Yes, the New York City is no more that safe as it may used to be, and thus the NYPD is looking for newer and better methods to make the city much safer, and one of their solutions is this Mobile Scanner that allows the police to spot armed passerby on the street without ever having to get out of a police van. The device is something like the full body scans used in airports, while it is much compacter and portable, also with a wide range of three to four feet. And in the future, the device may be produced with a range of up to 80 feet, which means that it can reach people on the other side of the street easily. So will this make New York safer? Let the time to tell us the answer.

Designer: New York City Police Department

To most people, it’s really a very hard work to learn and understand sign languages, unless they can get some aid from the AcceleGlove. Made by the Institute for Disabilities Research and Training (IDRT) and funded by the National Science Foundation, the AcceleGlove is built with some sensors inside, which can help to turn your finger movements and other gestures into either text or speech. That means, as somebody wears the AcceleGlove and makes some gestures, the text displayed on the computer screen can then allow you to understand them without difficulty.

Selling Price: $300

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Tool Tank, just as its name implies, is a portable gadget that offers three different kinds of tools, including large and small Phillips head and flat head. Any of those heads can be magnetically attached into the turret so that people can use them conveniently and effortlessly.

Selling Price: £9.99

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Basically an outstanding paper-cut artwork is always related to the masterly craftsmanship, while sometimes it is actually all completed by an electronic machine, such as the Silhouette CAMEO. When connected to your PC via a simple USB cable, the electronic cutting tool will then automatically cut out the pattern you’ve chosen on paper, cardboard, vinyl, fabric or other materials.

Selling Price: $269.99

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Who can tell me where the end of human’s laziness is? After years of benefitting from dish-washers, clothes washing machines and other devices, this time we want to own an Extendable Sock Aid that allows us to put on socks without bending… So you like this?

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Time again it proves not everything useful should be high-tech, because quite often we see practical gadgets of low-fi tech, just like the Macro Lens Rubber Band made for cellphones. It’s a stretchable band capable of expanding to a diameter of up to 16-inches, thus to convert any mobile phones into a macro lens.

Selling Price: $15

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Honestly I don’t know who invented brushes, but I know clearly it is Valencia-based designers CuldeSac that will push brushed onto a new level, one that may feature evolutionary value. In this creative collection, each brush and roller comes with a unique function, allowing the users and artists to do something that used to be difficult or impossible to them, such as painting on the ceiling or stamping out distinctive patterns with a brush.

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We love everything coming with a nice shape. The iSlice Slice Box Cutter features a U – shaped handle, allowing the users to work with fewer efforts but more convenience. Apart from that, it also comes with a ceramic blade, which is 10 times sharper than metal blades and lasts 20 times longer. To meet your different needs, the cutter can be adjusted into three lengths.

Selling Price: $19.99

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Shoveling is tiring, until this Xovel Shovel makes the task easy. It comes with a double-grip handle at the neck, which promises to let your force distributed in a balanced way so that the users can feel more labor-saving. Besides, there’s also an integrated torchlight in the arm that allows you to work in the night.

Designer: Jaeseok Han
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Native Union’s Electronic Post-it Note is something that allows you to leave a message personally and politely. With its built-in 256MB memory and a camera, the device can record a video message up to 3 minutes in length. It is built with a magnet too, thus the gadget would be easily adhered to fridges, cabinets or other places. Available in green, pink, blue, purple, red, white and black, the device will be on market within a month’s time for £49.99.

Selling Price: £49.99

Japanese designer Hiroyuki Miyake has put forward this Measure Calendar that features one centimeter for each day of the year. Moreover, the calendar can serve as a retractable tape measure as well so that you can make a really full use of it.

Designer: Hiroyuki Miyake

‘KE-Chair’ is an assistive device especially designed for people who have difficulties in evacuating from disaster. It is foldable and smart, making the device compact enough for storage. It is also adjustable, and therefore the KE-Chair is compatible with various shapes of stairs. When needing evacuation, a protector should firstly unfold the KE-Chair and then move the vulnerable people downstairs conveniently and effectively.

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Good news for people with hearing disability is that Sony UK is developing a pair of glasses to display subtitles though they’re actually on the screen. Fortunately with advanced technology, the subtitles on glasses won’t seem too pressing but feels like they’re together. The glasses are expected to be launched in UK next year, and we bet many people are looking forward to that just as we do.

