As light as air and as thin as, feather maybe? This design by Daniel Garcia Sanchez is to allow the user to project in the mind the lightness, weightlessness and comfort while sitting outside and enjoying the weather. In other words, you can sink into this seat while trying to relax – just like how relaxing a bean bag is indoors perhaps. The design is a two seater couch with simple elastic lines.
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Created by Prasanna Gadkari, this concept is good for people who need a reality check on how much energy they consume. Designed like a leaf, the Green Klip is just that – a clip that can be, well, clipped to a cable. The colour remains green if you are using the required energy and goes red if the consumption is more than you should be happy with. The design is apparently made of recyclable material and requires neither maintenance nor external power. It is also easy to use and read.
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The world’s slowly realizing the need for greener and more eco-friendly ways of transportation. One of the best and most common is bicycle use of course. And nothing gets better than generating electricity while riding a bicycle! Designers Jinsik Kim and Bosung Seo came up with the Re:energy bike, a finalist for the Incheon International Design Award. More than just a bicycle, this one draws energy from the wheel’s rotation. The energy generated is then stored and can be used to recharge portable devices like mobile phones and mp3 players using a socket equipped on the wheel itself. 
Curves are back! And when it comes to communication devices, you can bet your teeth they are. We just stumbled across this beautifully designed phone by Fischer Thierry. With all the right cuts and curves, the phone sure stands out of the crowd and is indeed a diamond amongst those lumpy pieces of coal we’re so used to speaking on these days. With a large screen and well placed buttons this one’s missed out the “*”, the “#” and the “0” button though, and we’ve been looking all around for it. On the bad side though, this one is curvy indeed, a bit too much to fit into our tight jean pockets.
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The blind and visually impaired have something that could make their lives a lot easier, a concept design developed jointly by Artefact and Industrial Design Department at the University of Washington. Known as the Thimble, the device basically is a finger glove meant to be worn on the index finger. A concept product for now, the Thimble allows the blind and visually impaired access ambient information and was created by Erik Hedberg and Zack Bennet. Equipped with an optical scanner on its tip, which when worn will be the tip of the index finger, the Thimble connects to portable communication devices like mobile phones using Bluetooth. To “read” information, the wearer simply has to move his index finger over the matter to be read as it is scanned. 
Stoplights have never looked so beautiful before. They usually stick to that boring old iron pole with the large bulbs that hang around there, not much of a visual treat. Korean design and development studio, Psychic Factory gave the boring old stoplight an aesthetic push up the ramp, with the Droplet Traffic light. Organically shaped and beautifully designed, this stoplight does a lot more than just flash the three signal lights. It displays the temperature and news flash too! This makes waiting at a red signal not so much of a waste of time anymore. You can keep yourself updated with the news and the weather report too! 
The Japanese are very serious about their games and technology. Internationally acclaimed artist Masaru Ozaki is no different. He created a Christmas Tree for Tokyo’s Parco Shibuya shopping complex. The tree is extremely futuristic and features designs similar to that seen in new sci-fi movie Tron. It was built in the traditional Christmas tree triangle with illuminating giant white consisting of 3D projection. It also featured changing colours and patterns to portray a Christmas effect. 
A Public Poster which is charged using solar power and helping save ink and paper using e-paper. This design was created by Cheng Ya-Fang and Lin Nien-An. It is used as a medium where people can leave their advertisements using Internet or Bluetooth connectivity. They can even slot a space and set a time up to when the ad must be on. The poster contains a grid system and spaces in different sizes for one to advertise appropriately. The poster can also be used as a lighting unit to offer a sense of futuristic style at home or school or institute or office and the likes. 
This is a design for a Lego-styled multi-outlet socket created by Cheng Hsiu Du and Chyun Chau Lin. It is extremely flexible, like the Lego blocks, and can be adjusted to plug on multiple devices and adjust it so as to add as many as required. If you want you can even dislocate them and use them according to the space available and devices present. It comes in the simple grey colour or multi-coloured formats. The design is called 360 degrees and aptly so! Very interesting! 
For places that don’t stop pouring, this design called Hydroleaf is commendable. Lot of rain can cause lot of diseases and no one can trust what they drink. Irani design student Mostafa Bonakdar came up with an idea of a shelter that help collect rain water, convert it into drinkable water using a purification system that is run on solar power. This is not an all-season option of course, and can be faulty at more times than few. But it is still a great shelter option for bus stands, parks or the likes.
People who love the colour green and the shape, square, will enjoy this design by Royer Thirion. If you would like to throw some ‘sophistication and style’ to your garden, then the ‘Kubes’ concept will work to the T. it is another thing of course that garden does not equate to anything clean or for that matter sophisticated, but everything is gaining some sort of style and why not a garden! Gardening in all aspects is supposed to be a great stress reliever and with pleasant colours like green and white it can even act as an anti depressant! What is quite neat about this design is that it is stacked up which avoids mess and the only thing to be alert about should be the white part of the design which can get ‘muddy’ in the process.
Ear phones are such an integral part of our life, so new and unique designs are always a welcome. Hong Kong based designer Michael Young has come up with a range of bio-plastic in-ear headphones made of cornstarch. He calls it EOps Noisezero i+ Eco and it comes in four different colours. The earphones have silicon tips and come with a Remote/Mic for iPod, iPhone and iPad - charcoal, rustic brown, midnight blue and sage green. The decision to use cornstarch bio-plastics to build the ear-buds acoustics chamber was to provide a natural feeling mid tone. Its treble and bass are looked after by the horn shaped ear buds and extra large bass reflect ports respectively. The form at the edge of the ear buds help in better positioning the product as well. 
When the mouse was invented it was meant to provide a comfortable maneuver device for the one part of your body you really move, the palm. This new design by Nitin Mane is created after studying the human hand and the mouse anatomy. It has a flexible touch screen and utilizes pressure sensitive technology. The mouse is wireless and a tail is attached to prove the point of its resemblance to a mouse. The model was done on 3ds Max, a modeling software and then textured, edited and corrected in Photoshop and rendered on hypershot pro with materials and custom HDR images created with Photoshop.
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Tracking a murder weapon to its owner won’t probably be too difficult now, with fingerprints. Designer Sun Xiaotian came up with a novel way to tracking murderers to their weapons, regardless of wearing gloves. With illegal gun use turning into a menace these days, the designer came up with a fingerprint identification system for guns using an embedded memory chip that ensures the weapon is used by its legal owner. The gun’s front sight attachment turns green when the gun recognizes its user. If the wrong fingerprint is used, the indicator turns red and the gun locks up. 
The age of CDs is at its dusk. No one really bothers carrying those disks with puny storage spaces anymore. Why would we, when we’ve got USB storage devices around anyways! These are compact, easier to carry around in one’s pocket, are erasable, have more storage space and buying just one of these saves the cost of buying a bunch of CDs. Taking all this into consideration, designer Hyun Kim came up with this beautiful USB data storage device, sleek and sweet. Compact and with a swivel design, the device will carry all your information around for you, and quietly slip into just about any jean pocket or bag without too much of a fuss. Plug it into a computer or a USB supporting device, and you can have your data up in front of you.
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