These Wind Lights measure in at just under 8? tall, but they work just like their bigger windmill cousins, generating electricity through the power of air. Each tiny light uses a 2.4? propeller to power a pair of bright red or blue LEDs.
The below is a massive installation featuring 1200 of these Wind Lights which illuminate as the winds blow in over the River Thames. Individual Wind Lights will soon be available for purchase from Mathmos for £12.
How about using it for highrise buildings in Singapore?

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Hara Chair by Kundalini of Italy was recently ranked #1 by GQ magazine in their list of the “100 best things in the world.”

Designed by Giorgio Gurioli for Kundalini of Italy, Hara is a bio-energetic seat handmade in lacquered fiberglass. Ideal for outdoors thanks to a treatment against ultra-violet rays and the strong resistance of the material to temperature changes.

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Bleeding book or leaking ink…
Liquid Bookmark is hand-made by the designer so each design is a one-off. Interesting way to mark a page.

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Environmental art in Finland by Jonna Pohjalainen.
“I travelled to work in Pedvale with empty hands. I admired the lovely rural scene and the sunsets of Pedvale. I used local aspen in my work because of its lively forms and beautiful, grey colour. While you sharpen your pencils you can see time passing by. Colours bring joy and happiness in our everyday life. I chose a place of of my work because of the sunsets. You can sit and meditate near my work and look at the sunsets. Without sun there are no colours and life!”

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LED watch from Hiranao Tsuboi of 100% at Design Tide. Nice everyday watch to have on the wrist.

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Sole Mate is a web designed to store your shoes… on the wall…
Nice… but smelly, dirty wall… indoor slippers might be better…

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The design of the Kron pushchair has soft clean lines and a refinement of increasingly extreme forms. The whole pushchair followed Zen philosophy in which less is more. The highest point of evolution is perhaps the wheels. 

It has a rigid and comfortable seat in high quality technological fabrics (transpiring, thermal, anallergic and washable). The heat-welded fabrics are upholstered with open cell anti-shock cushions and natural, untreated wood panels. This structure ensures correct posture in the following ways: - Protection of respiration and of neck muscles, spine and head.

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Looking at the bathroom as a place of purification, relaxation, revitalization and timelessness, Graft (the new W New York Downtown Hotel and Residences‘ award-winning interior designers) came up with the 1D to sensually stage the poetry of water within the overall concept bath.

“With gently sloping curves that look as much man-made as they look carved by glaciers, the designers clearly have mastered the impossibly sleek organic forms that define today’s aesthetic. The sinks will be available for purchase outside the W Hotel and Residences as well.”
Really beautiful.

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Leo Kempf designed this house for his cat, Olive, complete with a panoramic plexi-glass window, a thick sheepskin rug, some small paintings for the walls, and a cardboard scratching porch.

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Toilet paper is one of civilisation’s great invention. Now it has a new function, it can be a functional wallpaper. New design everyday for you to enjoy and not having to worry that it will run out too.
This is actually a 2D wallpaper, but it really inspires me with other ideas.

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“Light Blub” a light bulb that has gone way out of line. Infected by the dreaded Design Virus, these Blubs have taken on all kinds of forms and sizes you wouldn’t expect from such well behaving and reliable little products.

So comical… so cool… so strange… I like!

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Nice!

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No idea why we need a foldable PC chassis. But if for some reason you do, then rejoice as the ASUS Vento TA-F series can twist into a compact flat shape that takes up a mere 70 percent of its original space. Available in black or silver, once open it becomes just another chassis with four 5.25-inch and four 3.5-inch internal bays, excluding one for the floppy disk drive (which most people use as a memory card reader slot instead).

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Kedar Naik’s GLIDE chair, made out from aluminum and lacquered fiberglass.

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The Alien Faucet has a spiky joystick handle and an unfamiliar, jutting angle in the spout characterise the tap. It looks like water actually flows upwards from the spout, as it would from a water fountain. The cutting-edge, futuristic look of the faucet with stark, sharp lines is sure to be a centrepiece in your bathroom.

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SpiceBoy is good for salt and pepper and all the other dried spices. It has a uniquely useful and practical mixing and filling bowl that allows the chef to see the mixture before it is ground. Also can be washed easily with warm soapy water.

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The highlight of this device is the touchscreen-enabled Series60 interface dubbed S60 5th Edition. The 5800 doesn’t have a directional pad nor an Enter button but is instead fully controlled using the touchscreen. There is haptic feedback for every action performed, a useful feature when you don’t have the tactility of physical keys. 

It has a  640 x 360-pixel display for a 16:9 aspect ratio for viewing HD clips and a 3.2 megapixels camera. This handset comes with HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS and an 8GB card is included as standard and the microSD card slot supports up to 32GB cards. This phone is complemented by built-in speakers and a 3.5mm audio jack so you can plug in your favorite headphones or TV-out cable. Nokia rates the 5800 for up to 9 hours of talktime and 35 hours for music playback and has a price of €279.

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Portrait is an installation at Somerset House in London, created by designers Fredrikson Stallard for champagne brand Veuve Clicquot. The steel structure, which represents the grain of a block of timber, is illuminated from within at night. The installation was part of the London Design Festival 2008.

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The Anemona lamp is able to change its position due to the presence of heavy balls in the bottom. It can be freely rotated and tilted, also several lamps can be assembled into dynamic figures.

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Transplastic series of furniture, which uses found objects embedded in wicker is created by Brazil’s Campanas brothers.

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JVC created modular multi-directional speakers and subwoofer powered by an internal amplifier. It’s also made of totally renewable, sustainable materials as summarily represented by the cute little bonsai.

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A lamp with two functions - light and storage.

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What every big think day dream about when he goes grocery shopping… 
Combining the idea of a shopping cart and a bicycle korean designer jaebeom jeong has come up with ‘cartrider’.

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“The design of this object allows to participate in the evolution of its shape. By using the Transformer-Shelf you will constantly rearrange the different units towards each other, creating myriad different shapes. This will have an influence on your impression of the object, the cognition of the surrounding room and the way you identify yourself with the Object. Everybody can put his own ideas into the Object. In the end, the design becomes a process that will be partly submitted to the CONSUMER, who will also partly become a shape-producer, and therefore a ‘Design-Prosumer’.”

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