Aiming to diversify and personalize acoustic instruments, the ‘Rezon’ has recently appeared in our visual field. It has 2 octaves and 15 tones per octave. The tone pitch is decided by the different bar heights, the lower octave is on one side while the higher is on the other side. No matter you twitch the bars with your fingers or strike them with metal rings, you could always enjoy an inventive music.
Titled as ‘Abri Socio’, the camp-changing device is invented by Becky Greenwood, a female designer who wants to bring camping people together by this means while not violating their privacy. When several tents are connected together, it looks just like a tribe on the whole, with a large space in the centre.
Hacky sack, a seemingly simple game, actually calls for a good control capacity and an acute observational ability. The former is for a perfect sport show and the later is needed to count how many times one kicks the foot-bag up in the air. But usually we still couldn’t get an exact figure of how many times on earth others have kicked, especially those of the master hacky sack players. In that case, you may need the hacky sack counter, a gadget that is used to keep track of how many times you can keep the hacky sack up in the air without it falling. Perhaps you can also use the counter in a shuttlecock kicking game.
Yes, it is so amazing that this chess is designed in the same shape of hair clips. What’s more, the chess box also doubles a projector, especially useful in projecting a visual chessboard for games when you’re outside.
At the first glance, maybe you’ll regard it as a normal rug. However, it is a new high-tech product. To tell you the truth, this carpet is actually a radio that allows you to enjoy FM programs in quite a unique way. Walks on the carpet will help you to change the radio frequencies. It is possible a bit inconvenient, but it’s really full of gusto, right?
The best thing about indoor life is being able to do whatever we like, and of course, indoor games are indispensable. See that, the robotic Marubot Football League here comes to bring you with more fun. Except for the exciting robotic games instructed by your command, the machine also features some artificial robot expressions, like smiles for goal and depression for lose. Cute!
If you’ve been cloying about the same wallpaper, you must try this wallpaper games. As it can make the furniture seems absolutely different everyday, giving you a fresh impression. Through simple drawing, you can excavate new wallpaper for your cozy room easily.
Due to digital technology, this visual space football may bring you with absolutely different feeling when you are engaged in these space football games. It is cool, because though all balls are shown in the screen, you can still control the games via usual sort of spiny axle controllers.
Yea billiards is of great fun but you may have expected it to be more exciting, right? So why not have a look at the Obscura Cue-light? Based on sensors and an overhead projector, the pool table has come to astonish you with brilliant images when the balls bang around. Check for more with the video if you’re interested.
Wanna play Ping Pang? But don’t hurry to fetch your table tennis bats and balls, because we’ll play the game on the ground. As shown in the video, two teams are standing on each side of the field imagined through laser projection and win points when they shoot the ball to the wall of the competitor. If you want to beat the ball back, you should move the rod smartly with your feet. Cool!
Cool! Let alone its thick texture and pleasant touch, the so-called “Miranda” floss wall is known as a brush pattern wall that allows you scribble on it in a green way. Based on a silicone wall, “Miranda” is composed of over 65,000 polypropylene fiber surface tiles so that it creates various shades as the hair is manipulated.
“Celestial Chess Set”, unlike usual chess sets, is an innovative article that is based on a spherical base rather than a flat surface. Emphasizing a newfangled visual effect, you may find the delicate chess pieces seemingly walking upon the clouds when they rise to take part in the royal battle.
The world-round popularity of iPhone explains why even the decks of the new cards have been designed to look like an iPhone. Made of 100% PVC, the iPhone cards come to shock us again with a convenient cleanout: simply to wash them in the water!
Wanna mix your own music just like a DJ? Let the iPhone DJ mixer assist you. Built with a speaker connection and microphone jack, as well as a turntable, the mixer can combine music from two iPhone, iPods or mp3 players to create perfect sound effects including reverb, flange and filter, cross-fade slider, etc. Also, your iPhone, iPod will get charged when the mixer works.
Made from metal brackets and covered with artificial grass, these lounge chairs are designed for public spaces such as their current owner, the Breda Park in Netherlands. Lie on the arc-shaped lawn chairs, we can stretch our exhausted bodies totally to enjoy a wonderful time closet to the nature. Mm, really comfortable!
Bloody, violent, cruel, etc, on mentioning naval war, moat people will think of those passive adjectives immediately, but the battleship drinking game player will train your battleship skills without any uncomfortable elements. Instead of weapons such as cannons, guns, you’ll have to drink wines during the game if you unfortunately lose it. With a portable design, it also ensures you to enjoy a naval battle anywhere.
The soft watch looks just like the black and white TV set with an entity antenna in 1980s. On its surface, there is an hour hand and a minute hand, which can be adjusted through the attunement knob or the channel- switch knob on the side face.
This is a unique chessboard which comes with 3D terrain. Thanks to this different design, it will make you have a better chess experience, just like in the real battlefield, maybe.
