Straight out from Alice's Wonderland, this magnetic table and dinnerware are designed with four objectives: 1) store your plates, cups and cutlery, upside down, under the table, 2) arrange them neatly on top, 3) erase the data from any hard drive that comes near, and 4) cause head and eye injuries to kids and pets. Or drive them mad. And yet, we still want it. More pics after the jump.

[INV/ALT design via Apartment Therapy]

Designers Feijun Chen & Bin Zhao clearly were reading Skymall when they dreamed up these "Pioneer" sneakers with built-in recharging headlights. They've got a battery inside which charges on each step, using some mysterious tech that doesn't look piezoelectric. Apparently this can power the LEDs in the front for a full 12 hours. So you can, you know: run in the dark down dim-lit streets, or something. Maybe they'd be handy for doggy-do detection? Just a concept, for now. [Yanko design]

Jean Nouvel has won the Pritzker Prize, the world's most prestigious architecture award. And for a good reason, because his work is simply amazing. We love Nouvel's work for many reasons, from his irregular shapes and spaces, to the use of plants and color LEDs to create almost surreal, night-city creatures that seem taken from a science fiction movie. Here's a 68-picture gallery with his most stunning pieces, from the vibrant Torre Agbar in Barcelona to the alien spaceship of the new Orchestra Hall for the Philharmonie de Paris. Update: due to an error, the 68-pic gallery was incomplete. I've fixed it and the remaining pictures will appear shortly, after the jump.

[Pritzker Prize and Jean Nouvel]