Some people like it barefoot, some like house slippers. For those that fall in the latter check out these Disposable Soles by Jun-Soo Choi. They come in a stand premade sticky. Just step on it and you’re off. Supposedly it’s a good way of maintaining hygiene and protects your feet.
No mention whether it’s a one size fits all type deal but it’s an interesting concept nonetheless.
Designer: Jun-Soo Choi
http://www.yankodesign.com/index.php/2007/12/19/disposable-soles/
Designer: Mohammed Bah Abba
Manufacturer: local potters
Nigeria, 1995
Earthenware, sand, water
Dimensions: 16” to 22” diameter
In use in: Cameroon, Tchad, Niger, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso
The Pot-in-Pot system consists of two pots, a smaller earthenware pot nestled within another pot, with the space in between filled with sand and water. When that water evaporates, it pulls heat from the interior of the smaller pot, in which vegetables and fruits can be kept. In rural Nigeria, many farmers lack transportation, water, and electricity, but one of their biggest problems is the inability to preserve their crops. With the Pot-in-Pot, tomatoes last for twenty-one days, rather than two or three days without this technology. Fresher produce can be sold at the market, generating more income for the farmers.
Designer: Torben Vestergaard Frandsen Manufacturer: Vestergaard Frandsen S.A.China and Switzerland, 2005 (current version)
High impact polystyrene (outer shell), halogen-based resin, anion exchange resin, and patented activated carbon (interior)
Dimensions: 10” h x 1” diameterIn use in: Ghana, Nigeria, Pakistan, Uganda
About half of the world’s poor suffer from waterborne diseases, and more than 6,000 people, mainly children, die each day by consuming unsafe drinking water. LifeStraw, a personal mobile water-purification tool is designed to turn any surface water into drinking water. It has proven to be effective against waterborne diseases such as typhoid, cholera, dysentery, and diarrhea, and removes particles as small as fifteen microns.
Once in a while, Gizmodo comes across that rare object, that invention that showcases the amazing nature of human genius and the never-ending quest for perfection that lifts the spirits of every man and woman in the planet.
That gadget is clearly not the Booze Belt, something that celebrates two of the finest american traditions: shooting and getting drunk, but not necessarily in that order. It includes two holsters for your favorite alcohol bottles and six slots to hold your shot glasses, which come with the pack. The Booze Belt costs $89.99, tequila, limes and salt not included. The pic of the model holding her pistols after the jump is, sadly, completely free.
http://gizmodo.com/
Portable Beverage Heater solves a common problem for coffee and tea drinkers: reheating the cup with available methods often heats the mug and not the liquid. The Portable Beverage Heater is a molded plastic, single-use device that can be clipped to the side of a mug. It creates heat from solid and organic body form using fuel cell and its thermographic ink changes color to indicate when the beverage is hot. Portable Beverage Heater will keep your coffee warm, until your long and tired conference is ended.Designer: Seungheon Lee 
With a Little Help of the Bees by Tomas Gabzdil Libertiny of Studio Libertiny is part of Droog’s Smart Deco 2 show. Libertiny made a vase-shaped hive that the bees then colonised, building a hexagon comb around it. The wax sheets used to make the hive were embossed with a honeycomb pattern to help the bees on their way. Libertiny calls the process “slow prototyping” - it took 40,000 bees a week to make the vase. Since the bees get aggressive when they are interrupted, Libertiny had to guess when it was time to remove the vase. Libertiny sent us this statement: — “I have been interested in contradicting the current consumer society (which is interested in slick design) by choosing to work with a seemingly very vulnerable and ephemeral material - beeswax. “To give a form to this natural product it has occurred more than logical to choose a form of a vase as a cultural artifact. Beeswax comes from flowers and in the form of a vase ends up serving flowers on their last journey. “At this point I asked myself a question: “Can I make this product already at the place where the material originates?” My ambition to push things further led me to alienate the process by which bees make their almost mathematically precise honeycomb structures and direct it to create a fragile and valuable object – like a pearl. This takes time and time creates value. “Not meaning it as an euphemism, I called this process “slow prototyping”. It took 1 week and around 40.000 bees to create a honeycomb vase.”
http://www.dezeen.com/2007/04/19/studio-libertiny-at-droog/
INDEX:2007 HOME类，由BASF AG和IDEO设计，Ultrason®塑料是一种可抗220°C，并且绝缘的聚合体（而且抗摔，抗刮划，抗冲击，热水、蒸汽以及化学品不会对它产生破坏），给设计师带来新的空间，特别是那些电热电器，不必为那些因安全考虑的空间而绞尽脑汁。BASF HEAT Concepts是用Ultrason®来作的一些概念设计例子。如上图这个灯，可以把体积降到最小，比如下面这个多士炉，不需要用机械定时器来决定是否烤好了面包，而是直接看就行。还有这个衣架，让你熨衣服变得简单，用热来吹干衣服，靠张力来熨平衣服。
The Hose Wheel solves problems of storage, maintenance and use that occur with common garden hose reel storage products. This all-in-one unit allows the user to unroll and rewind the garden hose without having to pull or touch the hose. The unit travels to point of use, thus avoiding kinks, tangles and dirty hands. The short hose feature allows the user to reach the distance of a seventy-five foot garden hose while only having to deal with six. Though the concept shows a shorter length of hose being used, longer lengths could be used to suit the needs and wants of the user. Designer: Matthew Swinton 
