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Solar Folding Fan

Filed under: DESIGN — 200702 at 8:33 am on Friday, July 3, 2009

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What impresses us most in the movies that show the daily life of the British aristocracy is the magnificent feather folding fan, which is also an elegant hand held accessory to a lady of quality in modern times. As it integrates the traditional crafted fan with solar charged light technology, the solar folding fan is therefore a delicate decoration which can glow in the evening.

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Plot-Green Dish Hutch

Filed under: DESIGN — 200702 at 8:32 am on Friday, July 3, 2009

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May the dishwasher be a great help to your daily life, have you ever realized that it’s also an inconvenient inducement to the polluted society with scanty resources? So the plot-green dish hutch is an environmentally friendly alternative to save the remained water on dished through a collection tray into the sink.

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Saltside Out salt Shaker

Filed under: DAILY LIFE — 200702 at 8:31 am on Friday, July 3, 2009

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Has anyone ever seen such a bizarre design to add an extra pot to the tapered salt shaker? Well, just leave well enough alone! But the salt shaker still deserves some appreciation for its outstanding wit, which stores salt in a two-in-one bottle. As for its actual usage, maybe we won’t get it only until we try it by ourselves.

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Mini Collar-like Camera for Pets

Filed under: DAILY LIFE — 200702 at 8:30 am on Friday, July 3, 2009

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To help you to see what your pets are doing when they’re far away, the mini digital camera, a collar-like mini device for the pets, can snap pictures according to your settings. The camera can also standby automatically during the picture intervals that can be set to shoot every 1, 5 or 15 minutes, and get charged via USB. What’s more, it can totally shoot 40 photos at 640 x 480 resolutions and you can get full information of your furry little friends.

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Space Chair

Filed under: DESIGN — 200702 at 8:29 am on Friday, July 3, 2009

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Since the USSR astronaut Gagarin stepped into the space in 1961, the space tourism has been a long-cherished dream to almost everyone and it’s still a privilege reserved to those fat cats even in the technologically advanced society. But now the space chair may make the space tourism affordable to anyone! As the chair accurately simulates the flight activities of a spaceship, you may experience a magic tourism in it with a blindfold and a pair of headphones on.

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Tent-like Lampshade for Private Time

Filed under: DESIGN — 200702 at 10:10 am on Thursday, July 2, 2009

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Due to its lamination design, the tent-like lampshade can be raised and lowered to different needs and create you an intimacy time with your friends even in a noisy night market. Thanks to its concentric and rounded shape, we can always feel like at home in a private room away from the outside disturbances.

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What’s this?

Filed under: WAHT'S THIS? — 200702 at 10:09 am on Thursday, July 2, 2009

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Is it an abstract item to you? Actually it’s a roller-bag cup holder that can help to keep your coffee from spilling over your baggage with its unique design during your rush trip. As it can reduce the vibration and adjust the balance of languages on the move, you can enjoy a cup of coffee and wait for the bus without any worry.

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Glow-in-the-dark Earth Beach Ball

Filed under: DAILY LIFE — 200702 at 10:08 am on Thursday, July 2, 2009

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Thanks to NASA, the soft beach ball is an impressively photorealistic replica of the world, which shows all the satellite images from the space. Except for the soft texture and delicate images, the earth beach ball can also glow in the dark after it charges under a light source such as the sun. Well, the most magical characteristic is its mutative light intensity which varies with the different population. As a result, the more populated the area is, the brighter it looks on the earth beach ball.

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Mighty Ray Vase

Filed under: DESIGN — 200702 at 10:07 am on Thursday, July 2, 2009

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Light ray has been fully developed in its usage nowadays and the huge decoration in the street is just depicting vivid flowers with rays. As a spectacular sight in the night, the mighty ray flowers seem to be sketched sculptures that are perfectly integrated with the fast-tempo city.

