It may look like some sort of space ship from a futuristic sci-fi film but the Tofi is actually an award winning yacht design created by Hyun-Seok Kim. A winner of the 2011 “Dreamboat” Millennium Yacht Design Award, this unconventional vision of a luxury boat provides an interestingly strange aesthetic pleasure. Complete with a hideable diving board and safety floatation devices; this yacht is beaming with style and fun.

Although you may think of a luxury yacht as a massive boat filled with elegance and boundless amenities, the Tofi provides a much more intimate take on luxury. Designed to house a much smaller number of guests, this concept emphasizes the view of the ocean and provides a comfortable and warm place to enjoy the open seas. Read more…

Summer is here, and it’s getting rather hot! So what cha gonna do? On the AC unit of course! Just in time for summer this eco-friendly design brings an innovative new vision for futuristic air conditioning unit designs. Compact, energy efficient and stylish, this AC unit designed by Seung-Hyun Yoon is the perfect addition to make your home a little more green. Utilizing the excess water discharged from the unit, this concept waters your plants that are attached to its zen-like shelf.

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Airbus has been consulting its crystal ball recently and its findings have now been shared with the world in the shape of a new concept plane. Looking entirely detached from the economic and physical realities we know today, this futuristic people carrier includes auto-morphing seats that adjust to your size and shape and also harvest excess heat you produce.

How is this achieved? Smart materials is all we’re told, leaving us to use our imagination to fill in the gaping blanks. Eschewing the usual class system, this Airbus concept instead offers three functionally distinct areas: a Smart Tech Zone at the back is the closest to what we’re used to today, an Interaction Zone in the middle uses holograms to help you relax or conduct some mission-critical meetings in flight, and a Vitalising Zone up front is where more “bio-morphing” seats will provide you with massage or acupuncture treatments.

The ceiling in that front part of the plane can also be turned transparent, letting you soak up the panorama (and get a good tan while you’re at it). You can see and hear more about it in the videos after the break.

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Have you ever shop at online boutique just to have doubt at the end whether the shirt’s size fits you nicely? Unless you’re in the rather strange habit of going to stores, trying on clothes, and returning home to purchase them online, you never know how they look on you until the package arrives on your doorstep, which at times really is suck balls, trust me I’ve been there done that.

Last year Fits.me tackled this little niggling e-commerce issue with a shape-shifting male mannequin and finally, after a year of tireless work, the fairer sex has its own FitBot — turns out the female form is much more difficult to replicate. Ah ha! Exquisite species, I have no doubt on their claim on this!

Again, the adjustable, human stand-in is making its debut at the British retailer Hawes & Curtis and our more womanly readers can head to the source to get a better idea of how the White Hipster Shirt would drape across their particular body type simply by moving a set of sliders. But, before you go, check out the pair of videos after the break.

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Now that’s one nice looking hovercraft there. Created by industrial designer Yuhan Zhang, the Volkswagen Aqua concept takes the world of futuristic automobiles to a whole new level thought it seemed quite heavy to me. As usual with concept designs, the Volkswagen Aqua concept sets itself apart by combining sleek designs with realistic practicality.

This versatile vehicle utilizes a combination of hovercraft and car technology that allows it to traverse over any terrain imaginable from lakes and rivers to rugged off-road terrains. Operating with two motor components, the Volkswagen Aqua utilizes a low emission hydrogen fuel cell motor and an electric motor.

Although the Aqua may just be a concept at the time, it would be an amazing feat to see the development of such hybrid vehicles coming into production for the general public.

Imagine a tablet computer that is light, and eco-friendly, as in, you do not need to recharge it. Unbelievable? Well, yes, it’s still a dream at the moment. This is the dream of Jun-se Kim, Yonggu Do, and Eunha Seo. The concept tablet is called the Ecopad, and the unique part of it is that that it uses no external power source to recharge its battery. The gadget has the nano piezoelectricity film on its touchscreen display that turns every touch or press on the screen into electricity. Yes, I can imagine recharging the battery of the tablet simply by playing Tap Tap Revenge.

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When you have a cool house with awesome interior, your house also deserves some advance technology appliances. Electronically controlled lights and fans, and advance security cameras, but what about your faucets? I’ve always have interest in cool looking faucets from Yanko Design, and this time there’s a new one again.

The Bamboo Fountain Faucet by Mickael Chrost looks like a bamboo stem. The faucet has a built-in digital thermometer for accurate water temperature, and a touch sensitive control panel to keep pace with your touchscreen phone and tablet.

Additionally, the water flow can be fortified with dietary elements like Calcium, Iron, and Potassium using special cartridges to make you strong and prepped up for the upcoming wars in Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3.

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These days everything must be aesthetic and good looking, all thanks to Apple’s trendy fashion of making things looking slim and slender. Yes, even our water purification system needs to look good to match our cool-looking home.

A good example is this latest design from NextOfKin Creatives. This is their EcoWater CES purification system, which consists of three main cylindrical parts such as a water filtration column, a hot water tank and a re-engineered compact pump system to dispense water.

Directly connected to the kitchen tap, the EcoWater CES is the most compact in its category, dispensing extremely high quality water for your coffee or tea. Also gives your self-made coffee +9000 charisma points.

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