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Robotic bugs

Filed under: ELECTRONICS, KIDS — 200702 at 6:26 am on Saturday, June 30, 2007

Like bugs, this Hex bug could automatically avoid obstacles and will change direction when you clap their vicinity.

Video after the jump

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Pet furniture

Filed under: HOUSEHOLD — 200702 at 6:24 am on Saturday, June 30, 2007

It’s a furniture for dog. In other words, you furniture has be change into a kennel.

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Portable lamp

Filed under: DESIGN — 200702 at 6:23 am on Saturday, June 30, 2007

This ring-shaped lamp could be moved anywhere. It’s semi-transparent shell make it a little magic. Two brightness level allow you to use it as mood lighting or a source point.

Designer: Dorota Kulawik

Weird track

Filed under: DESIGN, WEIRD — 200702 at 6:21 am on Saturday, June 30, 2007

You believe this is a rolling track? It’s so mass. How could it be a track for rolling balls?

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Vortex robots sucking on the wall

Filed under: ELECTRONICS — 200702 at 6:20 am on Saturday, June 30, 2007

You believe a robot could walk on the wall and ceiling? Video after the jump.


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What’s this?

Filed under: WAHT'S THIS?, WEIRD — 200702 at 6:19 am on Saturday, June 30, 2007

A lighter? Just a lighter? So what is it used for?

Actually, it’s a pipe with a lighter. Video after the jump.

Price: $80

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Sleepy dog wrist cushion

Filed under: DAILY LIFE — 200702 at 6:17 am on Saturday, June 30, 2007

With this cushion, you will be more comfortable while typing. Plus, you might have extra happiness.

Price: $16

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Fanny Fart Bank

Filed under: GIFTS, WEIRD — 200702 at 6:14 am on Saturday, June 30, 2007

If you put your coin in a bank, you know what gonna happen? You will receive fart from this fanny.

Price $13.49

No quiet Mug

Filed under: DESIGN — 200702 at 4:51 am on Friday, June 29, 2007

Combine with a separated handle, it could be a interesting mug.

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Lip light

Filed under: DAILY LIFE, GIFTS — 200702 at 4:50 am on Friday, June 29, 2007

With extra LED light, you gonna make up yourself more comfortable. It’s good idea.

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Twister 3D display

Filed under: ELECTRONICS — 200702 at 4:49 am on Friday, June 29, 2007

Comprised of 50,000 LEDs, this display could be available while spinning at the speed of 1.6 times per second. Plus, using unique display technique, it could provide 3D image. You gonna feel like in a real word while watching this diplay.

Video after the break.

What is he drawing?

Filed under: WEIRD — 200702 at 4:48 am on Friday, June 29, 2007

By all the details displayed before exhibit the whole view, can you guess what is he drawing? Just try! Video after the jump.

Happy kitchen tools

Filed under: DESIGN, KIDS — 200702 at 4:47 am on Friday, June 29, 2007

You gonna be happier by working with these happy kitchen tools.

$9.99

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Biosfe Apparatus

Filed under: DAILY LIFE — 200702 at 4:45 am on Friday, June 29, 2007

Connect apparatus with your tap water system, you can judge the quality of the water by the state of fish. It’s better to use Glofish

You can design other apparatus based on this idea.

Eleven beer robots

Filed under: ELECTRONICS — 200702 at 5:26 am on Thursday, June 28, 2007

The ultimate aim of robot is to provide service for human beings. In this topics we gonna introduce eleven interesting robot which could serve you beer.

Videos after the jump.

Water jet clock in Kanazawa

Filed under: DESIGN, WEIRD — 200702 at 5:25 am on Thursday, June 28, 2007

This is a odd clock in Kanazawa. It displays time and simple message by the combination of series of jets of water. Video after the jump:

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Transformable cup sleeves

Filed under: DAILY LIFE, DESIGN — 200702 at 5:23 am on Thursday, June 28, 2007

Based on the unique design, this kind of cup sleeves could be transformed into a mat.

