Still worrying about the problem that your expensive cellphones may get destroyed when water goes into it? Stop it then, as a company named Liquipel will render our electronic devices completely waterproof with a hydrophobic nano-coating they’ve developed. The coating, actually not visible to human eyes, can protect the entire device as a whole, with all vital components inside and out completely coated to fight against accidental contact with liquids. Though the new technology would allow us to use cellphones and other devices in bathrooms or swimming pools, it may fail to protect your devices in deep sea, however. Thus while giving your devices a protection with this hydrophobic nano-coating, you’ll still need to pay high attention when using them in water.

Designer: Liquipel

Selling Price: $59

Flaca, which is Spanish for skinny, is an ultra-thin foldable lamp completely laser-cut from a piece of stainless steel. It’s easy to assemble in just five steps, requiring no other tools but only your bare hands. The lamp is adjustable too, offering various heights to meet your different needs.

Designer: Masiosare Studio

Hot egg is the most popular food in my family whenever the winter comes, as it not only warms my hands but also warms my stomach. It’s a pity that the eggs cannot keep hot for a long time, and they usually become cold after my way to offices. Thus I need something to reheat them. The ultra-portable Heater Egg Card seems like a good choice. It utilizes a wire-web and thin skin that envelops the egg to reduce heating time; features a collapsible casing that can be folded as thin as a credit card, thus to ensure us an easy carrying; still, it also comes with a USB charging style, which makes it practical in places without an electricity outlet.

Designer: Jidanjiareqi Limian

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Not only designers, but also the scientists are pursuing things claimed to the “world’s first”, “world’s largest” or “world’s smallest”. However, the researchers are doing that not to set a new Guinness World Record but to make technology serve people better. Put forward by German physicists from University of Stuttgart and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, the world’s smallest heat engine is only a few micrometers wide, almost the same size of a human hair! That’s really incredible, but you can check out the link below for details if you’re interested in the engine.

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Measuring merely four inches thick, this solid-oxide fuel cell (SOFC) can generate electricity from gasoline to diesel fuel to natural gas, featuring a power-to-size ratio that’s 10 times better than other fuel cells, and thus it’s really a high-efficient fuel cell that may surprise the users. Of course there’s still disadvantage of the SOFCs, which is that you have to heat the fuel cells up to 600 degrees to get them to work. But with further development on the SOFCs, we bet they’ll soon come to the market to serve us better.

ThinSink by Novel Concepts, Inc claims to be the world’s thinnest forced convection (fan cooled) heat sink as it comes with a really surprising thickness that is even thinner than a credit card. But it still features a best cooling efficiency, which is 25 times greater than the best microprocessor heat sinks on markets. Suitable for notebooks, monitors, and other small electronic devices, the ThinSink consumes only 0.031 watts of electricity.

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Researchers from Queen’s University in Kingston have invented a thinnest cellphone we’ve ever met. It looks no thinner than a credit card and features a good flexibility that allows the users to bend it in various ways. Moreover, as you bend it, you’re actually controlling the phone: making a corner to bookmark a page or flipping the corner to get a new page. Really amazing and possibly such “bend gestures” method will be an overwhelming trend of the future too.

Now this is clever… Not for its light weight of simply 13g nor for a thin shape of merely 2.2 mm wide, but all for the distinctive point that the sharp knife can be folded into a smart card to ensure you an easier transportation. Also, that feature can reduce your risks of getting hurt by so sharp a knife.

Selling Price: £7.5

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Toshiba could hardly wait to show you what the LCD displays would be like in the future, and they exhibited a LCD panel that can zoom in and out of an aerial photograph of Google Earth at the SID 2010. The display, featuring a curvature radius of 50mm when bent, is made of a thin edge-lighting LED backlight unit and stuffed with software that can zoom in and out of images. So in the near future, you may change the size of a displayed image simply by bending the LCD. Or you can experience that in advance via the video below.

Are you dissatisfied with your current wall lamps? Well, what if you could just leave the lamp set into the wall when not using it and switch it on via simple motion? That’s what Kasper Salto and Thomas Sigsgaard have worked out for the Mindcraft 10 exhibition held by Danish Crafts in Milan. Named as “Yellow Fin”, the minimal lamp features two arms and a round head. To turn on the lamp, you need to pull the two arms out of the wall one after another. Its head is adjustable, enabling you to focus the beam in a desired direction.

