”, “I Love You” and so on. Great! [Read the rest of this entry...]
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. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Rokform Rokstand is a smart mechanical desktop stand for Apple goodies like iPhones and iPads. Each piece is hand assembled and features 6 angles of adjustment to meet your various needs. Also available in different colors. [Read the rest of this entry...]
A trip to the seaside always asks us to prepare many items, and sometimes we even need to get various seating devices if we’d like to comfortably relieve our head, back and finally the whole body. Luckily we now have the Y-ply Beach Rest, which is a multiple-use gadget allowing us to use in various conditions. It’s not merely designed for the beach use, others outdoor activities like a park picnic need it too. [Read the rest of this entry...]
If you seldom remember to hang up your coats properly onto racks but instead lay them over chairs, the Coat Check Chair may be quite useful and helpful. It is constructed with merely common plastic hangers and steel bars, and therefore to achieve its two aims: remind the users to hang up their coats properly and let them conveniently find hangers. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Woolen Soap is here! It is handmade and intended for gentle massage and skeen peel. Whenever moisten with water and wringed with hands, the handmade felted soap will offer lathers for you to use. But do remember to wash it and dry it out if it is not in need. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Earphone, also an alarm clock! Specially designed for music lovers who are used to wearing earphones to enjoy music before sleep, this Alarm Earphone is built with alarm, calendar, stopwatch and other functions, making it a most competitive earphone we’ve ever met. More importantly, it can set alarm clock automatically and alarms you up in the morning with required volume of music. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Anything that can change to meet our different needs is undoubtedly always welcome, and right here we’d like to introduce this Rubix Transformer Furniture Set created by Dosunodesign. It consists of three chairs and one table: the chairs can be adjusted to a proper height according to the users’ various needs, and the table would work as a tea table or a dinning table in different situations. So great! [Read the rest of this entry...]
You must be dreaming of such incredible scissors as shown here. They’re completely smart-looking and their convenience is beyond any words. Used as scissors, they can cut out curve lines easily and when used as knives, they’ll make straight lines. But more importantly, the device can conveniently shift between the scissor mode and the knife mode, as its unique structure allows for an easy change. CLEVER! [Read the rest of this entry...]
If we cannot create more space, the best possible method to make a fantastic bathroom fit into our small apartments is to cleverly reuse every inch… For example, we may build a foldable bathroom or have a bathtub with a lid. When they’re not in use, more space will be available for us to do other things. Isn’t that great?! I really love the idea. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Obviously a bridge could do more things than we would ever think of. According to Italian designers Francesco Colarossi, Giovanna Saracino and Luisa Saracino, a bridge is expected to offer electricity energy while still ensuring a convenient transportation. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Ember is the best bedside lamp you can ever find. It offers electricity, not only to charge the built-in lamp for illuminating your desk, but also to charge your cameras, PCs, cellphones and other personal items. Plus, all cords can be conveniently organized with the unique body design so that you would always keep your desk neat. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Is there a more luxurious piano than this? The 88-key digital piano comes with a beautiful wood grain, built-in speakers, and even a cradle to hold an iPad. Therefore you can either enjoy moving music from the piano’s amplified speaker system by plugging in an iPad, or create some sound by playing the piano. But whatever you choose, you’ll be always taken to the stage by the Concert Piano. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The funny tie comes with two sides: one is a work appropriate pattern while the other is a leisure appropriate pattern. In any places where smoking is forbidden, you may have a try with the smoking tie. Just for kidding. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Although one person cannot be in two different places at one time, the Eclipse Steel Fruit Bowl could do so by dividing itself into two separate ones. Therefore you can use the Double Bowl in several ways: using the two bowls separately or slotting them together to create a new one. And no matter how you use the bowls, they look just fine on the tables. Really fantastic design! [Read the rest of this entry...]
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. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Outside apartments there’s good grassland for us to relax in the nature and to ensure enough comfort you’ll also need the multiuse mat. It is foldable and lightweight, allowing for an easy transportation. More importantly it can be molded into a back cushion and is built with several storage shelves so as to meet your various needs in the open air. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Portability and simplicity are two design elements in the Portable Door Lock. It can be quickly installed on right or left hand doors at home, dorm and hotel, therefore to ensure you more safety and privacy. It also features emergency quick release. [Read the rest of this entry...]
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? [Read the rest of this entry...]
As people spend more and more time with a computer, they can also enjoy more convenience with the big guy, for example they could keep their hands warm with a Thanko Warming Mouse. Isn’t that a clever idea? [Read the rest of this entry...]
