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Many popular bikes have come with an attractive appearance, with refined leather seat/grips, delicate frame inserts, or other elements. Yaps, we frequently met with those features, but what about double-wheel? I never saw that, until I met this Epitaph Bike. Available in limited edition of 12 bikes, each one is built with custom-crafted double wheels to make it much safer to ride in rainy or snowy days. Of course the price is quite impressive too, coz you’ll need to pay 2950 dollars for such a bike. [Read the rest of this entry...]

A clinic test is no longer needed, as Nyx Devices’s Somnus Sleep Shirt is an easy-to-operate T-shirt that allows users to do some diagnostics when wearing it in sleep. It is embedded with two sensors, based on which the T-shirt tracks a person’s overnight breathing and transmits relevant information to a small data recorder for people to check out. The shirt is promised comfortable to wear, avoiding contact with people’s skins. Nyx is now planning to launch the shirt to market soon, with a price less than 100 dollars. [Read the rest of this entry...]

After meals, fold these table placements into cute animals and hold an animal-themed party with your kids.

Weed Spinner, a weeder that works together with electric drills, is a powerful device removing weeds with their roots. It is made of carbon steel and therefore tough enough for a long-time usage. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Truly the evolution of human race took a rather long time, but designer Hiroyuki Shiratori of H-Concept has managed to shorten that period by creating these Evolution Erasers. Available in white, beige and black, the erasers feature a modern human on its flat side and an ape-man ancestor on the other. Of course you’re expected to start using with the eraser’s ape-man end and finally make it evolve into a modern man as it rubs out errors. Funny. [Read the rest of this entry...]

If anonymous, we believe more people would love to hug others. Apparently Keetra Dean Dixon thinks so too, as she has created this Anonymous Hugging Wall for social facilitation. Now merely built in London, this hugging wall is deemed as an important trial to make people closer. If I’m in London, I’ll go and give you guys a hug. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Guess what, you can control your Canon EOS DSLR with your phone or tablet via a USB cable! It is not a conceptual design but real product on market. With only￥54.62, you’ll easily change the way you take photos. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Sascha Pohfleep’s Blind Camera is an interesting design that features its unique function of sharing photos instead of taking photos. It has no lens, sensor or optics, but still has a button. When you push its button, the Blind Camera then shows you pictures taken by others at your location. If you’re not that good at taking photos, the Blind Camera is obviously your best choice. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Two new iPhone stands here. They come with totally different shapes, one shaped like a faucet with water running down and the other looks just like a real hand. So, which one is your favorite? [Read the rest of this entry...]

Quite confidentially we would say that the “Each Bite Counter” made by Two researchers from Clemson University will soon become overwhelming among people with a weight loss plan. Just as its name implies, the tool can count your bites by tracking your wrist motion and warns the users to stop eating if they set a count-based alarm buzzer. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Any imposing wedding parities must have started with impressive invitations and those impressive invitations must include these customized viewmaster invitations. They’re specially designed for everyone with 7 high-res images and brief texts, and then packaged and mailed in white boxes. Believe us, anybody receiving such a unique invitation will gladly attend your wedding. [Read the rest of this entry...]

When it comes to USB keys, the designing habit that “smaller is better” is always popular. However, Elecom x Nendo Clip USB Memory Type “DATA clips” are not only smart but also portable. They can clip to any places – your ties, books, credit cards, etc. As a result, whenever you search for your USB Keys, you’ll see them at your hand. [Read the rest of this entry...]

iStrike Stylus changes your drawing jobs into striking progresses. Suitable for any capacitive touch-screen devices such as Apple iPad or iPhone, the “match” moves smoothly on screens to effectively finish your work when keeps your screen away from fingerprints. [Read the rest of this entry...]

For only now the angry birds are really flying in the blue sky. In a video posted by gamer Jomni, there’re some airbus planes with Angry Birds paints taking a flight and struggling for bird’s eggs. Let’s check out the video blow for details. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Evatran’s Plugless Power Electric Vehicle Charging System is a new challenge to normal products, and meanwhile it indicates the age of “smaller is smarter”. Comparatively the new charge block is merely bit of larger than an average hubcap while it boasts a 97 percent charging efficiency. Really fantastic and we’ll soon use the Plugless Power around the end the 2012. [Read the rest of this entry...]