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Entries for February, 2010

Mini-Sized Bicycle

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Perhaps even the fattest man would be in a good shape if he/she keeps riding a bike everyday. Then I’d like to suggest using the mini-sized bicycle for better efficacy! But obviously it’s not designed for those being excessively fat…

Just for fun!

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Dinosaurs will hold your CDs.

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The CD rack takes a good advantage of dinosaurs’ skeleton, enabling the users to place more pieces of CD on it. Those who love dinosaurs now have a new option.

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Bottoms Up Shot Glass

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I bet you’ll  love the perfect concept behind the Bottoms Up Shot Glass: drink up, drunk down. Simply flip the glass over, you’ll find the word ‘drink’ change into another word ‘drunk’. The magic glass is mainly based on a calligraphic design—ambigram, which makes one word to be read as more words from different angles. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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‘Father and Me’ Stool

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Believe it or not, there’s always a story behind each design. And even the simplest design will remind us of those sweet memories if we really understand its story. The stool looks bit of weird at the first sight, but when you see the picture on the top right, you’ll surely understand its meaningful concept as it brings back the happy childhood when your father played the same game with you.

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Grow Space For Kids

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All the kids around the world should thank the h2o Architects a lot, as they’ve come up with the piece of multi-use furniture to create you a multifunctional space for you to play, to rest and to study in.

The entire piece is designed to be shared by two children. To meet your kids’ various requirements, Eva’s Bed consists of stairs, aisles, shelves, tables, beds and other pieces of furniture. But perhaps the most attractive feature is the modular design enabling the users to rearrange the multiple spaces when they grow up. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Clip + Hook

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Clips and hooks are two kinds of gadgets we often used to hold small items like keys, towels, etc. So what about combining them together? The result is the ‘Clip + Hook’ presented here. Although that’s quite a simple design (it even couldn’t be seen as a design at all), the product will bring you more convenience. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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‘Delicious’ T-shirt

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You’ll definitely strike everybody’s eyes with so delicious a fried egg  on your chest…

It is available in black and white colors for $24. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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White Eraser USB Flash Drive

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Eraser and USB flash drives seem to be unrelated to each other, but you won’t think so after checking out these items. As you can see from the picture, the designer hides a flash drive in a white eraser, which also protects the electronic components apart from erasing the documents. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Air Scale

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Air Scale is an innovative design by Yasuhiro Akama. The concept is all about telling the users the quality of the air they’re breathing in. According to the amount of pollutants, Air Scale rates the air in three colors: red means ‘dirty’, white indicates ‘normal’ and green means ‘clean’. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Creative Belts

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Everyone prefers to choose a matching belt for their suits, but have you ever seen somebody using such a creative belt? [Read the rest of this entry...]

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K-Swiss Wood Shoes

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The genius French-based architect Paul Coudamy has designed a series of wooden shoes for footwear company K-Swiss. All hand curved, these shoes have a fine workmanship and are produced in a limited edition of 25. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Rainbow Roses

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After lengthy years of experiments, the breeders have finally developed these rainbow roses, offering you a clever alternative to the red roses for Valentines’ Day. These colorful roses have been developed through a unique coloring process, during which the rose-branch absorbs all the different dyes as they grow. Though they are real flowers, these rainbow roses can only be purchased as cut or dried flowers, rather than a rose bush. Such flowers can be ordered by visiting the website below. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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IBM Releases the world’s most efficient thin-film solar cell.

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After a lengthy nine months of development, IBM has recently announced its new thin-film solar cell, which is made from cheaper materials while features an efficiency of 9.6% (40% higher than previous prototypes). The new thin film technology uses copper, tin, zinc, sulfur and selenium to take the place of traditional copper indium gallium selenide or cadmium telluride. Besides, the researchers also adopt a new kind of solvent- hydrazine, which is less costly and decomposes more easily. Instead of manufacturing the cells, IBM claims that they’d prefer to license out the new technology when the time comes. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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‘Harvest’ by Asif Khan

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Showcased at the Design Museum London, ‘Harvest’ is an installation of chairs and tables made of Gypsophila plant, which has a natural ability to interlock. All the flowers have been put into moulds and freeze-dried for weeks before they’re used to make up the furniture. It will remain on show in The Tank outside the museum until 15 March. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Paper Ribcage

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Look at my heart and you’ll know exactly about my love for you…The weirdest but most impressive gift for Valentine’s Day. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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