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Based on clever design and accurate arrange, the Rozetkcus Wall Socket comes with 9 points to allow you to plug in various shapes of devices effectively. It not only solves that problem that we usually need to insert several different types of plugs in one socket, but also promises endless possibilities of how to configure your devices according to their plugs’ shapes. Except for the 9-point socket, the Rozetkcus is also available in a 16 points version.

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Design easy and use easy, Devraj Bhadra’s ISI Desk Clamp is an innovative concept that offers us a really simple way to manage various electronics cables. The flexible steel clamp can be placed on the edge of your table, keeping your computer and cellphone power cables neatly while never taking up you too much (or extra) space.

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Missing the old days during which you can flip through your paper book pages? You can do the same thing with your digital documents now, with the help of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology’s new e-reading system. It brings several book-like capabilities to tablets and smartphones, allowing the users to flip through pages or riffle through the whole sheaves of them, both forwards and backwards. Except for that, the system also features some functions that are not aren’t necessarily book-like, such as to control how many pages are flipped by varying either the number of fingers applied to the screen, the speed of finger gestures, or the amount of time that the finger is applied. In the video below, you may learn more information about the e-reading system, please just go through to click it.

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Once realized that more and more bird are getting injured by skyscrapers in cities, an architecture studio “Stone Design” has decided to build the Urban Aviary, a tall building especially designed for birds that not only offers a house but can help to bring down the death rate. It will be located in Central Park, New York, standing at 1,050,000 square feet. It will let birds build nests outside the building because of the presence of vegetation and food inside the structure. Besides, a strong beam of light will be built to attract the birds so that they can give up other high buildings which may result in hurt to them.

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Love playing with your iPad, but never mind what kind of sleeve or stand it is using? No, I couldn’t stand my iPad wearing something ugly, so I decide to buy it this smart Stand Sleeve (if the gadget will finally come into the market). It features a fashionable appearance, with a combination of bright white and red. Besides, the design utilizes an ingenious folding technique & magnets too, to conveniently shift it between a sleeve and a stand.

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Ever miss the blue sky and white clouds when you’re actually working within your offices? Well for all nature lovers here is the Dynamic Luminous Ceiling Sky. It is composed of regular LCD TVs and LEDs, to simulating the natural cloudy sky and light conditions as accurately as possible. The ceiling consists of 19.6 x 19.6 inch square tiles that each holds 288 LEDs, and 11.8 inches below these lights there’s a diffuser film to create homogenous lighting that illuminates the room throughout.

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PumPing Tap is a 2011 red dot design concept winner, which can cleverly solve the problem of wastage of electricity by automatically ejecting a plug when the appliance is switched off. About ten minutes later after you’ve turned your device off but haven’t unplugged it, the socket will then eject the plug, so as to completely cut off the electricity.

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What can people do with their metro cards? Asking that question, some NYU students have come up with a solution called “MetroChange”, which encourages New Yorkers to donate their remnant fares to charity. Several machines were built for people to participate in the campaign, and with their every swipe, money left on their metrocard is showed to them, so that they could decide whether or not to donate the money. In fact, the unused metrocard amounts totals up to $52 million each year, which finally goes to the pocket of MTA. So, if people would support this program, all the money will be distributed better- to needy New Yorkers, instead of going to the MTA.

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In order to help the visually handicapped people better find their ways independently, a team of researchers from the National University of Singapore have collaborated an electronic cane that lets its users explore through unfamiliar ways with no difficulty.

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How popular do you think the Facebook is? Normally we’re no longer contented with using it for most time of the day, as we’re in big favor of sleeping with Facebook! You got it? We need a Facebook Bed simply the same as this one designed by Tomislav Zvonaric. It’s amazing, combining almost all features of the Facebook website, but so pity that it’s merely a concept at the time.

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Angel Mommy Pack is a smart design especially good for babies and their moms. It’s a clever combination of a breast pump and a feeding bottle, which not only makes it easy for moms to get their breast milk into the bottle for storage but also promises a safe reheating and easy cleaning so as to reduce the housework a mom needs to do.

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Honestly we seldom see laptop bags redesigned with many new functions, not to mention a bag that actually serves as a charger as well. This amazing design comes from Brad Ascalon, which utilizes wireless charging technology to convert a laptop bag into a charging machine. Now have a look at the bag: its inner tray is in fact the charger and its carrying strap actually contains USB male connector at one end and a plug on the other. So once connect the strap end to another computer or an electrical outlet, and then you can get your laptop recharged wirelessly. That’s not all! The same USB port allows the laptop bag to work as a thumb drive on its own too.

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Hot egg is the most popular food in my family whenever the winter comes, as it not only warms my hands but also warms my stomach. It’s a pity that the eggs cannot keep hot for a long time, and they usually become cold after my way to offices. Thus I need something to reheat them. The ultra-portable Heater Egg Card seems like a good choice. It utilizes a wire-web and thin skin that envelops the egg to reduce heating time; features a collapsible casing that can be folded as thin as a credit card, thus to ensure us an easy carrying; still, it also comes with a USB charging style, which makes it practical in places without an electricity outlet.

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Any good idea about towel racks? To redesign their shapes, coat them with unique colors or endow them with new functions? Of course the last one is our option, so why not have a look at this Breeze Rack, a 2011 red dot design concept winner? It’s a multifunctional towel rack, serving as a hair drier, a bathroom ventilator and a sterilizer except for hanging towels. In other words, almost everything you would need to use in a bathroom can be found in the Breeze Rack, isn’t that great?!

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Handycan is a concept design comes with grooves that make it easy to grip. The clever design will reduce the volume that cans take up in recycling trucks too, saving both space and money. But does that also mean the can may break open more easily if it is applied with high pressure? Arman Emami gives us no answer to that question.

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