Coffee Cup Holding Umbrella

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I love these concept ideas that are somewhere right on the line between genius or the stupidest idea ever. An umbrella with a coffee cup holder in the handle sounds like a great idea if you like coffee and live in a rain area (target market: Seattle). But on second thought, umbrellas are ...

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Camera Strap with a Solar Panel Keeps Your Camera Charged

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Here’s a smart concept- a camera strap that has a build in solar panel to keep your camera’s battery charged up. Designed by Weng Jie, this concept adds a bit of green technology to an otherwise mundane item- the strap. If you’re going to be walking around outside anyway, and it doesn’t add ...

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Stretching Alarm Clock Forces You To Stretch

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There’s a trend in alarm clocks these days where you are required to do certain unusual tasks in order to turn the alarm off. Usually those involve solving a puzzle or hitting some sort of target- things that will ensure you are really awake and not just mindlessly hitting snooze. But this might ...

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Infinite USB Lets You Have….Infinite USBs

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What if you could connect as many USB peripherals as you wanted without the need for a USB hub? You could if this USB concept designed by Gonglue Jiang comes to fruition. Each USB plug is also a port allowing you to daisy chain one after the next USB gadget. Of course, ...

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Art Lebedev’s Reflectius Clock Uses Lasers and Mirrors

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Art Lebedev has done it YET again with Reflectius. This might be one of the coolest clock concepts we’ve ever seen. This amazing clock uses a series of sixty rotating mirrors to reflect a single laser beam to show the time. All four digits are created using the single laser beam. Incredible! ...

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A Trio of New Designs from Art Lebedev

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Art Lebedev seems to have gone a little design crazy on April Fool’s Day, issuing three different designs some of which are sort of hanging out on the borderline of believability/April Fool’s jokes. Although I guess we have seen design concepts in the past that were waaaaay more ridiculous and it wasn’t April 1st, ...

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Lawnmower Scooter Makes Mowing the Lawn Fun, Stylish

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Spring is here and that means it’s time for yardwork to get your lawn and garden into shape for the summer. But mowing the lawn doesn’t have to be such a chore. The Lawn Mower Scooter concept by Vicky Petihovski, rethinks the style and design of the common lawnmower. It puts the cutting ...

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Corner Communication Warning Sign Solves a Nonexistent Problem

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I’m pretty sure it’s only in the movies that people so blindly turn a corner that they smack into another person walking around the corner from the opposite direction. That’s why the Corner’s (sic) Communication device concept by Sanghoon Lee is so completely unnecessary. It’s a little corner mounted gizmo that makes a ...

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