The dust mate concept shoes were designed for the Electrolux Design Lab 2005 Award. These shoes clean on the move sucking dirt into special compartments as you walk around the home. Although this might sound like an appealing concept, people ...

The cell phone bracelet concept was developed by the Chinese designer Tao Ma for the 2006 Lite-On Corporation awards. The unique design futures a bracelet which vibrate slightly when it receives messages or a call, then the bracelet can be ...

The Sector concept timekeeper, developed by the Turkish designer Tamer Nakisci with the Italian wristwatch company Sector in 2004, was meant to be both a fashion statement and a highly functional device capable of displaying images, video messages, and GPS ...

livePic is an interactive technology aimed at expanding the user’s drawing experience. Developed by Makoto Katsura and Masa Inakage at the Inakage Lab at Keio University in Japan, LivePic enables users to “move” and “control” the pictures they draw. A ...

How about an inkless pen that writes indefinitely on almost any paper? The Metal Pen, an 8 cm stainless steel writing instrument with a screw-on top, does exactly that. The pen’s solid metal ‘nib’ consists of a metal alloy that ...

How about a hanger that dries wetsuits, helping to eliminate unpleasant odors to boot? Hangairs, a San Diego-based company, recently started selling the Hangair Drying System (HDS), a garment hanger with a two-speed high-powered fan. Hangair shortens by up to ...

It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, it’s Jet-man! – a.k.a. Yves Rossy, former Swiss army pilot, currently Swiss airline pilot, and inventor who developed a working model of a personal winged jetpack. Jet-man jumped from a small plane over ...

In 2003, Adam Whiton, an industrial designer at MIT, and Yolita Nugent, head designer at Advanced Research Apparel, developed the No-Contact Jacket, a stylish, sporty woman’s jacket that repels an assailant trying to grab the wearer with a powerful but ...

Give up? The Domino’s a… radiator to heat the modern home – living room, bedroom, bathroom – or office by the Italian heating manufacturer Tubor. But that’s not all. Renowned designer Matteo Thun, with assistance somewhere along the way from ...

Want a neon sign for your store, business, or home? Here’s an interesting solution from International Robotics. NeonClick are individual, colored neon letters, numbers, symbols, and punctuations, which reside within transparent, fire-resistant, plastic casings that snap together like Lego blocks ...