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Electrolux Design Lab 2009 Elite 8 Finalists

The Electrolux Design Lab 2009 annual global design competition showcases the style and creativity of undergraduate and graduate industrial design students who imagine what home appliance and electro...

Concept: Philips Incredible Linked Biosphere Home Farming

When you are living in the suburbs or the country side, it's easy to grow your own food. Veggies like tomatoes and some fruits like apples tend to grow quite easily. However, the closer you move to a ...

Dr. Whippy Serves up Dessert Based on Your Mood

Ok, this could be the best or most dangerous thing to have in your home. Dr. Whippy, an art project by british artist, Demitrios Kargotis, is an ice cream machine that serves customers based on their...

Friction from Your Mouse Can Keep Coffee Hot

Are you a workaholic? A coffee-holic? Are you both?! Wouldn't it be great if your two vices could help each other out?...

Solar Powered Tent

We know that going camping can be extremely therapeutic and calming. No technology means you have no distractions from the gorgeous views and spending time with your loved ones. Although, not ever...

Energy Creating Toilet Paper

We conduct so much energy in all of the things we do each day; why aren't we embracing that? There's so much we could do and so much money we could save if we just harnessed our ability to produce ...

Ceramic Speakers

It must be something in the air, but it seems like everyone wants to work with porcelain now. We're certainly not complaining, just think it's interesting that designers are using the material in c...

Concept: Solar Powered Coffee Machine

Sure, it would be great if all our homes were juiced via solar panels, but since a lot of us rent and we can only demand so much from our landlords, we have to make do with what we've got. One way to...

RGB Vases

Everyone knows that RGB stands for red, green and blue. We all know that those colors play a very important role in how we view things on the computer screen and on paper. Now we have a whole new w...

The Wall Mounted Touchscreen "Fruity Speaker"

Here's a space saving home audio solution concept which might appeal to those of us who only have wall space in an apartment or dorm. The Fruity Speaker consists of six variable sized speakers and wit...

Solar Powered UV Onion Lamp

This new design by Shanghai design student Yun Li is a unique take on a solar powered lamp. The layered device absorbs solar power during the day, then gives it off when the device is separated in ...

Speakers as Equalizers

Any time you can take a speaker out of its square existence and spice it up is a good thing. This concept from Young Sang Eun, the same guy that thought up the 2-in-1 loo, turns speaker into movable...

LED Display Plant Pot Monitors Your Plant's Age

This is one of those future concepts common to academic creative exercise, but nevertheless notable for it's merging of nature and technology for the home. The plant pot renders were designed by You...

Table Robot: Furniture and Waiter In One

A little bit cool, a little bit creepy, but all whole lot of crazy...the Laksmi-Do Corp robotic table design is something that we can only imagine the Japanese coming up with. Watch it in action abo...

Dishwasher Minus the Dishwasher

Sometimes simplifying tech is the best way to improve it. A concept dishwasher shown at DMY International Design Festival proves just that. Colo, designed by Peter Schwartz and Helene Steiner, modifi...

KGB Lamp Reveals Secret Messages

Designed for the IDII exhibition in Salone del Mobile, the KGB Lamp would make one really great solution for parents who want their kids to have the freedom to "express themselves", but without the me...

Travel Month: Treadway Wearable Transportation

We love our mobile tech here at Unplggd and since we are on the topic of travel for the month of July, why not talk a bit about how we get around? Cars are clogging up our city streets. If every on...

Ensci Small Space Tech Kitchen Concept

Living with a small kitchen (we're talking one person at a time, lest one stabs or burns the other), we're always looking for space efficient kitchen ideas. And that's exactly what this space-saving...

UK Designers Create Décor Powered by Bug Juice

We admit it. We've seen a cockroach or two in our apartment (we live in New York after all). Being on the ground floor we've seen all kinds of insects actually. It gets worse in the winter when we ha...

The Xeros Waterless Washing Machine

Southern Californians are hopefully aware of the required water usage limits being placed, meaning every drop counts in an ever expanding market of demand. So any household cleaning device or applianc...

Concept: Portable Record Player

A few days ago Gregory reposted a few words from Sarah Rae at Ohdeedoh on the tried and true record player. She mentioned that her old school player gets as much action as the MP3s on her hard drive....

Concept: Indoor Greenhouse on a Stick

While taking a look at great backyard ideas, we can't forget people who don't have the luxury of having a small plot of land to call their own. For those of you stuck to using your green thumb in you...

Concept: Download Your Own Chime Doorbell

Inspired by percussion, Mike Skene's DoorBell Project is made of 13 hand tuned aluminum chimes housed in a sycamore frame. Using an application like iTunes, you can download new ring tones directly t...

Disposable Technology: Cardboard Clones

Kyle Bean is at it again- he's recently introduced his comment on runaway consumerism. He made the gadgets to look like plain old cardboard to show that the advancement of disposable technology is ...

Outdoor Lighting Concept: Blades of Grass

Here's an outdoor themed lighting concept sent in by designer Stefano Merlo, a portable plexiglass and LED light that can be "planted" anywhere. The flexible forms can be used by itself or in bunches,...

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