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A hidden compartment in this tiny bicycle bell lets you place an Apple AirTag to track your bicycle

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Outwardly, it looks like your everyday average bicycle bell. However, what most people don’t know is that the AirBell is also a clever anti-theft device for your bicycle. Designed with a tiny hiding space for an Apple AirTag, the AirBell lets you track your bicycle without anyone really knowing. The AirTag helps you locate your bicycle when it’s missing or if you’re lost in a crowded parking lot, or better still, get notified about its location if it ever gets stolen. The AirBell’s universal design means it can attach to any existing bicycle without really any fancy or expensive upgrades, and uses Apple’s state-of-the-art ultrawide-band chip and ‘Find My’ tracking abilities to keep tabs on the whereabouts of your vehicle.

Designer: AirBell

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The AirBell’s design ticks all boxes – it’s simple to install and use, small, affordable, effective, and hides the AirTag just perfectly. It fits onto any standard bicycle handlebar with a 22mm diameter and installs in under a minute with a single screw to tighten it around the bar. The bell’s clamp comes crafted from extra-rugged, fiber-reinforced plastic, while the bell itself is made from aluminum, generating that pleasant, metallic ‘ting’ sound associated with most bells.

A small hatch right underneath the bell provides the perfect hiding space for a single AirTag. The bell’s ringer holds the two halves of the bell in place, with the tracking device sandwiched snugly in between. The overall device is small enough to be overlooked by thieves, and on first, second, or even third glance, it’s practically impossible to figure out that there’s an AirTag hiding inside it.

The bell functions normally, just like any other bell, while the AirTag underneath can be configured to track your bicycle in multiple ways. You can either set it up so you get a notification if it moves out of a certain radius (whether it’s stolen or towed) or just use it to locate your bike if you ever can’t seem to find where you’ve left it. The AirBell’s sold over 100,000 units, the designers say, and is currently holding the top spot for the #1 bicycle accessory on Amazon.

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Portable crib with travel wheels and a foldable design can be stowed away or moved on command

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Babies have perhaps the largest footprint of any human combined. They get a bed that’s much larger than their proportions, have their own gizmos for the dining table, the car, and the outdoors, and let’s not dive into the sheer number of diapers they go through in a month. The point I’m trying to get to is that babies, by virtue of their accessories, can occupy tonnes of space… although the Bababing Bedside & Travel Crib wants that to change. Built with a unique foldable design that shuts flat (so you can store it in wardrobes, behind headboards, or underneath beds, the Bababing Bedside & Travel Crib is an award-winning crib that’s designed for comfort but also for compactness. Aside from folding shut, the crib comes with 360° caster wheels that allow you to move it around (in both closed or open formats) and lock them in place when you don’t want your crib shifting. This makes moving the crib from one room to another rather easy, making it easier for parents to manage a grumpy baby at night.

Designer: Ashley Robinson (Bababing UK)

The Bababing Bedside & Travel Crib’s super-quick foldable/collapsible feature is a ‘market first’, the company says. It folds down to a slim profile that can be wheeled around and stored easily as well as stashed in the back of a car for taking with you on holidays and trips. The folding mechanism actuates with a simple click, requiring no dismantling whatsoever. The crib comes with a luxury soft and breathable inner lining (Kose CoolTM) that provides babies with utmost comfort regardless of the weather, and right underneath the bed is a dedicated storage space for keeping the baby’s belongings and accouterments.

The Bababing Bedside & Travel Crib comes with all the safety tests in accordance with baby crib standards. Other core features include fully lockable wheels for safety, netted sides to improve airflow and breathability, and visual details like wooden trims, high-quality fabrics, and machine-washable materials.

The Bababing Bedside & Travel Crib is a winner of the Red Dot Design Concept Award for the year 2022.

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Cleverly designed flat-packed traffic cone can be assembled in multiple ways, making it more efficient

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You’d think traffic cones are already pretty well designed. They’re visible, fairly stable, and stack easily. However the two things they’re not are A. space-efficient, and B. modular. Meet Apiece, a flat-packed traffic cone that can be assembled into individual cones or even a long cone strip to cordon off large areas. With multiple flat triangular panels that lock together, Apiece lets you put your traffic cone together piece by piece. When you’re done, the pieces come apart and become a flat stack that occupies much less space than the traditional stacked conical traffic cones!

Designer: Chris Chang

Apiece brings a unique level of modularity to the traffic cone. The flat piece can be used in a variety of ways, creating individual cones or even long fences in square or zigzag patterns. The cones are made from the same plastic, and come with reflector panels on the top. Connect them together and you can use them however you see fit. If one panel breaks, it can simply be replaced with a  new one, making the Apiece more cost-effective than actual traffic cones.

