RKS has come up with a hand-powered, high-performance, laundry device concept. The Laundry Pod is a funky looking device, a prototype handwasher that helps cut down on energy, save water and makes washing by hand easy. The Pod’s spinning action gently washes, rinses and then extracts water to improve drying times. What you do is, put the dirty items into the Pod, add soap and water and then soak for a while. Then spin by pumping the hand lever and drain out the soapy water, refill and spin to rinse followed by draining so to spin to damp dry.

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Seawater vertical farm for Dubai (Eco-Architecture)

MIR - A solar powered Radio Alarm Clock for a green good-morning (Eco-Concept)

Epic Wakeboats 23E – The world's first hybrid sports boat (Eco-Vehicle)

Golf needn’t necessarily be a serious game, splash some color on it, and it comes to life for anyone to enjoy. That’s probably what the guys at Inesis thought when they came up with this ‘bright’ idea – YGOLF kit. It includes two adult clubs, four balls, holes that can be thrown like a frisbee and a Velcro target. The clubs are colored in fun and bright shades and come in colors that are very trendy and ‘in’. It is a kit that you can easily carry along wherever you go and have a go at the game. What you do is throw the flying target and then play your shot. It can be done anywhere and on any surface.

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Paris has some amazing fashion ideas and some a little too strange too. Karl Lagerfeld in Paris has come up with a ‘poised, elegant and mostly black’ concept of what you can call – a working lady’s briefcase! This is part of a power suiting for Chanel and is this transparent board with so many little slots to carry various things including your iPod, purse, glasses, lipstick, hand cream and a few more. it is called the Chanel Perspex briefcase and although it looks a little too unattractive and not to mention obvious, it sure as hell looks convenient!

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This Bluetooth concept is like wearing your time. It is a rectangle shaped grid of tiles made from brushed aluminum which has transparent grid lines where the time is displayed. The rectangle-like pendent cum clock has LEDs that display the time. There will be 36 cubes on either sides and have a few features like time-keeping and a few more. This is a funky and futuristic design and a useful piece of accessory.

Romanian Industrial Designer Inout Predescu has developed the concept of a bike that uses two carbon fibre tubes and Kevlar wire to replace all tubes found on a conventional bike. Calling it Tensegrity (name derived from a portmanteau of Tensional Integrity) frame, the concept is similar to the spokes in a wheel where it’s actually tension on the spokes that holds the wheel together, not compression. This makes the bike very light with a high-strength frame but he admits that ‘there may be issues with lateral stability’

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Iskender Asanaliev from Istanbul, Turkey is a smart dude. He has brought forth this concept of a new watch which is quite unique. It is a smart looking black wrist watch called the On Air Watch and it has only one dial. On this dial there are LEDs which show the minutes. It says time by the position of this dial and if you are smart enough you will understand the hour. If you want the LED to light up, there is a set button. Also to set the time, you can keep a button pressed for five seconds and then push the upper or lower corner of the LED display to set the hour and the left and right corner to set minutes.

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