Shaped like a stapler, the device is in fact a bag re-sealer that helps you seal the package again if you don’t want your opened bags to sit in the air for too long a time. It also works on bags with liquid in, except for bags that contain solid materials. The gadget is easy to use, simply slide it across the bag and then done.

Selling Price: $12.99（2 Pack）

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A metal for measuring, leveling, or straightening is something well-developed that no more needs any improvements. But a newly launched gadget takes the whole thing to a new level.

Dubbed “Smart String”, the device comes with 50 feet of 20 pound string that can easily wrap around objects or measure along curve roads. But much cleverer design lies on its screen, which automatically displays the measured distance to 3 decimal places of accuracy. It also gets a built-in calculator for you to recall any 3 measurements stored in its memory. To sum up, this is almost the best fully-functioning measuring tape we can ever get.

Selling Price: $11.99

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In spite of living in different times, we’re actually sharing so many same things in our childhood. Paper plane is rightly a good example. But nowadays kids are playing with paper aircrafts much better than us, because they have the Electric Paper Airplane Conversion Kit.

It clips to a plane’s front, with the prop sticking out its back and then the device can drive your plane to fly in the air for up to about 90 seconds. Amazing.

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Merely pocket-sized, this key-ring tool kit actually includes 9 gadgets- pliers, wire cutter, wire stripper, wire crimper, bottle opener, #1 flat screwdriver, #2 flat screwdriver, #1 Phillips screwdriver and #2 Phillips screwdrivers. Really convenient.

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A trip to the seaside always asks us to prepare many items, and sometimes we even need to get various seating devices if we’d like to comfortably relieve our head, back and finally the whole body. Luckily we now have the Y-ply Beach Rest, which is a multiple-use gadget allowing us to use in various conditions. It’s not merely designed for the beach use, others outdoor activities like a park picnic need it too.

Selling Price: £29.99

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Festool’s CXS Compact Cordless Drill should be in everyone’s toolbox. It is not only ergonomic which allows convenient and comfortable using, but features a right-angle-driving attachment so that we can easily handle the installation work in narrow room such as the shelves.

Honestly the Auto Ink reminds me of sewing machines. They look almost the same in appearances, but their tasks are different: a sewing machine draws patterns on cloth while this Auto Ink draws on your skins. It can have any assigned symbols tattooed onto your arms once the main switch is triggered. The symbols are assigned either randomly or through divine intervention.

Designer: Chris Eckert

Shopping malls, though announcing to be consumer-friendly, seldom stick Braille labels onto their products. Because they don’t have a Braille label maker? Well, they now can have the choice of this Braille Punch Sticker. It is compact and convenient for use, allowing the users to punch Braille directly onto stickers and then to affix them on shelves or items.

Designer: Kim Joonmin, Kim Seonil & Lee Eunjoo

You must be dreaming of such incredible scissors as shown here. They’re completely smart-looking and their convenience is beyond any words. Used as scissors, they can cut out curve lines easily and when used as knives, they’ll make straight lines. But more importantly, the device can conveniently shift between the scissor mode and the knife mode, as its unique structure allows for an easy change. CLEVER!

Probably you don’t need to buy this Portotrash, however you’re strongly suggested to have a deep touch with this portable clip-on wireframe for plastic bags because it would ensure you a more convenient using of plastic bags and therefore keep your kitchen clean. Is there anything better? Yes! The Portotrash can be used in different situations-in a workshop, a kitchen, a car and anywhere you may need it.

Selling Price: $20

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Simplicity and delicacy are not always contradicted, and from this “Personal Post Office Scale” we can find a clever combination of those two features. Even though the smart scale is merely designed to “weigh letters for correct postage”, its amazing concept of making a scale as thin as a card still impresses us quite much. Probably we’ll find the scale fantastic too, when we use it as a decorative item.

Selling Price: $4.75

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Just admit it that you have always wanted to own something special and different. Good news is that you can now make your dream come true: the Switch is a modular pocketknife and it has 17 attachments for you to mix and fix together so as to create your exclusive knife.

