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Let’s all give Japan a round of applause for coming up with such great and seamless eco-friendly designs. These solar street lights from Sharp are just another example of the growing Japanese effort at global environmental reform. The Sharp models LN-LW3A1 and LN-LS2A1 save up to 1800 lumens of pure sun power, and then use that power to give the ...

This GE branded universal remote control tries way too hard to be a cellphone. And not even a cool cellphone. But a cellphone from, like, 2002. This remote actually won a few innovation awards, because of its raised keys, interlocking rows, and external buttons. No offense GE, but this is one really, really ugly remote. Whoever awarded this remote with ...

Modern cellphone technology has sprung many cool features, and design has pretty much optimized the use of text messaging. Live 22 doesn’t only expand on the design, but on the concept of texting as well. The Live 22 concept design would be capable of texting objects other than cellphones including TVs and computers. Live 22 would be like a Twitter ...

I think interpreters cause more problems than they do help. You always get the feeling that for some words, they’re kind of making it up. You can hear that little sly “Uhh…” added in before these guessing moments. The AHKY (Arabic for “speak”) translation device plans to help military officials communicate with their captives allies, to assure them that they ...

What could be better than furniture made of weird shit? Couches made of odd items has been a recurring theme for us the last year, and I mean, who can blame us. This stuff is awesome. Check out this tennis ball bench, which isn’t quite a couch, but it’s close enough to fit in the “furniture made with weird shit” ...

To recycle a soda can, you usually just throw it away into one of those government mandated recycling bins. How about a creative way to use your empty cans? Look no further than Etsy. Available are these Dr. Pepper Earrings ($7) and the Mountain Dew Bracelet ($8), which can also double as a necklace for midgets. These would make a ...

Sure, this might be a cheap jab at Microsoft, but I think the sales numbers of these two “competing” media players, if you can actually call it competition, show all you need to know. Hide-a-Pod is really a much more ingenious idea than any other iPod anti-theft unit we’ve ever seen. Well, maybe other than the one where you hide ...

The Orbit Bracelet is a neat piece of wearable gear designed by Neko Design. The bracelet gives an appearance of floating around your wrist throughout the day. The bracelet doesn’t slide around your arm all day either, like most others. The Orbit keeps its position thanks to silicone-based elastic webbing which holds on to your skin, without cutting off circulation ...

Billions of people ride bicycles. Millions ride them daily. Yet, there has been relatively little change in its design for the 200 years it’s been commonly used. This design by Michaels Killian revamps the age old method of forward facing bike riding and creates the Sideways Bike. Other than the clear fact that it looks unique and extreme, riding the ...

This cool concept design would bring us one step closer to living in a Star Trek-esque world, if only it were a real device. The hands-free recorder fits around the back of your neck, recording every sight and sound that you might see or hear. A big worry might be how much memory a camera like this would have. The ...