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Somebody cares quite much about the environment, so they are trying hard to avoid using too many bowls or bags in order to save water and other resources; others, like me, are just too lazy to do the housework so we try to use as few bowls as we can too. Yaps, we may have different motives, but we’re all forwarding in the same direction and we all need the “Twist” by Nick Burrows. It’s transformable, capable of shifting between a bag, a microwave oven proof container and an ordinary bowl. Just twist to change it, and then you can do something beneficial to both you and the environment.

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While the whole world fall in love with iPhone, iPhone loudly says “I love 3D”. To show its love for the popular technology, the Apple Company recently launched an iOS app that allows your iPhone to take 3D photos or shoot 3D videos. The “Snappily” is use to operate, simply download it onto your iPhone, follow the instructions on the screen and then you can make some 3D images. According to reviews, the app seems bit of difficult to get used to, but once you do, the 3D effects are fantastic.

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Welcome to my personal lawn rightly inside my apartment! Never doubt your own eyes, and I’m not kidding, my lawn is really inside the room rather than outside of it. Why? You need to ask Haiko Cornelissen Architecten, who created the sod-covered aluminum table to bring the outdoorsy experience into city apartments.

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Rest on a bench and play seesaw. The “Swingers” chair, an awesome piece of furniture designed for two people, allows people to move and play while they’re taking a break. By doing that, the designer aims to make people smile more and get closer to each other as much as possible. So will that really work? We believe it would. Still, if you meet such a bench one day, we hope you could sit down and play it with the others.

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Based on their observations and researches of carol, scientists from Stanford University have developed a new technology to produce cement by mimicking carol’s action of taking in minerals and CO2 to build its hard exoskeleton. Therefore, during the construction process of the new cement, the material actually absorbs CO2 and dissolves it instead of releasing CO2 as common cements do, so as to benefit to the environments. The new cement is durable too, strong enough to last for a long time.

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Especially designed for professional cyclists who usually need to exercise and contest in different climatic conditions, the Louis Garneau Carbon Pro Team Shoes come with two pairs of inner soles, one for cold weather that prevent heat loss, and the other for warm or hot weather to help keep athletes cool. The insole used in hot weather is actually constructed with Ice-Fil, a cooling fabric that automatically moderate moisture and temperature based on the amount of sweat on the sole. Apart from the unique double insoles, the Louis Garneau Carbon Pro Team Shoes also have other features, such as a super-cool pattern design, light weight, comfortable wearing experience and so on. Because Louis Garneau is a sponsor of Team Europcar, the Carbon Pro Team Shoes were tested at the Team Europcar Training Camp, who will wear the shoes to train and race for the 2012 season soon.

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Interesting spaghetti measuring tool from Stefán Pétur Sólveigarson, offers four different sizes, a “kid” for kids, a “lady” for the females, a “man” for the males and a “horse” for a whole family (four people). So which is your choice? Honestly I can eat a “horse” for one meal…

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Toshiba’s latest development is a portable video camera that provides real-time visualizations of radiation hotspots. It is built with a radiation sensor and a signal processing device, indicating the amount of radiation in different colors: red for high amounts of radiation and yellow, green, blue for lower levels. The device is not only functional, but also saves large quantity of time usually spent on radiation detection, thus claimed to be quite ideal for detection work. The company will have a field test of the camera in collaboration with Fukushima City within this month and plan to promote its use to the central bureaucracy and local governments in Japan in early 2012.

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Aha, iPhone accessories again. This time it is a sturdy clip that can attach onto your iPhones so as to allow you to hang your mobiles on bags or necks. Certainly it’s much stronger than a cellphone clipping cord, because the gadget is screwed directly into your phone instead of being fastened onto it. Never worry about that the clip may result in some inconvenience, as the gadget can let you charge phones without removing it.

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Speed up, speed up, when using these Japanese Bullet Train Chopsticks to enjoy your lunch, you may feel that the food is “flying” into your mouth with a higher speed… Wow, so cool! But in fact these chopsticks are common ones as others, although they feature a unique shape of bullet trains, they’ll never threaten your life as real trains do.

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The augmented reality technology has been widely used in various industries, to add more fun into virtual games, to allow for a more convenient operation remotely, and even endow us with the ability to see through clothes. So you’re now exciting, right? Let’s welcome the X-Ray augmented reality app by clothing retailer Moosejaw then. The app uses your mobile device’s camera and some augmented reality trickery to help you see totally different images as you scan the models’ bodies in the catalog. It’s really superb and become quite popular on-line, which has been downloaded for seventy-five thousand downloads in five weeks. Also, the app has brought the retailer with more profit, as a 37 percent boost in sales has been created compared with the same period a year earlier.

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LEGO, LEGO, LEGO, with repeatedly appearing in my vision, that word (and that toy) has already annoyed me so much that I really don’t want to see anything relevant to that. But except for this LEGO Brick iPhone Case. It’s something better than a LEGO toy, featuring removable block sections for us to neatly organize the headphone wires, and that’s in my mind the best part about the case. Of course the gadget comes with other features too, such as personalized combinations and camera lens protection.

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Better food with lemon juice, while better lemon juice with Stem Food Sprayer. The Stem is designed to save us out of boring work of cutting a lemon and squeezing it. Instead, it can spray juice directly onto food as you insert it into a citrus fruit and press the button. Just easy as that, but pity it’s merely a concept till now. Well, good news is Quirky is looking to manufacture it in the very near future, and it is collecting advices on the Stem’s price. So if you want to save money, go and leave your suggestions!

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What will the next-generation fluorescent lights be like? “D’Light” from H_Design can offer us a possible answer. Made of heat resistant tempered silicone material and LEDs, the D’Light is expandable and durable, saves both your efforts to install the light tube and your money spent on electricity bills. It can fit into different sizes of lights too, and all you need to do is to hook it to one end and expand the length to the other side. Easy and practical as that!

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Stockings can tell your attitudes, demure, discreet, subtle, playful, sensual, impulsive, seductive, provocative, daring, passionate, cheeky, dangerous or femme fatal, by the length of skirts you choose to wear.

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