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Entries for June, 2011

Comb Your Bikes.

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There’re many unconstrained imaginations, some bring us with disappointment while some bring happiness. Obviously this Comb-shaped bike stand is the latter. It features huge teeth, neatly holding bikes and keeping them in line. If there’s one such bike stand in my city, wow, I’d like to ride a bike everyday. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Skull Chandelier

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Artist Kelly Lamb’s Skull Chandelier is a hanging light that comes with a special shape of a human skull. To make such a light, you first need to hang some tiny lightbulbs from the ceiling and then arrange them into the shape of a skull. Cool, and we bet the chandelier will appear to be more fantastic when it shines in the dark. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Inkless Metal Beta Pen

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Solid can be used as ink? What a crazy idea! But indeed it is really amazing, because Inkless Metal Beta Pens don’t need sharpening and they’re permanent and smudge-proof. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Polara Ultimate Straight Self Correcting Golf Balls

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So you’ve been practicing hard to become good at golf? Probably you should try other methods, some more reliable but much easier ways. Such as this Polara Ultimate Straight Self Correcting Golf Ball. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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U-socket USB Wallplug

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Nowadays we’re living in a world full of USB-powered items, including our cellphones, music players, laptops and many other things. As a result, we all need this U-socket USB Wallplug that converts 110 volts coming out of wall outlets into 5 volts of USB power to recharge our devices. It is really convenient for use. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Ice Cream the T-shirt Pack

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How does your T-shirt taste like? I don’t know what answer you may offer, but I’m quite sure that Cecilia Felli’s T-shirt tastes good, as good as ice creams. Look, these T-shirts here are wrapped just like ice cream cones, isn’t that funny? [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Waterfall Soap Saver

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Clever soap saver that effectively lets water run off so that the soap can be kept dry. That is rightly the thing I’ve been looking for. Great! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Jon Salerno’s Habitat Micro Home

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Jon Salerno’s Habitat Micro Home provides a clever and practical way to expand the area of your living space. It uses a small car docked underneath a 100 square feet house to act as an extra room so that the total reconfigurable space inside the Habitat Micro Home would reach 132 square feet. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Elliptical Machine Office Desk

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The Elliptical Machine Office Desk is one of the most-complicated desks we’ve ever met. It is built with a semi-recumbent elliptical trainer that lets the users to exercise when busy with work. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Hand-stitched Portraits

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Surprise, these amazing portraits are not crafted with pens but with threads and needles?! It is exactly numerous threads running across each other subtly that make these portraits especially exquisite. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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LCD Magnifier

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What’s Maggie? It is an LCD electronic magnifier that can magnify print 11 times its original size. The handheld magnifier not only offers 4x, 6x, 8x and 11x magnification levels but also allows the users to adjust its light conditions and color combinations. Also, it features a ‘freeze’ function to capture images for closer examination. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Lytro Camera Lets You Focus Photos After You Take Them.

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Ren Ng’s innovative camera is blowing my mind. It is a light-field (or plenoptic) camera that allows the users to re-focus photos at different depths, computed after a single exposure. Although the camera needs to do an extremely complicated work with this after-the-fact focus process, it operates just like an ordinary hand-held camera to the photographers. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Cricket Forge Leaf Bench and Leaf Table Set

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Leaf bench and leaf table set, crafted of steel and finished in green, is beautifully designed anti-oxidation furniture for your gardens. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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City Water Concept

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It is interesting to start to know a city with its water, or more exactly with these spring water that has a raised tactile streetmap printed on their bottles. They’re not only City Water designed by Dzmitry Samal, but moreover city maps useful for tourists going to new cities. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Hello World Display

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Valentin Ruhry’s new display is a huge board built with many illuminated rocker switches to show messages. Whenever you’d like to send some information with it, you’ll need to turn certain switches on while still keep others off. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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