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Entries for July, 2009

Mustache Salt and Pepper Shaker

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Cute tools! Made of walnut, this kind of salt and pepper shakers seems very droll. Put both condiments side by side and they form one large wooden mustache vividly.

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Solar-powered Robotic Pool Skimmer

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This pool skimmer is driven by the solar power and lets you keep your swimming pool clean in an eco-friendly way. With a pair of solar panels on the top of the skimmer to collect the sun’s energy and store it in a rechargeable NiMH battery, the pool skimmer also can change the station and reduce the work intensity automatically, according to the environment.

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Liquid-cooling Light Bulb

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Much lighter with less cost, the liquid-cooling LED light bulb saves you more money! It actually the first bulb to use liquid-cooling technology and the liquid paraffin inside it has been guaranteed to be safe. Either the desk lamp or the sconce, the 4W bulb will put out as much light as a 25W bulb and last for 35,000 hours in total.

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Small Balls, Great Air Cleaners

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Best decorative air cleaner for mini flat! Using a form of ionization with a photo-catalyst complex sterilizing collection technology, the air-cleaning balls can filter dirt, smoke and odors in the air and eliminate bacteria and viruses. With a fan built in it, the cleaner can also absorb dirty air from the bottom and then pull out clean air through the top.

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Solar Energy Generating Flowers

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To promote their newest vehicles, Toyota recently installed these solar-energy generating flowers on streets to supply tourists with free 110V power energy through the outlets on molded plastic benches. Wi-Fi service is also available! All these are both supported by the solar panels on the flower petals.

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Wooden Calendar Cards

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The wooden calendar cards, from Columbia, can absolutely present the functional aesthetics. Using the ragged wooden sculpture cards to denote current date and month, the simple calendar fits your workplace perfectly well.

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Book-sensitive Reading Lamp

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The soft lighting lamp from French is a creative one that controlled by book, it turns off when you put a book on it and turns on when you take away the book. Due to its close relationship to books, it’s believed to be the only lamp that deserves the reputation “a book lamp”.

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Bloody Eye and Ripped Ear

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Too awful to frighten anyone especially the thieves! The bloody door decoration, including an eye-like fully functional camera hanging outside the door, an ear-like speaker inside the door and a volume-regulating button on the side, can tell different information with its varied eye colors. When you’re visiting here, don’t forget to see it, green eye means welcoming you and the red one means refusing you. Truly Whacko!

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Electronic Blackboard

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Hitachi will launch an electronic blackboard in August to optimize the product mix in education market. As it is built in two infrared cameras that individually has a viewing angle of 170°, any co-ordinates written on the electronic blackboard will be detected and fed back to the PC to update the display in consequence. The 50 inches blackboard with a traversing carriage is expected to be adopted by more than half of the schools in Japan.

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Mule-like Commodity Rack

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The most hard-working mule all over the world! Made of high-pressure laminate, the mule-like commodity rack can continue working for tens of years to accommodate taxing objects without any complaints.

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All-in-One Player

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It is the Swiss Army knife in the CD player field. Except to play Discs, cassettes, CDs, the all-in-one player, from Japan, is also a CD/cassette recorder and a synthesized stereo tuner. Woo, though it’s a complicated device, you can easily handle it just with a remote controller, so convenient! But we have to wait for it until July 30 (price: $750), be patient!

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Shutter-like Speaker

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A fancy-looking speaker that occupies little space! To save up more space and collaborate with the decorative paintings to embellish the room, the shutter-like speakers can be rolled up like those sun-blinds and shine up in the dark.

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Drumstick Spoons

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Music, delicacy, the wooden drumstick spoons have brought us the two most important elements of our life, even before Rock Band. When cooking meals, may you also wish to add into them some beautiful music on your own? Have a try!

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Your Luggage, Your Workstation

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Photography is a professional job, and so is the luggage used to protect the expensive devices during adventurous excursions. To keep photography jobs going smoothly, the multifunctional baggage can not just protect the gadgets, but doubles as a workstation that is equipped with a folding light screen for the users to carry on temporary projects.

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Bottle Biner

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Except to crack open a bottle, the bottle biner also can assistant you to climb up a high mountain. Isn’t it cozy to drink your fill on the mountain top?

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