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Entries for February, 2011

Touchscreens Made of Carbon

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Why pay more for touchscreens when you can actually spend less money on them? Designed by Fraunhofer Institute, the alternative display for touchscreens is made of renewable raw materials that are as cheap as common plastic. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Solar Wind Bridge Powers 15000 Homes.

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Obviously a bridge could do more things than we would ever think of. According to Italian designers Francesco Colarossi, Giovanna Saracino and Luisa Saracino, a bridge is expected to offer electricity energy while still ensuring a convenient transportation. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Lip Paint

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What have you seen, lively crabs, smart foxes, cute pandas, and other kinds of animals? Not exactly, because what is shown here is merely one thing: lips, and of course coming with various patterns. Isn’t that incredible, our lips now can create impressive paintings too?! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Shell House

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Javier Senosiain’s Shell House must have been the envy of all their neighbors, friends, and you guys in front of the screen. The building is designed with a shell shape, decorated with colorful glass, equipped with pleasant light and filled with green plants. So whenever you view it from the outside or walk through the interior, you’ll always find a wonderful combination of nature beauty and architecture art. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Plant Necklace

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Very interesting design— we can offer the plants with sufficient carbon dioxide as we breath, ensure them enough exposure to sunlight as we walk outside, and probably supply some water as we  drink. Aha, just for kidding… But such Plant Necklace can make us value plants and other species more, actually. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Esper Domino

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The theory is that we usually need clever design and careful work if we’d like to successfully have many domino blocks fall down one after another. But the Esper Domino can “feel” each other and automatically fall down after we push down the first one with our fingers. And please see the picture more carefully: none of the domino blocks is placed close to one another and they cannot push others down while acting. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Colorful, Simple, Mobile!

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Simple but practical cellphones will always easily find their supporters and consumers… especially when they’re endowed with easy-to-use big buttons, built-in sound amplifier, long-lasting battery and a personal emergency response system. But that’s not all, as these smart cellphones are also available in many colors, for $89.99 on the Just5! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Street Flyer

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Street Flyer by Dr. Carsten Mehring seems more like an over-sized three-wheeler. But instead of sitting on the top, one is hanged beneath and moves his/her body to propel the vehicle. Even though the Street Flyer cannot compare with paragliders, it clearly offers a much safer trip of flying. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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1ℓimit Faucet Saves Water.

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Many of my friends have frequently complained that they couldn’t mange to save water simply because they cannot control the flow of water freely. If that’s really the truth, they may need this 1ℓimit Faucet, something that offers only one liter of water for using at one time. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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These Beds, Not Bad.

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“What will your ideal bed be like?” Whenever asking ourselves that question, most people may think of two words: large and soft. However I would care little about the bed’s size or structure, if they’re as unique and fantastic as these beds shown here. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Round Round Land Cup

Probably inspired by most people’s habit of spinning a cup when they enjoy coffee or tea, designers have endowed this round-round-land cup with two layer saucers so that the cup would seem to move too while the upper saucer is spun. After that, something magical and interesting will then happen: the cup creates a merry-go-round effect as the images on the saucer are reflected onto platinum coated mirrors of the cup. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Transparent TV Concept

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Transparency is obviously a main trend of modern designs and we’ve come up with transparent cellphones, transparent shoes and transparent sculptures in the past few months. And soon we’ll see a transparent television. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Virtual Master Fishing

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An innovative apparatus especially designed for indoors entertainment, featuring a virtual fishing experience with the aid of unique cameras, sound-making equipment and other gadgets. It is said everything will be the same as that of real fishing except that you would get no real fish. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Delicious Food Shoes

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When delicious food is used on shoe designs, the results seem still amazing. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Bird Nest Bed

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Even though it may be quite difficult to fly like a bird, it is really simple to live like a bird: get the Bird Nest Bed and jump into it! We bet every kid and adult will love the bed! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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