Unique Inventions

Victorian Science Projects - The Steampunk Leather Zeppelin is Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know (GALLERY) So, I have discovered a new reason to love the Ukraine. Aside from great dancing and food, there is the Bob Basset collective, mad cap leather workers who just wanna create rad shiz like the steampunk… [Related +/-]

Drink-Less Intoxicants - Compact, Travel-Friendly, No Spill Alcohol Pills Drinking to get drunk is so pasé—the new way to consume alcohol is in pill form. Evgeny Moskalev, a professor at Saint Petersburg Technological University has created a technique that turns alcohol into… [Related +/-]

Dirtless Plants - The Award-Winning Osusowake Plant Sharing System by Kenma (GALLERY) Osusowake by Japanese design studio Kenma is a sharing plant system that can be divided and distributed between family and friends. This is the perfect gift for those on a budget-one purchase can be divided… [Related +/-]

Solarized Body Heaters - The Endless Warm Hat and Gloves are a Green Way to Stay Toasty (GALLERY) For an environmentally friendly way to stay warm, try the Endless warm hat and gloves. These green body heaters by German design duo Yiran Qian use solar power to keep you warm. The Endless Warm hat… [Related +/-]

Fold Away Fixtures - Katinka Versendaal's Pop Up Tableware is There When You Need It (GALLERY) Katinka Versendaal has created this entire tableware set to be the ultimate in convenience. When not needed, the pieces fold flat into plain white rectangles. Then, when needed, voila: You’ve got all the… [Related +/-]

Fireplace Forgeries - The Andiron by Iron Design is Perfect for the Holidays (GALLERY) Leave it to the Iron Design Company to bring innovation to something like an andiron. Andirons are the things in your fireplace that hold the wood so that it’ll burn. The Iron Design Andiron is a fluid… [Related +/-]

Customized Band-Aids - The Long and Short Plaster Acts Like a Tape Dispenser (VIDEO) Have you ever stocked up on so many different sized band-aids that the moment you rifle through your medicine cabinet to hastily grab one, the whole lot of them fall into your toilet? Yeah, well, it happens… [Related +/-]

Cement Fabric - Concrete Cloth by Concrete Canvas is Named Material of the Year (GALLERY) Concrete Cloth is exactly what its name entails. It is a flexible fabric that has been ‘impregnated’ by cement (I’m just glad that the designers intend for it to be used for architectural purposes rather… [Related +/-]

Human-Like Mechanical Limbs - The Shadow Dexterous Hand Can Mimic Our Movements The Shadow Dexterous Hand was seem at Tokyo’s International Robot Exhinibition 2009. It comes with the CyberGlove which one wears when remotely operating this mechanical limb. In combination the glove… [Related +/-]

Carbon Dioxide Converters - The Sandia National Laboratories CR5 Turns CO2 Into Fuel The Sandia National Laboratories CR5 (Counter-Rotating-Ring Receiver Reactor Recuperator) is a device that can convert carbon dioxide into a liquid fuel. Designed by developer Rich Diver and researchers… [Related +/-]

Sheltering Diapers - UK Roof Tiles Are Being Created from Recycled Nappies A landfill recycling facility in the UK will be supplying roof tiles made from recycled nappies. Considering that the average baby soils 5,000-6,000 diapers by the time they are potty-trained, which takes… [Related +/-]

Augmented Reality Avatars - Sony Demos Face Recognition Technology Turns Gaming Into Real Life (VIDEO) If you’ve ever wondered what goes on behind the closed doors of Hi-Tech Manufacturers, Sony’s Face Recognition Technology is a good example.  The R&D has been ongoing, but a Face Recognition Library using… [Related +/-]

Big Brother Detecting Gadgets - The Camera Detector Lets You Find Hidden Cameras It is true, we have been recently inundated with increasingly intrusive video recorders, a lot of which are hidden from our view. So let’s say you are paranoid enough to do something about it, go get yourself… [Related +/-]

Meat Band-Aids - Apligraf, Factory-Grown Living Tissue, Heals Chronic Wounds (VIDEO) It’s amazing to see the advancements in the field of biotechnology! Organogenesis Inc. is a world leading company specializing in bio-active chronic wounds healing, oral regeneration and bio-surgery. They… [Related +/-]

LED Tattoos - Silk Silicon Chip Implants Turn Your Arm Into a TV There is a new tattoo coming soon to a body part near you.  LED Tattoos, are being developed by Researchers from MIT,  the University of Pennsylvania and Illinois. Unlike traditional inked tattoos, the… [Related +/-]

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