What is this cute girl doing? Just making face? Not exactly. As a matter of fact, she is controlling her MP3 player with facial expression. This process is relying on infrared sensors that measure the inner ear movements resulting from various facial expressions. For example, you can start or stop the music when you stick your tongue out. It’s very simple and funny.
If you really think traditional Rubik’s Cube is pretty easy, although I cannot agree with your crazy idea, you should have a look at this Rubik’s Cube. There’are 975 individual parts not including the 1,212 stickers that each had to be placed by hand. In order to create this crazy toy, its designer Jason Smith takes about 75 hours. However, the point is that how long is it to resolve a puzzle made by this Rubik’s Cube.
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iPod’s touch scroll wheel is very convenient, but it lacks the physical sense of touch. This new design comes with a small circle inside and so, you can stick your finger through the wheel and spin it to control the audio functions. In order words, this is a analogue version of iPod’s scroll wheel. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Sitting in the rear of the car is pretty boring, so you need some video game. But the background of the game is always the same. Need some change? You will like this one named carcade. Designed by Berlin University of Arts students Nicolas Fischer, Martin Kim Luge and Korbinian Polk, this game can capture the landscape outside the car with the camera and converts the it into the video game environment.
Make sure that you’re not driving the car while playing carcade.
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Puzzle fans might be interested in this cube game. Different from classic puzzle card, this one is made of 4 electric cubes. It can provide puzzle randomly and you can get 300 picture puzzles and 300 word puzzles. But only four cubs seem too easy to resolve.
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It is a kind of waste for common gamers, who do not play auto game frequently, to buy a steering wheel simulator. But normal game controller can not provide good solution at all. Then you might need a mini steering wheel like this.
Because the USB mini steering wheel is detachable, you can have a better driving experience when playing auto game. While playing normal games, micro wheel can be easily removed which leaves you with a pretty standard looking gamepad. [Read the rest of this entry...]
No, this is not a real tap, just in the shape of a faucet. It is actually a FM radio, so you will get music rather than water from it. After twisting the knob, you will get the radio station, and just press the button it will jump to the next available FM station. This is a perfect solution for those like to listen to the radio in bathroom. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The tuning part of conventional radio is a small slider which could be moved in the device. But this one is different. The radio itself is transformed into a slider which could be moved through the caliper liked rack. [Read the rest of this entry...]
You still remember hamster ball? It is a horrible video game; you need to keep balance while running by typing the arrow keys. If you are good at it, you might think it is a piece of cake and need some harder stuff. Then I think you will like this.
What you have to do is sitting in this so-called buzzball and drive it with the two trigger. Oh, sure, you have to close the door. Then you will have a chance to play a real hamster ball, or we should call it human ball.
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You may experience the water slide and the roller coaster, however, I guess you never ever realize that one day your body can be a roller coaster to rotate in a sealed loop.
In order to gather enough speed, this new game from German needs you to stand up on a trap and drop you straight down. Then you will slide to get a complete loop and come out in a pool at last. It gonna be amazing. You want try? [Read the rest of this entry...]
Made by a math professor, this musical instrument allows you to play it by tapping the 24 strings on the 24 frets.
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You should be a little bit smarter to get objects stored under the surface.
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With a pool underneath, I guess you cannot concentrate your attention totally on the billiard ball. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Second life is the most popular online virtual game. But how to make a virtual game like a real one, I mean play second life with real motions, just like the Wii manner.
This hands free 3D system is a brilliant gadget which is able to determine where your legs and arms are located and your in-game avatar will response your similar actions in reality.
So you still think second life is a virtual life rather than a real one?
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As one of the most recreation during leisure time, foosball is very attractable for me. But it is hard for me to realize how beautiful it could. What about you?
This is really the most elegant foosball I ever seen. Beautiful, fantastic, gorgeous… [Read the rest of this entry...]
This is a gorgeous design for the classic game. At least, you can save half piece. [Read the rest of this entry...]
With the development of digital technology, such digital music as MP3 is fairly popular in nowadays. Believe it or not, however, this kind of hi-tech music is not as smooth as analogue mediums like tape and even be harmful for your ear. [Read the rest of this entry...]
With the unique wobble chessman and concave board, this chess game will be more vividly. [Read the rest of this entry...]
With a knee mounted power generator, you can charge your MP3 player by translating the kinetic energy into electric power.
Theoretically, your MP3 Player won’t stop playing music until you stop running. Just kidding. [Read the rest of this entry...]
You still embarrassed to FORCE your kids brush their teeth? Then I bet you gotta like this brilliant invention from National Taiwan University.
Thanks to the popular interactive technology, this system can monitor the movement of the toothbrush through LEDs attached on the toothbrush and then translate this kind of movement into a video game.
To get really happy pictures, photographers have to shot when one do not pay attention to them. What if there is not any photographer at all?
Take a look at this Tospom camera. When TosPom is thrown from one to another, the another’s face will be taken automatically as he/she catches it, and the picture will be shown on the display. [Read the rest of this entry...]
This is the best news for those who like to play Quake 3 Arena. This classic game has successfully been ported to iPhone / iPot touch.
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