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Self-sterilizing door handle looks perfect for hypochondriacs, is as real as their ailments
The world of concepts is quite the wonderful place to behold, it's filled with electric supercars, cameras that only ever need one lens, beautiful BlackBerrys, and now... a self-cleaning door handle. The product of one Choi Bomi's hyperactive imagination, this gatekeeper continuously sterilizes itself with a UV light, only taking a break when you actually use it. A clandestine switch in the handle's frame is what toggles the sanitizing illumination on and off, a spark of cleverness that's earned the design a Red Dot award. That's great, now who hands out the awards for making economically viable, mass producible devices?
Glass globe doorknob gives you a view of what lies beyond... the door
Got more curiosity than energy to open doors? Then you'll want to get yourself one of these fisheyed globe doorknobs from designer Hideyuki Nakayama. The idea is resoundingly simple, the globe on your end of the door provides a wide-angle view of what's on the other side, which is achieved by collecting and reflecting light soaked up by another globe on the other end. So yes, privacy might be a tiny bit compromised with these door handles, but the fun coefficient should be through the roof.
In & Out Door concept keeps you from pushing when you should pull, vice-versa
Door handles are a simple concept, but not so simple that they don't require instructions. Lovely, minimalist doors worldwide are made less strikingly beautiful by the application of crude "PUSH" and "PULL" stickers, distractions that could be done away with if we all used the In & Out Door, a concept by Korean student Jeon Hwan Soo. On one side it has a handle for pulling. On the other? A pad for pushing. Either activates the latch as shown below, making it reasonably simple to figure out what you're supposed to do. It's just a concept now so it's only capable of opening up theoretical portals, but we expect to see these showing up at the Midvale School for the Gifted very soon.
