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Entries for July, 2009

QWERTY Magnets

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“L”, “O”, “V”, “E”, “U”, these five letters make up the most romantic sentence of the world, and everyone feel deeply touched whenever they see them. To express or remember the sweet love all the time, the magnets, in the same shape of QWERTY, are romantic message-style memos fixers. At present, there’re two choices available on line.

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Diversified Clock

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You are right the designer of the diversified clock! Clock hands, a blank dial, the initial elements of such a DIY clock create you a chance to be an artist. A round clock, a square clock, an animal clock, or even just a blank clock, what it looks like is all up to you. Design your own one now!

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Multifunctional Ironing Board

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Pragmatism is both space-saving and dollar-managing! That’s why people nowadays prefer creating and having multifunctional commodities such as the reflecting ironing board. When not in use, the ironing board, upheld in a bracket, is also a full-length mirror!

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Portable Urinal

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What would be more embarrassed and pressing than the need to urinate calls without any accessible facilities? Camping in the wild, travel on a crowded train, well, so many scenes in our daily life will result us such troubles. Portable urinal has come to help you! A sponge within the big-collar bag absorbs your liquid so sufficiently that it won’t spill. Utilitarian items!

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Record Sleeve Table and Syringe Chandelier

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So ordinary! On the first sight of the furniture, you may have the same feeling as I do. But wait! Wow, the colorful table is made from old LP jackets, and the magnificent chandelier is constructed from used syringes! So why not make your own furniture with old objects? I do appreciate the wonderful idea!

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‘Rocking on the Beach’ Chairs

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May it be another emissary from the sea? Similar to conches, the rocking chairs also creates sound of the sea and spread it from the speakers on the back. Like the wind passing by the woods, like affectionate call from mother, the sounds of the chairs remind us of the way we were. Let’s relax in the noisy urban on the chair.

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Pulley Booster

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The pulley booster, from Israel, may help the rollerblades to experience different joys by easily increasing their speed and saving energy. Looking like a wheel-on besom, it’s essentially an electric motor that can lead you to fly, just like Harry Potter!

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Multifunctional Bicycle Stand

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Displayed at the exhibition during “Tokyo Design Week”, the multifunctional bicycle stand drew much attention for its refresh design that integrates a street stand and rest area to save more space. You can lock your bike in the stand and work on the handy table, isn’t it utilitarian?

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Automated Self-portrait Machine

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May be most people have once dreamed painting their portraits personally, but it seems impossible as we’re not an artist! In fact you absolutely can make it! No need of training, no need of time, what you only need is just an automated self-portrait machine. It can snap a picture of you through a CCD camera and instruct you to draw varied personalized portraits according to the preset program. So cool!

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Wine Guider

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Good wine and delicious dishes are inbred mates, and they often bring the inevitable question to unprofessional people on how to select the right wine for their dinner. If you’re one of those people, you can heave a sigh of relief now with the new wine designs to guide you to the best choice. The packaging is so cute! On black bottles, there’re some colored animals indicating what meals they fit well, such as pasta, chicken, pizza, steak and fish.

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Desk Lamp and Flashlight

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Interior light, healing light, and flashlight, the appealing fancy lamp designed by Sanyo Electric Co. is a cordless device with three versatile uses. When you position it at a 90 degree angle in hand, the LED lamp on bottom will then brighten up as a flashlight.

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Dreamlike Bed

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Looking like pure white cloud in the air, big blue around the silent island, sweet pink flowers in spring, they’re actually beds launched by French furniture designer Philippe Boulet. As the manufacturer has integrated a touchpad to control the programmable LED modulator tube inside it, the bed can be changed into different colors to make your bedroom cozier.

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Pudding Chandelier

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Soft, gentle and crystal, the chandelier looks the same like a delicious pudding hanging in the air when it’s turned on. Wanna it to be more transparent? You can adjust its brightness through the stick inserted in the pudding.

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World Clock

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The world clock is worthy of its name in the unique idea to show different times in a single clock. Featuring simple and creative design, the clock is composed of multi-colored pointers to show the time of a corresponding colored country in the world map at the bottom.

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Finger Dance Alarm Clock

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It’s a bitter experience for almost everyone to struggle to wake up in the noise of an alarm clock, even though we usually fail to catch the right bus on time. Well, why not try the finger dance alarm clock? Different from those alarm controlled by a button, this alarm won’t stop ringing unless your figures can hit the correct sequence on the touchpad.

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