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Entries for August, 2009

Two-in-one Rocking Chair

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Designed for both indoors and outdoors seating, this chair by Peter Vardai is transformable. Either a rocking chair, or an arm chair, it all depends on you. For example, it can be conveniently transformed into a rocking chair as you turn over the carbon framework.

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Green Disposable Plates

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Though it’s generally accepted that green is of most important, we cannot break with disposable plates drastically on certain occasions. But please don’t feel depressed, for Andrea Ruggiero has brought us the green disposable plates. When not in use, such plates can be thrown away like Frisbees and become the food for wildlife.

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Book Marker

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Named as book marker, the super thin pen also allows you to mark up your pages with double-colored memo papers. In case that some pages are scratched by hard articles in your bag, there is one rubber band at the other end that is available for you to rack the book up. Matchless!

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Fujitsu’s Easy-to-clean Tablet PC

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To hospitals, lustration is of most important and almost every article in use should be completely clean. Designed specifically for the medical field, the easy-to-clean tablet PC from Fujitsu is so easy to clean that it can be completely kept away from bacterias.

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Hangers with Built in Clothespins

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Obviously most housewives have been bothered by the difficulty in fixing hangers to ensure a full drying of all the clothes. But now the problem has been resolved in a surprisingly easy way, that is, to attach clothespins to hangers.

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Sammy Boy

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Anxiety, testiness, vanity, all such emotions are common especially in the high-stress society and we do need to release the negative emotions. That’s just why Sammy Boy is created. When angry, you can shake, slam or spin Sammy to enjoy his fancy head shaking and shaking until you give him another smack.

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Portable Segway

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Is the Segway used during Olympic Games still in your mind? If so, the portable segway will also delight you. As an innovative alternative to cars and bicycles, it is a one-wheeled, self-balancing electric vehicle that weighs only 25lbs while reaches an average speed of 22km/h. When not in use, it’s rather convenient to take inside your place in a compact size.

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iPhone DJ Mixer

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Wanna mix your own music just like a DJ? Let the iPhone DJ mixer assist you. Built with a speaker connection and microphone jack, as well as a turntable, the mixer can combine music from two iPhone, iPods or mp3 players to create perfect sound effects including reverb, flange and filter, cross-fade slider, etc. Also, your iPhone, iPod will get charged when the mixer works.

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Roll-Out Vegetable Mat

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Roll-out vegetable mat leads you to your own vegetable garden in a simple way! As the mat is already sowed with types of vegetable seeds and organic fertilizer, what you need to do is only to roll it out with some soil on the ground and water it on time.

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Innovative Folding Bicycle

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Though folding bikes are no longer fanciful articles, the bike in the photograph is still striking. With all other parts folded into its two 26 inch wheels, the innovative folding bicycles can fit into most circumferences you often come with.

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Memo Block

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It is really a good creation to call for more people nowadays to think more about “green”. Made in the same shape of those logs, the memo papers remind us of forest protection and energy conservation whenever we use it.

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Grow Bike

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I don’t know whether or not the designer has a sentimental attachment to his bicycle used in childhood, the adjustable bike is really worthy of much appreciation. Designed with dozens of jacks, all the componets of the grow bike can be reassembled to satisfy children in different ages.

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‘Buddy’ Computer for the Home Environment

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Imagine that we can watch TV on bed just as we’re reading a book. Has it shaken you up a lot? That’s just what the ‘Buddy’ computer aims at. There’re three parts of the system, including a small portable touch screen, a large touch screen equipped with a projector, and a mainframe that works as a charging station for all necessary hardware. Mentioned its usage, the two touch screens can work according with orders from the mainframe through wireless devices and feedback relevant operations to it. Have you found out the secret of the small touch screen? Well, it’s also a keyboard for the large touch screen.

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Spaghetti Bench

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Primitivity is beauty, that’s just I’ve caught from the Spaghetti Bench designed by the Argentinean artist Pablo Reinoso. Awesome!

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Clock and Scale

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Either a clock or a scale, the cool design can work to its efficiency in both ways. In fact, it’s a clock when fixed on the wall while a scale when set onto the floor. When uesed as a scale, the hour hand and minute hand of the clock indicates your weight, for example, if the hour hand point to 4 and the minute hand point to 10, then you weigh 40KG.

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