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The Ensemble is a multifunctional ironing board that transforms into a mirror when not in use so you’ll never have to hide your ironing board again.

The days of shoving ironing boards into our coat closets and sliding them between laundry room shelves are finally past us. So are the days of bending over backward just to use them. Well, almost. Ensemble, an ironing board design concept from a team of designers with Off Garage design studio, aims to transform the ironing board into a multifunctional standing mirror that can spin over its two-legged base to become a horizontal ironing board.

The designers at Off Garage merged the ironing board with the mirror because they naturally go hand in hand. We iron our clothes, we wear them, and we use the mirror to tune up the finished look. It makes sense for both items to be in the same room, better yet, to be the same piece of furniture.

From one side, Ensemble is your traditional floor mirror with a two-legged base that’s connected to the mirror’s center, allowing it to tilt and spin over the floor base. When users spin Ensemble over, the ironing board function is revealed. Turning 90° in one direction, the mirror becomes a fully functional, horizontal ironing board.

Along the backside of the mirror and the ironing board’s front side, Off Garage incorporated a storage compartment where the iron, water, and perfume canisters, and brush plates are kept. With Ensemble, when users want to iron their clothes, instead of pulling from the far reaches of the coat closet, all you have to do is flip the mirror over and choose a brush plate for the iron before tending to the wrinkles of your clothes. In addition to the storage compartment, users will find a perfume steamer below a hanger to apply different scents to their clothes while steaming their wrinkles out.

Designer: Off Garage

The Ensemble has a two-legged base that hinges the mirror at its center to transform it into a horizontal ironing board.

The Ensemble features a storage compartment at its bottom that contains the iron, brush plates, as well as perfume, and water cannisters.

When the Ensemble is positioned for ironing, the heat-resistant plastic covering allows for safe steaming and ironing.

Users can hang their clothes from the built-in hanger and then steam them with perfume scent to get the wrinkles out.

Users can easily pop off brush plates to swap them out for new ones.

The water canisters are easily removable and can be refilled.

The Ensemble in ocean blue.

The Ensemble comes in dark brown.

The Ensemble comes in cream beige.

How many of you use a hand sanitizer immediately after their subway ride? Ah, so many of us do this! In fact, most public spaces now keep a sanitizer bottle handy for those who are obsessive about cleanliness and germs. Building on this and the fact that enclosed spaces like subway stations are a thriving bed for germs, this set of Korean Designers have designed the GHOST Drone.

Functional Drones are not new (rescue drone, fire extinguishing drones etc.), but what caught my fancy about the GHOST is that, it hopes to solve a genuine problem. The housekeeping staff of stations are efficient, but there is little that they can do about the quality of air and the kind of germs that float around a subway station.

The GHOST Drone flies around the station, spewing UV light via its UV LEDs and sterilizes the air-space around. Easy to operate and focused on providing a healthier environment.

Through an all-way-sensor, it has a smooth flight and efficient sterilization process. Using UV LEDs, ‘GHOST’ with a stationed drone in the subway space is a space care system that provides sterilization service inside the subway, and is designed to quickly and completely sterilize the straight space inside the train. The light goes out, and during the time everyone is asleep, ‘GHOST’ will float for hygienic subway service.

Designers: Off GarageStudio , Yungi Min, Sunghyun Kwon, Ikhyeon Kim & Byeongjae Ha

UV sterilization is the most ecofriendly disinfection method in existence, and is used throughout our lives for various purposes, including food hygiene, water treatment and surface sterilization. In addition, the output of more than 100 milliwatts (mW) can rapidly sterilize to the air and applie to many aspects of our lives.