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Entries for September, 2011

Tea Cup

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To enjoy the sweet smell, to learn about the tea ceremony, or simply to exercise their pouting-tea-into-cups skills, everybody has their different moods to have a cup of tea, which therefore makes them to choose from different kinds of tea. The “Tea Cup” brand, named by its unique appearance that represents an actual tea cup, is rightly something that can meet your various needs.

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Wedding Dresses

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As you open the wedding invitation card, the proverbial knot is then tied to turn the bride and the groom into one…

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Boots Bag

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Wish you would have a bag that can last for many years or even all your life? Possibly the Footbag should be added onto your list. It is made of a pair of boots, featuring a simple look but really good durability.

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Realtime Face Substitution

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Cool! Using a code mashup of Jason Saragih’s facetracker and Kevin Atkinson’s image clone code, Arturo Castro successfully puts on the faces of Paris Hilton, Fidel Castro, Steve Jobs, Vladimir Lenin, Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol, Mao Tse-tung, Brad Pitt, Michael Jackson, Salvador Dali and President Barack Obama.

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Seesaw Cookie Cutter

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Seesaw inspired cookie cutter is coming to you. Convenient to use, easy to wash and funny to see it placed in your kitchen. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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“Just Fold It” Flexible Room Divider

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“Just Fold It” is a flexible and portable room divider that fits in different locations. Its unique design allows the room divider to be adjusted by adding some extra modules. The product is wind-resistant too, as there’re some perforations built on the surface. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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3D Printer Can Manufacture Artificial Blood Vessels

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With 3D technology processing by big steps, now 3D printers can manufacture many more amazing things than we can imagine, from toys, swimwear, food and even artificial blood vessels.

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Blooming Cuppa Tea

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We all have our own purposes: some drinks tea for fun, some drinks for leisure and some merely drinks for convenience. If you’re rightly somebody pursuing convenience, the Blooming Cuppa Tea is surely the first one on your list. The design combines a disposable cup and a teabag package, ensuring both easy transportation and easy usage. The only drawback I see is that the disposable tea cup may leave some “footprints” to our environment. Hopefully they will be finally produced with eco-friendly materials.

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Incredible Rubber Carvings

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Totally beyond imagination… With subtle design and delicate carving, Wim Delvoye has transformed unused tires into amazing sculptures. In his series “Pneu” (French for tire), each piece comes with a unique pattern and they all look so great.

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PowerWheel Slows Down Your Bike

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Possibly no one will appreciate the design of PowerWheel, except for road cyclists who want to make their training harder. Once it is fitted, the wheel would then slow your bike down and therefore make it much harder to move the vehicle forward. It comes with seven difficulty levels, and the users can adjust the mystery-meat resistance mechanism inside the hub to set their needed level. However, the PowerWheel won’t work until your speed hits 10mph while below 45mph.

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Movable Sleepbox

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Sleepbox is a mini building that allows you to sleep comfortably and conveniently. It was originally a conceptualized design put forward in 2009 and now has been installed at Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow, for travelers to rent and sleep for hours during their transfers at airports. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Easy-to-Find Tape

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Quite often a simple but subtle change makes the world with big difference, and the Easy-to-Find Tape is rightly a good example. It features a wavy look, which thus allows the users to find the end of a tape more quickly and easily. For guys ever bothered by hard-to-find-end tapes, this one is definitely their next choice. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Reading Finger

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Hansub Lee’s Reading Finger is a clever design that would bring visually impaired people with a much simpler shopping experience. It is a combination of a finger device and a Bluetooth headset. As the finger pointer scans products, information like description, price, ingredients, nutrition etc will then be transformed into audio instructions for the users. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Creative Chairs

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No doubt we all need a chair. But which is your ideal one, a chair with interesting shape or one that features a full function? Whatever, you would like these creative chairs shown here. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Tropism Well

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Elegant and functional, the Tropism Well is an outdoor water-supply that can pour water into your cups automatically. Once it has seen you, the device then bows down and offers water, which seems like that a friend is just greeting you warmly. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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