Designer: Kasper Salto and Thomas Sigsgaard

No doubt the development of technology has greatly changed our life, and we wouldn’t agree with that more after we’ve seen the continuous improvement of LED films. Dubbed LightForm, the world’s first flexible LED lighting film measure 254mm long and 12.7mm wide, with an average thickness of less than 1mm. Moreover, it could be easily cut into various shapes, according to your different needs—attaching them onto your car or even sew them onto your clothes. Available in red, amber, green and blue colors, the LED film is priced from $ 26.95 (no battery included) to $29.95 (a battery included).

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Though it’s just an innovative concept from Kim Hyun Joong, Movie Polaroid Camera also presents a good prospect of filming equipments in the future. It is an attractive camera that could print movies on a substrate that mimics traditional Polaroid film paper, using the built-in movie printer. The compact size of the movie films also means an easy transportation, enabling the users to take them everywhere in the wallets or pockets. Though having no power buttons, the Movie Polaroid Camera could be easily charged by giving it some shakes, and that’s also used to juice up the films for viewing.

Designer: Kim Hyun Joong

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The Hinge Workstation by Knot Design is quite easy-going, as it can be completely folded up to merely 7 inches wide, taking up unexpectedly little space. And when you need to work, just take it out, unfold it, and few seconds later, you will have an elegant table. On paper it sounds Good, and after you use it, you’ll find it’s better!

Designer: Knot Design

You should take more pride in your appearance. Hey, you, I’m just talking to you boys! Stop making excuses for your unshaven beard! From now on, with Carzor, you can have your beard shaven whenever and wherever you want. Carzor is a card-shaped razor, whose blades are safely stored behind the mirror that comes along, so that it won’t scratch your wallet.

Five kinds of scents are available, including mint, sandal, lemon, ocean, and orange.

Designer: Kuo Chia Hung

Has Shinyoung Ma ever developed photographs in a dark room? If not, why was the pinch lighting design invented? But what is sure to us is that these lights will create you different atmospheres, according to your moods. Of course, it won’t give out strong light, but will bring you more ideas and creativities.

Designer: Shinyoung Ma

How long haven’t you seen a radio? One year, two years, or even longer? God, it is so far from the days we were accompanied by radios. So it is time radio returns to our life. A high-tech radio. An ultra-thin radio powered by solar energy. Though the so-called ‘Flexio’ radio receives only one fixed FM channel, it would be a good gift for girls, who loves anything that is cute and mini.

Designer: Wu Kun-chia, Wang Shih-ju, Chen Ming-daw & Liou Chang-ho

Ok, we have Macbook Air, so the PC is slim enough; we also have SAMSUNG SGH-U608, so the phone is slim enough. But what about the electric plugs? Not slim enough, however. Well, that’s no longer true after the birth of the ultra-thin, foldable plugs. Superb!

On seeing the picture, we can easily notice that this light is seemingly a piece of paper, incredibly thin. That’s all because of its special material, an electric paper! Hasn’t it brought you with another kind of visual impact? Just get it if you love it.

Made from 5mm ultrathin sheet, the 100% aluminum lamp is seemingly quite smart as the thin sheets have been bent and painted white. It features a unique circuitry as well. Rather than hiding it inside the lamp, the designer has exposed the orange circuitry on the “neck” of the lamp, highlighting a powerful visual impact. Certainly, the lamp deserves a smart reputation also because the easy control of its brightness via a built-in electronic card.

Designer: Ross Lovegrove

Named as book marker, the super thin pen also allows you to mark up your pages with double-colored memo papers. In case that some pages are scratched by hard articles in your bag, there is one rubber band at the other end that is available for you to rack the book up. Matchless!

Selling Price: $5.99
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This so-called Zumba phone is claimed to be the first fully hands-free mobile phone. It is as small as a credit card and the real phone part is located at the back of the “credit card”. All the functions are controlled by your voice. In addition to this hands-free advantage, it seems that this phone is pretty secure as well. Since all the information is stored on a website called “Zumba Lumba”, even if someone get your phone they will not be able to control it.