Selling Price: $79

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We’ve seen many types of portable screwdrivers, but this one from Arthur Xin is a much smarter device that can even be hidden in wallets. Its ten shafts are made of plastic and rubber, and they can roll to form a driver-head when you need a screwdriver.

Designer: Arthur Xin

In spite of with careful work, good sight and a delicate ruler, time and time again we read out the wrong figures especially when they’re in centimeters and millimeters. However with the New Rule, this situation wouldn’t arise any more, because it features a wheel to display bigger numbers of the millimeter measurement. Another innovation is that the ruler can work in the same way as a caliper so that it can ensure more accurate measurements.

Designer: Product Tank

About 2000 years ago, the great mathematician Archimedes concluded that anything shaped to displace the same amount of water as that of its weight can float on the water. Inspired by that principle, Muzaffer Kocer and Ayca Guven have collaborated with the Water Scale, a measuring device that can read out the weight of the object placed onto the scale plate. It can weigh anything within 1000grams, and it doesn’t cost any energy or result in any pollution- really a green device for household use.

Designer: Muzaffer Kocer & Ayca Guven

It is Snowdozer, a smart gadget that performs quite well in removing snow and ice from your cars, because it comes with a collapsible double-blade ice scraper that works effectively. Plus, it also features an extendable telescoping arm that ensures you a better reach. Now, scraping off the icy windshield no longer bothers you.

Selling Price: $16.99

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Google has improved its translation gadget based on the Android operating system recently. The new Google Translate announces to have the ability to translate your words into the language you’ve chosen when you speak into the phone and then to read them out in a nice robot voice.

That means you can live a convenient life in any nations that have a different language, with the help of Google Translate. For example, if you’d like to have dinner at a Chinese restaurant where nobody speaks English, you can simply speak to your phone and your words will then be translated into Chinese and read to the others.

The app is expected to translate from 15 languages and translate into 53 languages, but at present the system only supports the translation between English and Spanish.

A really clever gadget for the elders… The Flashlight Cane is designed to offer the old with needed support, to illuminate their way in the dark and more importantly to protect them from certain danger with electric shock generated at the bottom.

Selling Price: $103

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Now this is clever… Not for its light weight of simply 13g nor for a thin shape of merely 2.2 mm wide, but all for the distinctive point that the sharp knife can be folded into a smart card to ensure you an easier transportation. Also, that feature can reduce your risks of getting hurt by so sharp a knife.

Selling Price: £7.5

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The Reading Ruler, just as its name implies, is an innovative tape measurer that can read out the results. So it can be an especially helpful fellow when you need to measure something in the dark. Also it would be a good gift for people with a bad sight.

Designer: Ho Sung-woon & Woo Moo-bum

A small change in design usually results in a big change in life. The Twist Wrench will offer the users a better grip when they rotate a bolt simply because it comes with an ergonomic handle. Also, a better grip will save the users much effort in applying torque to turn objects.

Designer: Wang Qiubo & Hu Xinyuan

As more and more designers take care of the living environment of the disabled, Kaylene Kau also shows concern and brings out this new Prosthetic Arm. It is announced to perform as well as men’s hands, bending flexibly to get the users their needed items. In other words the Prosthetic Arm is just as smart as an elephant’s trunk, so that would be quite an important help to the disabled people.

Designer: Kaylene Kau

Whenever I get a receipt, a bill or something that concerns personal privacy, I’d always like to make them into pieces. Not with my hands, but with the Hand Paper Shredder. No need of battery or any power, the smart shredder can easily destroy your documents and then protect you from identity theft.

Selling Price: $23.99

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Portability and simplicity are two design elements in the Portable Door Lock. It can be quickly installed on right or left hand doors at home, dorm and hotel, therefore to ensure you more safety and privacy. It also features emergency quick release.

Selling Price: $24.98

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Belts are always used as an ornament, and we don’t see them function in the other ways if they’re not there to keep up the trousers. But for $55 you can then be a cool guy using a belt in many different ways, such as removing a screw or opening the beer. So to sum up, the Tool Belt is really a smart toolbox you can easily take everywhere.

