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Are you dissatisfied with your current jewelry, DJs? Those ordinary necklaces are not creative enough to reflect your personality, right? If yes, then you must have a look at the limited edition hand-crafted silver jewelry manufactured by Darkcloud Silver (an Australian based company founded by artist Nathan Thomas) for DJs and others who’d like to be part of the music. Available in different shapes of DJ gear like turntables and headphones, these luxury necklaces and rings are priced from $300 to $750 on Oye Modern. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Canadian-born sculptor Cal Lane has long been in deep love with art, and her devotion to sculpturing finally led to the creative project: lace transformed from old farm tools. Using her metalworking and welding skills, Cal Lane has changed ordinary oil tanks, drums, cars, and other tools into luxurious lace, just as you can see from the pictures. That’s really amazing! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Hey, moms, your time with the babies will be much more enjoyable as long as you have the Rockid. It is something that combines a rocking chair and cradle in one, coated with birch ply wood and industrial felt and measures 88cm x 97cm x 133 cm. Simply rock back and forth in the chair, the moms would easily lull the babies to sleep while still relaxing themselves. [Read the rest of this entry...]

It’s the right time to safeguard your hardware in a more effective way…And one of the new solutions is put forward by Wu Jiang, a Chinese designer who advocates scanning the flash drives to ensure there’s no virus before you connect them to the computers. The name of his design is the “U+ USB Hub and Disk Scanner”, and it will work in tandem with the popular virus protection software to ensure the virus infection doesn’t spread. But at present, it is still a concept, and we may have to wait for years to see the creative gadget on the market. [Read the rest of this entry...]

If you’re planning to decorate your apartments (especially those tiny ones measuring less than 400 square foot), we highly recommend that you have a look at the innovative apartment created by a Hong Kong-based designer Gary Chang. His 330 square foot apartment is equipped with suspended sliding walls and fold-away furniture, allowing him to easily transform the apartment into a kitchen, a laundry room, a dinning room, a dressing room and a leisure zone with a hammock. Therefore, even though the construction area of the apartment is really small, you won’t feel uncomfortable when living in it. Good work!

Check out the pics after the jump to see how the apartment is created. [Read the rest of this entry...]

At the first glance, Five Pointed Eraser seems like a terrible idea, bringing needless complexity to something that is so simple: erasing the errors. But to those who want their work to always look sharp, that’s a useful gadget. It features five different heads (respectively measures 1mm, 3mm, 4mm, 5mm and 6mm wide), rubbing out merely the errors while nothing else. And most important, the eraser won’t quickly become useless for its purpose as most people might have thought, because the worn-down erasing heads could be detached to expose sharp new heads. Scheduled to be released on May 13th, the Five Pointed Eraser will soon hit the stationery market. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Eat the iPhone!? Am I crazy? Nope, coz the iPhones we’re to eat are not those smart cellphones but delicious chocolate boxed in an iPhone-like package. But remember not to put the chocolates together with your iPhone cellphone, or you’ll probably eat the real one and get your teeth broken…I’m not kidding. [Read the rest of this entry...]

\ (^o^) / Hello everybody, how do you like my new facial expression, isn’t it cute? With the help of the Kaoiro Emoticon Stamp, which has 7 belts with 20 symbols around each, you can create about 2000 interesting Japanese emoticons in total. Fantastic! [Read the rest of this entry...]

You’ll never know what the spring means to the “Jack” created by Arthur Bodolec, unless you sit on it…Wow, the surrounding panels of the stool begin to raise and the stool finally transforms into a full functioning chair! Apart from “Jack”, the designer will also give forth other works that would transform from a stool into a chair when ‘feeling’ the pressure.

More pics after the break. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Rain Drum, a recent work from a South Korea-based designer Dong Min Park, has been very popular on the Internet, and deemed as “an interesting amusement for boring rainy days”. The shade of the umbrella is made up of five different wax cloths, to imitate the different frequency of the hi-hat, crash, tom-tom, bass and snare. So next time you’re in the rain with such an umbrella, you’ll surely experience something new and enjoyable. [Read the rest of this entry...]

For all those who want their dinners more delicious and fresh but feel bad about grinding the peppercorns or sea salt, the designers have come up with a beautifully cool Chef’n Dual PepperBall. It’s a cute 2-in-1 salt and pepper grinder, producing fresh salt or pepper when you give the “bunny ears” handle a gentle squeeze.

Still, it is very compact and smart, designed to be used with one hand. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Finally there’s a simple but practical item allowing the elderly and those with disabilities to sit up in bed all by themselves. It’s the Bed Ladder, something that goes horizontally across the bed, for the elderly and other people to use whenever they’d like to get up. Though sounds weird and useless to some people, the product is especially helpful to those aged men living alone. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Teaching is an art, managing is an art, and, preparing food is also an art! It might even be the greatest of the arts since it is aimed at the perfect combination of material pleasures and spiritual enjoyment. So right here are a creative collection of sandwiches, just come in and see… [Read the rest of this entry...]

A gigantic origami crane has appeared in California, as an important part of the 2010 Coachella Music and Arts Festival. 45 feet tall and 150 feet wide (wingspan), the crane is actually a shelter, and also, a landscape architecture and symbol constructing of the music festival. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Foldable, portable and also durable, the Planet Earth Reusable Shopping Bag is an ideal alternative to the common plastic shopping bags. When folded inside-out into a small ball, the bag looks just like the Earth we’re living on. And by that means, the manufactures aim to call for everybody not to use the plastic bags, in order to protect our earth. Okay, I’ll get one, and you? [Read the rest of this entry...]