You need different shoes when the weather varies and the new shoes designed by REN Fangying meets all your needs. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Considering that the consumers may need more new hangers too after getting more new clothes, DEDE DextrousDesign has made a new series of shopping bags with a name of “Get the Hang of It”. The hangers are detachable, serving as handles when integrated with shopping bags but function in another way when go into your wardrobes. So to end up, the Chic Wardrobe Bags save both your money and the resources. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Jackets and bags seemingly irrelevant to each other, but they do have some relations when Rotem Lewinsohn puts forward a new design that easily shifts between a jacket and a handbag. So you wear it to a shopping mall but come out with a bag full of snacks, isn’t that interesting? [Read the rest of this entry...]
Something as the followings came into my mind when I saw the item for the first time: Mike looked down at his drawing board, painted a cute dog on it and then opened the box to eat something… So have you guessed right? It is actually a lunch box that also doubles a drawing board. Nice work Thomas Vu. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Although bookmarks are created for us to mark a book, we in fact often use a pen instead so that we can always make some notes on the book. Steve Yang Che-Hsiao must have the same experience as that we have and the designer has created a new pen dubbed “Bookmarkpen”. While in bookmark mode, the gadget is so compact that you can easily put it between the pages without any thickness to the book. And if you need a pen, simply fold the bookmark and then a pen is instantly transformed. Nice concept. [Read the rest of this entry...]
I cannot think of more reasons why a man would want this tie with bubble wrap hidden on the back, and possibly the only one that everybody needs to ease their stress is enough. [Read the rest of this entry...]
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. [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...]
Yes, there’re too many lamps on the market and each of them has a unique feature, so how could one designer make his/her lamp special enough to attract the consumers? Helene Steiner chose to build a camera on the lamp, enabling the users to take images of documents whenever they feel like to. It works in the same way as an ordinary tripod and can easily fold up for portability.
Although we’ve always been thinking that it is much easier to get money than to keep it, the so-called Rubik’s Cube Bank proves getting a coin is almost as difficult as keeping one. Designed by Tokyo-based MegaHouse, the new piggy bank asks you to solve the yellow side to put into a coin and get the green side to have the center tile pop out when you need one. You see, just as CrunchGear said “it requires brain power to save and get out money”. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Who would ever know what you’ll find between or underneath the sofa cushions? A coin, a remote controller or a book you’ve been looking for? Or maybe more than those, if you’re with the Lost In Sofa chair designed by Daisuke Motogi Architecture. Featuring small cubes to form the seat, the new furniture can hold almost everything you insert into it so that you can conveniently reach for a book, a pen or even a cup of coffee during the leisure time. Fantastic! [Read the rest of this entry...]
Usually a butter packaging box is used to indicate the flavors of butter and protect butter during transportation, but now the package can also be used to spread the butter so that you no longer need to carry any additional cutlery. Simply pull the wooden spoon lid off and use that to spread the butter and then you can enjoy a nice breakfast… I love that! [Read the rest of this entry...]
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! [Read the rest of this entry...]
Umbrellas are never expected to fly like a kite… unless the weather is fine and the umbrellas do look nice in the sky. So here we’d like to share a new umbrella with you guys, which is collaborated by YuKwang Kang and Jinsu Cho to fly like a kite. The concept also features LED lights that will glimmer at night so that you can still enjoy a fun time of flying an umbrella (or a kite) in the dark. Just imagine the fantastic scene of an umbrella flying freely with various lights shining like stars. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Time again daily life proves to be an important resource of inspirations and Daniel Baek come up with the idea of creating a unique lamp that can support the weight of a book when the German student read books in bed. Named as Hang Book, the new lamp not only offers enough light to ensure you a comfortable reading, but would hold your book in the air when you fall asleep. So whenever you’d like to read in bed, you can always easily find the book. Nice work! [Read the rest of this entry...]
Ideal for compact city apartments, the WOW sofa from Campeggi features a smart button and presents a plain design. But the most innovative point behind the furniture lies in the fact that it can open into a bed when you give the button a slight press. You see, that’s really cool and fantastic! [Read the rest of this entry...]
Taking the USB storage to a new altitude, Verbatim has designed a new series of USB drives with the functionality of a paper clip. The USB keys come with capacities of 2 GB and 4 GB, and they can be easily clipped onto paper documents and therefore to ensure you a more convenience use. But at present the Verbatim Paper Clip USB will only be launched to the Europe market, available in black, white, yellow, green, pink, blue and orange. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Embedded with the inspiration of social and cultural meanings of teasing, the Kickin from Jamie Yeo is an innovative piece of furniture that can help to bring people close to each other. When used individually, the furniture is just like a rocking chair for one person, but accommodates two or more people when several individual ones are combined together. Or you can bring many of these together and create yourself a cozy bed. Well, all that sounds so good. [Read the rest of this entry...]
