Stick your tongue out during the winter in light snowfall and you’ll have that lovely experience of snowflakes melting on your tongue. Don’t try sticking your tongue out and trying to swallow this snowflake though. Its just too huge and reeking technology for that! The “snowflake” is actually a speaker that will play out loud all those favorite tracks you have piled up in your iPhone. Designed by Sylvain Gerber, this snowflake plays your music with your iPhone docked in, loud and clear. The crystal clear sound and the awesome performance this speaker system delivers makes it a lot more appealing, besides its shape and look. Using ambient lights that change according to the track you’re playing, the speaker is bare backed with the electronics tucked in its base.

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A holiday is an experience that comes once in a blue moon in a busy individual’s life full of schedules. And making the most of a holiday means that the enjoyment levels need to be pushed above the top, be it a waterfront resort or living amongst clouds. Well, the best way to experience a great holiday is living in a hotel that’s different and doesn’t confirm to the usual design layouts we usually come across and live in. one such hotel with a difference is the 9 Hours Capsule Hotel whose veil was pulled of by Tokyo-based Cubic Corp in collaboration with designer Fumie Shibata of Design Studio S. basically a hotel with extremely small rooms, a capsule hotel like the 9 Hours can be found in Japan, wherein the “room” is just big enough for a person to sleep. More like a bunk actually.

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Gregory Germe has caught my attention with his sleek concept camera, the BLACK Camera. Designed for the book ‘I Miss My Pencil”, this camera is truly a showstopper. Boasting of an entire black body, this sleek and slender camera is definitely awesome. According to the designer, the camera is a self protective object in a fold-able design. When closed the lens and screen are protected, facing each other on the inside. Simply rotate the body to expose the controls and click the pictures. The small compact camera is truly a class apart.

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I can never get tired of saying how much I appreciate designs that are made to help those fortunate. Winning not just my appreciation but heart as well is designer WinG Li who has designed the amazing OOSH concept wristwatch for the blind. The Braille watch boasts of a watch speaker in Braille and tells time either by touch or voice notification. The blind may either touch the Braille display to know the time or simply lift their hand up and the watch speaker will announce the time.

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Ever wondered what it feels like to see someone swim in a block of water? Well, here’s something that could simply take your breath away. Who needs those boring old swimming pools in your backyard when you could have one of these above-ground pools? First of all, this pool needs no digging. So you can very well throw that shovel away. Also, it works as a patio too, combined with a pool, saving a hell load of space. This helps create an elevated deck platform. Also, this works as a great view, and keeping kids in mind, it also helps view pool deepness before you can actually step in.

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Charging up your EV won’t probably be as difficult as looking for polar bears in a desert in future. With developments being made on EV chargers everywhere, this task of juicing up your eco-friendly friend on wheels will be a lot easier. One such development is the Blink by FrogDesign. The charging station is designed for both, commercial as well as residential use. The Blink has no moving parts whatsoever, no nuts and screws that could fall off every now and then, meaning that it needs lesser maintenance and will continue serving your car some electric juice for as long as it can. Also, this one’s compact and can fit into that little clearing of space you have in your little overcrowded garage.

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What’s red and has so much technology, that even E.T. wouldn’t dream about? The Gadget Chair! Staying true to its name, this chair has all that one needs to entertain oneself, without moving a leg, literally. Curious, aren’t you? Read on! Now don’t expect this one to get up and walk around, at least not for now. What it can do is, entertain you, with audio, visually, and make sure your gaming experience is much more than banging your joystick around and cursing your TV screen every time your character falls of a ledge. Anyways, the Gadget Chair incorporates heating elements, miniature cooling fans, adjustable lumbar support and a back massage feature. Besides that, it features a Mac/PC system that also works as the control center. The chair also features a 16:9 OLED screen and ambient LEDs underneath, illuminated speakers and a large sub-woofer and also motion technology.

