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Smiling Wheel Umbrella is not just an ordinary umrella that you have to carry in your hand or bag. This one you can draw behind or pull in front of you. While it is drawen on the wet land it leaves makes funny smiling faces behind you. It is not just for kids I can [...]

Stefan Sagmeister is originally a graphic designer but he decided to turn his attention into furniture design and thus Darwin Chair originated. Stefan Sagmeister combined his interest in graphic design – he designed a chair with 230 patterns. In fact the cushion seat is made of 230 paper sheets, each with different design. So if [...]

S2LINER is a Neon Tape that is invisible at daylight  and it serves to mark corners, staircases, exits, door handles or whatever you wish to be lighted at night. The sticky tape is also ideal for marking furniture. Thus you do not need to switch on the light every time you cross some room or [...]

E-rope by Kyung Guk Lee and 3C Skipping Rope by Jooyong Kim and Sungkyung Kim are skipping ropes that generate energy from jumping into rechargeable batteries. This idea has a great potential, not only it is good for your health and it saves electricity but I see the greatest potential in the usage in place [...]

Furniture collection of a chair and a table was designed by Marcello Ziliani for an Italian furniture producer Caspirini. Both pieces are characterized by minimalist design and beautiful curves. The table is either made of cast aluminium (as chairs) or the table plate is made of glass. The furniture is painted either shiny white or shiny black [...]

TITAN Highroller is a 21st century new innovative suitcase that you do not have to carry but it carries you! It functions on the principle of a scooter  - the suitcase is equipped by an ergonomic handle . Moreover it has a separable part – kind of laptop suitcase. It is made of durable and ultra-light materials. [...]

Many smokers do not pay attention to non-smoking areas, they may not see a sign or just ignore it. The idea of Jin Ho Kim is simple – it is a detector of smoke which lights and in the same time it produces sound when the smoke is recorded. Thus non-smoker but also smoker who [...]

Although I am  a lover of printed books (I prefer smell of new ones) I must admit that e-books have already acquired great position in our loves. The new way of reading them was intrudced by Dragan Trencevski and his eRoll, which is more similar to a normal book, mainly thanks to the fact, that [...]

Are you a tea lover? I am! And the idea of Yuree S. Lim and Jieun Yang totally got me. They changed the old way of getting rid of wet used teabags when you are in a restaurant or in a cafe  (i.e. trowing them into ashtrays or saving them on a cup plate – which actually [...]

The Polish student of design Aneta Kostańska (Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan) created a small cute object with two functions: it is a combination of a lighter and a bottle opener. Great design with two useful functions = a must for incoming summer nights out!


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