For those that can’t make up their mind on whether they want a digital or analog clock, here is the answer in the form of a design concept from Pinto Design of Japan.  It’s both analog and digital at once, with the minutes being displayed in digital form and the hour represented by a hand.

If you can appreciate the clock design, maybe you will also like Pinto’s trash can concept, with the can half-disappearing into the wall.  I haven’t yet decided on how you will prevent the wall from getting soiled when you go for the inevitable three-pointer bouncing off the wall.

Now putting out fires is safer and fun. With the press of a button, a cannon round full of CO² can be shot at the blaze. This is a great idea that seems safer. The CO² Fire extinguisher holds 8 shells with a fast reload.

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Great for the office, this smart air conditioner will your comfort level. Free Wind is a smart ceiling mounted air conditioner with customizable air flows. Six fans operated by a smart system control wind zones and enable sectioned climate control. Free Wind is controlled to six fans which all blow in specific spots leaving everyone happy.

designer:  Hyun Jin Yoon & Eun Hak Lee

The Quantum Sleeper is a bed designed to protect its users from biochemical terrorist attack, stalkers, kidnappers and the occasional natural disaster. Just how much protection it gives will depend on your budget and level of paranoia. Take a look after the jump for the full range of options.

The Quantum Sleeper boasts the following range of options (spelling errors are courtesy of the manufacturer):

• 1.25? Polycarbonate Bulletproof Plating/Shielding
• Bio-Chemical Filtered Ventilation
• Rebreather
• Control Panel Mode Selection (i.e., Basic System Ops., Intruder Setting, Energy Status, Lock Down, etc.)
• Cover & Door Actuators w/ Emergency Release
• One way see through head cover (reflective mirror on 2 sides and front)
• Safety Features (Proximity Sensor, O2 Sensor, Smoke Det., Motion Det. Ect,)
• Emergency Communication system (Cellular, Short-wave Radio, CB ect.)
• Audio Amplifier (Amplify sound from out side unit)
• Air/Water Tight Sealing
• External Override Key Pad & Remote Control
• Battery Backup Power
• Toiletry system

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There are also a few entertainment options as well, just in case you start to become bored whilst waiting for those terrorists and stalkers to leave:

• TV
• Microwave
• Refrigerator
• DVD Player
• PC
• CD Player

The scary thing about this bed is that it’s not actually a concept, it’s being released soon. No word on pricing.

via [qsleeper]

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Earlier thoughts for a $100 laptop to be used by “One Laptop per Child”(OLPC) had started to deminish until early this year. Until Group leader, Nicholas Negroponte, brought up a new concept of a keyboardless, dual touch screen, tablet called the XO-2. The combo, computer and 8.9 inch dual touch screens have been estimated a higher price then Negroponte’s acclaimed $150 ticket price. One way OLPC would save enough money to possibly reach their goal of the price set, would be by using two inexpensive Synaptics touchscreens, used by big name companies such as Apple, Dell and Sony. Would you like to see if the XO-2 is just right for your home?

Your going to have to wait until 2012, for Negroponte’s acclaimed release date.

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The New OLPC XO-2 model

Who says changing the channel has to be so boring! Why not make a remote that’s disguisable, fashionable, or just plain weird. Well here are the top remotes you’ll ever find…

The Beaded Remote

Imagine a TV remote control combined with beads. You can do much better than pressing buttons, switching channels in hope to find something interesting. Shape your habitual time-spending in unusual form. This bead remote control has numbered beads that are supposed to resemble the buttons on any normal remote, except this remote also offers beads made for customizing your favorite channels. This patent is pending.

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Remote for the Womans Touch

Her Orbit Remote is to be worn like a bracelet, but has all the basic controls on board. So the next time your man watches something you despise, play a trick on him. Show him who’s really in control and doing it with style.

The Button Remote

With this simple remote you can program it to do just about anything. You simply slip it around a button and perform some simple programming and woo-laa, you’ve got you’re own wearable remote.

The All-In-One Remote

The remote controls up to 15 devices simultaneously- SO you could have multiple displays, amp, DVD player all ready to go at the press of a button (while you’re at it, maybe turn on your air con, power up your robo sapien, check your email and anything else you can do with a remote you can do with this). Nice large icons on a bright 3.5 inch display and more importantly, it’s brushed metal and black. Don’t worry about the price either, it’s ONLY a little less then… $700!

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Here’s an example of a clever eco-friendly room which contains all the walls built from cardboard. 1,500 sheets of 5mm thick corrugated cardboard, which were cut into strips and then carefully pasted along an entire wall of the 90 square meter shop. Integrated illumination transforms the built-in boxes to display cases that dynamically frame Eleftheriades’ wares. The innovative installation cost a little over $3800.

A brilliant idea to keep your bed sheets cool without causing you sleepers to sweat. The fan sends a whisper-quiet breeze between your sheets, surrounding your body with cool and helping you sleep through a hot night. It saves money, too, by reducing bedroom temperature.

As your body generates heat, that heat is trapped at night between your sheets and absorbed into your mattress. Until now, the only way to get rid of the heat was kick off the sheet and turn the air conditioner up high, to cool down the whole room – or your whole house. But Bed Fan gets right to the focal point of the problem. Placed at the foot of the bed, Bed Fan sends a calm breeze directly between your sheets. The cool breeze travels between your top sheet and bottom sheet and bathes sleepers in a stream of cool, comforting air. And it keeps you cool by pushing out the body heat that gets trapped beneath the covers, causing you to sweat.

If you have night sweats or if you want to stay cool while wrapped up in your sheets buy the BedFan for $100.

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Now I usually wouldn’t add a comic scrip to Concept Pop, but when i saw this one I felt the urge too. This basically sums up what technology has done to us.

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If you’re like me, you have to set two alarm clocks for the next morning. The reason why is because I always fall asleep through the first alarm. Well this new clever alarm clock makes you have to fully stand up to turn it off. The carpet alarm clock can be set to any time and turns off only when you step on it. If you’re still thinking you’ll fall asleep don’t be afraid to place the carpet alarm clock on the other side of the room. Of course it wouldn’t be a clock if it didn’t have and LCD screen to indicate time too.

via [dvice]