Why can’t all batteries look this good?  Unique and colorful packaging for Volta Batteries by ACME Industries in Romania.  Good enough not to throw out and remember to recycle? Hope so.

The iPod has come a long way since 2001. So why hasn’t someone come up with an answer to getting the wires all un-tangled for ear bud headphones? I’ve gone through so many pairs because of wire tangles wrecking them alone. Ji Woong has come up with a solution, but it’s still in concept phases. His YI earphones work like a zipper, making the wires into a thick strand when they are ‘zipped’ up. Even better the zipper itself has a volume control on it. Pass this on to your friends at electronics companies, because this needs to exist. Good work Ji Woong, we’re glad to see someone is looking after our wires. Hit the jump for a few more conceptual pictures.

via Yanko Design

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Oh holiday shopping showcases, will you ever produce a collection of giftables we actually want to buy? You will? And it’s in our city? And it’s by our best friend Gizmodo?

Brian Lam and his traveling circus of RC toys and prosumer gunmetal AV components entitled the Gizmodo Gallery is hitting the Reed Annex today at 12 p.m. (that’s — 10 minutes ago) and will run through Sunday. We suggest you take a loooong lunch and get down their immediately for three reasons: 1) The economy needs you. What better way to be a patriot than to convince yourself the time for a new Plasma TV is now? 2) Like we said, it’s a limited time only. 3) Playing with stuff beats working.