I have a few power blocks in my office. None of them can accomodate one plug per socket, since a good proportion of my gadgets use big bulky adapters. I hide them from view where possible. One has a fancy blue light, but it’s not really a design feature.

Ramei is shining a light on those overlooked everyday objects the design world seemed to have forgotten. In fact, his website is filled with simple yet intuitive concepts. In the same area of design, his ‘cord trap’ won the prestigious Red Dot design award last year. He’s even constructed a cool pendant from old clothes hangers brought back from the dry cleaners.

This all illustrates one of my favourite business models… merging the concepts of simple, useful, and sexy. Well, a power bar may not necessarily meet the ‘sexy’ criterion on its own, but in context when compared with what’s available on the market today, it’s pretty swank.

Don’t even get me started on his ‘soar’ sofa, which unlike the Donut, is currently available for order on his website… if you’ve got the dosh.

This landed in my inbox not too long ago. It’s hilariously lazy in a way, but in another it’s a bit of an oxymoron in practice. Expend a pile of energy to have the luxury of parking your butt anywhere you want – for about five seconds, which is how long it takes for the pavement to reach up and smack your behind through the rapidly deflating marshmallow-like bubble seat.

The designer, JooYoun Paek, puts it a bit more eloquently, claiming “the balance between exercise and rest would be maintained by wearing this suit”. Food for thought I suppose, but I’m happy to continue walking the old fashioned way.

Thankfully, this was never meant to go to market or midnight infomercials. Paek hopes the provocative piece will “transform the humdrum experiences produced by routine walking commutes into an amusing interactive performance”. Indeed.

As an added bonus, I just can’t help but mention Robert Nightingale’s Hitch Concept, which proves that design has as much a place in absurd (im)practical comedy as anything else.

There are no words.