Although I think smartphones are already cool enough, some people are just trying to make them cooler: for instance, you can connect a Xappr Gun onto your smartphones and convert your mobiles into a virtual gun! Claimed to be available this Spring, the Xappr will actually be compatible with iOS, Android and Windows Phone devices.

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Life is music, thus we all love symphony instead of monotony. Keeping that in mind too, a Dutch designer Jeriel Bobbe has created the ‘Suitcase Symphony’ using several rearrangeable wooden panels that each features a ridged surface, to take the place of monotonous floor in airports. Assembled together, the panels will produce a particular music composition as people pulling their suitcases through on them. Even though the music created by these panels is not that fabulous as those produced by an instrument, it indeed sounds more pleasant than the monotony of airports.

Designer: Jeriel Bobbe

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Quite surprisingly we’re informed that in the Bronx Zoo there’re several animals seldom moving or eating but keeping in merely one single posture. Why and what happened? The truth is bit of interesting, as all those animals mentioned above are actually life-like statues made out of LEGO. So how do you like them? If you’d like a tour to the Bronx Zoo, you can ask for a LEGO Zoofari Passport along with your ticket for a comprehensive guide to the installation’s whereabouts, and collect 6 different stamps for souvenir-like proof of your visit there.

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What’s this, a huge cube? Of course it is, but it’s exactly also a three dimensional kite formed by 1,700 3D printed connected segments. It seems extremely bulky, but can actually levitate steadily due to its lightweight composition of carbon fiber rods and cubenfibre aerospace fabric.

Designer: Sash Reading, Heather + Ivan Morison

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Made of nanoscale ferromagnetic and fluid (usually an organic solvent or water), this is an interactive liquid toy that invites you to build beautifully-patterned sculptures. Just as shown in the video below, you can construct as delicate sculptures as you could ever imagine using a magnet or two magnets or more. So would you like a try too? Choose your favorite style, Ferrite or Ferro, and then move!

Selling Price: $100-$125

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Keaton Music Typewriter is a practical machine that can type on a sheet of paper lying flat under the typing mechanism. It was firstly patented in 1936 by Robert H. Keaton, and at that time the machine had merely 14 keys. In 1953, Robert redesigned the typewriter and built with 33 keys, making it more ideal and suitable to use. It was marketed in the 1950s and sold for around $225, and now it appears on the market again, with a surprisingly high price of $5,895.

Selling Price: $5,895

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Can Ferris wheel become invisible, lifting people up and down while never showing its original structure? Said “yes”, Spanish-based artist Maider López showed us an amazing video in which the Ferris wheel is really invisible… But how?

After checking out the video you can then get the answer: Maider López processed it using some special technique and thus to hide parts of the Ferris wheel from our view.

Designer: Maider López

What do you usually do during the boring time caused by traffic jam, to play your iPad, have a chat with beautiful ladies or just sit there without thinking anything? Maybe you should get some better alternatives, such as the Car Bluetooth Rearview Mirror Kit. It includes a 4.3 inch touchscreen, a built-in GPS navigation, multimedia on-the-go, DVR capabilities, and a wireless parking camera, once installed to replace your normal rearview mirror, the device would then allow you to play games in car. Isn’t that great? It offers you great pleasure while never taking up you too much space or costing you too much money.

Selling Price: $200

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Love music, love sport, the stylish Feats Per Minute bike from Merel Sloother, Liat Azulay and Pieter Frank de Jong is rightly something brings us the fun of both rhythm and cycling. It’s equipped with turntable inspired wheels that play vinyl records, thus beautiful tones will come out of the megaphone like speaker on the back of your bike as you ride it in the streets.

Designer: Merel Sloother, Liat Azulay & Pieter Frank de Jong

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Cleverly combining light and shadow together, the giant OLED mirror collaborated by rAndom International and Chris O’Shea would feel the human’s movement and thus to interact in the term of either light or mirrors. Stand still, and the panels act like mirrors, but when you’re on the move, the OLED pixels then light up. The other interacting type is totally different, as wherever you go would become mirrors with the left parts still act as light. It’s very magical, and now the You Fade to Light has been produced in a limited edition of just eight units, each is selling for €140,000. So if you don’t think it’s exciting enough to watch them in the video, you may consider getting home one such piece.

Designer: rAndom International & Chris O’Shea

The beautiful scenery is not the only reason that encourages us to go picnic in the open air, sometimes an intriguing tent plays a bigger role too. Created by British designers, these Exclusive Tourist Tents are rightly something individual and unmissable, printed with interesting patterns on exterior surfaces and thus make them completely eye-catching when used in the nature.

