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Guessing time again, so what do you think this Teddy Bear is used for? Don’t tell me that’s merely a toy, please…

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You know that the Short Message Service has been there for 20 years? Well, time passes away so fast that we can hardly feel the changes…But that doesn’t matter at all, as the “Shooting Message System” notebook can successfully remind us of it. With a built-in elastic band on the cover, the notebook can launch your notes in a manual but special way. So interesting!

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Wanna to make your glasses look completely different from others? Then you’d better change them into Superheroes! The unique cape here can suck into any glasses, to make your items more attractive.

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Unbelievable, the pocket-sized metal box here is actually a gadget for both storing and lighting matches!? But how? The secret lies in its unique strike material-coated barrel, which allows you to light a match as you’re removing it.

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Power lines, when placed in different places and endowed with different functions, seem to have brought us with completely different feelings as a result. These power lines here, designed by Daniel Ballou, are “miniaturized version in bent, chromed wire works well for the desk”. Thus when you place several of them on your table, get the lines of cellphones along them, you may then create a California desert landscape all by yourself.

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Soooooo CUTE! Simply put some napkins on a sailboat-shaped wooden holder, you’re actually building your own boat on the table…

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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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“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, 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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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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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, 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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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, 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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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What is the safest way to keep your iPhones? One answer suggested here is to put it inside your belt buckles. Of course that’s just for kidding, but the concept of this iPhone Belt Buckle is really interesting. The belt buckle is large enough to hold iPhones, thus offers us a weird way to take our iPhones around. However, if you want to use the cellphone, you may need to open your belt buckle from time to time? Wow, crazy.

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Be careful, the vampire is coming… It’s not to bite you, but to bite open your bottles! Look at its big red mouth and long white teeth, don’t they seem awesome? Hopefully you love it.

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At the beginning of this year, Coca Cola and Daft Punk have collaborated to issue a limited edition of bottles that have ever made many people gone crazy for a while. Now, only several months later, they built a second collaboration to launch merely 20 sets of bottles all over the world. Each set includes two bottles, which separately features 925 silver and 18k gold logo branding. It’s now available for sale at daftcoke.com, so just go and check it out if you’re interested.

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Please keep smiling for your photo, I mean, not only you need to smile, but also your camera is expected to do so. This Holga Camera by TIM is rightly a camera that smiles to shot. It has two big eyes, and they are in fact two camera lens that would “wink” to take a photo. Once the two lens are opened at the same time, you’ll then see amazing 3D image via them. So ready for your photo? Smile!

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London-based Nails inc. has launched these magnet polish products that can create a stereo image on your finger nails. This series is available in three colors, each of which is mixed with iron powder in it. Once you paint your nails with the polish, place a magnet close to your fingernails and soon you’ll see awesome lines on them.

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Soooooo Cute! This is a magic piggy band that will grow fatter and longer with more and more coins inserted into it. When you need more space, simply attach another slice of ham to the body and continue to feed the little piggy… The more coins you put into it, the much fatter your pig gets. Fabulous!

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Everybody knows that we’re surrounded by radiation all the time, but where is it? The radiation is invisible, imperceptible, and only this Care Bracelet can detect it.

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These interesting clothes are especially designed for your laptops, giving them a personalized look and thus to amaze the people around you. More surprisingly, these Laptop Body Skins would seem to be part of you when viewed rightly from the front. So which is your favorite, Bikini, T shirt, X ray, or the formal dress?

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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. [Read the rest of this entry...]

With their pregnant bellies become bigger and bigger, almost all mums-to-be have to face one same problem that they cannot sleep well with their big belly. Until they have these Total Body Pregnancy Pillow. It is cleverly designed, with an improved body to ease moms’ pains on back and wrists, to support their bellies for comfort, and as well to create them a cozy sleeping space. [Read the rest of this entry...]

iStrike Stylus changes your drawing jobs into striking progresses. Suitable for any capacitive touch-screen devices such as Apple iPad or iPhone, the “match” moves smoothly on screens to effectively finish your work when keeps your screen away from fingerprints. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Welcome to our food- themed party. To dress up yourself, you may choose from apple rings, pear necklace, cookie earrings, fried-egg studs and many other things. They’re not only cute, but also ‘delicious’. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Wear a mask to kiss? What a stupid idea that may sound… But wait, wait, Didier Faustino’s Doppelganger is in fact an unusual mask especially designed for special occasion like days with epidemic disease. As this double-sided mask has a small hole, two people’s lips will make to meet through it while not let others see them. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Woolen Soap is here! It is handmade and intended for gentle massage and skeen peel. Whenever moisten with water and wringed with hands, the handmade felted soap will offer lathers for you to use. But do remember to wash it and dry it out if it is not in need. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Alarm clocks are wonderful devices, and among them Oliver Sha’s IQ Alarm Clock is obviously the best. It has no snooze button, but instead you have two choices to make the clock stop ringing: one is to answer 1 to 3 questions, and the other is to press and hold the power button for 30 seconds. So what will your choose, the former method or the latter one? [Read the rest of this entry...]

Angry Birds are almost everywhere, and till now we can see them on cups, hats, cakes, toys, refrigerator magnets and many other items. There are 14 kinds of Angry Birds, and I can’t even tell the best – you see, they all look so nice!

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Sometimes, the whales do not spout water but face tissues… [Read the rest of this entry...]

My heart beats faster than a drum beats, and with a smile, I’m saying: “I love you, and I feel quite excited to see you.” Do you have the same feeling too? [Read the rest of this entry...]

Frightened to death… one may have that experience if suddenly sees this Anatomical Model Sleeping Bag. But I do feel like sleeping in such a bag, because all evil spirits will be frightened off too, aha! Just for kidding. [Read the rest of this entry...]