This is a unique electrical switch designed for your books. It is subtly hidden inside your books and turns your light on when you move the book, while it doesn’t bring any damage to the books. So what do you think, pull out your favorite book to turn a light on or turn on a light to find your favorite book?

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Magical Blow On/Off Light Switch is something especially perfect for lazy people like me. It can attach to any electrical appliances and then lets you to switch on or off them via an easy control of the device. That means, if you sleep with a Light Switch besides your pillow, you can conveniently turn on the light when you need to get up in the midnight… Cool, I love the idea.

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Valentin Ruhry’s new display is a huge board built with many illuminated rocker switches to show messages. Whenever you’d like to send some information with it, you’ll need to turn certain switches on while still keep others off.

The “Hello World” you see above is a good example, and also it’s a nod to the “Hello World” computer program – the earliest programs that say hello to the world with a computer screen.

Designer: Valentin Ruhry

Ever had any difficulty to find out which switch is controlling which light? Never mind, as you can easily solve that problem with Taewon Hwang’s Floor Plan Light Switch. It features several switches installed on one same panel so that you could control the lights in different rooms from one location. As long as you know where each room is located, you’ll always find the right button to illustrate that room.

Designer: Taewon Hwang

“Do not forget to turn off the light. Let “me” keep smile. Let the earth keep smile.”

The simple concept behind the Smiling Switches collaborated by Zhou Yide, Euphe Mo, Hang Zhou & Christine Liu has really impressed me a lot. For quite a long time, I’ve been wondering what I should or could do to make the earth a happy planet, and until these days I noticed that simply little tasks will result into great changes of the world we’re living in. So from now on, we’ll always see the earth smile whenever we turn off the lights.

Designer: Zhou Yide, Euphe Mo, Hang Zhou & Christine Liu

Will you conserve more electricity if the light is as precious as time? Combining the hourglass concept with lights for public places like staircases, Jia Wen Chen and Wei-Ting Chen have collaborated with the Flat Light that will time your lights. Once the LED grains all reach the bottom, the lights will then go off and the time limit is merely about 30 seconds. So our conclusion is, cherish your time and treasure electricity resource.

Designer: Jia Wen Chen & Wei-Ting Chen

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A new concept put forward by Roshan Hakkim and also A clever concept to eliminate the consumption of plastic! It makes a full use of the waste textile pieces of shoes and bags. The straps can also be used to close the shoes, after acting as ordinary handles.

Designer: Roshan Hakkim

The only association between light and switch is that we use the switch to turn on/off the light. That’s totally right but Sungi Kim also believes that the switch itself could doubles a light. And that’s the main concept behind the innovative design ‘Push on the light’. It looks just like a simple switch for most of the time, but it will then work as a light when you push on the short end of it. Amazing!

Designer: Sungi Kim

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You think switches could do nothing but to control the lights? You won’t think so after checking out these ones. Nothing is particularly special about them except the thin transparent sheets of plastic added onto them. What does that mean? In fact, your switches could also hold your letters and key rings apart from turning on/off the lamps.

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Kids are frequently blamed for leaving lights on, but to be fair, it is because they seldom notice lamps and switches. The Tio Light Switch may be a nice gadget to remind kids of conserving energy, with a visual change in different colors. When the light is kept on for less than an hour, it grows green; after four hours, it goes yellow. And when it has been on for more than eight hours, guess what, an angry red then appears. Hopefully by this means, your kids will constantly turn lights off, therefore helping to cut down the power consumption.

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What is the common impression the traditional switches give us? Tough, old and rigid, right? But these Silicon Switches with will dissipate that negative effect. It comes with a new look, seemingly like soft round balls, due to a cover of raised silicon on its surface.

The Pocket Power SWITCH aims to help you cut the devices off from the power outlet whenever they are not in use by easier but cleverer means. And that is, to control your power outlet with a switch. Just as shown in the photographs, when using the power, you only need to turn the plug 45 degrees to either side while turn it 45 degrees to the reverse to cut down the power.

This is the cutest switch I ever seen. Only some tiny redesign give the switch case a new life.

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This door knob can function as a light switch as well and so you do not have to look for light switch in a dark room. When you open the door, the light will automatically light up and switched off as one turns the knob while leaving the room.

Designer: Huang Tzu-Yu，Cheng Hung, Wang Tzu-Wei,，Xiang Yu-Wei & Lin Yu-Sheng

One switch for one light is the basic requirement. However, it is not necessary if you have a gesture controlled switch like this. With the touch-sensitive board you can control every light separately by sliding the finger to the lights’ direction. If you want switch on/off all the lights simultaneously, just make a circular motion on the board.

Designer: Mac Funamizu

Similar to the glowing socket, this switch could aware you the energy consumption with sparkling. a strong sparkle is emitted when there is a strong consumption.

Designer: Alexandre Tonneau

Just rotate this eco-tap socket which seems like a real tap, your device could be powered off without pulling a cord.

Designer: Osamu Kadono

Hey, this circle hanging under the socket is not only a switch, but also a power saving device. Once you pull it down, it will gradually shrink back accordingly turn off the power.

Therefore, the portable device such as cellphone, PDA and iPod won’t waste any power because of over charged.

If you haven’t decided yet in which position the lamp will be ON and OFF, you gonna like this design.

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