This is probably the sexiest nut cracker I have ever seen, no pun intended. The minimalist design belies its sinister function but it manages to complete its task in such an elegant way, you forgive it.

Designer: Christopher Kuh

Like a mass blob of light morphing, taking shape into an complex structure, Lamp Globes take in earnest in being organic while functional. An experiment by designer Veronica Eklund, she messed with art glass and utility goods to come up with varying shapes.

Designer: Veronica Eklund

Why of why can’t something like this be on the market now? I’m so tired of hauling my dirty clothes to a laundry mat, paying a dollar per load, and then standing guard in case some impatient nunny decides to excavate, leaving my clothes a sopping mess on a table.

Designer: Reed Crawford

Caroline’s winning conceptual submission is a public art piece that encourages biophilia and, in effect, promotes energy saving technology while providing sunlight to sun-deprived underground subways. By using fiber optic technology and patented sunlight collection panels, she plans to introduce sunlight to one of the most frequently enclosed urban environments: The Subway.

Designer: Caroline Pham [ Via: TreeHugger ]

A closet door with hooks that fold out when open. That’s the general and brilliant idea behind the Easy closet. Storage space is sometimes a premium so any innovate way to get more of what you already have can be god send. There are enough hooks on the door to hang everything from bags to coats.

Designer: Arnaud Lapierre

Right now the in thing with notebook computers are clean lines, and minimal design features. The Purity Notebook takes that to the extreme but manages to throw in a few of its own unique touches like the high lacquer finish. Nevermind the very Macbook Pro-like keyboard, it’s for the Windows crowd.

Designer: Lim Sze Tat

Egg: the name conjures up images of birth and nature. A nature observed through the eyes of a designer, Nanna Ditzel, who was particularly gifted in interpreting its inspirational values.

Egg is now 50 years old and its reassuring and soft swing still charms those who look for relaxation and cocooning, pleasures to savour during a brief pause or a long break.

Designer: Nanna Ditzel [ Manufacturer: Bonacina Pierantonio ]

Dimple challenges the conventional “human touch” technology by grafting subconscious instinctive human behavior onto technology. In the pursuit of designing a sensitive feedback for the human senses, we designed an intricate form of a dimpled depression, creating an almost unconscious but sensual occurrence of human nature to reach out for a unique element that titillates the fingertips subtly.

Designer: Priscilla Lui

You’re creative, you’re a genius, you’ve got ideas, but darn it they always come at the most inopportune time. Where’s a pen and paper when you need one? No worries, Sketchpet is a 150 page booklet designed for the creative inventor on the go. At a moments whim, you can jot down your ideas. No more scribbles on the back of your hand and illegible text on napkins.

Designer: Maginwulf Studios

Group Danhos has commissioned the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) to design Torre Bicentenario in the centre of Mexico City which will become the tallest building in Latin America.  Completion is scheduled for 2010 to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Mexico’s Independence.

Architect: OMA