Compact Folding Table Hides Behind a Picture When you’re tight on space, but you don’t want to take it as far as the ultra-compact Matroshka furniture set, other great solutions can be found. This folding picture table from Ivydesign is very elegant and original, yet remains a real-life solution...

Sports Ball Storage – Ball Claw Holds Them For You Balls are fun for playing, a pain for storing. They’re one of those objects that never stay on the shelf where you’ve put them, because … well, because they’re round. Ball Claw is a simple yet original solution to this problem.   ...

Shoe Storage – Floor to Ceiling The most original attempt at a versatile shoe rack is the Rakku wheel design. But this floor-to-ceiling shoe rack is another great alternative. It takes up only 144 square inches of floor space and can still hold 36 pairs of shoes. Why It’s Clever The...

iPod Dock and Universal Remote – Philips SJM3151 Recently, we posted an article on the Bexy iMirror iPod docking station and remote control. We liked it from the start because, contrary to most iPod docks, you can even see and select the tracks on your iPod on the iMirror’s screen. One comment...

Livescribe Pulse Smartpen Review – Link Your Notes With Your Audio Recording - A six month test. The Livescribe Pulse smartpen is one of the most innovative products I’ve seen in years. The pen allows you to write on paper, but when you dock it into its USB charger, your notes are automatica...

Racor Gravity Bike Rack – Organize Your Garage Bikes are a nuisance in the garage. They always take up too much space, making it hard to park your car or to open your car door to get in or out of your vehicle. The obvious garage-organizing solution is to store them vertically by hanging them on ...

Cable Capture Organizes Your Cable Clutter Cables are always too long and too short at the same time. Too short when you need that few inches of extra reach, and too long for the rest of the time, when they’re just lying in your way. Several elegant solutions exist, such as the SimpleToo or the Co...

EZ-Find Locates Your Misplaced Objects It’s a frustrating experience when you’re searching through your entire house to find an item you had in your hands a month ago but still can’t find anywhere. With the EZ-Find locator and tags, you finally have a solution to find your things again in...

Matroshka – Extremely Compact Furniture for Compact Living Living in a tight single, student or commuter apartment? Always confronted with furniture dilemmas such as: "I can place this or that here…but not both"? Want to invite some people over instead of spending money in a restaurant or pub (...

Multi-Chargers for Electronic Devices Compared We've discussed in a few other articles several multi-chargers for electronic devices. Two of them charge a lot of devices simultaneously. Another one adapts to almost any outlet and is most suitable for travel. All of them have the benefit of only usin...

The Five-Device Recharging Station from Mundi We've already covered the ChargePod, which charges six electronic devices simultaneously. Although we found this to be compact and useful, the devices, with their short charging cables, are still lying around on the table while charging. In contrast, the...

ChargePod - Charge Six Electronic Devices With One Charger Electronic devices are proliferating in every household. On the upside, most have now started using rechargeable batteries instead of disposables. On the downside, now you have a charger for each device, requiring a mains plug per device a...

Flipfold Clothes Folding Assistant After many years of practice, I do manage to fold my shirts, polos, pants, and other garments into more or less acceptable packages. But I suspect that some of you still don't get that far – well, prove it to me! Anyway, the Flipfold seems to be a nice aid to fo...

Tip – Store Your Car Rooftop Box Ijust love car rooftop boxes. They are light, relatively affordable, dry, and aerodynamic, and when you open them they offer a surprising amount of storage space that you would never suspect looking at them from the outside. The drawback, as with many other stor...

Racor Heavy-Lift Storage System – Garage Ceiling Becomes Storage Space Finally, a way to put your garage ceiling to use! Have you ever thought about the use of space in your garage? You park one or two cars in there on a spot where, usually, you never walk because when you're at home, the car is ...

Carrousel Style CD/DVD Changers With 300+ Capacity When it comes to hi-fi, there are three types of people. The ones who buy an inexpensive hi-fi system and connect their MP3 player to it – that's a choice for comfort. Then you have the ones who buy expensive speakers and amplifiers and who u...

Tip – How To Hide Your Audio&Video Components Out Of Sight I'm a fan of good music, and I do value a good-quality hi-fi & multimedia installation at home. But unless you're a fan of a pile of dust-collecting, flashing square boxes in your living room, AV components are not the prettie...

CD-DVD archive – 120 disks in the minimum possible storage space Unhappy with the space your CD or DVD collection is taking up in your cabinets? Or have a lot of data CDs or DVDs to archive? Several solutions already exist that replace the jewel cases, but this is really the most compact and use...

Conceal – Invisible Bookshelf Glues Your Books To The Wall Magic? A work of art? A visual hallucination? It's none of those things – this is simply the Conceal "invisible bookshelf" from Umbra, making your books appear as if they're glued to the wall. An ideal, space-saving, and simply cool...

Lili Lite – Bedroom Bookshelf and Reading Light in One In my bedroom there's always a pile of books and magazines waiting patiently to be read, collecting dust under the bed, or falling from the night table while sleeping. Sound familiar? Well, now there's a solution. The Lili Lite is a simpl...