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Entries for April, 2009

Staircase features built-in slide

Sliding side is one of the most popular entertainment facilities for kids, no matter which era it is. In order to satisfy your kids, you can feature a slid into the staircase. Thus, the staircase is useless for those young guys.

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Maum Tea Bag

It’s very funny. What you drink is their bathing water. At first, they guys all sitting in the public bathtub, and what you need to do is inviting one into a private bathtub – your cup.

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A glass of beer

If you like beer, I bet you gotta like this interesting thing. It seems like a glass of beer which can pick up your appetite. But you may disappoint, because it is actually an empty glass with beer pattern printed on it. What’s more the cap is also in the shape of overflowing foam.

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Zip and Dry Apron

Apron is necessary for cooking, especially in China, and many people like to use the under-part of the Apron as a towel. This product is actually a brilliant idea. The under-part is actually a towel and can simply be zipped off to wipe down the counter as well as to be washed easily.

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Salad shooter

If you like salad, you are gonna slice cucumber piece by yourself. With this 114-watt professional-model electric slicer/shredder will mow through a cucumber and slice it into your salad while shooting it into place in seconds, you will have no need to do this kind of thing by your self. It features a large food chamber, and adjustable food guide that adapts to large or small loads.

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Two-in-one battery

Integrating charger into the rechargeable battery is interesting trend in product design industry. This one is another example. It comes with two pins on the side that pop out, which can be plugged into a socket for recharging.

In addition, there is also a screen which can tell you the remaining power.

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Laser clock

This is a real simple and cool clock. It uses a microcontroller to move to move a servo with a line laser connect to it. The result is a single line that can simply represent the time on the wall.

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Broom hook

Created by Dutch designer Stijn Bisscheroux, the concept combines the broom and the hook into one single product. When left without using, it can serve as coat hook.

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Magnetic bookend

This product, which dubbed Hummingbird Magnetic Bookend, seems like a magic. Except for a the hummingbird, you do not need anything else to hold these books. As a matter of fact, there is a traditional bookend hidden inside the cover of the end book to provide the stability.

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Army shelf

Inspired from Swiss Army Knife, this shelf can also offer efficient storage space. Every shelf has its own function and can be integrated into one cabinet.

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Bulb bottle

In order to make your light more efficient, we may choose energy-saving lamp rather than traditional Pear-shaped bulb. But this pear-shaping is actually very perfect, and so it could be used in other area, such a beverage bottle.

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GlowCap

Healthy is important, but nobody can guarantee that he/ she can live without illness. As one of the most important ways to cure ill, medicine actually has been a routine activity for some people. In other words, somebody needs to take the medicine every other hours or days. How to remind these people to do their routine in time? The GlowCap can help you, if you really need to take the medicine.

It comes with a built-in timer and the customers can easily setting the intervals. The cap will glow at the time you should have the medicine and if you do not react to the glow for one hour, it will raise the alarm.

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3D chessboard

This is a unique chessboard which comes with 3D terrain. Thanks to this different design, it will make you have a better chess experience, just like in the real battlefield, maybe.

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Solar charging center

Making electrical cars is the major trend of motor industry. However, charging is not an easy thing, and the traditional electric generating way is actually not entirely eco-friendly. This station comes with a solar layer on the top and so it can offer energy with a greener way.

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Obama sushi

This is designed by Japanese sushi chef Ken Kawasumi, if you like President Obama, you are gonna like it. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Shoe-merang

Shoe-merang means Shoe + boomerang, it will let you recall George. W. Bush’s suffering. Next time you want to throw a shoe, you can use this to improve the accuracy. Who you want to throw at?

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Fluid sculpture

This magic fluid sculpture is made of nifty knitter, some surgical tubing, a small liquid pump. You can just push in the water with colorful ink and then it will offer you a magic picture.

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Knife combs

Combs is necessary for those pretty ladies with hair. So it is a good idea to combines a knife with this necessary thing. It will protect the ladies from being hurt.

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Standing remote controller

When you can live without the remote controller, it always comes out somewhere, but when you actually need it, you cannot really find it. The world is so magic.

This product has the standing structure which makes it easy to be found. When you want it, it will stand there waiting for your commands.

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Squeeze Bacon

Bacon is delicious, but it is not but I bet you never get a squeeze bacon like this. It is fully cooked 100% bacon. Due to the patented electro-mechanical process by which Squeez Bacon® is rendered, it requires no preservatives or other additives. Wow, my mouth is watering.