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Breath Checker

Filed under: DAILY LIFE — 200702 at 10:07 am on Thursday, July 2, 2009

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Before you are going to date with some important person, have you checked your breath? To most people, whether their breath smells good or not is an inconvenient factor to appointments. So with the portable breath checker, you can easily identify the condition of your breath at anytime. Just turn the checker on and follow the instructions, you can then judge from the three iconic expressions on the screen to decide whether or not your breath is fresh enough.

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Battery Collector

Filed under: DESIGN — 200702 at 10:02 am on Wednesday, July 1, 2009

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As almost every battery looks the same, it’s often difficult to figure out the discharged batteries from the usable ones. To deal with the storage problem, the new-style battery collector is not only designed to keep several batteries in different standards, but can measure their dump energy with a battery test device on the top.

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Wall Mounting Mini Garden

Filed under: DESIGN — 200702 at 10:01 am on Wednesday, July 1, 2009

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The natural life may be just a sweet dream to most people. However, with the wall mounting mini garden which allows you to plant vegetables on the wall, you can easily create a green circumstance both at home and in office.
As the wall mounting garden is composed of several small modules, it’s convenient to fix them on the wall with tailor-made holders and take them off to water the plants. Due to a special treatment to the soil, you can supply fertilizer to the vegetable garden just once every year. Then what plants are suitable for cultivation? There’re many choices, such as scallion, basil, coriander, mint, tomato, strawberry, rosemary and so on.

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Triangular Dish Rack

Filed under: DAILY LIFE — 200702 at 10:00 am on Wednesday, July 1, 2009

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The triangular dish rack is composed of several resin modules, which looks so simple and portative that it is quite suitable for your fashion kitchen. Though there’re only ivory racks on the market at present, the manufacturer will continue to launch more products in other styles, including orange racks, grey racks, oak-colored racks and striped ones.

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New- fashioned Dip Stick

Filed under: DESIGN — 200702 at 10:00 am on Wednesday, July 1, 2009

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The new-fashioned dip stick is specially designed for the drilling workers, which is both portable and of multiuse. To improve the accuracy and efficiency of measurement, the dip stick is equipped with a cruciform knob that helps to meter the right angle precisely.

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Bead Clock

Filed under: DESIGN — 200702 at 9:59 am on Wednesday, July 1, 2009

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On hearing the beautiful music of Chinese lute, we usually describe it as “pearls falling into a jade plate”, and now the bead clock can also remind us of that famous Chinese poem. When the clock works, two beads in different sizes will then brighten up to indicate the time. Be careful not to mix up the two beads! The bigger bead in the outer circle stands for the hour hand and the smaller one in the inner circle symbolizes the minute hand.

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Paper Lamp

Filed under: DESIGN — 200702 at 10:13 am on Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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As it is inspired from the technology that was used to build digital landscape images in the past, the new-style paper lamp is designed in the same shape of winding streams. When you turn it on, the paper lamp, which is made of thin lamp panel, looks just like a brilliant drifting ribbon in the air.

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IPOD Photosphere Alarm Clock

Filed under: DESIGN — 200702 at 10:12 am on Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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IPOD is always known for its unique design and this alarm clock is also worthy of the high reputation. As the alarm clock is compatible with the IPOD player and a built-in recorder, it can not only customize different ring tones to your preferences, but also get your player charged with it conveniently. So why not start a splendid new day with such a shinning photosphere alarm clock? Just try it.

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Portable Beach Shoes for Lifeguards

Filed under: DESIGN — 200702 at 10:12 am on Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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To make it more convenient for the lifeguards to deal with emergency situations, the beach shoes are composed of two parts, including breathable shoes and portable flipper-like shoes. As the flipper-like shoes hidden inside the normal ones could be pulled easily out, the lifeguards can then implement the rescue operations more effectively with the flipper-like shoes on.

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Allochroic Umbrella

Filed under: DESIGN — 200702 at 10:10 am on Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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The classical dancing scene by Gene Kellyin the movie “Singin’ in the Rain” has impressed countless viewers. But even if you do not know how to dance, you can still be a focus with an allochroic umbrella in the rain. As the umbrella will change into multicolored from black-white in water, it looks quite outstanding in the dull rainy days.

