If you have been reading my entries, you will know by know how much I enjoy seeing new furniture designs and accessories. The 'quercus' water barrel is an addition to my top favourites. It is adorable and gives the home, kitchen more precisely such a rustic feel, so earthy. It is a water barrel made of polyester and fiberglass cast of a 150 year-old oak tree and also acrylic paint. This weyers & borms project was on show recently in the 'je suis dada' show at the design flanders gallery in brussels. This tree was ready to be strewn away but the designers thought that it can be put into a different use and so used a silicone mold of the tree almost identical to the original.

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This is a concept car by Bruno Delusso. It is called Stratos. It is designed in a very futuristic manner which is prevalent in most designs these days. It has a long and flat rear while featuring two wheel shaped spheres in the front. It looks like a Porche flattened and polished or even a Beetle stretched and smoothened. From one angle it looks like a shot gun too! Wonder what the purpose is. Maybe Batman is returning after his return. Or maybe this is Iron Man’s new wheels, or cat woman’s? Who knows.

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This is brilliant! Imagine crunching your desk, chair and laptop bag all into one small thing. This is the Openaire. It is a hybrid of a laptop carrying case, work surface, and chair and consists of a semi-rigid protective sleeve designed as an ergonomic laptop work surface and a protective shell that also functions as a comfortable seat. In other words, it doesn’t matter if you don’t have a table to place your mouse, this one has. It doesn’t matter if you have no place to sit, just remove the laptop cover, extend it and sit! And ofcourse once you are done, just fold it up and slide in your laptop! How exciting! I want one.

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One Melbourne based ID student Jake Eadie came up with a very sweet invention. It is an electric wheelchair meant to switch between two modes –either sitting or standing. It will do some sort of robotics and extend to allow you to stand and do stuff as well. Isn’t that wonderful! I think it is. Most people who are disabled only have been having the displeasure of being seated perpetually. With this design, if it allows them to stand up and stretch a bit and feel elated, it is so pleasing. I like Jake.

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This is a textured sideboard. It is made from MDF and fake wood and designed by Dust Design. Well this is a fancy little furnishing for your home so if you like such textures you may want to get it. Don't know where, but you can get it someplace. Click here for more details.

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This is really funny. Imagining walking around with a loose bean bag tied on you? Ha! This is the Self-Sustainable Chair. It's a dress made out of polyethylene, connected to shoes that pump air into an inflatable bubble attached to its rear part on each step. It transforms into a chair with each step and holds the person to sit on it naturally. So it's like you walk five steps, you sit. Then once the air is out get up walk some more and sit. Hilarious. With his or her body weight the chair is slowly deflated and forms back to the original flat dress. This is supposed to be a concept that 'motivates users to consistently switch between walking and sitting as a loop behavior on the street'. Well whatever the purposes of this invention, it sure is fun to do it I bet!

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This is the Global Bathroom. It has a four-shelved wardrobe along with an on-top roller shaped cloth dryer. The design, made by Fatih Can Sarıöz, has a right part that includes another storage space for bath supplies like soap, shampoo, conditioner, body wash and all other stuff that you don't really need but have in the bathroom. The center part is the main bathing unit with a rooftop shower. The USP however is that it provides an easy and efficient way of taking bath for physically handicapped person who can bath while sitting on the attached chair.

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Concepts are always welcome but ones that are a little far fetched may seem slightly disappointing. Like this example for instance. It seems you can in many many years, fly to different continents within minutes straight from your apartment. No, really. It is through this design conceptualized by designer Dennis Ingemansson called “Flying Apartment System”. It seems you can fly to Shanghai from New York in like 20 minutes or from London to Dubai in 27 minutes. And you don’t even have to bother about getting stuck in traffic because you are taking your apartment with you!! Honestly, don’t you think this is a bit far fetched? I do. Not that it will never happen, anything can happen now but the point is that it is so sad!

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The Hillcrest Labs have finally launched the Loop pointer. It is a uniquely designed motion sensing mouse that allows you to control your PC or TV from any position or direction. It can also be used as ‘an in-air pointer for navigating online media sites and home media collections’. It used the standard on-screen keyboards for both Windows and Mac operating systems. It can be used as a pointer during presentations. It is compatible with KODAK's Theatre HD Player and PS3. Operation is quite easy; all you do is connect the unit’s USB 2.0 transceiver into a compatible computer or device. For power it just needs two AA batteries. You can avail this little mouse at $99.

Via - [Newlaunches]