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Designer Bryson Lovett has come with the unique concept of Bolt on Solar Street Lamp. His concept involves placing integrated Solar Tiles on existing street lamps. The tiles bolt on to the existing street lamps easily and require minimal modification. Hence there are no exorbitant costs. What is more, once installed, the solar powered street lamps will bring the costs down even further by increasing energy conservation. The unique concept blends together the man-made with nature according to the designer.

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Need some rating to do? Well no longer do you need to take up a pen and scribble out your thoughts on a piece of paper, be it rating a hotel, a restaurant or something similar. You really don’t need filling up forms and have them go through loads of processing just to rate a place you’ve visited, thanks to the one-2-ten system. “You just need to touch a button”. This interactive system involves the use of an easy-to-use touch screen that has a rating scale on it. Touch the rating you’ve decided upon and the screen above shows just much people, including you, have rated. Also, it helps motivate employees who on having a look at the rating screen, push up their efforts and work harder for better results and ratings.

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We know Walley for the luxury yachts the brand builds. These sleek super luxury vessels now have a counter part on land that follows the special designs the company uses for its sea farers. Designed by automotive design graduate Matthew Hockham from Coventry University, the Walley Concept Car uses the company’s styling and applies the same to a set of four wheels instead of a hull. This will enable Walley’s designs to cruise around on land too, besides water. Using sharp edges and black glass surfaces with hi-tech grey tones, everything we see on Walley creations off land, the car’s side is built based on the Wally Power 118 yacht.

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Now here’s a way to literally bring the sun into your room and brighten up your life. The sun tunnel by Ross Lovegrove is a unique and innovative idea. Basically a solar tube or a sun tunnel as we choose to call it, the system enables channeling sunlight into dark spaces to lighten them up, without the use of electricity. Also, these are easier to install as compared to skylights and are leak proof too, just incase the sun doesn’t show up and the clouds do. The design was sketched and put into being for Italian manufacturer Velux and also uses a hanging, blob-like reflector that helps bounce back light against the ceiling increasing the illuminating effect.

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Bracket Clock is a unique concept table clock made by Olga Kalugina that has no hands but it is not a digital clock either. In fact, instead of hands the clock tells time via shades. On the border of the clock dial there are two rows of light tubes. The first row indicates the hours while the second, the minutes. The light tubes put their light on a small eminence in the center of the clock dial that makes shades. What is more, due to its unique design that protects it from light, the clock will tell time via the shades during broad daylight as well. The case is made of silver. The beautiful design matched by the unique time telling method is sure to make this concept watch a must-have table/desk accessory. What is more, through this clock the designer hopes to remind the consumers that time is fleeting, it is only a shade.

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Now if we’d have to come across this one in the dead of the night, we’d probably scare our pants off into thinking it’s a space ship. Well it hardly is anything near to extra terrestrial. It’s a home and an extremely green one too! By the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), the Fab Lab house shows us just how well a person can live in harmony with nature and the environment. This home, unlike any other we’ve seen before generates more energy than it actually consumes, around three times more that is. Besides producing energy, the orchid it houses also provides food. Taking into consideration the usability of wind and solar energy, this house took shape.

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ColorWare who are known to paint every gadget in their favorite shades have decided to add their colorful touch to the Mac Mini. The latest desktop furniture offering from Apple can now be custom painted in a color of your choice for a price of $250 by ColorWare. If you don’t have a Mac Mini that you wish to get custom painted from ColorWare, fret not as Colorware has a solution for that too. For a cool $1000 ColorWare will procure the hardware and present you with your very own custom colored Mac Mini. If you think a new paint job is what your Mac Mini needs then contact ColorWare right away.

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Experimenting with the design of a regular coffee table is designer Karim Mektigian who has designed the White Desert Coffee Table. Karim has designed the table for Hid'n. Unlike a normal coffee table whose surface is flat, you will notice a small dip in the middle of Karim’s table. This unique “pot hole” in the middle of the table allows you to experiment with your décor and adorn your coffee table with unique items like fruits and other decorative pieces. Personally I would love to fill this bowl-shaped formation with my favorite treats so I can nibble on them during the many coffee table conversations I share with my girl friends.

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