The flat-packed nature of the Apiece does wonders for the traffic cone’s footprint. It occupies virtually no space when not in use, making storing and shipping the Apiece much easier than your average traffic cone. Sure, traffic cones stack too, but even in its most basic individual form, a traffic cone occupies much more space than four Apiece panels stored together.

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These marvelous fire extinguishers will make you feel like a superhero

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Very few of us probably think about being ready for fires. We might have emergency go-bags prepared for disasters like earthquakes and floods, but most of us will still be caught unprepared if a fire breaks out. Fire extinguishers are, or at least should be, a necessity in any home, but that’s hardly the case. Even those that do have one or two keep them out of sight, rendering them inaccessible in an emergency. A major reason for that might be the unsightly appearance of these cylindrical tanks that create an eyesore that makes our minds averse to their presence. Unfortunately, that may come at a price of human lives, so this new breed of fire extinguishers rethink that design and turn it into an almost literal shield that you’d actually be proud to display anywhere in your house.

Designer: Premysl Kokes

The problem with emergencies and accidents is that you never know when they will happen, which is why they’re called emergencies and accidents. That’s why we need to be prepared for any eventuality and have the tools ready to aid us. Fire extinguishers are supposed to be easy to access and easy to use, but the reality is quite the opposite. They’re often placed in hard-to-reach corners and are cumbersome to operate, adding to the panic and stress that people would have already been suffering.

Designed by architect and fire survivor Přemysl Kokeš, the Hussechuck and Shield fire extinguishers completely redefine what you thought fire extinguishers should look like. While there’s very little to be done for the weight, simply changing its shape and manner of use can drastically improve its usability. In this case, turning the device into a circle like a giant steering wheel or shield frees one hand for other things and offers some protection for your body as well.

Whether it’s the basic Hussechuck or the covered Shield, the way you use it is the same. You slip your left arm into the strap and use a trigger to release the fire retardant from the front opening hole. There’s also a short hose for those times when you really need to use it like a traditional extinguisher. Otherwise, it can all be used with a single arm, freeing your other arm to support it or hold something else. It also makes you look cool, like a firefighting superhero donning a veritable shield.

Although the Hussechuck itself is already more presentable than a conventional tank, the Shield and Shield Plus add even more reasons for you to show it off on your walls. These two offer a variety of stylish covers, including some with a self-extinguishing textile surface, that turn them into decorative pieces for your interiors. With this redesign, you have fewer reasons to forget where you placed that life-saving device and even get to look a little cool under literal fire.

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Universal attachment turns any water bottle into a makeshift fire extinguisher

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Designed for third-world countries or places where fire-fighting infrastructure isn’t readily available, the Fire Conqueror helps turn a regular water bottle into a fire-fighting device. All you really need to do is mix vinegar and baking soda into the water to create an effervescent solution that generates CO2, and the Fire Conqueror module lets you spray the solution onto a fire, helping neutralize it.

The Fire Conqueror, a winner of the iF Design Award, was conceptualized by the students of Dalian Minzu University. Fire extinguishers aren’t readily available or accessible in public spaces, even though the presence of one can be the difference between life and death. The Fire Conqueror helps makes fire-fighting materials much more accessible by literally allowing you to turn a regular water bottle into an extinguisher.

Designers: Yu Zhang, QingGuang, Chen HuaYing & Xu Jia Xu

The Fire Conqueror snaps onto the top of any standard bottle with a 28mm neck. Screwing onto the top, the device then provides the perfect mechanism to spray the contents of the bottle on command. To use the Fire Conqueror, all you do is add vinegar and baking soda to the water inside the bottle. This generates bubbles containing CO2, which when sprayed onto the fire, can help cut the oxygen supply to the fire and cause it to die down almost instantly. Pressure within the bottle begins building up, and a valve on the Fire Conqueror lets you deploy the contents of the bottle in a focused spray, much like a fire extinguisher.

The Fire Conqueror is a winner of the iF Design Award for the year 2022.

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This origami-style fashionable helmet folds flat like paper to be stored conveniently in the backpack

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Another day, another folding helmet!

Foldable helmets have grown into a trend we’re constantly following – as helmets become necessary for bikers and electric kickboarders in almost all countries across the globe – yet nothing really tends to stick to the mind as a definite solution. As a biker, you would have seen this helmet that collapses in two halves to save space or this one that folds to a 50 percent smaller size than the original volume.

