We all look out for a comfortable chair to ease-off after a busy and difficult day. Here’s a chair that’s just perfect to calm your nerves. Designed by Maclovia, this chair is a concept design and provides one with all the relaxation and aesthetic value needed. Making sure to keep an eye on the smallest of details, and borrows a function of the good old coffee table, with a storage shelf below for all your books, magazines and tabloids. Comfortable with a low backrest, the chair is the future of furniture design.

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Energy storage units are usually un-movable objects, not really the kind of device you could easily push around your room as per your wills and fancies. The Yill however is a notch away from the usual energy storage unit designs. By Werner Aisslinger, the Yill was developed for Younicos. Capable of providing up to 300 watts of electricity, the device's lithium titanium batteries can store electricity from solar cells and other renewably generated sources and can be wheeled around. This keeps away all those extension cords and powerstrips.

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Its all about kitchen desings these days. Here’s yet another design that’ll fit right into just about any kitchen countertop, the Laundry Pod. Now kitchen-used cloths like your apron and those hand towels need a regular wash, and you really can’t toss them into the laundry every now and then. So, for a small load of cloths that need washing, the Laundry Pod works just great. Designed by Ingvald Smith-Kielland, this one can be tucked under your kitchen sink. Washing is not all this one does. It also damp dries the cloths you toss in, uses minimal water and no electricity! A perfect add-on for your kitchen, the Laundry Pod keeps you apron clean.

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Step inside your home’s kitchen and have a look around. Extensive counters, too much space wastage and a load of mess. Designer Victor Xavier came up with this kitchen counter, that’s a world away from the ones we have at home today. The counter top includes just about everything in as little space as possible. Place it in the center of your kitchen, and you save up a load of space, given that this counter top includes the sink, the stove burners, a pull out table and loads of storage space. Christened the Soria, the table has slider doors that make way for the storage spaces and draws to arrange all your table ware systematically.

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Banking works better with transparency. Transparency obviously helps build faith and trust. Using this as the central idea behind this design, the Swedbank in Stockholm is as transparent as a bank could get, literally. The bank’s headquarters in Stockholm spreading across 484,000-square-foot uses glass for its façade, letting in natural light through the day time. Designed by Danish architectural firm 3XN, the entire building uses glass, including the lower levels. Conference rooms and the restaurant too are clearly visible from the outside. To get to the higher levels, two spiral staircases lie in the middle of the bank’s building.

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Maria Bergstrom’s design for Kokoskokos is quite interesting but doesn’t make too much sense. It is a reminder of sorts but seems a little too complicated. There are leather covered buttons that can be paste don this clock like thing and when the time reaches your appointment, this button goes back to the storage plate. It doesn’t say if a sound comes out or anything. It was exhibited at the Stockholm Furniture Fair.

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On a great day to camp, this grill would be heaven sent! This compact portable compact grill with telescopic structure has got more functions than meets the eye. The grill cover can be used as a pan and the grate can take up two different positions depending on the heat requirement. It seems possible and definitely useful.

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Valentine’s Day just passed by a short while ago. What we’ve got here, is a perfect Valentine’s gift for the future, a video-game controlled by a kiss. This sure makes the Nintendo Wii, the Playstation and just about every gaming console boring and prehistoric. A new reason to kiss the one you love, or probably just someone of the opposite gender so long as you enjoy the game, the movement of one’s tongue helps control the bowling game this technology is currently being tested on. The system requires just two people involved, no more. One wears a special headset while the other does the kissing.

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Here’s a better way to express your love for wakeboarding, a boat design that helps you keep your wakeboard safe. Called the Sway, this boat design has dedicated slots to store your wakeboard, making sure you have enough space to spread out in ht e boat for a comfortale ride along the waves. By Jeff Younger, the Sway boat has a tower rack fitted on, that holds your wakeboard perfectly in place.

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Mconcept designed by Andre Monteiro, director of Lobo Concepts, is a fuel-efficient, eco-friendly way to do regular chores. You can mount on it and use your hands to navigate to get to your destination. It retrieves its energy from the wells with a store-up option in the detachable battery that can be reused to power anything else.

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I don’t think many people like the idea of playing around with stools to create designs; as a matter of fact where is the time to play around with a piece of furniture or in this case many pieces of furniture. Designer Tom Vaughan from London has designed a unique product named ‘Totem’ which is a collection of stools and its uniqueness lies in the fact that you can play around with them to get various kinds of designs.

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A white wall can be the worst and the best thing to stare at. Great if you’ve got a good sense of imagination and plenty of time on your hands and bad if you lack both. Giving your otherwise boring white wall a lot more to look at, the SunDial concept by Yonggu Do, Dohyung Kim & Sewon Oh cleverly projects time, weather conditions, the date and does a lot more using bright lazer lights. This one also keeps track of your scheule and promptly projects it out loud for you to remember. The little circular device is wall-mountable and is activated by touch or via remote connection. Bluetooth, WIFI and other such connectivity modes. And the best part, it includes a music player that projects your track information on the wall too!

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Exercise is important and vital to one’s life, we all know that. Without it, we turn into mouldy couch-potatoes and blend in with the dust. Here’s an innovative touch given to the tread-climber, a machine that replicates the action of climbing uphill. This one’s different, taken that its mobile and has a set of wheels that allows for it to be easily moved into required positions. Which simply means that you can now clean up that little space of flooring below your exercise machine, unlike the old one that just wouldn’t budge! Designed by Howard Nuk, the Nautilus Mobia Tread-Climber accompasses everything a tread-climber would need and more!

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With so much turmoil happening at various locations in the world, this design would have been useful had it been marketed out earlier. The escape cap SHIELD+ is an individual emergency device to protect yourself from fire or toxic gases. It gives you protection for all of fifteen minutes.

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This design looks very cool – a personal submarine! The Ego by Raonhaje is a battery powered boat-cum-submarine that can be operated like a car. An electronic accelerator pedal is applied so that this works like the accelerator of a car. There is also a navigation switch which you can use to control it. The battery gives six to ten hours of power after each charge and a top speed of four knots. It is being shown currently at the Miami Boat Show.

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