Eggy, the egg shaped car is neat, lightweight and elegant. Designed by Alan Gerardo Farias, it is one of the first designs where a designer has visualized the narrower part of the egg as the rear part of the car. It is also an eco-friendly car as it features a lightweight body made of aluminum that emits close to no CO2. It also increases the fuel efficiency of the car due to its reduction in weight. The car also features an integrated lithium-ion battery and with its red LED tail light and dark tinted windshield it would give the user an exceptional driving experience.

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We all drum our fingers on table tops, on our laps and every other hard surface we can find, when nervous, happy, angry or at times while listening to music. Well, drumming your fingers doesn’t remotely sound like a drum-kit, unless you’re using these Drum Gloves that is. A bunch of students from Artesis University College of Antwerp came up with these musical glows that you put on, and drum with your fingers, for a full fledged drum-kit sound. Arnoud Den Besten, Kristo de Pooter, Sam Vesters and Thomas Leterme came up with the Drum Gloves for your table-top drumming experience.

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Mobile phones of the future are all set to turn into technological marvels, if LG decides to put any of these designs into phone manufacturing that is. The company recently announced the winners of the 3rd Annual Design the Future Competition in which, participants set out to designs phones of the future. And they did come up with some pretty awesome designs to! Virginia Tech ID students, Zack Filbert, Chris Carpenter, James Connors, and Kees Luyendijk won the first place with their design.

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Waste of all types is becoming a global concern with rise in population matched by an equal rise in production; there seems to be no solution in sight for the rising wastes. Well, but that doesn’t mean we must all give up and let the waste pile on. Recycling is one way to counteract this problem. But segregating wastes according to various types like degradable, electronic, recyclable etc is quite a tough task. To help every city in its recycling process, designer Teddy Kurniawan has created the Lifecycle recycling center concept. The unique concept was created to maximize the utilization of recycle program in the city. It comprises of various waste bins each for different types of wastes. The various bins can be placed on the commercial and residential area. A single bin or two or more can be placed in areas where space is a concern. What is more, the different colors as well as icons on every waste bin help people in sorting out various types of trash.

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If you are culinary enthusiast and love to experiment in the kitchen, Electrolux’s latest concept is for you. The unique kitchen concept comprises of a table dubbed the “heart of the home”. The platform of the table is a hi-tech surface with touch screen technology. Just place the various foods on the surface and select the mode of cooking and let the unique concept creation cook for you. A genius creation, you don’t even need utensils for cooking your various foods. Just touch the surface and select the type of utensil you need and a part of the concept table will transform into the desired utensil. A futuristic kitchen concept, it will surely fasten the cooking process. What is more it will allow all family members to even cook together, thus making cooking an enjoyable experience. An innovative concept, I wonder when this one will materialize.

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With advances in technology many new gadgets are coming up that assist the differently abled people to lead a normal life. One of these is Ripple, which enables a hearing impaired person to feel music. Designed by Jackson McConnell this speaker uses the vibration of music to stimulate a deaf person’s brain and contains an oscilloscope to show the wave patterns of the sound. With multi-leveled vibration inputs, the needles rise and lower synchronously to give the person a feel of the sound and also visualize the frequency on the oscilloscope. Thus allowing a hearing impaired person to feel and enjoy the music.

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Annoyed with that huge SUV honking behind you while you cruise on your bike? Do those huge trucks give you the scare every time you set out on your bike? Well, bikes now get bigger, and monstrous! Make way for the Monsterbike. Well, the inventor of the penny farthing would probably drop out of his chair if he ever came across this modern day monstrous rendition of his bike.

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What’s that foul smell? Is it an open drain? Or is it a rotten cabbage? Heck no! It’s your bicycle helmet and it needs replacing! Well, in future, every time your helmet cracks and needs replacing, it’ll emit a foul smell, to discourage you from wearing it and replacing it instead. No-one likes a stinky helmet, taken that it remains strapped on to your head for quite a while. This indeed is an innovative way to ensure bicycle safety.

