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London designer Hemal Patel of Headsprung! has designed a coat rack inspired by a ribbon blowing in the wind. (more…)

Thanks to Jee Young Choi’s clever concept design you won’t have to muscle out the last of your toothpaste. Find out more here.

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“A mirror that takes the cartoon speech bubbles as a reference and acknowledges the fact that we think in front of mirrors. The mirror is a container which is filled by our image and thoughts.” Oscar Diaz is a London-based industrial designer, whose work is concerned with tweaking everyday objects and/or situations. Check out his website to see a wide variety of brilliant projects.

More than 510,000 tons of milk and juice cartons are generated every year in the United States, but unfortunately, less than .05% get recycled. This unfortunate fact prompted Portland-based industrial designer Schreiber into action. He’s developed functional wallets from the very paper cartons that we so readily discard.

Milkmuny pays local groups seeking to raise funds for the cartons they collect. After giving them a good scrub down, they create multi-pocketed wallets through an intricate folding process. Wallets are priced at $10 a piece, and come with a 45 day warranty. A percentage of sales are donated to various environmental groups. Schreiber explains:

“I wanted to challenge traditional design thinking and create a mass produced product that didn’t expend more energy to create or require more resources to produce but was also aesthetically pleasing and uncompromisingly functional.”

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Nokia has developed a prototype cell phone that can recharge itself. Yahoo explains “… It harvests ambient radio waves from the air, and turns that energy into usable power. Enough, at least, to keep a cell phone from running out of juice.” Peak over to Yahoo for more on the prototype.