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Waving table legs

Unlike traditional tables which is usually focus on the tabletop, this one designed by Dimitrios Tsigos comes with unique waving legs. It uses a very special technique that puts together small and simple geometric patterns to create large and meaningful furniture. Pared with the transparent table top, you can get a magic furniture.

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Gun hook

This really seems like a gun toy attached on the wall. However, because of the curve, it is transformed into a coat hook.

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Recycled Trash bin

This is a brilliant idea. The trash can itself is made from waste paper and so it is eco-friendly. But the attracting point is that this can comes with multiple layer, each of which can be used as garbage bag separately. In other words, in case the bin is full, you can just throw the trash away with the inner layer.

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Moixa multi-touch Sphere

Multi-touch device is very magic, iPhone is a good example. This new device from Moixa will lead us to a totally new landscape. It will give you the similar function to iPhone. For example, surfing web, editing & checking emails and playing game. But this device dubbed Sphere is actually a multi-touch ball.

In other words, you iPhone is gonna turn into a ball.

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Spinning chair

This chair is in the shape of a upside-down cone, and so you can turn around for a complete 360º when sitting on it.

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Heat-sensitive kettles

In order to tell you the temperature of the kettle in a more intuitionistic way, this product can tell you the approximate temperature with different color, from a darker shade of red to an increasingly more luminescent red, with the change in temperature, courtesy of the Thermochromic technology.

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Redundant clock

All the scales of the clock actually mimic the very pattern of the dial plate at the same time. And so we call this clock redundant clock. But which is the redundant one?

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Frame bar

This photo is captured from St George Lycabettus Hotel in Kolonaki, Athens, the interiors use a very special design pattern where flowing white bands move on from one corner to another like an illusion, forming one integrated mass. Actually, we cannot distinguish which pattern belongs to floor, which pattern belongs to chairs and desks. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Vivid juice package

In order to distinguish different kinds of juice, you have to check out the words on the label, though most of them are printed with corresponding colors. However, this innovative design can tell you which kind of juice is in the package with a simple glance, because all of them are printed with corresponding fruits pattern on them. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Interlock table

Want to attract more eyeballs? You have to break away from convention.

The three legs of this table are all normal wood sticks. This is not the point. The point is the connection between the tabletop and the three sticks. Because of made of acrylic, the tabletop comes with three heaves which seems like ripple, and the sticks can be simply inserted into the heaves to interlock each other and support the tabletop as well. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Business card for dentists

Business cards should not be as simple as just telling your basic information, they should more innovative. This business card for dentists is a good example. It comes with an extra coat with a tooth-shaped cut-out, and the phone icon plays as a hole. Want to remove the hole? Just check out the information of this dentist.

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Calendar clock

This is an integrated design which combines calendar and clock into one product.
The date and time-marks are printed on the paper roll. With the rolling of the paper, you are goanna read both the date and the time with the pointer. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Women

I guess you can differentiate which one is for you, unless you make a mistake by design.

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Two-way faucet

Different from normal ones, this faucet comes with an additional upside flow and so you can get brush your teeth without a cup. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Break it

Are you stressed? Do you need stress relief? Then you will like a CD package like this. It is made of potato starch and so is easy to be break. What’s more, the original purpose of this package is to let you break it. OK, go ahead. Break it and relieve you your stress. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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S bed

S style chair is very common, but this kind of design is not appropriate for bed, at lease in commonsense. However, The Urano bed by designer Leonardo Dainelli give us a big surprise. WOW, it is really unbelievable. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Cry for stock

In this era full of uncertainties, you have enough reason to cry. Stock Market slump might be one of the best crying catalysts. I bet you would have more intention to cry with a handkerchief embroidered with the graph of the Dow Jones average for the past five years. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Heels on wheels

This is a crazy idea, you should pay more attention to your ankles while riding on them. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Bamboo speaker

Natural sound is perfect than any artificial one, but most of us can not get it at home. This bamboo speaker might be a desirable solution. It can cultivate the bamboo on the top of the speaker and so the sound will be richer as the bamboo grows taller.

Although listening music is not what you want, this will be a good decoration of your house.

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Poo Pen

Oh, my God. This is for sure the most weird and smelly pen I’ve ever seen. It let me recall the funny sentence that my professor created in class, that is, Oh, My SHIT! Whoever the shit is it belong to. It is really weird. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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