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This is a creative set of painted porcelain vases and tablewares which have blurred the line between decoration and function. Obviously, Ruth Gurvich has drawn an inspiration from the Chinese Landscape Paintings, revealing the tablewares’  functions from a decorative perspective. Besides, the designer also endows these daily necessities with creases, folds and tautness characteristics of paper, giving them a distinctive appearance. [Read the rest of this entry...]

It is a wall-mounted bookcase, not only a stylish shelf for your favorite books, but an attractive decoration on the wall. It looks just like a bird nest! Apart from that, because of the flat surface on its top, the innovative design also allows you a continuous reading without using the bookmarks.

This is a multifunctional piece of furniture named as ‘Also Chair’. It is an armchair that could be changed into a desk when you flip the chair for 90 degrees. Apart from that, there’s a bookcase- either behind the backrest or below the table surface- for you to put books. Simple and functional all in one, ‘Also Chair’ is particularly perfect for small houses. [Read the rest of this entry...]

You think ornate frames are outdate and no longer suitable to decorate the wall? You’ll change that opinion after checking out these innovative frames. Still adopting the basic design of traditional ornate frames, these ornaments also come with vases, shelves, hook and other useful gadgets inside the frames, instead of ordinary pictures or photos. So next time you need some stylish home furnishings, you should try these trendy ornate frames. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Guess what, you can mount three bicycles onto the back of the car with merely 6 straps! Sounds incredible, right? But that’s just what the QuickBack Trunk Mount is intended for: a fast-installing and easy-to-use trunk rack for bikes. It features several narrow arms to hold up to 3 bikes at one time, as well as coated padded metal buckles to protect your car from possible scratches. And due to the 6 straps and the anti-sway cradles, the three bikes could be easily kept in place to eliminate bike-to-bike contact. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Let’s check out what great changes the bottle dispensers have brought to us. On one hand, the dispensers have made it convenient for us to use shampoo and sanitizer. But on the other hand, that also means a great waste of resource, due to the high demand of plastic bottles. So what should we do to reduce the wastage while still ensuring much convenience? The Eco-pump Refill Dispenser by Bang Ki Ryoul and Junga Kim seems like a clever solution.

It’s an outer shell with a nozzle and pile that fit to all types of refill pouches. As a result, you can directly screw the Eco-pump Refill Dispenser to another pouch when you’ve run out of the shampoo. [Read the rest of this entry...]

So what have you seen in the picture? A candle powered by electricity? For sure? Well, you may find it’s actually an ordinary candle with a plug-shaped holder if you take a good look at that. The candle holder is made from insulating materials and it couldn’t conduct electricity at all. But the combination of the two irrelevant resources- the fire and the electricity-has created an interesting visual effect. Really refreshing idea! [Read the rest of this entry...]

When you’re furnishing a home, light is the most concerned issue—neither too bright nor to dark, what you actually need is a dimmer switch lamp, a handy electrical component that lets you adjust the light levels so that you always feel comfortable. In this article, we’ll show you a new lamp that is shaped like a Chinese Scroll Painting. As it turns out, this lamp works in a totally unexpected way: it goes brighter when you pull its bottom down and turns darker as you roll it up. Well, possibly you will find the lamp more interesting and impressive if you paint something on it. Just imagine that.

Absolutely romantic and especially perfect for a sweet dinner on the coming Valentine’s Day!

Compared with DOS, Windows is more convenient for us to use. But not for the elders. And to make sure that elderly people are also enjoying the convenience brought by the development of technology as the young people are doing, Sylvia Spencer has come up with the Perch Computer, which adopts the induction technology to store information. It features several keys (which individually store certain data) on the allotted slot and a touch screen. And to the elderly, they can directly drag or drop these keys to receive letters, surf the internet or do something else. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Though claimed featuring a perfect energy saving property long ago, LED hasn’t been widely used yet due to its high cost of up to 28 dollars each. But that’s no longer true after the Cambridge University researchers have developed the cheap LED bulbs that are priced at merely $2.85 each. Even better, the new LEDs are much brighter than usual one and can last quite a long time of up to 60 years.

What, you haven’t heard of the Chocolate Theme Park? You must be kidding, right? The Chocolate Wonderland Park in Beijing is ready to accept customers on 29th, this month.

Located on the north side of the Bird’s Nest Olympic Stadium, the park includes five pavilions (the World’s Chocolate Hall, World’s Candy Hall, Wonderland Theme Hall, Sweet Experience Hall and Sweet Gift Hall) and two outdoor activity areas (the Sweet Stage and Sweet Shopping Street). The park features chocolate-made miniature of Great Wall, the Forbidden City, the Terra Cotta Warriors and other famous Chinese attractions and all those are believed to help people around the world to learn about China better. Apart from that, visitors will also be taught by expert chocolatiers to make chocolate. [Read the rest of this entry...]

You’re paying too much money for the electricity bill! And you look around at all those electrical appliances— TV, refrigerator, microwave oven, etc— but none of them seems to consume much energy. So why not let the Diet Watt to do the calculations of these gadgets for you? The system comes with two parts, the Diet Watt_Sub for displaying the consumption information of each gadget and the Diet Watt_Main for calculating the energy consumption of all the appliances. By doing that, you’re supposed to conserve the resources from planning proper electric energy consumption. [Read the rest of this entry...]

“Water is the source of life”, possibly nobody could have a more profound understanding of that than those who are faced with the terrible problem of an acute lack of clean water. Yes, those people are in great need of our help and what we could do is to send some water to them. Look at these water bottles, each of them is missing 50ml water out of the 500ml bottle, which is all delivered to kids in countries of lack of water. And on that place where the water is missing is a graphics that shows how important the 50ml water is to those kids. They need our help and of course we should do more for them. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Certainly most people would like to take the center stage of parties, and you’re one of them? If so, you may need these Party Rats, which are actually finger lights in the same shape of small rats. Just wear these colorful lights on your fingers, waving them in the air and then all the other people will definitely notice your hands and you. These lights could also be used in a more practical way, and that is to act as nightlights when you have to use your computer in the dark. [Read the rest of this entry...]