The Week in Design: A 'Thimble' for the Blind, Rethinking the Soda Siphon

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never move from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over their creations, nevertheless.

Getting ready to kick off 2011 at midnight? Too bad that you can't rig all of your electronics to burst into life at the stroke of 12 -- that is, unless you're the ingenious Japanese designer who created a portable, modular system of simple switches that can be controlled via iPhone. And too bad you're not hardcore enough to bootleg your own bubbly, because we stumbled upon a whole slew of students determined to rethink the carbonation experience. Check out our favorite designs of the final week of the year, after the break.

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