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Dictionary Desk Pillow

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Quite commonly we say that there’s valuable knowledge in books, but sometime there’s a comfortable soft pillow inside it too. It is disguised in the same appearance as a dictionary, allowing you to trick others for fun and to enjoy a sleep anytime and anywhere you may want. So how do you like it? Just work hard, and sleep better!

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Boat Candles

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“Moon river, wider than a mile”, and there’s a boat candle floating on the water… Designed by Slovak designer Roman Ficek, these candles are inspired by folded paper boat and each comes with a cute bright color. All handcrafted, the candle can burn up to approximately two hours.

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Tardis Safe is Unlocked with Your Smartphone

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Tardis, used to be the Doctor Who time machine police box made famous by the British television show, is now a smart safe that can only get unlocked by your smartphones. The Tardis Safe is easy to operate: simply insert your cellphone into the dock and type the password, and then it will open with a sound of the Tardis revving up to time travel. Apart from Tardis, the cellphone-opened safe is also available in an R2D2 version, which will come later this year.

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Chocolate Planet

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Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, all those eight planets of our solar system have been “transformed” into sweet chocolate shown here, and each of them features a unique flavor, so which planet do you think will taste the best?

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Japanese Bullet Train Chopsticks

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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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Stockings can tell Your Attitudes.

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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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Fossil Soap

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While professional archaeologists are concerned about finding fossil dinosaurs, we unprofessional people are just enjoying the fun of playing with fossil soap. With a unique two-layer structure, these soaps will finally demonstrate the “dinosaur fossils” after you use them for more than eight days. Available in three different types, guess which dinosaur will you find first, tyrannosaurus, triceraptos or pterosaurs?

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Your Little Printer

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Your Little Printer, unveiled by the Berg, is a smart portable printer that helps you to print out simple content. It can get connected to your cellphones, gathering the information sent out from your mobile and printing the pictures, puzzles, coupons and other stuff out. Well, I’ve already seen the happy days of printing out coupons and using them anytime and anywhere, but pity that the tiny printer won’t be available until sometime in 2012.

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Pocket Microscope

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Really small and cheap, the seemingly ordinary device actually features a surprisingly 30X magnification, always helping you to observe animals and flowers at close hand.

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Cup Noodle Robot Timer

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Though many of my friends love cup noodles, they seldom know that the first cup noodle was launched by Nissin Food in 1971. Now forty years have passed, the Nissin has collaborated with Japan’s Vstone (JP) robotics to make some Cup Noodle Robot Timers in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of cup noodles. There will be totally 10,000 timers sold to the public under some sort of a lottery system.

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Creative Notebook Designs

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Magic time… By combining two round plates, one thread and several simple patterns together, D-BROS from Japan has cleverly created some interesting but impressive scenes including the “a horse drawing the cart”, “a cycling man” and “a weightlifter”.

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Money To Burn Candle

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Too luxury… Even though we know what is burning in front of us is simply cash-shaped candle instead of real money, we still cannot bear that. If I’ve gotten such a unique money candle, I’ll just place it on my table, see it every day to encourage myself to work hard while never burn it… So what about you?

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iDigiTip for Your Finger

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What is iDigiTip? Basically it’s a digital accessory, but exactly it’s a magical gadget that offers you better experience of using your cellphones or touchscreen tablets. It works like an electronic pen worn on your finger, allowing you to control the small buttons on your cellphone with a more accurate action or handles your iPad without leaving any finger prints. More importantly, when wearing such a gadget to use your tablets or the public ATM machines, you can make sure that your finger prints will never get stolen.

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Van Gogh “Starry Night” Socks

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“Starry Night” is usually known as one of Van Gogh’s popular iconic paintings, but now it has also become part of your socks. It may be bit of weird to put a famous painting on your feet, while it looks indeed aesthetic.

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Pistol Hairdryer

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Anything that comes with an outlook nothing to do with its functions is usually interesting. And the Pistol Hairdryer shown here is rightly a good example. It is shaped like a pistol, however shots no bullets but hot air instead. If possible, I’d like to try it.

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