Now there is another entrant coming in from a South Korean company called Nature Mobility, which intends to disrupt a biker’s daily life. From how it appears, the Raba helmet is meant to fold flat, like a sheet of paper, to be placed in the handbag. Making life exceptionally convenient for daily commuters who struggle with their helmets after locking up their bikes at the stand. With the stylish Raba, you’ll not have to think. The decision is made the moment you put it on: when you take it off, simply fold the hive structured helmet flat and pop it conveniently into your backpack.

Designer: Nature Mobility

As transportable as it can get, the easy-to-store Raba helmet is also as comfortable and substantially protective. The helmet inspired by the honeycomb structure features individual components supporting each other to fold down flat without a twitch. Nature Mobility introduced the foldable helmet on the crowdfunding platform Wadiz but it was the recognition at the Red Design Awards that propelled Raba’s international fanfare as a complete foldable helmet that gives both the wearing type and the folding type helmets stiff competition.

The 410g helmet uses PC/ABS material construction on the exterior and nice foam cushioning on the inside, which makes it comfortable and really protective. The exterior is impact and heat resistant and it has the same safety certification as traditional bicycle helmets. Durability is a concern with foldable helmets, the makers seem to have perfected the design for long shelf like: according to Nature Mobility, it has gone through 59 different prototypes over three years before arriving at the perfect design. This reflects in Raba’s ability to unfold within seconds to reduce its volume by 35 percent of its original stout self.

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This Samsung Drone wasn’t designed for consumers… it was designed for public safety

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Samsung makes everything under the sun… but the company hasn’t made a single drone yet (although they filed for a patent in 2021). This concept from South Korean designers Minkyo Im and Seongjin Kim, however, corrects the record. Dubbed the Public Safety Drone, this concept isn’t your average FPV drone or consumer-grade quadcopter. It is, in fact, an airborne surveillance camera that citizens can summon through an app when they’re feeling unsafe. Sort of like a watchful eye that makes sure you’re safe at all times, the Samsung Public Safety Drone (also known locally as DNDN) fills in the gap left by police personnel… because while it isn’t easy to physically respond to alerts in mere seconds, a flying drone can reach a point of interest much faster.

Designers: Minkyo Im and Seongjin Kim

Armed with 4 propellers, a set of emergency lights, and a 360° camera lens layout on the underside of the drone, the DNDN is the perfect surveillance camera for cities, especially at night. While the police can’t be everywhere at once, and while CCTV systems have blind spots, DNDN has no such problem. It can be summoned via an app, and if it detects any crime, it can immediately alert local authorities with video evidence, even tracking perpetrators if they try to make a quick getaway.

“The project aimed at making the city safe and comfortable for women even during the night”, say the designers. “The drones comfort the users by detecting danger using 360-degree cameras while following them and offering appropriate actions to get out of the situation.”

The Samsung DNDN comes equipped with an array of wide-angle cameras mounted on a gimbal on the base of the drone. These cameras rely on Samsung’s own capabilities with their own smartphones, and are made to work well in low-light settings and also over longer distances.

The drone is available as a public service, rather than as an extension of law enforcement. Users can pre-emptively check the surroundings for signs of danger through the video filmed by the drone, or can summon the drone to act as a ‘guardian angel’ of sorts – a feature that was originally envisioned by designers to help women move around safely in cities after dark. At normal times, the drone’s lights glow blue, but when it detects any danger, the lights immediately turn red to alert perpetrators. Video footage is recorded and immediately sent to local law enforcement, along with metadata like location data to help police swiftly reach the area.

DNDN was originally envisioned as a part of the Samsung Design Membership program, organized at the Samsung Seoul R&D center every year as a mentorship program that allows young designers to gain experience and expertise through a wide range of design exercises. Although the drone is most likely to exist just as a student concept, it was created under the mentorship of Samsung’s design team, who helped the designers understand technological capabilities and overall product feasibility.

The DNDN drone uses a combination of existing Samsung technologies, along with design cues that make it perfect for the nature of its job. The propeller guards that surround each propeller help the DNDN navigate without accidentally hitting objects or getting damaged. Given its large size, the drone is likely to be on the heavier side, which makes it much more reliable in bad weather or while flying on windy nights. Considering the conceptual nature of the product, there’s no battery life mentioned, although the presence of a battery pack on the top makes it easy to keep the DNDN in circulation simply by swapping out depleted batteries for charged ones.

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Origami lifeboat can be flat-packed while storing, and opened on command

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Designed to make rescuing human lives efficient, the Fold And Rescue lifeboat flips closed while in storage, thanks to its origami-inspired form.