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Waterproof Chassis

Filed under: DESIGN — 200702 at 10:10 am on Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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The plain chassis is designed to be well waterproofed, which can still work even you pour a bucket of water onto it. Wanna to learn more about it? Now let’s see some field test video on Youtube.

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DIY Wall Decoration

Filed under: DESIGN — 200702 at 10:25 am on Saturday, June 27, 2009

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Life is all about choices, and the OLED DIY wall decoration now provides you with a new one. As it allows you to paint on the decoration glass freely, you can redesign it whenever you’re tired of the existing one. What makes the wall decoration unique may lie in its different appearances during the day, which looks hyaline in the daytime and turns to be colorized glass when it is charged in the night.

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Environmentally-friendly Pen

Filed under: DESIGN — 200702 at 10:24 am on Saturday, June 27, 2009

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Environmentalism has become a mainstream all over the world, and the shell of the environmentally-friendly pen is made of corn starch plastic, which is completely degraded in certain condition. So such green pens won’t result any pollution to the environment and you needn’t to worry about your children with the bad habit of biting pens.

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Light O’clock

Filed under: DESIGN — 200702 at 10:23 am on Saturday, June 27, 2009

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Similar to the sundial used in the ancient times, the light o’clock also applies the discipline of light but presents it in a different way. With luminous equipment built in it, this clock tells time through two distinct beams of light, which are seen as the hour hand and minute hand individually. At present, there’re kinds of colors for you to choose, such as black, white, blue, orange, pink, green, etc.

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What’s this?

Filed under: WAHT'S THIS? — 200702 at 10:22 am on Saturday, June 27, 2009

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Guess and find out what it is.

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Folding Baby Crib

Filed under: KIDS — 200702 at 10:21 am on Saturday, June 27, 2009

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Folding doors, folding umbrellas, folding chairs, etc, folding design has been a main style nowadays. To save you more space, the wooden folding baby crib not only could be adjusted freely and folded up completely, but also allows you to move it expediently with the sheaves. As it is designed for the new born baby and children below two years old, it also looks young in both white and green colors.

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Chair-like Computer

Filed under: DESIGN — 200702 at 10:42 am on Friday, June 26, 2009

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As it is equipped with an adjustable pedal and develops its function of the mouse and keyboard through two touch-boards, the chair-like computer will certainly bring a different operation experience to users. Not only will the recliner allow you to maintain a good state during long working hours, but also the 18″ display screen could be adjusted to your different needs.

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Green Fireplace

Filed under: DESIGN — 200702 at 10:42 am on Friday, June 26, 2009

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Smoky, dirty, wasteful, etc, traditional fireplaces have resulted people much annoyance. To create you a clean, warm and environmentally-friendly home, the green fireplace uses the reproducible fuel, which could be burned to a complete combustion and result no by-product. So you needn’t to spend too much on caring your fireplace.

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Mini Electric Drill

Filed under: DESIGN — 200702 at 10:41 am on Friday, June 26, 2009

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The mini electric drill, which is as tiny as a fingernail, may be the smallest utilitarian one around the world. Different from other big guys, this electric drill is driven through a button cell rather than a power supply, and it can work anywhere. Now arouse your imagination to find what it is used to do.

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What’s this?

Filed under: WAHT'S THIS? — 200702 at 10:39 am on Friday, June 26, 2009

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Do you know what this item is?

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Facebook Business Card

Filed under: DESIGN — 200702 at 10:38 am on Friday, June 26, 2009

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As the most popular social network all over the world, Facebook is equivalent to the fifth largest country with a population up to 200 million. And in China, there’re also some imitators such as Xiaonei, QQxiaonei, etc. To innovate with the traditional communication mode, the new-style business cards are made in the same shape of friend-request interface on Facebook. So distinctive!
Besides, there’re also business cards made in a Google interface style.

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