The video from BBC will give you more details.

This card is actually a portable light. It comes with a pop-up lightbulb which is actually a real bulb which will light up when flipped up. Sure, a flash light might be more useful, but this one can fit your wallet like a normal credit card.

Designer: Hyun Jin Yoon & Eun Hak Lee

Incredible? It is hard for us to realize how difficult it is to make a screen as thin as a sharp knife. But it is true. If you have a chance to own a screen like this, please take care of your fingers to avoid being cut.

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This wireless mouse is apparently very thin. However, thinness is not the best advantage of it. It could directly be slipped into the PC Card slot of your laptop for hiding and recharging.

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Digital device always be cool, however, this kind of cool also need some warm elements. This new concept is made from soft fabric which could even fit your wallet. In order to hang-up or refuse call, you can just squeeze the phone with different force.

Designer: Qian Jiang

In order to take soap with while traveling, we usually put it in a plastic bag or box. However, this kind of package gonna make your bag messy because of melting. Why not try this soap sheets?

This product is actually soap as thin as a normal paper. Therefore, you could just pull out only one sheet every time you wanna wash your hands.

Price: $13

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This design is made from paper electronic combining a pressure sensing sheet. In order to be as thin as possible, the information is displayed via e-paper.
Since this scale is waterproof, it could even be used as a mat to help you get your weight every time you stepped into the bathroom.sc

Designer: Duck Image Studio

From the name, it is apparently that this design is inspired from playing card game. Actually, we have mentioned a similar sliding design last year. However, this one has a unique rotary sliding manner: sliding your thumb up and down in the center to control volume; the rotary sliding for channel.

Designer: Sungwoo Park

LG Philips launched their super-thin e-paper last year, but this time, this product has better performance: a new bendy model of the same 14.3-inch size, now with 16 million colors, 1.280 x 800 pixels and 7,000 hours between charges using a typical battery.

It’s gonna be a revolution of digital area.

In order to have a better balance, most vase is made from rigid material. However, if it is a vase as thin as a paper, and could even be collapsible, what do you think?

This unique vase from Jill-able is made from plastic. After being filled water, it could stand still to support itself. Cause its collapsible design, if you don’t have any flower, it is easy to be storage.

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Just put your foot onto this box, you gonna have flimsy soles underneath your feet. Because that this gadget is disposable, you could change new pair any time.

Designer: Jun-Soo Choi

This pair of speakers is only 1 inch thin. They radiate sound from their front and rear surfaces, in which way to make a perfect living experience.

One pair of this kind of speaker will cost $8,000

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This card could provide 500 to 1000 times magnification. So, you could check your sperm count anytime anywhere.

Price: $89

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This table made of white compact laminate is just 6mm thin. I think it could also be a knife for office.

Designer: Tobias Berneth

Samsung have launched a new big LCD screen which is 40-inch LED-backlit and only 10-mm thin.

It’s amazing!!

Researchers from Harvard University have developed a new silicon wire which looks much like a typical coaxial cable, but it’s around 100,000 times smaller. Plus, it could change light into juice. Reportedly, a single trand can output up to 200-picowatts.

This super-thin PC could be mounted at the back of your LCD display. It’s a cool thing. You gonna like it.

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This super thin MP3 player is a cool gadget which is only thin in 4.3 mm. Oh, my God! You can just put it in your wallet like a credit card.

The 2GB gadget retails for $ 42.

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I’m not sure whether it could be a world record, but it’s really unbelievable. For comparison, the average piece of copy paper is about 0.1mm thick.

Hong Kong researchers have developed a new type of display technique which could change color depending on the temperature. This display could be paper-thin and flexible. Plus, it is cheaper than ordinary LCD display.

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Shaped like a USB key, this weird thing measuring merely 1.40-inches by 3.3-inches is actually a PC. It’s got a 190MHz processor, 64MB of SDRAM and 256MB of NAND flash memory for storage. Unfortunately, this is not a regular computer used in daily life, and you could not buy it in any market. It’s just use for GPS or other devices.

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Shaped like a credit card while not using, you can take this cutlery anywhere.

$10

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This pocket reading glasses is so mini that it could fit your wallet easily. But, we suggest you to use credit card-sized case. It’s better…

$ 7.98

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