Awesome Living

Bang & Olufsen’s BeoTime looks like a flute, but it’s actually a hybrid alarm clock and remote control; the latter function lets it use other B&O products to serve as audio and visual alarms.

Walls and floors are usually the last things we ogle, but Lea Ceramiche’s City Tiles are ideal for urban bachelor pads; they’re ceramic tiles with anthracite, steel and bronze finishes.

Part timepiece and part gadget, Route O’Clock is a functioning router that also displays bandwidth strength in half-hour segments; it lets users choose the best time to use the internet.

We’re still sore over losing both SG-1 and SGA in the span of two years, but these Stargate Coasters at least let us commiserate with fellow gate travelers over a cup of Athosian wine.

We wish it were this easy to make looming deadlines disappear, but Harc Lee’s Time Switch concept turns all of us into time-freezing superheroes–even if it’s just for a minute.

It may cause some frivolous stapling, but we like that this Pac-Man shaped Stap Man Stapler promises to turn even mundane office tasks into a pellet-chompin’, ghost-gobblin’ affair.

Vadim Kibardin strips time down to its bare essentials with the Black & White Clock; it uses four OLED figures with self-contained power supplies and an invertible day/night display.

Perfect for frat houses and college dorms everywhere, Tobias Franzel’s Ping Pong Door turns every knock into an opportunity for a neighborly paddle-on-paddle buttwhoopin’.

Only a car company would put a spoiler on a piano; the Audi Bosendorfer Grand features a sweeping “design wing”, solid aluminum pedal lyres and a hydraulically damped lid.

The Trace of Time Clock ensures you’ll never run late again: it’s a dry-erase board with a single hand that wipes out tasks as they happen, leaving the tardy with no idea of what’s transpired.

You probably won’t want to use any rare collectible LPs, but this Album Sound Table is a pretty sweet way to show off your discarded album cover collection while being functional, too.

Stowing your bike onto a truck has always been a two step process, so Ogio’s Step-Up Ramp is a godsend: it lets you temporarily park the bike while you jump onto the tailgate.

Made out of Mil-Spec hard-anodized aerospace aluminum and virtually indestructible, the LX2 LumaMax flashlight packs a potent 200 lumen LED; it’s also waterproof and weighs just 3.7 oz.

Perfect for world dictators and Michael Bay, SwordDemon.com is an arsenal of novelty weaponry; choose from Barbarian Skull Clubs, Dragon Claws, and Ninja Death Spike Blowguns.

Designed by Piero Lissoni, the Alessi Barbicu is both functional and portable; able to use gas or charcoal, it can be configured as a low-slung pit or regular trolley-style BBQ grill.

Talk about better mousetraps: from flypaper clocks to mouse-eating tables, these Carnivorous Robots not only trap but digest their prey in a microbial fuel cell to create power.