Selling Price: 495Euro

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The greatest thrill you ever get is going on the roller coaster? Of course it is, but next time you can experience another exciting roller coaster that is actually without a roller coaster but some stairs instead! Built in German, the Crouching Tiger and Turtle is a work by sculptors Ulrich Genth and Heike Mutter, allowing people to ascend a height to enjoy a distant view by walking up the roller coaster, which is not the most exciting roller coaster but apparently the safest one.

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“Your eyes are all you need to save the earth”. That’s what the world’s first eye-controlled arcade game deeply leaves in my mind. Named as “Tobii Eye Asteroids”, the gaming machine comes with only one “start” button, and requires you to use your eyes to interact with games. Do you wanna to have a try? I don’t, just because I cannot get used to anything without a keyboard or touchscreens. If only using my eyes to save the earth, oh god, the result would disappoint you.

Selling Price: $15000

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Attention, please, those who plan to learn how to fly now would have another choice except for going to a flight school. Your alternative scheme is to learn flying at home with the OVO-4 Home Flight Simulator.

It features a life-sized cockpit, also with seat, faux-windows and other equipments you can see in a real aircraft. As an additional bonus, the pod-shaped device would make you feel that you’re really flying in the air, with artificial turbulence, lurching during take-off, rumbling of the engines and light-change inside the cockpit. However, as with all things wonderful, the device will certainly cost you quite much money- £35,995. So will you try the OVO-4? Before I get myself such a machine, I should firstly get myself enough money.

Selling Price: £35,995

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You ever dreamed to own a special tent that may work in the same way as your house? Congratulations, as your dream has come true with the Japanese outdoor equipment company Logos’ Decagon Tent. It is an outdoor modular structure that can be used separately or linked together. Available in four types including ‘decagon link’, ‘link dome’, ‘link screen’ and ‘car joint tarp’, the modular tent each can hold three to four people while the largest tent actually would accommodate up to 16 people. As an additional bonus, the Decagon’s ‘car joint tarp’ is specially designed for you cars, something like the garage for your house. Presented at the “Japan Good Design Award 2011 Exhibition”, the innovative tent has received high praise from the visitors and now launched to the public.

Selling Price: 110,250Yen

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The main reason why I don’t play Ping Pong is that I can barely touch the ball with my bat. But I’ve decided to have another try with the Virtual Ping Pong, as it features no Ping Pang table or ball at all, but instead requires the users to swing the bat in air according to the sound played by a recorder. In other words, the Virtual Ping Pong is kind of a game that you need to use your imagination to play. So are you ready? Let’s start now.

Selling Price: $49

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I’m another Alice now, experiencing everything that she has ever met in Wonderland with this whimsical climbing wall. Designed by Nendo for Illoiha fitness club in Tokyo’s fashion district, the climbing wall is built with mirrors, picture frames and other elements drawn from the “Alice in Wonderland”, making it not only full of odd unreal color but also quite intriguing to the users.

Designer: Nendo

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Disney is a wonderful place full of imaginations, in my mind, thus it’s quite amazing to see its research labs come up with the SideBySide handheld projectors for multiplayer games. Each unit combines a camera with a modified DLP projector that outputs a single color of visible light and also an invisible infrared image. The IR image can be detected by the camera built with second projector, which would then know clearly where the image output by the first projector is and what it is doing, and thus create another image to interact with the first one. That may sound a little complicated, but you’ll soon find out how it works with the video after the jump.

Designer: Ivan Poupyrev and Karl D.D. Willis

No doubt you’re the one who can control the weather, but merely the snowy weather at the moment. With this magic can, anyone could easily create white snow even in the hot summer days. Really great, right? Now I’m quite looking forward to something that allows me to create rainbows…

Selling Price: $4.99

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The “Sphero” is the world’s first robotic ball that can be controlled by an iPhone or Android device. It comes with a semi-opaque white look, along with an inductive charger to reenergize it. The users simply need to load down certain free apps for the ball, open the Bluetooth of their iPhones, and then they can control the ball to accomplish certain tasks. Planned to be sold in December for about $130, the “Sphero” can now be ordered on its official website. Go and check for more information if you’re interested.

Selling Price: $130
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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.

Designer: Arturo Castro

Zapparel Augmented Reality Clothes, which was launched at the International Fashion Expo, Magic in Las Vegas on August 22-24, is an amazing design that allows people to interact with it based on Augmented Reality technology. The following video shows how people can play games with the T-shirt: a space man with robot arms will appear and shoot UFOs soon after one person takes photos of the T-shirt, and then the users can touch the UFOs to play the game. There are 20 different T-shirts in the series, and we really couldn’t wait to see how surprising other 19 ones would be.

