Awesome Design

Well actually, you still have to hit ’em with the hammer, but these clever piggies from Furf Design Studio wield their own mallets so you can crack them open once they’re filled up with cash.

The stylish Astro A*Star In-Ear Headset features an in-line medallion with mic, volume dial and answer button, tangle-resistant cables, PC splitter, 3 sizes of ear gels and case. (Thanks Landon!)

Scheduled for construction in 2012 and expected to be in operation by 2014, the flowing, $85M Port and Cruise Service Center in the city of Kaohsiung, Taiwan will be designed by reiser + umemoto.

Porsche Design’s new plastic bobsleigh is inspired by Olympic racing bobsleds, and features slightly concave runners and optimized camber angles to make carving down a snow-covered hill a breeze.

André Silva’s concept design integrates a storage device (in HD or SSD versions), along with LED under-body lighting and a top that doubles as a multi-touch trackpad. LaCie, please take a look.

Qian Yiran “Eye of the Storm” digital watch has a gaping hole where it’s face should be, instead showing the time by marking the spots where the minute and hour hands would be around the edges.

Designer Gavin Harvey envisioned this Audi performance motorcycle, featuring sleek modern styling, and touches that echo the iconic brand, including the LED lights found on the sporty R8.

Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek created this warm faux-wood wallpaper, which perfectly apes the look of real distressed wood. While it doesn’t have actual depth, it won’t give you splinters.

These gorgeous playing cards from theory11 offer a rugged, industrial design, complemented by packaging that’s reminiscent of gunmetal. Each deck is printed on a true casino-grade press.

It’s not as magical as this chair, but Christian Desile’s creations is still a design marvel. When folded, it’s a mere 0.8in thick, meaning you can stack 100 chairs in just 7ft of space.

From the “why didn’t we think of this?” file comes a touchscreen display that doubles as a wide-format printer and a scanner. Byeong Min Choe’s design is only a concept, but it should be real.

Christoph Thetard’s concept kitchen removes all need for electricity, powering kitchen appliances with a pedal-powered flywheel. It can blend, chop, grind coffee, and beat eggs at up to 10,000 RPM.

Created by Xi3 Corporation, this 4-inch aluminum cube contains a fully-upgradeable modular PC. Runs an Athlon 64 X2 CPU, up to 4GB of DDR2 RAM, and offers plentiful ports.

Designed by Thanva Tivawong, the Sand Glass concept for traffic lights imitates an hourglass, providing an intuitive and less ambiguous way of indicating when the lights will change.

Michael Graves’ steeply sloped, Dutch-style peaked roofs and dormers compliment the historic surroundings of the Louwman Collection, the National Automobile Museum of the Netherlands.

The 2010 World Architecture Festival has honored the ultra-linear MAXXI, the National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, with the World Building of the Year title.

Bitplay INC specialize in designing gadgets that are fun to use. Their Bang! concept lamp has a gun-shaped remote used to switch it off. The shade even tips to the side when the lamp is “hit”.

We’ve seen scoop shaped tortilla chips that help you get more salsa on the chip, but this spoon-shaped corn chip concept by Denis Bostandzic is brilliant. Frito-Lay, you’d better get on it now.

Tokyo’s Daisuke Motogi created this comfy chair that can hold all your books, remotes, gadgets and other small objects in the cracks between its soft blocks. Just don’t lose your pocket change in it.

The idea for Jonas Hakaniemi’s aluminum and plastic Box Light was derived from a matchbox. Offered in 2 colors, the lamp can be hidden or exposed as you like by adjusting it with your hand.

Malagana Design’s Equilibrium Bookcase consists of 5 separate cantilevered modules that can be configured at single angled points. It holds more than 120 lbs and disassembles without tools.

This unusual watch concept would tell time not with ordinary hands or digits, but with screw heads that turn to form numeric patterns. Flip to the last image in the gallery to see what we mean.

Designer Riccardo Bovo uses a computer algorithm to generate unique stools from 100 random laser-cut wood triangles, tied together with zip-ties to create a lightweight, rigid, portable seat.