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Entries for July, 2009

Speaker Modules

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Speakers tend to stick out in any room, no matter in which ways they are fixed. Thank God, the speaker modules from Italia come to match your room perfectly. Made of various colors and materials, they can be used as shelves to become a natural part of your room.

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Solar Sound Bluetooth Speaker

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The solar sound bluetooth speaker is powered by the solar panel on its top, which will last for 8 hours with middling volume and only last for half that time when you turn on the maximal volume. Both USB and Bluetooth are available to connect it to cell phones, MP3s and computers. What’s more it contains a touch screen that means a free and easy control to your music.

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Creamy Memories

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Don’t these popsicles look yummy? However, I suggest you’d better not taste them, because they’re actually portable storage devices from Korea. The ice cream part of the popsicle is a hard drive and the stick is a USB flash drive. At present, there’re three flavors, including Chocolate (120GB HD / 8GB flash), Strawberry (80GB HD / 4GB flash) and Vanilla (60GB HD / 2GB flash).

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White Rhinoceros

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“White Rhinoceros”, the nickname for an awesome ceramic tile with a hook, is a latest try to solute the common problem in any bathroom that hooks often break off from ceramic tiles. Designed with a built-on ceramic hook, such tiles now provide us a choice to decorate our bathrooms.

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Clamp Table

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This is a set of table clamps for kinds of table tops, no matter it’s a wooden one, a metallic one or a stony one. What delights you most is the easy way to produce a tabletop by attaching it to any flat surface with a clamp mechanism.

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Broomba Self-propelled Broom

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Broomba for Halloween! Rather than sweeping your house, the self-propelled broom can scare your friends. Powered by three AA batteries, when it’s started, the broom will move around the room and give out frightful sounds.

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Tin Can Lids

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Tin can lids are a series of biodegradable, plastic lids specially designed for used tin cans by Northumbria University graduate Jack Bresnahan. These lids can turn cans into useable household containers, including a vase, soap dispenser, sugar caster, tea and coffee canisters, toothbrush holder, money box and desk tidy.

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Tap Lamp

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What will happen when you open a tap? Water is coming out, right? But I suppose it is light! Look at the tap lamp that we intend to introduce to you. It’s an artistic one that is made of galvanized iron parts and controlled by a tap switch.

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Un-Recklessly Breakable Plate

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Alexander Hulme has brought us a new design to challenge the mathematic law that one minus one equals zero. When you drop the so-called un-recklessly “Breakable” plate onto the ground, two much smaller plates will come out!

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Shower Radio

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The shampoo bottle in the picture is actually a shower radio by Industrial Facility! Though at first glance it seems like the average simulation designs, it is in fact the idealest facility for us to enjoy our favorite programs during showers. Guess what? The bottle cap is a switch for volume adjustment and other controls are hidden at its bottom.

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Grass Cushion

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Walks on grass keep us healthy! The grass cushion is a new option for us to keep the good habit of walking with barefeet on grass especially indoors. Made of real turf, the green cushion can help to advance the circulation of blood and absorb the water on our feet.

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Backpack Chair

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Putting bags behind our backs is a common habit to ensure our belongings safe when dinning outside, but what about your feeling? Uncomfortable to be sitting on something, isn’t it? To make your chairs more comfortable and safer, the backpack chairs aim to provide a built-in space for stocking our belongings.

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Twsited Seating System

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This is one modular seating system that could be twisted and opened in different ways. No matter you press it, pull it or even twist it, at least one drawer that is a kind of secret compartment will be revealed when needed.

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Rain Shade

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Rain shade isn’t the rainfalls in the nature but a home decoration that simulates them. The designer put various “blobs” altogether on the thread and they hang spontaneously in the air just like that cool rainfall in hot summer.

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Speech Bubble Speaker

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Let the speech bubble speakers “speak” for your computer and MP3! Shaped like the speech bubbles we generally see in cartoons, these lovely gadgets are the best way for you to express your feelings to music. So why not write down your sentiment and put it on the bubble?

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