This one sure reminded us of those colorful pills we see stacked up in bottles lined behind our friendly neighborhood pharmacist. It hardly is a sort of medication, though it does keep you punctual, owing to the fact that it happens to be a watch! Designed by a Spanish guy, Xavier, this watch is a shift from the conformist ideas of neatly hiding away the buttons, instead choosing them to be the most prominent feature. Dividing the 24 hours of a day into 1,000 beats, the concept watch also features an alarm clock and shows the date.

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Ever wondered just how illuminating a cup of tea could be? Well, maybe sipping on one doesn’t really shed too much light, switching this awesome lamp collection by Original BTC does shed a glow though! This lighting design is basically shaped like everything you’d find in a tea set including a tea-pot and a tea-cup, complete with a saucer! Available in pendants and table-lamps, this one sure is a lot more than a sip of boiled herbs. Well, if you love the weird and extra-ordinary, or just love tricking visitors into freaking out every time the teacup the try drinking from lights up, this collection is something you’d need to get hold of soon! And now, for some real tea in a real cup!

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Shore is a beautiful bathtub project created by the Hey team from Italy. The unique and extremely awesome tub was built in workshop with Teuco. The project was created to encourage and promote socialization and gathering. This aim explains the large size of the stunning tub. Designed for spas, this bathtub will allow folks to relax and rejuvenate with their friends. The elevation system consists of two bodies (main and offset) and provides an easy access, especially for people with moving difficulties. What is more, when the water from the offset body goes to the main body the entire tub dips, thus making access is easy and eliminating any obstacle.

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Designer Charles L Owen has offered his vision of futuristic homes or homes for the year 2050 through his unique concept futuristic house. What is unique about this futuristic concept house is that it is a complete housing system that has been designed to respond to the global change. The home would not only be economically self sufficient but also environmentally efficient anticipating the climate change in the future. The designer’s house is smaller than most of today’s homes and is made of modular four meters square that can be organized in any arrangement. The interior is equipped with the most high-tech features like walls that are equipped with nanotechnology that reveal the outside view or even project real-time scenery from the national park. The self sufficient house creates energy from from sunlight, recycling water, producing food and many more. Keeping in mind dark days or no wind situations, the house has been kept connected with the main grid.

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Tired of working too long? Need a place to sleep? Well here’s a work table that converts into a bed! So, pile up your work while you rest on the Omao, a table and bed combined. Designer Ivan Arnaudov came up with the Omao. This piece of furniture quickly coverts into a bed from a work table by simply folding back the mattress onto the table’s surface. When done resting, you drop back the mattress to expose the table surface once more. The sleeping bag can also store all your paper work, drawings, blueprints and stationary. Don’t try slipping your laptop into it though.

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Ever fancied sitting on a tree without having to climb one? Hyeonil Jeong came up with this Mangrove Chair that you can rest on. Beautifully designed and indeed attention grabbing, the Mangrove Chair is as close to sitting on a toadstool in a fairytale as can get. If you love trees an have a bunch of green buddies living in your home, a chair like this is sure to please you, increasing the aesthetic value of your living space and leaving your guests puzzled and guessing about this piece of furniture!

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No one’s paid too much attention to giving coat hangers an aesthetic appeal. After all, those coats hanging over them tend to cover them up for all their worth. Here’s an eye-catching coat hanger though, that’s sure to have you look twice, taken that it lights up. The Tabard, designed by Denis Santachiara is an illuminated coat hanger with a coat hook that turns 120 degrees. Unlike coat hangers we’ve seen before, this one covers up the coats to keep the dust away too and is available both, as a floor lamp and a wall lamp.

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Mixing a bit of the old with a taste of futuristic design, a concept by Bentley just grabbed our attention. More of a vehicle Batman would chose to drive probably; the car’s design was inspired by the original Speed 6 driven to victory by the Bentley Boys of the 20s at Le Mans. Christened the Bentley Speed IV, the car is elegant and keeps up the pace too. Designed beautifully with all the right cuts and curves, this one keeps up with aerodynamics too. The car features semi enclosed wheels with heat ducts, double wishbone suspensions and adjustable spoilers, air intakes to cool the electric motors, twin rear heat exhaust ducts, optimal weight distribution and a whole lot more.

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Healthcare staffs are usually seen with a pad in their hands taking down notes as they monitor patients. In future, staff could probably just feed in the data and information they collect while monitoring patients onto a much high-tech device. The device, the Savannah Tablet PC Platform by Sean Miller will help store data fed into it, making it easily retrievable whenever required. Complete with pull-out handles, the Tablet will make documentation a lot easier in the field of healthcare.

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Laptops are meant to be designed with a lot of though given to ergonomics. They’re meant to be compact and space saving. They also are meant to be easily portable. Owing to all this, at times usability is compromised on. All laptops have their screens attached to the keyboard, which at times can be a setback. Here’s a design by Marcio Meireles for a laptop with an adjustable screen. Using a simple sliding technique, the screen can be adjusted away from the keyboard to suit your preferences. It can also open up like a normal laptop, screen and keyboard attached.

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Ever since the escalator was invented, it was always designed to go in straight line. But courtesy Jack Levy, this simple design principle followed by the escalator is all set to change. Levy, City University London Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has patented the Levytator. The Levytator is a unique escalator that can follow curves courtesy, specially-designed steps that are reminiscent of the sections of conveyor belt at airport baggage claims. Levy says, besides the design other appealing and beneficial factors of the Levytator include the ease of maintenance as all stairs can be accessed from above. Also no excavation is required will installing the Levytator.

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Cubert is a unique concept clock envisioned by designer Luis Luna. A fun clock, it tells time through both an analogue display as well as a digital display. Yes while the main face of the watch tells time through a conventional analogue, its sides tell time through a digital display that literally spells the time. But that’s not all. The sides also display unique messages like wake up, which I assume happens when the alarm of this clock rings.

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Squid is unique concept watercraft designed by Xabier Subijana Letamendia. The watercraft is boasts of an innovative propulsion system which is based on the movement of the membrane of the cuttlefish or stingrays fins. This unique system allows the watercraft to travel comfortably even during rains. The concept vehicle is envisioned as a leisure vehicle, to allow users to spend a lazy day floating across through rivers and seas nicely and comfortably.

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New Zealand’s Shweeb Monorail Technology has come up with a unique concept for a bicycle monorail. Sure to catch the attention of environmentalists as well as those who wish to cut the increasing traffic, this concept bicycle monorail comprises of multilevel rails on which people could move around the city faster and without getting stuck in traffic. The concept is arrived at by combining the properties of a monorail and recumbent cycle technologies. A personal, efficient, and cost-effective transport solution, this concept envisioned by Shweeb is definitely awesome.

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Another interesting entry that was shortlisted for this year’s Designboom’s “Seoul Cycle Design” competition was the Spread Your Love by designer Hamed Kohan. The unique concept cycle boasts of a tire design that features heart-shaped knobs that create playful tracks on the streets. As you pedal away in this cycle, you leave a trail of hearts, thereby spreading the message of love. The concept reminds me of the Wheel umbrella that leaves a trail of smiley faces.

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