These attractive houses are not real ones for you to live in, but actually playgrounds especially made for kids. Each house has its one theme, such as fire stations, castles, schools and so on. When step into these houses, you’ll also see furniture and decorations that go with the house’s theme. To get a Fun House, to get your fun in the house.

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“Super Mario”, not only as a classic game, but also as daily products like hats, cups or toys, has deeply influenced its fans for generations. Here we’d like to share some creative products inspired by Super Mario games and hopefully you’ll get some fun with them as that you get from the game.

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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.

Designer: Keetra Dean Dixon

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.

Designer: Jomni

It is surprisingly simple to create your own chess – you firstly need to draw out a chessboard and then find some cardboard, keys, LED bulbs, or even cakes to work as chess pieces. And to offer you some inspirations, we’ve collected some here for you to check through. Just go and enjoy them.

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【Wooden Sculpture Chess Pieces】

【Cardboard Chess Pieces】

【Super Mario Chess Pieces】

【Transparent Chess Pieces】

【Key Chess Pieces】

【LED Chess Pieces】

【LEGO Chess Pieces】

【Wall Chess】

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Foosball, ping pong, backgammon, chess and pool – you can play all those five games with merely one game kit. It is constructed of a wooden box with wood and plastic pieces and measures 20″ X 12″ X 6″.

Selling Price: $49.99

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What will you do if you have a magic mirror as those you see in books or films? There maybe many answers to that question, but there’s at least one thing we’ll all want to do: to illustrate what we desire on it. Romy van den Broek’s ‘Through the Looking Glass’ is rightly an interactive mirror that features motion sensor technology to let users run into a different world.

In other words, when kids are going on with a story, they may become main characters and see themselves surrounded by the elements of the story if they have one such mirror.

Designer: Romy van den Broek

Really interesting idea… We now can at least get a VW Camper Van Tent if we still couldn’t afford a VW vehicle. With external dimension of 398cm (L) x 187cm (H) x 155cm (D) and internal dimension of 388cm (L) x 182.5cm (H) x 145cm (D), this foldable tent will no doubt bring you and your family a nice summer in nature.

Selling Price: £299.99

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You’d like to play some golf with this Potty Putter when in the toilet? Well, it is probably a good idea to kill the time, but it is never a habit good for your health. So we sincerely suggest you use the Potty Putter in other places like bedrooms or offices.

Selling Price: $22.35

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These ingenious Toast Playing Cards make me feel so hungry! 54 large trump cards each looks like delicious bread dish and as a result we may imagine that we’re having a lavish buffet when playing them.

Selling Price: $44

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Cycling to make a painting? That’s so interesting an idea. Just as shown in the pictures, this Razor Graffiti Chalk Scooter has a new patented foot controller to hold three chalk sticks so that you can leave some prints on the ground as you enjoy the sport. Meanwhile, it can be folded up into a compact size for easy storage and transportation.

Selling Price: $59.99

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Aha, this exciting bowling game now offers you a nice reason to kiss your girls or boys…

Developed by digital artist Hye Yeon Nam, the virtual bowling game requires two people to control the ball with their tongues. To play the game, you firstly need to place a magnet on your tongue while your partner wears a customized headset that has magnetic field sensors built inside. After that, you need to kiss the other person, moving the tongue to control the ball. Wow, really funny to imagine, and we bet it will surely be more funny when you play the game personally.

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Street Flyer by Dr. Carsten Mehring seems more like an over-sized three-wheeler. But instead of sitting on the top, one is hanged beneath and moves his/her body to propel the vehicle. Even though the Street Flyer cannot compare with paragliders, it clearly offers a much safer trip of flying.

Designer: Dr. Carsten Mehring

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An innovative apparatus especially designed for indoors entertainment, featuring a virtual fishing experience with the aid of unique cameras, sound-making equipment and other gadgets. It is said everything will be the same as that of real fishing except that you would get no real fish.

Selling Price: $79.48

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Wanna to have some fun when you’re waiting for a bus? That’s no longer a joke as some Interactive Bus Stations were already built in some districts of San Francisco.

The project was made for a special game contest, during which the players need to take in part with a touch-screen machine built at a bus station. These interactive designs seem really attractive, as they have drawn great interest of both the players and the local citizens.

