Here’s a watch that might give you some nostalgic feeling. It’s like the old days where people use single magnifying glass with a string, and a flipped out clock with chains. Designed by Gennady Martynov and Emre Cetinkoprulu, the Zoomin Watch is a unique analog watch with lots of tiny little numbers. But because they know the numbers are too small, and they don’t want to spoil your eyes any further, the hour and minute hands are replaced by mini magnifying glasses, which makes reading the time as easy as a digital watch, but with some sense of style instead of some LCD or E-Ink screen. Too bad, it is only a concept at this moment, as usual from Yanko Design.

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If you think that your iPhone with its touchscreen feature and smooth operation with iOS is awesome, then you’ve seen nothing yet. The iPhone is cool, but this is eve cooler. Mimicking the weather telling powers of your window, the Window Phone changes its display based on the weather outside. No more simple another of clouds and rain, this is the coolest way to tell weather with your phone.

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These days more people are using LED for their home lights, due to them being very power saving, and very flexible. If you’re a creative head like Adam Wendel, then you’ll be able to have weird shapes lights, like this Modular LED Concept. Designed by Adam Wendel, the Modular LED concept allows users to create the perfect arrangement depending on size or intention. The shape gives them a futuristic and elegant look. Suspended from the ceiling or adapted to a table lamp base, the object can live 2-dimensionally or the components can be rotated and conjoined creating a unique 3-D form. Having the aesthetic look while still able to provide optimum lighting source to whichever part of the room that you need. Creative? Oh yes!

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We’ve come to know that BMW’s Vision ConnectedDrive Concept is their answer to electric sports cars, but how are they going to pull this? According to BMW, electric cars are not just as simple as the Chevrolet Volt or Nissan Leaf or Toyota Prius. They want their electric sports cars to be connected with everything, and interactive with our daily lives.

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When it comes to concepts, we can only drool over it and hope that someday someone will pick it up and actually go and mass-manufacture such beautiful concepts. If you have lots of power sockets at home, you’ll find that quite a number of them are actually hard to remove after being used for long. The connector is often too tight, so it can’t be pulled out with just one hand. We might not have problems removing it with two hands, but there will be times when you’re much occupied and can only use a hand to remove the plug. That’s why Zhao Zhao Hui’s design is very smart. His concept, the Single Hand Socket Strip, creatively designed to allow you to pull your electric plugs/power plugs single-handed without causing any damage to the head or wire or your fingers.

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We all know about washing our hands to keep ‘em clean, but we can’t really control what others do. We might want to be hygiene, but some odd balls just never cared. As we all know, the door handle services most number of people in and out of a building, with most indirect contacts. That’s what makes this concept so special. A self-cleaning door handle, but one Choi Bomi.

His imagination goes like this. The gatekeeper continuously sterilizes itself with a UV light, only taking a break when you actually use it. A clandestine switch in the handle’s frame is what toggles the sanitizing illumination on and off, a spark of cleverness that’s earned the design a Red Dot award. Now let’s start manufacturing this hygiene controller.

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This might be what future external hard drive looks like. Designed by Sequoia-studio, the Octave is a creatively designed hard drive that incorporates a simple yet sleek U-shape and airy architecture. This external hard drive features a thin black anodized aluminium grid to increase ventilation and improve heat dissipation. The polished and perforated aluminium plate help keeps this high-capacity drive silent and cool. The device also features a lacquered white coat, slip resistant rubber pads and a power button. There’s a blue LED which indicates read/write status and a white LED which indicates the Octave is running. Unfortunately, the Octave is only a concept at this time.

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As part of the collaboration between Kanagawa-based potter Mitsuke Masagasu and the Japanese design firm Nendo, the Circuit Board Ceramic Speaker is a high-end speaker that measures at just 1mm thin. The speaker is crafted to produce high-quality sound. Unfortunately, this speaker is only a concept at this time. They might not probably make it into production, but boy do they look pretty.

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Designed by Faris Elmasu, the Wax-on Concept Wax Printer removes the need of producing plastic waste and annoyance of using ink jet cartridges. The minimal design ensures less use of desk-space, while its vertical orientation works perfectly with the printing disposition. See more pictures after the jump for more details.

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