Selling Price: $55

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Everybody prefers a 3D film experience but they seldom have the chance to create an intimate 3D environment in the palm of their hands. Why? Because they don’t have the V2_! Coming as part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2011, the new gadget is designed by Jitsuro Mase to present a “Palm Top Theater” so that everybody can have a 3D film experience with their iPhone or iPad.

Designer: Jitsuro Mase

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We don’t have any problems with an ordinary nail clipper, but for guys who want everything neatly done, they’re really bothered by the fact that nail clippers usually have their cuttings spray everywhere. So they may appreciate the Klhip Nail Clipper, which allows the users to apply the pressure onto the nail so that the gadget can catch the cuttings as you go. You press and Klhip would catch, so no more cuttings spray. Nice!

See what these Fiskars’ Cuts+More Scissors can do, the results are really amazing: they could cut paper into pieces, cut out wires and ropes, and even open beer bottles… But what’s more important is that all those functions are cleverly combined in one scissor so you can simply have one such scissor to meet your various needs.

Selling Price: $19.99

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Well, the new needle designed by Jieun Lee and his partners seems nothing special on the pictures, but the difference will then be noticed when you pull the thread to the opposite direction… guess what, the thread is easily cut off! All the secret lies in the sharp blade towards the lower-inner eye, and it performs just as well as your knives and teeth to cut off the thread. Just remember its name, the Cut Needle.

Designer: Jieun Lee, Jihun Kang, Youngho Lee, Byung-Kyu Park & Ji-Yun Seo

Can one single nail open a bottle? Not likely, unless the nail is built onto a walnut wood block… Handmade to fit the contour of your hands, the handy Nail Bottle Opener not only offers an interesting way to open bottles, but comes with a concealed magnet to hold the caps when they tend to fall away. Really a simple but clever design.

Selling Price: $22

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What do you usually do when you cannot find the cellphone? Ask someone around you for another phone to call it? Hey guys, you wouldn’t always find a person, however you can always find the www.icantfindmyphone.com for help.

Designed to help people find their phones, the interesting website will connect you to your phone when you key in your mobile phone number and as a result you can easily find the phone in a certain room. Too bad that your phone cannot say to you by itself, so you still need to call the police for help if you’ve forgotten where you lost the cellphone.

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Here on I New Idea we’ve shown you various kinds of scissors that are embedded with an amazing concept. And to add one more scissor to that list, we’d like to introduce the Pen Scissor. It is designed like a pen, which allows the scissor to be easily stored in any boxes or you can just pin it onto your books. And to give you one more reason to choose the Pen Scissor, we would say that it is as kawaii as all other Japanese stationeries so you’ll need one to make yourself look cool, too.

Selling Price: $7.8

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We’ve seen a simple but great change from the Yes! Swatter by Zhao Ke. It features a smart niche that lets you pick up the dead fly without having to waste paper any more. But no matter how well the Yes! Swatter would actually perform, we may still have to face the annoying flies. Yes, they’re everywhere.

Designer: Zhao Ke

You must have noticed that body parts can be used as measurement devices, so there is ‘a foot’ and ‘an arm’s length’ to describe the distance between two items. Inspired by that, Choi Hyong-Suk, Jung Ji-hye and Yoo-Jin Park have collaborated with the “Smart Finger”, an innovative measurement device that caps your two fingers and uses the signals relayed between the two points to bridge the gap. After that, the measured distance will then be displayed through LED.

Designer: Choi Hyong-Suk, Jung Ji-hye & Yoo-Jin Park

Everyone would need a multifunctional scissor like this. Ergonomically designed, the innovative scissor can be used both left and right handed, allowing the users to easily cut paper, open bottles and crack nuts.

Selling Price: $14.99

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Many people have realized the importance of relaxing but them seldom find an effective way to relieve their tension. Fortunately, they can get some help from the portable Massage Gloves. Made of soft imitation suede, nylon and elastane, the innovative gloves feature ten smart fingertips to generate between 16,000 and 18,000 vibration impulses every minute, so as to make you magnificently relaxed in few minutes. Super ideal for a self-massage!

Selling Price: £125

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Finally the tap also has a mate. Made from water-safe rubber, the Tapi Tap Squeeze Drink Fountain can be attached onto any tap with a straight spout, so that you can conveniently drink clean water from your tap simply by squeezing Tapi.

Selling Price: $5.95

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