This is a fabulous little gallery to flip through for inspiration. Wired has picked its favorite designs of 2014.
These 27 pieces show innovation, advances in technology and downright human ingenuity. The list includes something as simple as a redesigned air meal tray from Virgin, to the MIT social app 20 Day Stranger, which allows you to share random daily events with other anonymous users, to an interactive crayon exhibit that allows kids to doodle with their entire bodies.
Take a look. It’s proof that great gadgets and ideas need not be ugly.