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When Jeff Webber injured his left foot five years, he definitely did not expect the discomfort that was caused to him by the standard crutches handed to him by the hospital staff. Weber's hands chaffed and his wrists ached because of poorly designed, badly placed grips. So he finally decided to take matters into his own hands once he recovered. The fact that he is seating designer by profession and an apprentice to Bill Stumpf, a legendary pioneer of ergonomic design, only helped him in his pursuit of creating comfortable crutches. Weber began by working out sketches and eventually took them back to his Minneapolis studio to create prototypes. He also couldn’t find anyone who had redone the standard crutch that was both well-designed and affordable to the masses.

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In 2007, designer Chairat Vechayanwong accepted the challenge of using the LG hi-macs material to design a Loveseat. And one look at his Loveseat and you are sure to fall in love with this beautiful furniture piece. Dubbed the Embroil Loveseat, it looks both inviting and comfy. The modern sleek design complemented by the bright red color, makes this chair the most unusual Loveseat. The Loveseat draws its inspiration from relationships of lovers. The unconventional design is sure to have won the designer recognition at the 2007 LG himacs competition.

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Electrolux has launched the Outdoor Kitchen, designed by landscape designer Jamie Durie. It features the Electrolux Integrated Barbeque and the new Electrolux Integrated Burner. It is a remarkable addition to the Electrolux outdoor entertaining portfolio with as much emphasis on beauty besides function. The outdoor kitchen is made from eco-friendly materials and has the signature branch detail and actual greenery as a basic part of the design. What’s more it can be custom designed to suit an individual’s requirements. It blends effortlessly into the garden and has the beauty to draw people out of their houses making them spend their leisure time outdoors.

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This one sure will be a welcome addition to your local pub, the Puma Chalk ping-pong table, designed by Aruliden studios. So what’s so special about this unusually black ping-pong table? Well, the whole thing is a chalkboard, just like the black-board you had propped up in your class-room. The board allows users to keep score, write messages to piss-off your opponent, doodle during a boring game or probably draw huge chalk graffiti on its surface.

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No longer will the iPod shuffle be that tiny square shaped device available in a rainbow of colors that you hook on to your trouser pocket or your shirt. The iPod shuffle of the future will be unlike any iPod ever seen before. In 2020, the world will see a new generation of iPods, or so designer José Ignacio Martínez hopes. Martínez came up with a portable music player, which he dreams to be the “iPod Shuffle 2020”.

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I don’t know about you guys, but I definitely don’t think its fun or cool to sleep in a room with spooky skeleton images. For all those who think otherwise, Italian design studio Carnovsky latest creation is definitely for you. The design studio has developed a unique wallpaper. Under normal conditions the pattern on the wallpaper looks insane as you're looking at all of the different iterations at once (so it looks like a 3D image when you're not wearing 3D glasses). But the fun begins when you add light effects. With red, green or blue light only certain designs on the wall would be visible, giving you the feel of continuously changing wallpaper. But here is the best part; you can opt for images other than the spooky skeleton that Carnovsky has used. A great concept, however, I’d rather not install this poky wallpaper in my home.

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As peoples space woes increase, designers work hard in presenting the most space efficient furniture solutions. The recent attempt to solve the modern compact home’s space woes, has been made by designer Yuzbashev. The designer’s furniture solution is dubbed the Form Z_01 and is made for a small house or people who can afford just one room. The Form Z_01 is a multi-functional unit that can transform your room into a study room, a cloak room, a bedroom and a living room. Made from wooden chipboard parts and a metal frame, this unit takes up only a quarter of any small room. The unit comprises of six shelves, a desk with built-in-lamp and two pull-out drawers. At night time it’s a sliding bed for two persons. During parties it becomes your bar counter and the podium becomes a chill-out zone when the bed is pushed under it.

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