Here is a bunch of really creative and unsual staircase designs. You can find 20 of them in the gallery below and one of the coolest ones is features above - a glass staircase with independent glass panel balustrade and wall mounted handrail.

Unusual and Creative Staircase Designs [toxel.com]

Even though I don’t want one of these at home I really dig the innovative design. It doubles up beautifully both as a sofa and as a bench.

Double Up [likecool.com]

Over at Cellphonebeat you can browse through a huge gallery containing some of the best concept phones of 2008 (and I think some of them are a bit older than that as well). Above you can see the concept Siemens phone called Gigaset Eco Leaf from Formwelt Studio. Anyway, a nice gallery.

Best concept phones of 2008 [cellphonebeat.com]

This got to be one of the coolest home made designs I have seen in a while. It is a bowl made out of plastic war model soldiers. The bowl is designed by the UK designer Dominic Wilcox.

War Bowl [dominicwilcox.com]
via [likecool.com]

This kind of creative barcode design is completely new to me, but apparently it’s quite common in Asia - or at least Japan. Here’s a full gallery of some unusual product barcodes. Please comment if you have seen similar designs in your country (or if you are missing out on them as well).

Amazingly Creative Japanese Barcodes [weirdasianews.com]

This product is quite useless since the sound it produces is really annoying, but I love the idea. Designer Yuri Suzuki has spliced a vinyl LP into small tracks and created a small little gadget called the ‘sound chaser‘ that basically runs around the track and (kind of) plays whatever is on the original LP.

Tiny Chaser in my Hand [yankodesign.com]

I’m really into interesting, beautiful and unusual package design, so I really liked this little compilation featuring 50 innovations in package design. The one above is an anti-theft bag for your lunch sandwich. Nice. 49 more to check out over at trendhunter.com:

50 Innovations in Packaging [trendhunter.com]

I guess you have seen some of them before (at least I have seen almost all of them before) but the compilation is unique. Simply a bunch of really cool and weird wall clocks. And yay! Welcome back! =)

Collection of Unusual Clock Designs [toxel.com]

The idea behind this compact desk is nothing but brilliant! In a few seconds you can convert the 75 cm / 30-inch cabinet into a full-size 140 cm / 55-inch, desk. You can get your own for $500.

Convertible Compact Desk [uncrate.com]

The students at Royal College of Art got the opportunity to design the concept car of their dreams in a class, and here’s the result. Some of them are pretty amazing. The concept above is called Phoenix and is designed by Sergio Loureiro Da Silva.

Awesome concept cars [abduzeedo.com]