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Well, the new needle designed by Jieun Lee and his partners seems nothing special on the pictures, but the difference will then be noticed when you pull the thread to the opposite direction… guess what, the thread is easily cut off! All the secret lies in the sharp blade towards the lower-inner eye, and it performs just as well as your knives and teeth to cut off the thread. Just remember its name, the Cut Needle. [Read the rest of this entry...]

According to Swedish architecture studio Visiondivision, umbrellas can not only protect you from rainwater, but also offer you pure water for drinking if needed. And that’s the main idea of the ‘Storm Flipper’, a new drinking fountain prototype designed for a competition entry. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Who would ever imagine that ugly metal cranks can be transformed into such cute cup coasters? Truly amazing. Dubbed Crank Coasters, they’re all made from discarded cranks, with yellow-colored rubber filled around. [Read the rest of this entry...]

For those who have kept seeking for an easiest way to have their table tidy up, we once introduced the Easy-packing Table, and now to help you make the beds more conveniently, we’d like to show you the Zip Bed. It is a new piece from the Italian company Florida Furniture and features a zipper running around the frame for you to unzip to reveal a cozy bed or zip up to hide crumpled sheets. Yeah, housewives can then have an extra opportunity to rest. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Compared with regular wall clocks that are named as “Flower Clock”, the new one from Rafael Assandri seems more worthy of the name. Each petal here indicates five minutes, and a new petal will begin to expand whenever a new hour begins. Therefore with the flower blooming and fading and then another hour goes by. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Can one single nail open a bottle? Not likely, unless the nail is built onto a walnut wood block… Handmade to fit the contour of your hands, the handy Nail Bottle Opener not only offers an interesting way to open bottles, but comes with a concealed magnet to hold the caps when they tend to fall away. Really a simple but clever design. [Read the rest of this entry...]

For so long a time we’ve been dreaming of a TV set that lets us smell the delicious foods when we see them on the screens, however it’s still a dream nowadays. But good news is that we can at least own a printer that lets us smell the foods on the pictures now. The amazing printer is a collaborative work by Japanese scientists from Keio University, who developed an innovative technology that can print smells using a modified ink-jet printer. Therefore next time you see an apple, you can catch the sweet aroma of the apple too. Isn’t that fantastic? I even couldn’t wait to have a try with the Smells Printer. [Read the rest of this entry...]

It is always difficult for you to find out the needed books among various ones on the shelf? Then try the AAKKOSET Bookcase designed by Kayiwa. It comes with a series of shelves that are shaped like alphabet A, B, C and others so as to guide you to the books quickly. If you don’t have that much books to exhibit, you can also use AAKKOSET as a room divider and it performs just as good as other decorative dividers. [Read the rest of this entry...]

When most designers are busy creating comfortable and stylish apartments for humans to live in, Klaas Kuiken has funneled his energy into making a new house for birds. And now you can see the interesting work here, which is built like a roofing tile on your houses’ tiles. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Umbrellas are never expected to fly like a kite…  unless the weather is fine and the umbrellas do look nice in the sky. So here we’d like to share a new umbrella with you guys, which is collaborated by YuKwang Kang and Jinsu Cho to fly like a kite. The concept also features LED lights that will glimmer at night so that you can still enjoy a fun time of flying an umbrella (or a kite) in the dark. Just imagine the fantastic scene of an umbrella flying freely with various lights shining like stars. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Apparently Geneva-based Altanus has resulted in a world-wide revolution of timepieces after they announced to own the world’s first biodegradable paper watch “Patch”. Available in 10 neon colors, the Patch features a simple LED ticker and it is degradable in nature, therefore leaving little prints to the environment when the timepiece is no longer needed. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The bookshelf here, the Equilibrium is designed to surprise your guests with a unique shape seeking for briefness, contrast and exaggeration as well. Though seems to defy the gravity, the Equilibrium Bookcase is in reality quite solid and it can sustain over 50 kilograms at one time. So it is really a nice alternative for your stylish living room. [Read the rest of this entry...]

What do you usually do when you cannot find the cellphone? Ask someone around you for another phone to call it? Hey guys, you wouldn’t always find a person, however you can always find the www.icantfindmyphone.com for help. [Read the rest of this entry...]

‘Luohkka’ is a word from Sami language which means “small mountain with trees”, and when used as the name of the new headstone designed by Johan Kauppi, ‘Luohkka’ indicates a creative way to commemorate someone: to seed during the process of mourning and to water the tree whenever you come for remembering. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Well, 121 feet (37meters) cannot rank first in height among mountains and most buildings, but when considered among climbing walls, that’s really an amazing figure. And that’s also why more and more people come to Bjoeks Climb Center in the town of Groningen to have a try with the world’s tallest climbing wall “Excalibur”. So how do you like that, do you wanna a try too? [Read the rest of this entry...]