When you're dead, you're dead! What difference does it make how you are disposed, right? Wrong! It does make a difference, you may not realize it now, but how you are cremated or buried, in accordance with your religious rites does leave an impact on Mother Nature too. Shell is an attempt to make you one with mother earth…like sprinkling your ashes in the sea. It's an urn made from pressed paper that dissolves in the water over a period of time. Small notes can be written across it and minor objects can be placed within the pouch. It's a nice sentimental way to bid adieu to loved one, certainly the most natural way as well!

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Duck Young Kong probably has kids or is a very intuitive person. Forget kids, but even when an adult feels ill and feverish, the first reaction is to check for temperature by touching the forehead. It's the best place that indicates temperature. Using this natural phenomenon as a base, the Lunar Baby Thermometer reads the child's temperature from the forehead. The device is to be placed between the adult's forefinger and middle finger and then touched on the sick child's forehead. Keep it touching the forehead till the thermometer beeps, indicating the final temperature. A very realistic design that can help in taking the temp as sick kids can be really cranky and squeamish.

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Spline is a lounger that is built out of three basic blocks. The arrangement of these blocks determines its form. Play around a bit and it turns to a chair or a lounge or a bench, take your pick! Rotomolded in plastic, 'spline' is lightweight and can be used both outdoors and indoors. This makes it very versatile and takes away the boredom of being stuck with a single furniture design. It's been designed by Abhijeet Kumar.

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Where do you sit? A couch, a bench, a sofa, a chair…. I sit on the SwiTCh. How cool does that sound! Well the SwiTCh is a new concept in design, it is a chair and a table, a relaxing seat and a small working place, all rolled into one. This handmade wonder transforms very easily from a comfortable chair to a small working place. A 100% Belgian design, it is made out of massive oak and fine leather with a filled ball. I'm sure fitting this piece of furniture in your lifestyle will not be such a big problem, heck I'm totally sold on its contemporary style.

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As you must have guessed, I do spend a lot of time on the computer. Although I use a laptop, I feel more comfortable using a mouse with it than the trackpad. I'm sure there must be plenty of people like me out there who can't do without this basic tool. Trying to pry us away from this basic norm designer Ali Musli has come up with the 3D mouse. This 3D iteration is meant to be used along with the classic mouse and they are used together, one in each hand. It is meant to decrease the stress felt on a single hand while maneuvering in a 3D environment, and thus improving the user's productivity. The mouse is capable of zooming in and out and also simultaneously turns a 3D space object, something that is not possible only with the use of keyboard-mouse.

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Horigamy by Andreea Tepes of Billa is an interesting concept. Here is a sheet kind of a structure that can be hung with your washing or flung across the branches of your garden tree to trap all the solar goodness required to charge your everyday gadgets. The contraption can even be added to your tote bag when you go out for a stroll to capture even more sun! In return it charges you cellphone, MP3 players etc with maximum efficiency. The point is, this solar sheet is truly versatile and kitsch that you won't mind flaunting it along with your bags or clothes. At the edges, there is an LED panel that displays the stats like the amount of power left on it etc. the sheet even hosts some cool LED lights that glow in the dark providing the perfect illumination.

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Here's a bizarre thought, you want to know the time…you don't flick your wrist but instead you get up and watch the seat for an update! I'm not a whacko, but this is what Ravel Forghieri Casela has probably envisaged. This little bench is meant for a public places and adds a different dimension to creativity. Although I doubt that it will be a perfectly working watch; however I can imagine children getting tickled by it unique design. Fashioned out of PET and acrylic parts, it's a simple do-able design.

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The last time I saw Jeep inspire something, it was a laptop, but looks like someone has been finally been inspired by the vehicle itself. Designer Stasiek Płoski has come up with his iteration for the Jeep and it looks like a solid design. I like the open-air coupe that he has given and the gradual back is a refreshing change from the hash contours of the original. In one of the pictures he has mounted the fog lights in the beam of the top hood, now that looks really awesome and clever. Take a peek at the other pictures after the jump.

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My pillow is perfect and the bone of contention between my husband and me. Blackmail, sweet-talk and bribes, he's tried almost everything but I refuse to part with mine, simple because it's the best lay (wicked eh!). Anyways, I found this quirky designs for pillow talk that has me intrigued, now only if he gets me one of these will I part with mine!

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Now-a-days having a Jacuzzi or a hot tub in your backyard is a common practice, its no longer an exclusive deal. But imagine living in a city that looks like it's out of the Flintstone era with natural looking thermal baths and streams flowing with gay abandonment. Dominique Perrault Architecture designed the thermal baths of San Pellegrino in Italy for a design competition and won it for their vivid representation of modern facilities with a Neolithic tone. They designed a city centered around a main building, which would add to the city's other main structures. The main building would be the Grad Hotel and the casino.

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Designer Mac Funamizu is at it again; this time around he is showing us a pretty neat concept that allows you to catch those extra forty winks, early in the morn. Break of dawn sleep is the best ever; no wonder many of us cringe when the alarm goes off and hit the snooze instead. What's even better is when you wake up in the wee hours to get a drink of water or flush out some toxins and realize that you can hit the pillow for another couple of hours. To know how long before the blaring ringer goes off, simply reach the clock to find the triangles. If they are pretty cole, then buddy you may as well get out of bed, but if they are far apart…then snooze baby snooze! Mac says that the concept has been weirdly inspired by the way the aliens' bomb count-down in the movie "Independence Day".

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Public transportation has only one drawback, it doesn't guarantee an empty seat for you to sit on during the course of your transit. The Fold&Hold bike on the other hand ensures that you find a place to park your butt on a comfy base no matter how crowded the tube or the bus is. The uniquely fashioned handles make sure that bike is stationed in such a position that it fits neatly to the side of a railing while offering the seat as a perch. The coupling device with curved handle does the trick! Easy to fold up, comfy to ride, this bike is a cool rider, now only if people won't keep latching on to railings for support!

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A table lamp is the most mundane item on a desk. From the classic bulb-in-a-socket to this gorgeous floral iteration, it's endured a lot of transformation. In between the pile something as handy as the Torch Lamp did surface, but it's this refreshing flower that's got me ticking. The petals close when you bend the lamp downwards and when you pull the lamp up, the metal rod push the petals open. The light bulb in the lamp resembles the pestle of a flower and is from 3dsolidcontent.com.

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Royal, regal, sophisticated and may be glamorous…that's what I would like to call this collection of Eazo CPUs designed by Chris. If I had the money (cause I'm sure they'll cost a packet), I would love to change my hardware into something more luxurious as this. The oriental styling is superb and the delicate interpretations ooze enchantment. All I know is that it hosts an Intel Core 2 processor, but whatever the stats, I want to see this baby in my home!

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I simply dread the Rubik Cube; whenever I was set up for a challenge, I would end up switching the color stickers to crack the game. I know, shame on me for cheating! But puzzles get me all wicked! As far as the Samsung Yepp Cube Puzzle MP3, I know I won't be such a goose. The design is such that it allows you to exploit the multi facets of the player. You can twist it and turn it to pep up the display or remove the individual parts and arrange them differently to personalize the interface. It plays movies, songs and pictures, plus you can use it away from the base (where it charges) and hold it in your hands while watching the movie.

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