The inspiration for the Fold And Rescue came from the paper boat itself, showing how inspiration can travel in both directions. Unlike an inflatable lifeboat that poses the danger of deflating or not inflating correctly, the Fold And Rescue is made from a naturally buoyant material, and just needs to be opened to be used. In its folded form, it occupies a third of its original space and can be stacked together. When needed, just open the boat out and you’ve got two seats that can comfortably fit 4-6 people.

Designer: Industrial Design College of LAFA

The Fold And Rescue was designed to address the problem of insufficient number of lifeboats in the ship’s stockpile. It comes with a self-locking mechanism built into the benches, so the boat never accidentally closes shut when open. Each boat is made from a naturally buoyant material, and comes with a flat base that keeps the boat from tipping over by accident. The Fold And Rescue is also equipped with an oar on each side, making navigating to safety easier.

The Fold And Rescue is a winner of the A’ Design Award for the year 2022.

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This Disco Ball Helmet may be a public safety hazard, but it’s easily the coolest headgear possible!

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The 70s called. They wanted to know where you got that sick helmet from.

Before really talking about anything, yes, this helmet is a bit of a safety hazard given it can cause glare during the day, or trigger someone’s epilepsy (although that seems highly unlikely), so that’s definitely worth keeping in mind. However, putting that aside, the Disco Ball Helmet is truly one of the most fashionable pieces of riding headgear you could possibly own. Perfect for wearing at night, indoors at a skating rink, or even as headgear at a music concert, the Disco Ball Helmet is exactly what you think it is. Outfitted with thousands of tiny mirror pieces, the helmet adds a sparkle to your outfit while protecting your noggin from damage. If you do decide to wear it, it also comes with a retracting sun visor and is ECE 22-05 certified for road safety. Do be warned, however. Cops may not take too kindly to the vibe you’re trying to project!

Designer: Disco2Disco

The Disco Ball Helmet comes in 3 colors – the classic silver, and the unconventional but equally fascinating gold and rose-gold. You even have 4 sizes to choose from, depending on your cranial measurements, and the inner lining of the helmet is removable and washable, allowing you to maintain your Disco Ball Helmet over time.

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Savannah Anti-Theft Kit features smart devices that look like minimalist toys

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Savannah Anti-Theft Kit System Concept

Savannah is a city in the United States in Georgia, known for its beautiful landscapes and rich history. It is also famous for its well-preserved architecture. We know it now as the inspiration for the Savannah Anti-theft Kit, which integrates safety and security tools more into our domestic life.

Savannah is a line of smart products that are nothing like the devices you see in the market. They are similar in basic functions, but they are made from ceramic. The result is smooth aesthetics with a very evident minimalist appeal.

Designers: Francesco Isaia, Alessandro Pomponio, and Cecilia Veglio

Savannah Anti-Theft Kit System Details

You won’t think these are anti-theft devices as they look like small toys. But that’s the beauty of these products because they are very subtle you wouldn’t think they have other essential functions.

The landscapes and animals of Savannah inspire the Savannah. Several products are available, like a WiFi router (hub controller), siren/Bluetooth speaker, window sensor, smoke sensor, and a camera. The WiFi router looks like a table home decor. It is designed like a landscape with a couple of trees, and it also works as a hub for all the other Savannah devices. The Bluetooth speaker is shaped like a cube, with the top cover looking like a mountain range. We can also imagine this design being applied as an air purifier.

Savannah Anti-Theft Kit Features

Concept Savannah Anti-Theft Kit

Concept Savannah Anti-Theft Kit System

Savannah Anti-Theft Kit System

The window sensors are ready in different shapes. They help detect and report the opening and closing of doors. There is also a smoke sensor that looks like an upside-down character. The camera looks cute in different animal designs and colors.

Savannah Anti-Theft Kit

The Savannah Anti-Theft System is a design by Francesco Isaia, Alessandro Pomponio, and Cecilia Veglio. These Italian designers prove that Italian design is really something more. It goes beyond the aesthetic appeal as it is also about quality, craftsmanship, tradition, innovation, and passion. The Savannah 2021 Collection is likely to have additional products in the future. But first, this project needs to get into production. The devices remain as a concept product design for now but we know the idea can be easily picked up by other designers.

We have featured other anti-theft devices before but nothing cute like the Savannah. The ones we’ve seen were specifically for cyclists. There was the Anti-Theft Collapsible Bike Wheel and those discrete metal tags by Cycling Boom. Special anti-theft bags have been introduced as well—the Bobby Anti-Theft Backpack and the Tribal Anti-theft Sports Bag.

Savannah Anti-Theft Kit Concept

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