You might’ve heard of the Jack and the Beanstalk tale during your childhood. Here’s a coat hanger design reminiscent of that tale designed by Max Battaglia. Called the MagicBeans, this coat hanger is eons away from the usual coat hangers we’ve had around all this while. The little white puppets suspended from the green ropes that are inspired by the beanstalk hold on to your coats and can be adjusted in number and height too. Due to the friction caused by the rope passing through the quadruple curve, the hanging puppets stay put when a coat is hung on to it.

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Too lazy to reach for the remote? Well, you can now switch control your television with your clothes! At first glance, this T-shirt looked pretty simple, with a simple design. Little did we know that the design was actually a bunch of buttons, with which you can control your television. This one works fine with just about any television that supports a universal remote. Using a conductive thread that’s sewn through the fabric itself, this one uses soft switches to create a circuit board of sorts, and was designed by Bem Tsang.

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Well, if you’re a tree-hugger and just love your green buddies, we’re pretty sure you’d fall for this audio system for your home. Shaped like the stump of a tree, the branch-like protrusions hold the speaker cones. The stump itself can be split up into four to move the speakers around your home, or you can simply stack them up, on above the other, for a tower speaker system. Christened the “Growin’ Up”, this entertainment system was designed by Marcos Madia.

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We all might’ve faced the dreaded occasion of having to unlock a door in a dark room. Power failures usually leave us fumbling for the keys and then struggling with fitting it into the keyhole. Designer Fedor Porshnev however has come up with a novel way to open doors in darkened out spaces. The Iskra concept basically is a door lock with a backlight. To power up, the lock uses piezoelectricity, and requires no electrical assistance from the grid. The piezoelectricity concept can also be used for electronic locking systems that go dead during power failures.

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Avant-garde designs sure leave us awe-struck and amazed. This Red Dot Award winning design by Kim Jin-Gi is known as the Pebbling and has a very good reason to be called that too. Basically a music speaker system, this one has a dash of out-worldliness. Like every other speaker, this one switches on and off and has volume controls. What’s different is how you toggle all these controls. To switch it on, you first scatter the pebbles and use the blue tilt button. To change the volume, the pebbles need to be rearranged. Shaking the pebbles switches off the system and this is probably the most emotional approach to a speaker system ever seen before. Innovative and beautiful, the Pebbling is an amazing touch to music indeed.

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Well if you just love everything around you with organic shapes, here’s a piece of furniture you’d kill for. Designed by Sarai Noguez, this comfortable furniture has some well cut organic shapes on its canopy inspired top surface. Called the Arboreum, this one can just fit right into your living space without too much of a hassle. And it looks good enough to lie in your garden too, for some comfortable outdoor seating.

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Keeping time is the essential function of a watch. Some of them do step out of the usual cliché’s and do a lot more though! Take the Konect USB watch for example. This one looks great and hot enough to make just about any gadget-freak go wide eyed and jaw-dropped. The blue radial area you probably might have noticed that’s reminiscent of the Tron: Legacy bike’s wheels is the watch, while the slip-out USB flash drive neatly tucks in beside it. That’s not all. Certainly not all! The watch can stream audio live or communicate via Skype when loaded to the USB flash and boasts voice record ability.

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Walking might just turn into a human activity of the past. With technological developments like the ones we’re seeing just about every day, mobility keeps getting easier and less tiring. Well, from a health-related point of view walking is sure necessary, but with a contraption like the XB1, we’d just give that a pass! Powered completely by electricity, the vehicle uses three wheels to get around and comes with a GPS system for navigation. Touching speeds of t 35 km/hr which sure beats walking, the vehicle also supports smart-phones.

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Now you don’t really need to spend a good few hours leaning back on the recliner at your shrink’s office trying to figure out just what actually boils the volcano inside you. Instead, simply strap on the Q Sensor, a magical little device that figures out just exactly what overwhelms you and points a finger out to your main causes of stress. The device was designed and developed by a company called Affectiva based in Waltham, Massachusetts and uses two small silver electrodes on the underside that send out a low electric current to measure skin conductance that rises along with physiological levels of stress.

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The Walt Disney movie Tron: Legacy has sure left a huge and long-lasting mark on the minds of designers, world over. So much, that furniture too has been taking inspiration from the futuristic designs that showed up in the movie. The Milan Design Week 2011 will have DuPont’s designs for living solutions inspired by Tron. The project termed the Safe House has a bathroom, a living room, bedroom, outdoor solutions, a home theater and a dining area, all inspired by the movie. Designers have collaborated and put in their works too, like the kitchen area put up by Laura Aquili and Ergian Alberg after having teamed up with kitchen manufacturer Ernestomeda.

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Water purifiers have never been too eye-catchy before. Usually, the water purifier acts as a necessary eye-sore, with which we simply can’t do. Designer Mohan Vijay has given the water purifier a fresh new look, that appeals to the eye, is highly functional and practical and fits right into the aesthetic beauty of your room. This water purifier concept comes with a colored trim. At first, we mistook it for a high end computer cabinet or a top of the class gaming console. This just goes to show how well designed this water purifier is!

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A flower vase on a table seems sort of cliché now. The Flo Table sure makes the flower-vase concept old, taken that it integrates a vase as a leg! The leg made of transparent glass is a step away from ordinary. The little table can be used to bring your breakfast to bed, or probably as an extended heightened space on your work table. Designed by Kate Pashinova, the lovely table comes in three colors, natural wood, dark wood and white. The rest of it is made of pure wood, adding to the aesthetic beauty of this piece of furniture.

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Need to move out? Unable to find a place for yourself with the money in your wallet? Well, here’s a solution to all your dwelling woes, for just a three-figure sum. A do-it-yourself home that will forever be close to your working space, given that it has wheels and can be moved around, this home was designed by Dai. Now there isn’t too much inside, and if you’re used to all those creature comforts you had back home, this one might just disappoint you. Complete with basics like a bed, a lamp and a water tank inside, this one could just be a better place to live for those who’re reduced to living on the streets.

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Ever had the urge to squeeze the doorknob? Well, you can do just that now, with the Squishy concept by Dieter Volkers. Giving everyday objects the squishy feel, one of the designs is the Door Claxon. Now this one works both, as a doorknob and a doorbell too. You squish it and it honks away to glory. The Clamps keep away the traditionally hard handle, instead opting for the squishy feel. That’s not all. Volkers designs also include a Softball Lamp too and a Ball Clamp light. A subtle reminder of torture techniques, these might just have men freak out instinctively at first.

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Dancing your calories away has never been an easy option before. Well, you don’t really need to enroll in a dance class just to keep those extra pounds away anymore, neither do you need to skip to the gym every now and then. You could instead, step on to the “Shake It!” and dance away to your favorite music instead! This one, designed by Ai Pheng Yeap, somewhat reminded us of those video games that require you to dance and the colored lights you step on. Also, the “Shake It!” connects to other devices like itself, allowing you to dance to music along with your friends and family!

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