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Entries for August, 2009

Recycled Wine Bottle Torch

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Certainly, you have found it’s a great way to recycle a bottle. When those needed parts are prepared, you can make a DIY wine bottle torch to light up any outdoor activities in the dark night.

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Celestial Chess Set

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“Celestial Chess Set”, unlike usual chess sets, is an innovative article that is based on a spherical base rather than a flat surface. Emphasizing a newfangled visual effect, you may find the delicate chess pieces seemingly walking upon the clouds when they rise to take part in the royal battle.

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iPhone Cards

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The world-round popularity of iPhone explains why even the decks of the new cards have been designed to look like an iPhone. Made of 100% PVC, the iPhone cards come to shock us again with a convenient cleanout: simply to wash them in the water!

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Hand-cranking Juice Extractor

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Whether you believe it or not, I’m still indulged in the manually operated type, especially when I intend to prepare fresh juice for my sincere friends with my love. Just forget those electrical juicers, and you’ll be in love with the simple squeezer! With a cup at the base to catch leavings, the hand-held juice extractor supplies pure juice to you in an easy way.

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Ceramic Vase Cum Cooking Timer

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What do you think the article is? Is it merely a vase? Not really. To most people’s surprise, the ceramic product from Israeli could be used as a kitchen timer as well. When not in use, it’s undoubtedly the most eye-catching appliance in your kitchen.

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Nostalgia Chandelier

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According to the Belgian designer Tim Baute, chandeliers have been so bulky and spectacular in modern times that we do need some nostalgia ones to bring us back to the pristine beauty of chandeliers. Simply driven by this, Tim Baute designed a chandelier with 7 bulbs respectively mounted on seven arms of a central electricity cable. The construction of the chandelier is so light that it moves whenever there is breeze passing through your room.

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Balloon Light

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No matter you’re a photographer or just an average man, you mustn’t miss the balloon lamp, for it brightens up your room with a variable volume. When the lamp inflates, the triangles on its surface will move apart to give off enough light through the interstices. It’s so nice to you!

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Calculator and Typewriter

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Considering that calculator is really a great change to the complicated arithmetic, we’re expecting it to be better and better. Then, what about a calculator that can type out procedures and results, say the two-in-one electric calculator? Also, it features the same font style, typing buttons and noise as those of an ancient typewriter.

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Vine Lamp

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Seemingly like a vine climbing up the wall, the lamp by “Trust in Design” is made up of 8 fluorescent tubes contained in strips that allow you to make any needed connections. When the 8 pieces are combined, you can simply adjust each strip to any angle and fix the lamp with the bracket on it. Aha, now you’ve created your own lamp!

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Digital BBQ tongs

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Digital BBQ tongs ensures you the best barbecues! Consist of 7 preset temperatures and one customized temperature, it can measure the meat’s internal temperature with a built-in sensor and alarm you when your meat is done. Powered by two AAA batteries, the BBQ tongs is also equipped with a stainless steel clip and a plastic handle.

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Letterman XXL Box

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What does snail mail mean to you in the high-tech era? Outdated, troublesome and absurd? Well, whether you admit or not, snail mail will not disappear in the foreseeable future, because it’s not a tool but a cherished tradition to most people. So here is a “Letterman XXL” letter box for you to check mails from the “striking peephole” and find newspapers in the paper tube on top. If the XXL size is too big, there’re still some smaller sizes in available.

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Butt to Butt Can

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Named as “Butt to Butt Can”, the innovative article, apart from working as a public ashtray, mainly aims at keeping nonsmokers away from designated smoking sections with its lively cigarette design. Really fantastic idea!

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What’s this?

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What’s this?

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Violin-shaped Corded Telephone

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Oh, yea they do be gone as we get closer and closer to technology, landline phones are still being innovated to extend their extinction time. So representing to you here is a violin-shaped corded telephone, an elegant artwork that can still work as a housing decoration.

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Shark Sofa

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Watch out, the shark is appearing! Probably because humorous tricks are always acquiescent as they have brought too much fun to our life that the bean bag is made in the same shape of an open-mouthed shark to frighten your friends a bit. Whoa, do be careful!

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