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Entries for July, 2009

Coca-Cola Freestyle

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The freestyle fountain machine from Coca-Cola can mix up to 100 different drinks simply with a touch screen that is able to guide you to select and mix a great array of flavors. Isn’t it also a wise idea for Coca-Cola to develop another popular flavor? Perhaps we Chinese beverage manufacturers can also follow this way. At present, freestyle fountain machines are popping up in California, Georgia, and Utah.

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Multi-use Rack

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The thoughtfully creative table is from England, featuring at a smooth wave section that can house CDs, books and along with a surface on top to hold snacks and beverages.

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Shelf in the Wind

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Possibly Olivia Bradateanu has been deeply influenced by the classical book “Gone with the Wind”, he brings out the new design called “Shelf in the Wind”, a hardwood shelf that seems to be blowing away in the air. It really can stimulate our imagination in daily life.

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Easy-packing Table

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Good news for dead beat ! To allow you to tidy up your workbench in just few seconds especially when you’re visited by some big guns, Line Depping has created the easy-packing table that can take in any sundries. Or CDs, or books, such a table is enough.

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Eclipse LED light

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If the spectacular total eclipse on July 22nd hasn’t satisfied your curiosity to astronomy, then you must need the eclipse LED light. Remotely controlled, the LED light offers five different modes, depending on your mood.

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Shrinking Milk Jug

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The shrinking jug is a latest design to keep your milk fresh for a longer time by reducing the air in the container. It is easy to use, you should simply push a button on the top and the milk will be forced out. More exciting fact lies in the design that it can adjust the retention volume automatically according to the milk amount, so that milk will be kept apart from bacteria in the air.

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10 Fingers Multi-touching Screen

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As if iPhone and iPod are not cool enough, now the famous touch-pad/track-point manufacturer Synaptics has launched the ClearPad 3000 that could register ten fingers simultaneously. Quite cool! Here’s a close-up below.

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Wall-Mounted Speaker

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Obviously the wall-mounted speakers are striking for their magniloquent and eccentric design. When hung on the wall, it looks just like an outstanding logo that is appeal to most people. Available in red and white colors, the speaker system is made up of six smaller speakers and two touch screens. Both MP3 and CDs are compatible with it.

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Used As Read

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I’m just what I am! The electronic devices called “Used as Read” now allow us to figure out each of them, because these devices are made in the same shapes of the English words that they are named. For example, the radio spells out its name “radio”, the remote controllers spell out the word “remote”, “light” stands for lamps, and “music” shows us music players, etc.

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Choken Bako Bank

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The Choken Bako bank, looking like a lovely dog, is actually an electric saving gadget that encourages you to save up more money with a dog-like enthusiasm. When you drop some coins into his dish, the dog will go for it at once and store them in the paper box below.

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Colored Beer

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Light gold isn’t the only color that stands for beer. Recently, the Japanese beer manufacturer Abashiri have used water from melted icebergs to make the blue beer shown here. Even leave it alone, the blue beer still looks very attracting and salubrious. It is also available in green/red colors and all these beer are added plants to give out unique colors.

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Underwear for your Hands

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Here’s an interesting concept for gloves called “Handerpants”, underwear for your hands! The product is made of 100% cotton and is ventilate  enough for most users. Even you cannot accept such an awkward design completely,it is a rather whimsical  gift for your friends.

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Animated Ominous Eyes

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Eerie eyes! The chafferers always pushes their limits and come up with something out of the common world, such as the cool eyes. With a built-in suction cup, such eyes, or blinking slowly, or gazing seriously, can be fixed to windows, trees and grass to frighten any visitors at night. Using electroluminescent technology and powered by 3 AAA batteries, the eye lids and pupils can send out a red glow day and night.

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Ringlike Bluetooth Headset

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Have you got a clear idea of the ring? Right, it’s also a Bluetooth headset. While in its ring form, the user can find out caller ID, calendar items, text information and voice-to-text information on the LED screen. If you have to answer a call, what you should do is simply to twist it and put it on your ear. It is supposed to be launched in January 2010.

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Crazy Lamp

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Why must bulbs be built inside a lampshade, and why can’t we make the shade conduct low-voltage electricity? Driven by these wild ideas, an Atlanta designer has invented the crazy-looking lamp. The 28 bulbs on the perimeter are 10-watt Xenon Festoon ones and supply the users with a safe 12V electric power  through the lampshade. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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