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Gesture-controlled light switch works by sliding a finger toward the light

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - 11:28am

We like the idea of fancy light switches, the cheapest, easiest way to modernize a room with eye-catching tech. Now here's a design concept that takes light switches into the next dimension, giving you trackpad-like control in a touch-sensitive...

Sink Plate lets slobs eat over the sink anywhere

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 1:47pm

Everyone knows that food eaten over the sink has less calories. Now you can bring that slimming phenomenon to the table with this Sink Plate. Its depth and shape is just like a plate, but what's that? There's a...

Radiafleur radiator spreads out like petals of a flower

Friday, November 21, 2008 - 7:28am

We've seen so many innovative radiator designs lately, there must be a space heater renaissance underway. This Radiafleur starts out shaped like a piece of pie, and as you spread its seven ceramic petals, you get more heat. There's...

Baby Thermometer combines quick temperature readings with reassuring touch

Monday, November 17, 2008 - 10:14am

Remember how the touch of a caring hand to your forehead made you feel a little better? The Lunar Baby Thermometer is a concept by designer Duck Young Kong, aiming to combine that healing touch and its crude temperature...

RED hypes insane batch of modular cameras, capable of stills and moving images

Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 7:25am

Oakley sunglasses founder Jim Jannard's RED Digital Cinema Camera Company is at it again. This is the next episode of the endless hype about its Scarlet camera system that started last April, and now the company has finally released...

Febot mini wind turbine charges up a battery right outside your window

Monday, November 10, 2008 - 9:57am

Check out this wind-powered battery charger. Febot is a design concept for charging up a single AA battery, where you attach its suction cup outside a window of your house or car, and the tiny generator uses the power...

iBangle: Fantastic future iPod as self-sizing bracelet

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 - 7:40am

It might take a few years (or decades) for this iBangle design concept to end up on your wrist, but for the time being, we can stare in astonishment at its ambitious design. You see that blue inner band?...

Mrs. Hudson: Toilet or Bong?

Wednesday, October 8, 2008 - 10:14am

When those Russians have a bathroom design contest, they hold nothing back. This toilet, affectionately named "Mrs. Hudson" for some reason, was one of the big winners. This must be what Sarah Palin was talking about when she said...

Two Lamps combine lamp and flashlight in one fashionable package

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 11:24am

Now you can wander around the house in the middle of the night with confidence, assisted by Two Lamps. This creation by design firm LifeGoods serves as a bedside lamp in its stationary mode, and then you can pluck...

Dell 'O Project' PC is part green computer, part potted plant

Thursday, October 2, 2008 - 9:13am

When Dell commissioned a design contest for green computers, Mexican industrial designer Luis Luna took the term "green" literally. He created O Project, a design concept featuring a couple of round PCs that take Dell's bamboo-clad Studio Hybrid idea...

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Design Concepts stories

Gesture-controlled light switch works by sliding a finger toward the light

Sink Plate lets slobs eat over the sink anywhere

Radiafleur radiator spreads out like petals of a flower

Baby Thermometer combines quick temperature readings with reassuring touch

RED hypes insane batch of modular cameras, capable of stills and moving images

Febot mini wind turbine charges up a battery right outside your window

iBangle: Fantastic future iPod as self-sizing bracelet

Mrs. Hudson: Toilet or Bong?

Two Lamps combine lamp and flashlight in one fashionable package

Dell 'O Project' PC is part green computer, part potted plant

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