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I bet you would like to have supernatural powers, moving object without using your body for example. It will never be a daydream after the birth of this toy named of Mindflex. The ball can float in the air forced by the fan underneath whose strength is depending on your concentration. In other words, the more concentrating you are the higher the ball will. The final goal is to move the ball through the circle standing aside.

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This is a new commercial advertising the new Audi Q5 has been launched on television across Europe. This AD created by British advertising agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty(BBH) features an animated man drawn on the side of a cardboard box carefully reshaping the box into a Q5 SUV.

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You want a beautiful nail? You are tired of the complex manicure process? Then, you will like this unique gadget, which is claimed to be the world’s first nail printer, from CES 2009.

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If you want to get a light full of personality and do not want to pay much time on it, you gotta like this design. You can customize it by peeling off the pre-scored tiles. In order to get more illumination, you need to peel off little more tiles. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This might be the most risky hooks in the world. If it cannot suffer the weight you put on it, then…Oh My God. OK, just kidding. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Caravan is good for traveler, but in case you arrived in a strange place and intend to have an interesting excursion, the caravan isn’t a good vehicle. You need a small car.

This unique design can fulfill your expectation. With it, you need not to drag the home part all the time, you can simply detach the cockpit and enjoy a fun ride of a small vehicle. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Measuring cup is a good tool to control the ingredients’ quantity and so this cutting board comes with an adjustable measuring cup is gonna be a good assistor for food preparation. What you should do is to adjust the measuring cup into the volume you need—from 1⁄8 to 1 cup—then you can slide chopped foods into it to get quantifiable food. [Read the rest of this entry...]

It seems that USB and condom never have any relationship with each other. But Ko Yang gives them a common ground. The so-called USB condom can protect your USB drive from being damage by virus, just like the real condom. It functions as a stopgap between a USB enabled device and your computer. As soon as the USB Condom detects a virus, the built-in software will shut off the USB access, verifieds the problem removes nasty bug and then reopens the communication bridge to your computer. In other words, you computer will be safer. [Read the rest of this entry...]

You won’t be happy after being waked up while sleeping. You want to smash it? OK, go ahead. But you’d better first make sure you’re using this smash clock. In order to stop the alarm, you have to kick it until there is a hollow on it.

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If you are a car enthusiast, you will like this faucet. This design uses the perception of a car gearbox to change the water flow. Each position correlates to how much water we use. Oh, it seems lack of reverse gear. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Have you fallen into uncovered manholes? If you have I bet you will love this design. The lid has a luminous ring around its outer edge, and the interior circumference of the manhole frame has the same. Therefore, when the lid is removed, the dangerous opening will be highlighted. In other words, you will be much safer. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Air bag is used to protect the people sitting in the car. In order to prevent follow-up accident, a caution sign is necessary, but it is easily ignored. This Safe Balloon is a warning triangle which can automatically pop up when your car have an accident. In this way, others will get the caution far away. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Printing calendar on napkins can offer a interesting calendar. In order to make sense, you have to use one piece of napkin each day, only one, no more, no less. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Rubik’s Cube, which is a puzzle game invented by Hungarian professor in 1974, is one of the most popular games all over the world. But many people lack the ability to solve this puzzle. Don’t worry, although this lamp is inspired from Rubik’s Cube, just left the faces scrambled is gonna be prettier. [Read the rest of this entry...]

At first glance, it seems like a normal bike saddle. But when you need a lock for your bike, you can just bent the saddle backwards and using the somewhat weird metal ring to lock your bike. Oh, it is really brilliant and utilitarian. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Sitting in the car can protect you from getting wet. But the moment you get in or out of the car during a shower of rain, being wet is inevitable. This brilliant Rainvisor is designed to resolve this problem. It is mounted on the top of the car door and the folding structure will unfold into a surface to offer you better protection. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Sure, we all know that paper can cut your finger, but it seems impossible to cut down someone’s head. Yes, it is impossible. This is just a interesting business cards collector. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Eating too much salt can damage your health but how could us know the salinity of the food? This Salintest spoon has a built-in salt detector and so it can tell you the how salt is your food with different colors.

Yellow indicates a salt content of 0.1%–0.8%. Orange indicates a salt content of 0.8%–1.2%. Red indicates a salt content of more than 1.2%. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Feeding a baby is a tough task for mom. This pushing spoon is a good design for kids. There is a smaller spoon in the ordinary spoon and so moms can easily push the food into her baby’s mouth. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Multi-touch has been one of the hottest technologies in the world. iPhone is an good example. But this device can help you preview the architecture by multi-touch controller.

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Close the tap while brushing your teeth is a good habit, otherwise a lot of clean water will be wasted at basin. The recycling bath sink designed by Woo Sunhye can save the clean water under the basin for later use.

There is a hole connecting to the storage under the basin. The hole comes with a lip which can be opened by the water pressure. In other words, the lip will open when the clean water directly flowing down from the tap. When you put your hands under the water, its pressure is dispersed. This will cause the lid to close and the water will flow down the normal drainpipe. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This door knob can function as a light switch as well and so you do not have to look for light switch in a dark room. When you open the door, the light will automatically light up and switched off as one turns the knob while leaving the room. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Finding last available spaces in car park is a tough work and so you need a guider. This parking guider is an electrical device which can display the parking information and guide the driver to an available space with a virtual arrow. This guider can offer such information as parking space number, car park entry time and parking fee as well. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Pulling out a plug is not a hard work, but it is not always an easy task. Therefore, you need a better solution. This plug comes with a circular cut-out which can help you pull it out easily. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Ironing is a process to make your clothing smoother. Because of lacking direct visual contact with the part of the clothing that is being ironed, your clothing may not be ironed smooth. The soleplate of this so-called B-IRON is made of tempered glass and so you can see through it. [Read the rest of this entry...]