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Entries for November, 2010

DarkFin Gloves

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Why haven’t we thought of the fantastic idea before? Simply adding some fins onto an ordianry glove, the designer has cleverly improved the glove’s flexibility and dexterity, therefore helping to users to achieve a better performace when swimming. Moreover, you can easily reach for anything you want without having to take off the gloves. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Thrift Toothpaste Package Design

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For those who believe they’re a thrifty housekeeper or try to become a thrifty person, you now have two choices to get the last bit of your toothpaste: hunting for a scissor to cut open the end of the toothpaste tubes or simply tear open the Thrift Toothpaste Tube. Since a thrifty man also saves his energy, we strongly suggest you choose the Thrift Toothpaste Tube. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Japanese-style Eco Bag

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Honestly the Furoshiki Bag 2 is neither a promotion nor a new design, but it does bring back the good tradition of using original cloth bag to carry things. Reusable and eco-friendly, these bags can also keep your things neatly for convenient packing. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Clouds and Umbrellas

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Despite that we’re growing a little older year by year, we can still live a happy life with childish delight. So never say these Clouds and Umbrellas are especially designed for kids, coz they’re actually also made for the adults. Just wish everybody always to be in a good mood. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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3D Pencil Drawings

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Art never ceases to surprise us and time again we’re absorbed into a fantastic world built by three-dimensional pencil drawings. Nicely done Fredo! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Looks Like Your Back, Neatly Holds Your Book

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Apparently the new bookcase from designer Pietro Travaglini seems not that unique or attractive on the first sight, but when you step backwards with each modular having a new position, and then you’ll find the Schiena Bookcase makes your books look really wonderful. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Portable ‘e12′ Table Lamp

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Yes, there’re too many lamps on the market and each of them has a unique feature, so how could one designer make his/her lamp special enough to attract the consumers? Helene Steiner chose to build a camera on the lamp, enabling the users to take images of documents whenever they feel like to. It works in the same way as an ordinary tripod and can easily fold up for portability.

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Stipee Bookmarks

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Possibly we could also have ourselves immersed in Savanna and Forest that are full of cute animals when next time we start a new journey to the fantastic world of fairy tales. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Color Changing Bandages

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How well do you know your bruises, or more exactly how often should one person change for a new bandage in case that the wounds become infected? Whatever you may say, these Color Changing Bandages obviously know your wounds better than you.

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Rubik’s Cube Bank

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Although we’ve always been thinking that it is much easier to get money than to keep it, the so-called Rubik’s Cube Bank proves getting a coin is almost as difficult as keeping one. Designed by Tokyo-based MegaHouse, the new piggy bank asks you to solve the yellow side to put into a coin and get the green side to have the center tile pop out when you need one. You see, just as CrunchGear said “it requires brain power to save and get out money”. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Food-like T-Shirt Packaging

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Enough cabbage and beef in your refrigerators? The focus here is such “food” created for your wardrobes. Dubbed “Here! Sod”, each of these t-shirts from Prompt Design can be packaged into bread, beef or other items you can find in a supermarket. Maybe next time you’re in a shopping mall, you should pay more attention to the items on shelves, right? [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Earphones Tangles Solution

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Let BudTrap show you a new way to manage your earphone codes: twist the codes around or along your iPhone, hold them together with the tiny colorful rings and then done! Moreover, with such cute rings on, your phones would have a new appearance and they may look like wearing an earring. Very interesting. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Lost In Sofa Chair

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Who would ever know what you’ll find between or underneath the sofa cushions? A coin, a remote controller or a book you’ve been looking for? Or maybe more than those, if you’re with the Lost In Sofa chair designed by Daisuke Motogi Architecture. Featuring small cubes to form the seat, the new furniture can hold almost everything you insert into it so that you can conveniently reach for a book, a pen or even a cup of coffee during the leisure time. Fantastic! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Awesome Cellphone and Charging Dock Sets

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My only true love for cellphones always happens at my first sight, so mobiles with an interesting appearance generally attract me more than those with a hi-tech element. Therefore these cute sets of cell phones have really impressed me and I’d like to have all of them. Look, the unique charging and docking systems have made the phones look like going fishing, walking its dog or lying in bed… So you even couldn’t help smiling when seeing them, isn’t that fantastic?! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Leaf Shirts

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With such interesting leaf shirts on, can we humans become Adam and Eve again and then live in a new Garden of Eden? But that’s just what I thought as I saw these shirts. And designer Dave Rittinger actually aimed to embrace ecological consciousness with these “zero footprint shirts”. So do you have in mind? Share them with us. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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