Although most people usually say that playing chess is much like participating in a war, they may still feel surprised to see the unique chess pieces made with .223 caliber bullet shell casings. The chess board is amazing too, as it is constructed from pure solid hot rolled steel that measures 3/16 inch flat and 1/2 inch square. Wow, that’s really the mightiest chess set we’ve ever seen!

Selling Price: $510

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Our creativity never goes to the end, and this time we’d like to introduce the giant pool game designed by Steve Wienecke. It’s similar to pool, but features a really large “table” that is four times larger than regular ones. And to play the game? You need to throw some balls to hit the others.

Designer: Steve Wienecke

We couldn’t think of any situation in which a student may use a slide simply because he needs to go downstairs as soon as possible, but we do have noticed that the huge slide has provided the students an interesting way to look for convenience and more importantly the joy.

When using the slide, it merely takes you several seconds from the top to the ground floor, isn’t that great?

Creativity has driven Google Lab to move on and recently it has demoed a new WebGL application called Body Browser. It is a detailed 3D model of human body, helping users to understand the human body better by peeling back the anatomical layers and navigating to various parts that they may be interested in. If you’re using a browser that supports WebGL, you can now have a try with the interesting Body Browser.

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Outside apartments there’s good grassland for us to relax in the nature and to ensure enough comfort you’ll also need the multiuse mat. It is foldable and lightweight, allowing for an easy transportation. More importantly it can be molded into a back cushion and is built with several storage shelves so as to meet your various needs in the open air.

Designer: Patrick Frey

What does 237 pounds mean in the year 1870? According to the Accumulator Money Box, that means you can buy a comfortable apartment in London. And one more coin you put into the Accumulator, the closer you’ll get to your next goal. So what would that be, a tour abroad, or even an elephant? Check out the Accumulator and it will give you an answer.

Designer: Snowhome for SUCK UK

In China people are used to mentioning a word “chi” when they eliminate the chess pieces of their opponents during a game of chess. And you can find a similar to word to “chi” in English language, which is actually the word “eat”. Possibly inspired by that, designer Franco Marino Cagnina has come up with the Pikda Chess Board that encourages you to eat something when playing the chess.

Each chess piece is shaped like a cookie cutter and can load up on various snacks like cheese, ham and salami. So every time you eliminate the opponent’s chess pieces, you can then enjoy some delicious food. I love the idea.

Designer: Franco Marino Cagnina

These Transparent Bubble Tents encourage users to have a closer contact with the nature. Totally transparent, the new tent not only provides beautiful sceneries but also offers smart beds, cabinets, shelves and even electric lighting for use. To sum up, it’s really the best tent designed for those who love waiting for the stars.

Designer: Pierre Stephane Dumas

Selling Price: $11914

One, two, three, four, well, I can see clearly how many teeth you have with the help of the weird communication prosthesis designed by Sascha Nordmeyer. But according to the designer, the unique red circle is actually created to hold one’s mouth open and therefore help him/her to form strange expressions just like those shown in the pictures. So do you love it?

Designer: Sascha Nordmeyer

Muse is a musical pot that amuses you. Collaborated by Lie Zhong-Fa, Koo Yoori and Jeon Se-Yong, the pot will play a song automatically when it is completely rotated to the left. The gentle tunes from the music box will not only offer you much happiness during the work, but encourages the plant to grow, so the device is really an invitation to make the best of both worlds, right?

Designer: Lie Zhong-Fa, Koo Yoori & Jeon Se-Yong

Day by day, we people work hardly with one solitary aim—the money. But have you ever thought how your money works for you? Does money wear suits like we human do, or does it work in an office too? We have too much questions to ask money, and you’ll find the answers in this video. Now let’s click it and see.

No doubt the Wii players have influenced many people, and everyday there’re new players getting crazy with the fascinating interactive game. And maybe that’s why more and more designers have come to develop new interactive games, just as it did in the case of Zachery Shivers and Anne Flinchbaugh who have created a motion-controlled version of Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Robots. Its key ingredient is TI’s accelerometer-equipped Chronos watch, which can translate the players’ actual punches into rock ‘em sock ‘em punches.For more details, you can hit up the source link and the video after the jump.

Designer: Zachery Shivers & Anne Flinchbaugh

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If you don’t have enough money to spend on racing cars but still want to experience high speed, you should at least possess certain wisdom. Because with the power of invention and imagination, everyone can make an awesome interactive race course, just as the sputnic guys have done. Using old paper board, these guys created a RACER Interactive Video Game Installation that allows the players to drive from a first perspective as the small RC car that’s equipped with a wireless video camera is running on the track. So even if you’re simply sitting on a chair, you can still feel like that you’re driving a real car! Really cool!