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A wild idea. My friends said that when they heard about my dreams of a floating house just as the one appeared in Pixar movie “Up”. But a team from National Geographic has built a real “Up” using 300 helium-filled weather balloons and managed to get the house 10,000 feet up into the air. National Geographic TV has made a record of this experiment and you’ll find it in “How Hard Can it Be” series. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Honestly the Auto Ink reminds me of sewing machines. They look almost the same in appearances, but their tasks are different: a sewing machine draws patterns on cloth while this Auto Ink draws on your skins. It can have any assigned symbols tattooed onto your arms once the main switch is triggered. The symbols are assigned either randomly or through divine intervention. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Babies always need special care. Even though they cannot say any words, we can still feel their anger about buttons or zippers- they cried when buttons make them uncomfortable. So what do they want? It may be this “Magnificent Baby”. As a clever alternative to clothes specially designed for babies, these new ones each comes with a magnetic closure system and therefore has your babies conveniently dressed in seconds. Soft and simple, the magnetic closure system is also safe to use. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Lately launched iPad 2 has made everyone to be concerned with tablet computers again, and most people are wondering if this new product can continue the sage of iPad 1. Or how could iPad 2 start another new era? John Leung put forward his concept of the iPad 2 Window- a virtual window design. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Your hands are too busy to pick up sandwiches or to shove them into your mouth? That’s all right, because you can still have enough sandwiches with the aids of this Sandwich Holder. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Tear-off ads are largely welcomed usually because they’re cheap and simple to use. But have a look at these tear-off ads and you’ll find they also win with unique originality. Each one is cleverly designed, and thus successfully attracts passersby and leaves them a deep impression. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This water tower redesigned by Zecc Architects to change into a delicate apartment has no doubt brought some shock to our mind. Dated from 1931, the water tower looks quite ordinary from outside but will surprise everybody that walks into it. A three-level high window frame was built to let in more daylight; steel, concrete and other materials were adopted to keep the interior’s industrial characteristics; and inside the rooms many simple but practical furniture was used. [Read the rest of this entry...]

What you’ve seen here is another high-tech three-wheeler? If that’s what you thought, you’re completely wrong. Called “EX”, this new vehicle is powered by two 18-volt screwdrivers and it requires the driver to use his whole body to tilt and bend the vehicle. According to designer, the vehicle can accelerate to up to 30 km/h. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Shopping malls, though announcing to be consumer-friendly, seldom stick Braille labels onto their products. Because they don’t have a Braille label maker? Well, they now can have the choice of this Braille Punch Sticker. It is compact and convenient for use, allowing the users to punch Braille directly onto stickers and then to affix them on shelves or items. [Read the rest of this entry...]

In ancient China people used to write on silk when there was no paper created, while nowadays researchers from Taiwan still prefer to use silk as basic materials for e-reader displays. The process begins with “liquid silk”, which is turned into insulating membranes to make the TFT (thin-film transistor) screens. These new e-reader displays are not only flexible, bendy but also cheap compared to existing ones. As a result, we may conveniently roll up e-readers just as we roll up books or newspapers, sounds really amazing! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Steve Kuhl is absolutely a greatest father, because he has built so spectacular a bedroom for kids that almost every adult would dream to get it. The theme for this bedroom is “pirate ship”, and walking through it you’ll see walls painted with colors of the sea, a ship, and a rope bridge that connects the ship to the top of a jail cell. Thus it is a real kids’ house, a bedroom for them to live in, study in and also play in. Brilliant! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Ok, here is a cat toy walking down the stair, so what do you think this cat would like to do? Obviously it’s not something merely designed for people to play with. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Japan often brings us with new telecom products and concepts and this time some designers from this eastern country have come up with a prototype that resembles a human body. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Earphone, also an alarm clock! Specially designed for music lovers who are used to wearing earphones to enjoy music before sleep, this Alarm Earphone is built with alarm, calendar, stopwatch and other functions, making it a most competitive earphone we’ve ever met. More importantly, it can set alarm clock automatically and alarms you up in the morning with required volume of music. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Aha, a building inspired by cheese?! Although I love cheese quite much, I never imagine that I’ll one day see a cheese building in reality. But it looks really great, with many holes both in and out of the building- some of them as decorative part and some used to exhibit items. Designed by Jakob + Macfarlane as a creative design showroom in Lyon, France, this building has already become a new landscape and together with the river and the surrounding hills to amaze tourists everyday. [Read the rest of this entry...]