By David Ponce

It’s smart design that we really dig around these parts, and the Tapi by Dreamfarm actually won a Red Dot Design Award back in 2011. It’s a simple rubber attachment that fits at the end of your faucet. Normally it lets water right through, but if you squeeze it, the flow is redirected upwards, turning it into a fountain. It’s simple, convenient, and most of all, cheap: $6.

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By David Ponce

Well it can’t really be an exotic dancer, but that’s not what we mean. The Pixel Table is just a bunch of wooden sticks arranged into a tidy cube. And you just move the sticks around to fit your needs. Want a surface? Pull some sticks out and there it is. Want to put something away? Push some more sticks and there’s your drawer. It’s simply ingenious and if you look at it with the right kind of eye (read: the possibly artistically pretentious eye), it looks fantastic.

We’re assuming the outer edge is glued to hold everything together and the sticks within are somehow prevented from being pushed all the way out. There is sadly no word on price or availability, although it looks like an easy enough project to make in shop class…

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By David Ponce

The annoying thing about concepts is that they’re so easy. You just think of something, draw it up and show it to people. Then, usually, nothing happens and today is no exception. The above design did win Dohyuk Kwon a Red Dot Design Award, so at least there’s that. He called it Bloom Chips and we admit, it’s a pretty neat idea. See, the Pringles can is awesome, but once there are few chips left, you have to actually dip your hand in! Or, worse yet, tilt it and empty the chips out. That’s terrible for reasons we’re unsure of. What we do know is that while being able to transform the can into a bowl from which we’re free to eat all the contents is pretty cool, it also means that we have to eat all the chips in one sitting. Better be hungry or just don’t pull that paper band up and keep the can intact.

Now we go back to the initial point, which is that concepts are usually just a tease, a glimpse into how products could be but most likely will not for a litany of reasons too long to list. There’s evidently no word on Pringles even being aware of this design, let alone planning to use it.

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By David Ponce

The Japanese seem to have a thing for pretty humidifiers. It’s not the first time we’ve covered one, although this time we have a tiny bit more information on the product. The above is called the PlusMinusZero Humidifier Version 3, by Naoto Fukasawa design. It looks like a fancy bedpan, but will keep your nostrils hydrated and your sinuses free of pain instead. Coming in brown, red or green, this particular humidifier will break the bank at a cool $352. Of course when you’re serious about decking out your living space with unique looking things, money can quickly become the least of your worries.

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By David Ponce

Storing wine is of course best done horizontally, and that’s why wine racks exist; something to do with keeping the cork moist and such. But wine racks usually come in set sizes, accommodating a particular number of bottles and that’s it. They’re not infinitely expandable, like the above Winehive. It’s a really clever product that uses only one aluminum part, which slots into the others to form a hexagonal structure into which you can store as many bottles as you’re willing to purchase parts. They’re sold as “packs” of 12 slats (for a lack of a better word), with one pack being able to store 5 bottles. 2 packs (24 slats) can store 9 or 10 bottles, depending on your chosen configuration. And it goes up from there.

Right now on Kickstarter (and fully funded) a pack goes for $45, two for $85 and four for $165. Like most things, the more you buy the cheaper each pack gets, with an investor option of 170 packs going for $5,000 or roughly $35 per pack.

It’s a clever design, one that happens to look quite snazzy as well.

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By David Ponce

We’re big fans of design here at OhGizmo, even when there’s no tech involved. Even when no ground is broken. Cool is cool and quirky lamp is quirky. The Woopsie simply looks like a paint spill frozen in mid-air. It’s $35 and no, the below isn’t an affiliate link.

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By David Ponce

The above dagger is called the Jagdkommando Integral Tri-Dagger Fixed Blade Knife. It’s salient feature is that its impressive looking try-edged blade twists, so that you don’t have to. See, it’s one thing to stab something, but if you really want to go for the kill, you twist that blade around when it’s in there. This dagger saves you a step. It also doubles as a glass breaker, with the sheath becoming the breaker’s handle. It’s an impressive looking piece of kit.

Now a small controversy is brewing on the intertubes in regards to this. There are those that say the thing should be illegal, since it serves no other purpose than to kill. Then there are others who point out that unlike utility knives, which can be used to stab someone as well as to cut through some cord, daggers have only one reason for existing. The Jagdkommando, they argue, happens to be a better dagger. We’re siding with the latter group, as many weapons exist for the sole purpose of killing: guns with hollow-point bullets, sniper rifles or even the WASP knife, to only name a few. But dear readers, what do you think?

In any case, we don’t know how much this dagger is and it doesn’t appear to be in stock.

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By David Ponce

We find it interesting that as time goes by, retro gaming seems to be gaining in popularity. Maybe reviving and cherishing the roots of modern gaming is an increasingly appropriate way to stay grounded in a day where liquid cooled twin SLI graphics cards are a must to achieve maximum graphical prowess. To think that we could get a kick out of a machine with the computing power of a modern calculator tickles the geek mind. As a result, games like Space Invaders and the grand-daddy Pac-Man hold a special spot on our hearts and the above 3D Ghost Shelf becomes an object of desire. It’s supposed to hold books but that honestly looks kinda messy. Doesn’t matter though, whether you put books in it or just keep it as wall ornament, it’s awesome. It measures about 30″(H) x 28″(W) x 4″ (D) and it’s kind of expensive: $342.

We want it. Now.

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By David Ponce

The Strike matchbox is a multipurpose match container.

Its top dial twists open to dispense one match at a time, while its strike material-coated barrel allows you to light one as you’re removing it. Need a quick surface to light a spare match? Strike’s textured bottom will ignite strike-anywhere matches and its included sticky strike pads will light the rest.

It’s a smart, simple design and is accordingly inexpensive. Currently going through the design process at Quirky, the company plans to sell it for $9.

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