You’re visiting one of your intimates and she’s prepared your favorite coffee. So you take up the coffee cup with great pleasure and then find many ants climbing from the tray up to your cup…OMG, that’s h—horrible! But also Terrific! I love the trick done by the cup and saucer. [Read the rest of this entry...]
‘Fold’ by Fredrik Farg is an innovative set of chair that could be easily transformed into a stool through simple folding. So what are you waiting for? Fold your chair and share the stool! [Read the rest of this entry...]
Let’s start the article with a long equation: a cup warmer + a foot warmer + a huggable heater + a radiator = Adax Syklus Panel Heater. Wow, that makes you feel excited, right? Designed by Red Rabbits, Adax Syklus consists of a base and detachable heating panels that could be used to warm anything you may want. That also means, simply buy home the Adax Syklus Panel Heater, you could then own a radiator for your home as well as three heaters for your items. Sounds like a great deal. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Called as ‘phat knit’, the series of oversized furniture are made using giant knitting needles and strings. Available in two versions— one piece that features multi (or single) colored strings tied together and the other that is actually a huge knot—’phat knit’ would spice up your kids’ bedrooms… as long as their rooms are big enough. [Read the rest of this entry...]
This tea set fits lovers quite well. It features several ‘couple’: the ‘couple’ spouts of the tea pot could offer tea to a couple of cups at one time; and the tea tray is also designed to hold the two matching cups. In other words, everything you see from the elegant tea set always indicates the same number ‘two’, wishing you and your girlfriend/boyfriend a sweet life. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Coming from Carnegie Mellon University, Snackbot takes the very name from one of its main jobs: to serve snacks. And the other job of the robot is to serve as a research platform for kinds of researches. It is intended for both fully autonomous and semi-autonomous operation. With various sensors built in, Snackbot could communicate with people through verbal and non-verbal mechanisms, participate in simple sociable activities, distinguish those people around it and learn to recognize new objectives, etc. In one word, Snackbot is a cute-looking robot with various skills. [Read the rest of this entry...]
It is nice for us to see what the personal commuting vehicles would be like in the future, especially when we’ve just finished an old year and started a new year. Designed by Yuji Fujimura for Yamaha, the Wheel Rider is an innovative personal vehicle that features both a compact size and a functional shape. It consists of three layers, a solid metal outer body, a big wheel at the middle and a driving cab inside. Compared with two-wheeler vehicles, the Wheel Rider has greatly reduced its size, therefore to some extent solving the problem of heavy traffic on city roads.
Plans to develop Wheel Rider haven’t splashed down yet. [Read the rest of this entry...]
OMG, who would care about the gifts you’ve prepared, if you use so cute a box to package them! At least in my mind, such an innovative packaging is enough to surprise my buddies (they love everything that looks kawaii). If you have enough time, you could also follow the instructions to make some. Do enjoy it. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The newly launched electric vehicle is aimed at big cities and other places where the streets are always congested. To meet the urban commute requirements, the electric scooter not only features a compact shape, but promises an easy storage. When not in use, the vehicle could be conveniently folded up in five steps. The design also speaks of green promises, as it is powered by super charging lithium batteries (they could be full charged in merely five minutes) and won’t lead to exhaust gas pollution. Besides, the vehicle also features an LED blue halo headlight for night riding. [Read the rest of this entry...]
It could be an ideal razor for those who are on a business trip frequently. The Foldable Razor mainly features a soft body that could be easily rolled up into a capsule-shaped case. Not only ensuring you a convenient shaving anywhere, this design also protects the blades from bacteria by storing it in the pill box. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Welcome to the Five-Stars Hotels made from cardboards…
Designed by Keung Caputo, these boxes would offer you a luxurious resort, because each of them is created with a cardboard bed, pillow and dedicate interior decorations. Four different themes are available for you to choose from. But the biggest problem with the cardboard hotels may be that no smoking is permitted if you want to be safe…Just kidding. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Announced during Samsung’s CES press conference, the TicToc is believed a perfect alternative to Apple’s iPod Shuffle. Based on a built-in motion sensor, TicToc allows the users to change tunes by shaking the player slowly or quickly. The more slowly you shake the player, a much gentler music will be chosen, and vice versa. There’s a big button on one end to control the volume and a headphone port on the other. Turn the button to face the ground when you want to decrease the volume and make sure the button faces up if you’d like to increase the volume. The Samsung TicToc could support MP3, WMA, OGG, and FLAC audio formats with 12 hours of battery life. It will soon be available in two versions (2GB and 4GB capacities) but still no price has been announced. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Apart from telling you the accurate time, the Annular Eclipse Clock designed by Lee, Gimpo-si and Gyeonggi-do will also show you the process of total solar eclipse every day. How? Well, as you can see from the pictures, the transparent plate will gradually turn into opaquely dark from morning to the evening. The Annular Eclipse Clock also features two different ways to tell the time: during the daytime, it uses the two black spots to separately indicate the hour and minute while employs two shadows to show the time when in the night. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Do scanners merely turn printed text into digital format? Apparently the answer is no, as the ‘BookReader’ launched by Cerritos, CA-based manufacturer Plustek Technology Inc also reads the book for you. Mainly aiming at visually impaired users who still want to read books, the device not only uses the optical character recognition software to convert printed books or documents into digital formats, but adopts the text-to-speech recognition software to translate them into audio files. So simply put a book page on the scanner, press the button and then you can listen to the page. That’s cool!
The device could scan in three different modes: plain text, a grayscale PDF scan and a color scan.
Designed by Jordi Canudas, Less Lamp is quite unique: firstly, what you buy home is actually a sealed lampshade; secondly, no light will be released until you crack it with a specially designed hammer. [Read the rest of this entry...]
