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There’re seldom lamps drawing all the people, but I bet your lamp has that potential if you’re using the ‘Eclipse Light’ by Ronen Kadushin. It is a simple lamp made from a single flat piece of steel, which reflects light when turned on. And the best part about it is that the lamp allows you to create various light effects by bending it into different shapes. Next time you entertaining your friends, you should proudly show them the amazing lamp. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Ride-On Carry-On is a product that ensures both parents and kids a comfortable travel. It allows the kids to ride on the luggage when on the process so that parents needn’t have to manage both the luggage and a stroller, and therefore saving them much trouble. When not in use, the seat could be easily folded up. To provide you with more convenience, the Ride-On Carry-On also comes with a fold-down tray for your kids to eating on. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Printed with dates, the ordinary sticky tapes could do more things for us as they also doubles as a calendar, a diary, a planner and a packaging tape. Each pack comes in two rolls, one for days and the other for dates. So what are you waiting for? Come on and buy yourself one pack! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Similar to the ‘Labels Indicating Freshness’ we introduced before, the innovative milk box also indicates the freshness of your milk by changing into different colors. As time passes by, the white box will gradually change into dark orange. And when the milk box is totally orange, it means that the milk is expired. [Read the rest of this entry...]

What are the main changes of washing machines during the last 10 years? They have a more attractive appearance and more functions? But washing machines are still washing machines and don’t feature anything really new. Except for the OVO washing machine by Murat Ozveri. It is a nicely-designed washing machine which seems more like an artistic piece of decoration for your stylish room. The best parts of OVO, however, are actually the interchangeable colorful faceplates and a built-in mini projector that displays different information due to the mode of the machine. For example, you’ll see a clock on the glass-face when the machine gets into standby mode, but detailed information about the washing process when it is in the working mode. [Read the rest of this entry...]

They are not real coins but USB flash disks with a coin-shape. Just for fun!

Keeping some ants as pets? God, that sounds so weird! But after you know the ‘Mayan Ant Colony’, a ‘home’ specially designed for ants, you may have an impulse to do that. It’s constructed of several piles for the ants to go through and looks like a mini palace. So if you’re too busy to take care of your pets, you may try raising some ants in the ‘Mayan Ant Colony’, as they will live a happy life without any aids. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Lady Gaga, a popular American recording artist, is well-known not only for her charming music, but for the unusual dressing. And one of her impressive accessories is rightly the Video Glasses, a pair of glasses with two small digital pictures frames stuck into the eye-holes. But the one shown here is not from Lady Gaga, but from one of her fans. Anyhow, it looks quite cool, right? So if you also want to become Lady Gaga, DIY a Video Glasses then.

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So you always forget to pull out the plugs but simply turn off the electrical appliances when not using them any more? Well, my friends, you’re wasting both the energy and your money. And aiming to help you form a good habit of switching off your electrical outlets, Daun Yun and Junil Choi have brought the ‘Switcle’ Concept Design to us. It is a combination of the switch and the receptacle, making the outlet look like a big switch and all that is expected to call for your attention to turn off the outlet. [Read the rest of this entry...]

What came to you on the first sight of the watch? It’s an image of the earth revolving around the sun? Yep, just as its name ‘Geocentric’ implies, Geoffrey Cooper’s watch has simulated the revolution of the earth around the sun. It has three rings, and it is the two bigger rings that are in constant motion to display both the hour and the minutes. And what is the red spot on the smallest ring is pointing to is rightly the current time. [Read the rest of this entry...]

ThermaHelm is a helmet that could stabilize the temperature of the brain, and believed by its designer Jullian Preston-Powers, the helmet “has the potential to save thousands of lives around the world every year”. It contains two lightweight chemical packs— one is filled with water and inside the other is ammonium nitrate. And you may have guessed right, the two will mix and trigger a ‘cooling’ reaction when given an impact.

Jullian Preston-Powers said that, he got the inspiration after sustaining an injury during a game of basketball. When playing basketball with his friend, Jullian Preston-Powers accidentally hit his friend’s head with the elbow and then someone handed them ice-packs for their injuries. “It was so cold I couldn’t hold it for very long,” Mr. Preston-Powers said, “So I placed it in my friend’s motorcycle helmet and he accidentally put it on while the pack was inside. He was surprised by how good it felt and that’s when I had that eureka moment.”

An $815 version of the ThermaHelm also comes with video cameras, GPS and Bluetooth and it is expected to be launched in the UK in May this year. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Hey, is there any policeman in front of the screen? As the product we’re to introduce today is something that may annoy the policemen. Then what are we to argue? It’s the ‘Car Plate Blocker’, a type of spray that makes your license plate ‘invisible’  to the traffic camera so that you won’t get the ticket even if you run through the red light. Mainly using the low observable technology, the spray works by reflecting the flash back to the camera so as to make your license plate over-exposed. Not only the cameras, but naked human eyes could nothing on your car plate due to the high quality stealth material contained in the spray.

Well, that’s really a clever way to get rid of tickets, but do think twice before you decide to use it. At least in my mind, it’s ignoble to escape a deserved punishment. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Taking the food packaging to a new altitude, the Chinese designer Daizi Zheng has come up with an innovative series of packing that includes carrot sticks packaged like Caroloto Cigarette, blueberries in a blister pack, and celery sticks in a French fry carton. So what do you think of these cute designs? Even if it’s hard for you to completely change your bad eating habits, you could also start a healthy life from eating healthy and green food packaged in not that ‘healthy’ boxes. But your ultimate objective is definitely to gain a balanced diet. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Lens cap are primarily designed to protect the lens from possible scratches, but that also results some trouble to the users. If you once used a camera with a lens cap, then you must have experienced the same problem of how to hold the lens cap. Put it in your pocket? Well, do pay more attention to it as the cap may easily break up. Tie it onto the camera? That will cost you much time. And actually, things will get easy if you’re using these Lens Cap Keepers.

You needn’t pay any money as you can use wasted plastic to make some following the steps shown in the pictures below. For a full tutorial, you can check out the website after the break. [Read the rest of this entry...]

They’re the best wine racks for music lovers! They’re two cute wine racks that are shaped like two guitarists. All made from recycled steel, the left one is the Elvis Impersonator Wine Caddy and on the right side is the Country Western Wine Caddy. So which one is your favorite? [Read the rest of this entry...]