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Dag Designlab: Alarm Controller Goes Minimal

As a remedy for a world of overcomplicated home security measures, Dag Designlab has created one of the simplest solutions we've seen yet. Combining two of man's most basic instincts - sight and sound...

Final Frame: The Outlet Wall

The Outlet Wall is part wallpaper, part largest wall outlet....

Richard Hunt's Sound Seed Ceiling Speakers

Normally we do everything in our power to hide away visible cables and wires springing forth from our home audio and video equipment. But in the special case of Richard Hunt's Sound Seed ceiling speak...

'Smokey' Concept Silences Smoke (False) Alarms

You know how sometimes when you're in the kitchen cooking a big meal, the smoke alarm goes off? And then you have to wave an oven mitt around in the hallway until the excruciatingly annoying thing sto...

Recycled Cardboard USB Flash Drive: Go Green!

If you ever wanted to have a green USB flash drive, you'll want to have this one. It's a USB flash drive that's actually made out of recycled cardboard. Now, when technology evolves, you can just recy...

Zip Up Earphones: No More Messy Wires

We all have this problem. The wires of our earphones connected to our iPods or MP3 players always get all tangled up. There is no way to get around this, unless you take your earphones off and put the...

Look! Kyocera's Foldable Phone: Folds Up in Your Pocket

Wouldn't it be cool to be able to fold up your phone when you don't need it? How about only partially unfolding it in order to make a quick call or to send a text message? That's the concept that Kyoc...

Help Choose Which Futuristic Alarm Clock Design Is Manufactured

click for more pics Love 'em or hate 'em, Tokyoflash definitely pushes the borders of traditional time keeping with their unique and unusual array of wristwatches. They're now sponsoring a competition...

MacBook Mini: Perfect Looking, But Fake or Leak?

Let's be honest. A lot of us want to get Apple computers, but in the end, they are quite expensive compared to similarly specced PCs. We call it the Apple tax. Then again, Apple users and fan boys wil...

Weird 2 in 1: A Lamp and a Sweeper?

So what do you do when have a small space? Invest in things that perform double duty right? Shelving that turns into a bed, coffee tables that double as a dining table. Good ideas no doubt. But what a...

E-Pod Dock: Cramming a Lot of Features in a Small Form Factor

Ipod docks are a dime a dozen. It seems that every week or every few days a new one comes out. That being said, not all of them are equal. Docks are pretty useful, especially if combined with an alarm...

The Ruby Rocking Chair: Ergonomic and Freaky Looking

I enjoy rocking chairs. Actually I tend to rock on chairs that aren't even supposed to rock. Not all of the time, but it's something that I like to do. Sometimes, it just feels good to rock around a b...

Retro Phone: Combining the Old with the New

Buying phones is always something problematic. There are so many phones out there with so many features. As a base rule, cordless phones are cool, but they rarely have the same reception as a corded m...

Identita: A Perfect Home Theater Seating Solution

Getting the right furniture for your home theater room isn't always easy. There are a lot of choices out there, but not all of them are good. Usually, seating in a home theater amounts to getting some...

Titanium Iphone Concept: Just Like a MacBook Pro

If you think about it, you can imagine that the iPhone is very MacBook-like for the moment. Does that mean that Apple will expand these product lines to include Nano and Pro models? To us, this would ...

Studio FRST's HDTV: Sculpture or Technology?

Most HDTVs look the same: black and big. There isn't much distinction between models. I've always thought that the best way to hide a HDTV is to masquerade it as a picture frame. Well, Studio FRST had...

Final Frame: An iPhone Everything Future

The Purchase Brothers' teases us all with a vision of what the iPhone be 4 years from now. It's completely overdone, full of hype, and provides more questions than answers. But still, it does get us t...

The Dream Iphone Pro: The Ultimate Cell Phone?

Ever since the iPhone came out, cell phone manufacturers have been trying to come up with a viable competitor. Until now, the verdict isn't out. It's agreed that the Apple iPhone interface and form fa...

Dual Screen Laptop: Will It Become Reality?

The reason why a lot of us lust after the Art Lebedev Optimus Keyboard is because of the OLEDs, organic LEDs. It's one of the most advanced keyboards and having a little screen on each key is really a...

Neo Gramaphone: A Modern Looking Old Record Player

While the shape and function are instantly recognizable, the angular shape of this concept by Kinkyform hints that this is no traditional music player. Rather, the Neo Gramaphone subtly integrates the...

The New Desktop Computer Before it Becomes Obsolete

Does anyone still buy desktops? I've been asking myself this question. In an age where most computer programmers are starting to work off laptops, is the era of the desktop finally over? I don't know,...

Marcos Madia "Growin' Up" Speakers

Marcos Madia, a 4th year industrial design student at La Universidad de Buenos Aires, has come up with a modular solution for home audio which addresses the desire for more sound, but with less A/V c...

Final Frame: Speaker or Spiderweb?

Sang Jang Lee's Corner Speaker...

Mozilla Phone: The Ultimate Phone

It looks like Crackberry addicts are going to get their perfect phone. It combines OLED keys, like the ones on the ultimate keyboard from Art Lebedev, the Optimus, and a Blackberry. The designs are st...

The RITI Printer: Uses Leftover Coffee or Tea As Ink!

click for more picsJeon Hwan Ju's RITI printer concept is a caffeine addicts dream come true, using the leftover grounds of your last cup of coffee or tea to provide the "ink" in his printer design. W...