Designer: Chun-Chia Hsu

4-in-1 BBQ tool

Filed under: DAILY LIFE, DESIGN — 200702 at 5:22 am on Thursday, June 28, 2007

Featuring spatula, fork, knife and meat thermometer, this BBQ tool is pretty useful for the BBQ lovers.

$ 9.95

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Speaker for bikes

Filed under: DAILY LIFE — 200702 at 5:20 am on Thursday, June 28, 2007

Hang a wireless iPod speaker on your bike, you can take music with you anywhere. In order to control it comfortable, the wireless controller is based on the handlebar. Plus, this speaker is iH85B speaker is waterproof and resistant, so, don’t worry about the condition you gonna go.

Price: $ 99.99

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Transparent canoe

Filed under: DESIGN — 200702 at 5:16 am on Thursday, June 28, 2007

The Canoe-Kayak named boat is made from a transparent polymer hull. In addition, aluminum frame make it firm.
You can have a better view from the bottom through the transparent hull. It’s magic.

Price: $1,459.95

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USB PC

Filed under: ELECTRONICS — 200702 at 4:40 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Shaped like a USB key, this weird thing measuring merely 1.40-inches by 3.3-inches is actually a PC. It’s got a 190MHz processor, 64MB of SDRAM and 256MB of NAND flash memory for storage. Unfortunately, this is not a regular computer used in daily life, and you could not buy it in any market. It’s just use for GPS or other devices.

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Turtle planetarium

Filed under: GIFTS, KIDS — 200702 at 4:36 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2007

It’s a standard turtle toy in daytime, but at night it could project planetariums on your ceiling to give your kid(s) magic a space view. Kids gotta like it.

Price: £34.95

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Playing the piano following the lights

Filed under: ELECTRONICS — 200702 at 4:28 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Yamaha has unveiled its EZ-200 piano keyboard which has a “follow-the-light” system that could tell you the exact key you should press according to music. It’s a good thing for beginner.

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Vertical Scoccer— Cool AD from ADIDAS

Filed under: WEIRD — 200702 at 4:27 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2007

This is a new crazy billboard AD lanched by Adidas in Tokyo. It’s reeeeealy cool!

Bikeboard on water

Filed under: WEIRD — 200702 at 4:26 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Surfing is a popular sport, but it’s not easy for everyone to have a good surfing skill. Therefore, a easy tool for surfing gotta be better for normal unskilled persons. This bike board is a good choice. With the help of handlebars and small rudder on the underside, it could give you a good experience of surfing.

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Chopsticks with extra using

Filed under: DAILY LIFE — 200702 at 4:25 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2007

You like Chinese food? You think using chopsticks is hard for you? Then you can have a extra choice, just turn your chopsticks around you gonna have a new way to eat Chinese food.

Price: $ 4.99

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Win bottle holder mounting on the wall

Filed under: DAILY LIFE — 200702 at 4:24 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Having many holes this rack could fit for many bottles of wine. It’s pretty cool. But a little bit dangerous.

Price: $63

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Mini clamps Cellphone trap

Filed under: DAILY LIFE — 200702 at 4:23 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2007

You might wanna pick up some tiny things in daily life, but your finger is too big to fit for them. You might need this mini clamps. Plus, it could be used as a cellphone trap.

500 Yen

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Battery eater

Filed under: WEIRD — 200702 at 4:21 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Put your AA battery in its mouth, the juice will be suck over until its evil red LED eyes stop blinking.

In this way, you can dispose of batteries responsibly.

Price: $6.95

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Crystal column concept phone

Filed under: DESIGN — 200702 at 5:51 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2007

The concept phone uses large quartz crystals for each numeric number on a dial pad. Below each crystal is an embedded LED. You could read date and phone number from the display at the bottom of the quartz.

Designer: Tao Ma

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