Sofa functions as USB hub

This is a new idea, by making a sofa to also function as a USB hub. So users sit on the sofa can hook up to several USB devices to it and also share data among them.

The conceptual USB sofa is to have seven USB ports, allows you to plug in your laptop and you can then share data with other users who are also connected to the sofa. It seems like the initial idea of this USB sofa was to let users sit on the sofa to share data.

But with the advent of wireless connectivities such as Bluetooth and WiFi, the USB sofa will definitely be less practical compared to the mentioned wireless technologies. Perhaps, the USB sofa is better used to share USB devices, such as letting users sit on the sofa share USB display, speakers, keyboard etc.

Sonic bed for good quality sleep

If you’ve been suffering from insomnia, the problem may lie in your bed. You don’t have a bed that can blast good music to get you into dreamland quickly. The coffin-shaped Sonic bed by Kaffe Matthews is a bed that makes use of bed-time music to give the users better sleep quality.

The Sonic bed is equipped with high-quality stereo loudspeakers, and six subwoofers on its underside. The subwoofers generate extremely low frequencies that are said to be able to penetrate the human body, to provide the user with a deeply sensuous audio experience. With the Sonic bed, you’ll surely get good quality sleep.

Love of socks: Camera and furniture made of socks

A camera and furniture here are made of socks that do not stink. They are simply great artwork from the hands of a designer, Netta Amir, who has good imagination and creativity on how to build things using socks. The camera was made with pretty fine detail, where there is an LCD display and those necessary parts of a camera. More pictures after the jump!

Lounger hover chair floats in the air using magnets

The Britain’s biggest gadget show, Stuff Live has showcased an unusual hover chair called Lounger, which is able to float in the air.

The chair is claimed inspired by “Star Wars”. It uses the powerful repulsive magnetic forces to float in the air. While you lie on this chair, close your eyes, it feels like you’re floating on a cloud. Unfortunately, the Lounger chair carries a price tag of $9,500, meaning that you must be rich enough to own this chair, so you get to feel the sensation of floating on a cloud.

The Stuff Live gadget show seems to be stuffed with lots of expensive gadgets. The hover chair is considered cheap compared to another star attraction – a pair of limited edition curvy metal loudspeakers that costs 70,000 pounds or USD $113,000. At this show, you’ll have to temporarily forget the financial worries that have been bothering you due to the recent economy crisis.

Sound Chair gets its shape based on 3D plot of audio waves

The shape of this Sound Chair might look little strange to some people. You’ll be wondering how could the designer of Sound/Chair come out with such a shape.

Since the name of this product is related to sound, it must be inspired by it too. Yes, the Sound/Chair has been precisely engineered from a 3D waveform plot of a short audio clip.

Designer Matthew Plummer-Fernandez started the design of this chair, by having a 3D plot of a short audio clip, based on the volume, time and frequency etc.

He then fed the 3D plot into a computer-controlled water-jet cutter, which led his way into cutting out this strange-shaped chair from a block of Polyethelene foam.

Plummer-Fernandez had even tried 719 different sounds before he managed to settle down with one that was suitable for a comfy chair with proper arm-rests. This Sound/Chair is made with limited quantities, which is now available at Selfridges UK for a whopping price tag of £3950 or about $7015 USD.

Alien tables with aliens posing in new positions

We’ve seen couple of times of these alien tables. And of course, my first reaction was I wouldn’t want any one of them to go into my living space. It’ll definitely bring me nightmare if I get to see it every night before going to bed.

But if you have become so much interested in these weird tables from outer space, you’d definitely be interested in the two new positions that have been added by the aliens. The two aliens now have posed in two new weird positions which they’ve got the funny titles so called “crouching position alien” and “emerging from alien egg alien”.

And again these alien tables are handcrafted from used car and bike parts and other recycled metals and tools. They all stand 32 inches high and is 27.5 inches in diameter and each piece costs $500. But it should be hard to get them to blend well with other furnitures and decors in your living room.

Alien tables inject nightmares in your living space

Alien-shaped furniture is not new to us. We’ve seen couple of the alien-shaped sculptural pieces before. And now, we have a few more pieces to give you a better view of them here.

The two alien tables shown here shall come from the same hands. Having these alien tables in your living space, will surely give you some trouble. Especially when you get up in the middle of the night, the scary looks of the aliens definitely freak you out. And you’ll then have to sleep with continuous nightmares.

The alien-shaped tables are made from recycled parts of used cars and old bikes. And with a mixture of other tools, recycled metal that make every piece of the aliens’ so unique. The prices of these aliens are not cheap at all, which you’ll have to pay from about $300 to $4,450 each. These alien pieces are definitely not easy to make. They shall deserve the price tags that they carry. But unfortunately, the overly scary looks will put off some people buying them. Especially those with kids, having these pieces in the house is simply no good, that will continuously bring nightmares to you and your family.

TT Tetris Chairs

It’s not first time we’ve come across furniture made in shape of Tetris block – the famous stacking blocks used in the well-known arcade game – Tetris. There are many advantages having furniture or household gadgets made in the shape of tetris, at least it saves lots of space for your tiny apartment. As all the pieces can be stacked up on top of one another.

Here comes the TT Tetris Chairs that give you similar Tetris effect, saving lots of space for your tiny apartment. The TT chairs are being sold by Japanese retailer Rakuten and come in 6 different colors. And they’re flexible to let you position them in a variety of configurations to suit your needs.

These Tetris TT chairs could sound little pricey to some people. A piece of the TT chairs costs you as much as $235, which might not be affordable for those owing a little tiny apartment. If you insist that you want the Tetris effect of saving space and the Tetris fun that you could get out of it, then you’ll have no choice just to folk out that much to get at least a few pieces for your tiny apartment.

Rolling Bench – rolls the other side up for dry seat!

Somehow it’s kind of hard to maintain the cleanliness or dryness of the bench which has cushion that sucks up wetness. Especially bench left in an open space will get spoiled after a rainy day or by some wet butts. The rolling bench here is definitely a neat idea. Once it gets wet, you just need to roll its handle at the side to rotate and expose the dry side of the seat.

It’d be a plus, if the bench could come equipped with some blowers or dryers attached to its two legs to dry up the wet side that has been rotated downward.

Luna Blocks

Some giant Lego bricks called LunaBlocks are the great building blocks for making your own Lego furniture in your home. This is a great DIY idea, for the Lego fans, which you can make use of your own creativity to build some Lego pieces in your living space.

Designers Thierry Nahon & Philippe Landecke have created these LunaBlocks, which are claimed to have transformed the Lego bricks into some larger pieces which allow kids to use in their building games. The LunaBlocks are simply cool, which many Lego fans will surely wanna own.

Stacking up some Lego bricks to build up your chair, sofa, dining table is a great idea. The simply helps you save lots of space in your overly tiny apartment. When you don’t need them, just simply dissemble the Lego bricks for easy storage.

The LunaBlocks come in different materials, which you get blocks made of glass, polypropolene, metal and also rubber. Each block costs between US$20 to $60. You can it online from a French website, Homology. A couple of colorful pieces are great to fill up your super tiny apartment with beautiful colors.