Look at these lovely animals-cats, seahorse and beautiful landscapes-the sun, the moon, they’re actually appearing on the surface of coffee, isn’t that amazing?! They’re created by simply ‘drawing’ on the top layer of foam. And when we got such cups of coffee in hands, we’ll definitely smile and celebrate for so nice a day:) [Read the rest of this entry...]
Modular Tree Project is an impressive concept by Chilean artists Emilio Marin and Claudio Magrini. Instead of calling on people to plant real trees, the project encourages the whole society to install metal trees with wooden birdhouses on the branches to create an area in the cities for birds. At present, the project has been firstly realized in the Santiago valley, Chile. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Creativity is everywhere and Erika Iris Simmons is here to show us a new look of art by creating some portraits with weird stuff. Her first project, which is also Simmons’ favorite work, is a portrait of William Shakespeare made out of the writer’s books. And after that, Simmons has tried to make portraits with other materials and finally come up with some impressive portraits made out of cassette and film tapes. So what are you waiting for? Check out more cassette and film tape portraits after the break. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The vertical rainbow in the graph is actually shown in the Guggenheim museum in New York. It is a 120″ wide liquid curtain falling down from the building’s ceiling to the floor. It features a transparent container on the floor to collect all the stones and a ceiling container to dispense the stones. And due to the aspirator that leads the stones back up to the ceiling dispenser, a new curtain will appear in front of the visitors every 5 minutes. Illuminated by a prismatic color lamp installed on the third floor, the transparent stones will reflect the light and display the appearance of a rainbow as they drop down. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Dry and cold air does much harm to your lungs and makes you feel rather uncomfortable. Luckily, the designers have thought of the ColdAvenger, a practical mask that mix inhaled cold air with exhaled warm moisture to protect both your face and your lungs from the cold weather. Based on the ventilation technology, the mask could keep the interior temperature 40˚- 60˚F higher than the outside air. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Creative Factor: Eliminates the need of soil and encourages people to harvest plants inside their residence.
Designed by Jim Ruck, the ‘Breathe’ Concept Soil-Free Harvesting is a vegetation system that aims to bring people closer to the nature by permitting us to harvest plants inside the residence. It adopts misters to take the place of soils to supply the plants with needed water and nutrients. The conceptual garden also provides periodical water flow for the plants. Both the water flow and the misters are powered by electricity. It also features backup batteries to pump the water or set on the misters during the time of power outage. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Spending too much time on preparing dinners, washing dishes and tidying up the rooms have made the mothers exhausted. But none of that could be more disturbing than having your children happy at the table. So you must have a look at these Pop-up Jungle Placemats, lovely paper tablemats that will turn the bull mealtimes into interesting game times. The stickers onto the placemats are available in different choices of clothes and faces. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Sometimes it feels like we want something special to give our laptops a new look or make it more convenient for us to use them. The ‘A Stand Laptop Stand’ is rightly the thing you’re looking for. It looks couldn’t be more ordinary on the first sight, but makes your laptops cooler- wow, the ‘A Stand’ has changed your laptop into an amazing desk computer! Made of rubber-coated PVC tubes, these soft touch laptop stands will not scratch your PCs. Available in black, yellow and white, each stand measures 14.2″ wide and 6″ high. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Using hinged double panels of plywood, a Dutch firm Kapteinbolt has created the FLKS framework of an instant workspace that includes a desk, a chair, and other gadgets. Whenever you’d like to create a private office, you just need to follow the instructions to unfold each piece of furniture.
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Simpler but practical designs are always popular and today we’ll show you another ‘we should have thought of that before’ product. It is the ‘Keep2Green’ pot by Paul Gribincea. The concept about it is quite simple: the system makes a full use of the space and water by planting some grass beneath the hanging pot. So you’ve gotten that? Good. Mainly made from metal, ‘Keep2Green’ is heavy enough to withstand moderate winds and holds the flower pot steadily in the air. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The concept is all about allowing you a closer touch with the food, and protecting your hands from burns of course. You need to flip the food with fingers and the ‘Finger Tongs’ takes the very name rightly from that act. No matter you’re right-handed or left-handed, the silicon tong could always ensure you to control the food conveniently. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Seeming like a cool pair of sunglasses, the gadget is actually an innovative wearable media viewer. Its slim profile and full-sized image ensures you hands-free viewing while not affecting you to maintain your natural field of vision. A full charged Myvu Crystal battery could work for 4 hours. Besides, the personal media viewer also features superior video quality, superior sound, noise reduction and a light weight. Ear buds from Ultimate Ears promises extended bass and sound isolation. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Though balloons cannot do much for you, they at least can ensure you a free chatting time with your friends by amusing the annoying kids. Just give your kids a balloon, they will feel satisfied and have a good time with it. And next time going out for a walk in the night, you can easily amuse your kids by giving them a ‘Light-up Balloon’, an innovative kind of balloon that illuminates in the dark. Available in yellow, red, blue, green, white and other colors, each of the ‘Light-up Balloons’ could be blown up to an amazingly big size with a diameter up to 27 cm and keep that size for 15 hours. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Based on the micro sensors built in the handles, the Auto-lift Irons are innovative gadgets that automatically raise and stop working when they no longer feel the touch of your hand. So using these Auto-lift Irons, you need’t worry about burning your clothes even if you hurry off for a call while forgetting to lift the iron up. [Read the rest of this entry...]
As a child, Pepe Heykoop used to build small-sized houses with wooden bricks, and when he grows up, he is still building something with wooden bricks. It is the Brick Series Furniture that Pepe Heykoop has been busy with. Also shown at imm cologne 2010, the Brick Series has drawn much attention due to its simple but interesting concept. Obviously the product has taken the cold wooden furniture to a new altitude. [Read the rest of this entry...]
