Designed by Sun Liang, the “Ring Faucet” “visually frames flowing water in a circular fashion, giving you a full view of the water just as it falls over the edge.” No word yet on if this concept will go into production. One more picture after the jump.

The opening orifice at the spout end lets in natural light which illuminates the flowing water for a striking view. Water is ‘reinstated’ as a precious element, like a fine diamond

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In an announcement sure to cause lazy people everywhere to raise their arms ever so slightly in glee, home appliance manufacturer Electrolux has revealed a “vacuum shoe” concept model. In order to accommodate the electric motor — and store all the crap that you’ve left on your floor — the concept design features a rather thick and ugly sole reminiscent of Cosmo Kramer’s basketball sneakers, so you probably wouldn’t want to do much walking outdoors in them. Seeing as this is just a concept model that’s at least a couple of testing stages away from a real product, we wouldn’t be surprised if the real model was even more “visually challenged.” No matter, because a device that completes chores without the owner knowingly doing them is effectively impossible to price, although that doesn’t mean Electrolux won’t try. And if the vacuum shoe does manage to make it out of testing, it probably won’t ship for a while: in other words, don’t say we didn’t warn you if the excuse of leaving mess around just “so you can have something to test it with when it ships” doesn’t cut it with your significant other.

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Just when we thought we’d seen it all, ROLLERtoaster comes onto the scene and makes everybody look bad. Sure, it’s just a concept for now, but don’t say we didn’t warn you when this thing takes the world by storm and revolutionizes the entire toast industry forever. Designed by Jaren Goh of Singapore, and winner of the 2006 Red Dot Award, the ROLLERtoaster is pretty self explanatory: stick bread in one side, and watched it get rolled into toast by the compact little unit. We’re not so sure how well this is guarded from little probing fingers, or the exact mechanism for rolling the toast through, but do details like that really matter when faced with such exquisite design beauty? We didn’t think so.

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Ok, so these items aren’t exactly “invisible”, but rather made out of transparent plastic — still great conversation pieces none the less. One more picture after the jump.

This refrigerator is one of many new home electronics displayed at National Electronics’ Invention Station in Tokyo, a new campaign hosted by three pretty Japanese anchorwomen. It not only displays all your gastronomical delights for everyone to see, but also has a super-low bottom shelf for easy in-and-out of heavy items, and fits more stuff than your fat uncle’s belly

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The Mini Power Minder is an eco-friendly device that can actually make your life easier. You plug your computer in the primary outlet, along with a USB. When you turn off your computer, the second plug turns off automatically.

This is the perfect solution for those running printers, desk lamps, and all sorts of other stuff we might generally be too lazy to turn off. Sure, the $14.95 device only has one automatic plug, but there’s no reason you couldn’t stick a power strip into the socket*.

Now if we just weren’t too lazy to order it. – Mark Wilson

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