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Landscape Dinner Set

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Clouds, trees, houses and the green lawn as well, almost everything found in a drawing by kids now appear on the Landscape Dinner Set. With different items serving as plates and cups, the dish set is expected as a good way to attract children to the table.

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Shark Helmet

20111208001

Watch out, a shark is nearby to attack you… in a special way of disguising itself as a safety helmet. Especially designed for kids to increase their safety of cycling, the crazy helmet features a vivid 3D effect, providing both a cool expression and full function as well.

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Giant Animal Bed Sheets

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Animals are always the best friends to kids, who not only play with dogs but even sleep with them. These creative bed sheets are rightly designed to transform regular beds into giant stuffed animals, so as to provide your kids with more chances and time to get accompanied by animals.

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The Kid’s Republic Book Store

20111023010

Kid’s Republic is colorful bookstore built in Beijing, China for children. From the ground floor to the upper floors, a rainbow-shaped carpet is running everywhere, connecting all the rooms together. Inside the building, there is also a relaxing reading environment as well as hundreds of books for kids to enjoy their happiness of an entertaining childhood. I wish I could ever go the bookstore, but pity it’s far away in China.

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Cardboard Cocorico Cooker

20111023006

Hello little chefs before the screens, we’ve gotten some amazing toys for you: the Cardboard Cocorico Cooker. It looks the same as a real cooker, with tiny time knobs and temperature knobs. Of course it cannot be used to bake cakes, and is actually made for the kids to practice their cooking ability. But who cares? The play kitchen set is cute enough for kids.

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iWood Laptop Blackboard

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iWood is the first but best your kids can ever get… Well, even though it is made of wood, the item is actually a portable blackboard that allows children to draw and write anywhere and anytime. So what could be more important than to encourage your kids to imagine and innovate? Nothing. Give them the iWood and let them record their fabulous imaginations.

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FunBath For Kids

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The famous American Standard brand has recently issued their “Funbath”, a new series that lets kids get more fun with bathing. Also, these castle-themed and car-themed bathtubs makes bathing children an easier and safer job. Their built-in seat, grab bar and spray shower not only saves parents from wiggling, slipping or bending over when bathing their children, but also ensures the kids a much safer sitting. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Training Dresser, Your Kid’s Dresser

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Such an innovative dresser was invented when Seattle product designer Peter Bristol tried to think and act in the same way as kids. As the dressers is specially designed to help children learn to find and keep their clothes, it comes with an interesting name: Training Dresser. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Crayola Crayon Maker

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I am always amazed when I hear people saving those used crayons and use them to make new ones. But the Crayola Crayon Maker proves that is practical. And now it seems as if we seldom need to buy any new crayons as long as we can own such a smart machine… [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Rhapsody Children’s Beds

20101102301

Almost no words are needed, and just look at the pictures you’ll know clearly what the Rhapsody Children’s Beds can offer: a comfortable bed for resting, a slider for entertainment, cute toys and delicate decorations… All those have built a fantastic dream world for your kids! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Hydrogen-Powered Car

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It is not merely a toy for fun, but also a teaching appliance that may tell you how a car runs on water. When assembled, the mini car will then separate hydrogen and oxygen and use the gas to power the vehicle. So with the car, kids can also find entertainment in teaching too. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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5.25 Feet Bi-pedal Exoskeleton For Children

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Kid’s Walke is a 1.6 meters tall bi-pedal exoskeleton coming from Japan. Designed to be piloted by children, the exoskeleton suit would move the kids around and help them accomplish certain tasks via the control of hand grips. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Cute Child’s Hangers

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Lovely kids need cute clothes hangers and today we’d like to show you two kinds of animal hangers, the Monkey Hanger and the Dolphin Hanger. Each coming in cute shapes and lovely colors, these hangers will surely add more fun to your kids’ life and give their wardrobes a new look. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Life Jacket With Dorsal Fin

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For all kids that dream to be as strong and brave as sharks, or for those who’d like to swim as well as a shark. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Half Scale Luxury Cars for Kids

2010909201

What wonderful good fortune kids today are enjoying, they can even own a classic luxury car as the adults do! But certainly the luxury cars for kids are only half scales. Designed for children over the age of 6 and small adults, these delicate cars are powered by 50cc gas or a racing kart engine, and all of them have an electric start, disk brakes and reverse gear, etc. Well, I can imagine how cool it would be to see my niece and her mother driving in two look-alike cars around the city! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Toy Guardian

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Tzung-Yu Lu has designed the Toy Guardian as a new alternative to toy boxes. It is a monster on wheels, moving around the rooms to “eat” up all the toys and return them to the kids when they’re needed. And still, the box itself is a cute toy!

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Integrative Chair for Handicapped Kids

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Ergonomically designed, the Integrative Chair aims at handicapped kids aging between three and six who need certain help to overcome their physical disability in various activities. The chair features an adjustable seat, the height and shape of which can be easily changed according to the kids’ different needs like having dinners or playing toys. The mobile chair also has a cantilever system to absorb violent movement, so as to ensure the kids a comfortable and safety using. Apart from those, the chair’s outer surface is also a toy, which can be painted with chalks without leaving traces after cleaning. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Head’s Up Juice Glasses

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Hey, kids in front of the screen, see what we’ve prepared for you today…the “Head’s Up Juice Glasses”! It features retro styled faces that look like a kid and an aged man when you flip the glass. Each set includes 2 10 ounce glasses, with an acceptable price of $9.99. So you like it? Aha, “Bottoms Up Shot Glass” for dads, and the “Head’s Up Juice Glasses” for moms and kids. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Multi-functional Furniture for Kids

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Your little boys want a changing table to showcase their Transformers, his cute girls ask for enough drawers for storing their skirts, while her naughty baby needs a crib… Yups, different people need different things, but the Multi-functional Furniture by Adensen Furniture is rightly something every parent has dreamed of. Especially designed for kids up to 10 years old, the smart furniture could be changed into a crib, a table, storage drawers, shelves, and a bigger bed, etc. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Lightbotz by Marcus Tremonto

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An America-based lighting designer Marcus Tremonto, who drew his inspiration from science fictions and video games, has designed the ‘Lightbotz’ series for vinyl toy manufacturer Kidrobot. All handmade by using new technologies, these 7 inch tall Munny and Dunny dolls are integrated with various lights to create a cute and distinctive appearance.

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Grow Space For Kids

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All the kids around the world should thank the h2o Architects a lot, as they’ve come up with the piece of multi-use furniture to create you a multifunctional space for you to play, to rest and to study in.

The entire piece is designed to be shared by two children. To meet your kids’ various requirements, Eva’s Bed consists of stairs, aisles, shelves, tables, beds and other pieces of furniture. But perhaps the most attractive feature is the modular design enabling the users to rearrange the multiple spaces when they grow up. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Giant Knit Rugs

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Called as ‘phat knit’, the series of oversized furniture are made using giant knitting needles and strings. Available in two versions— one piece that features multi (or single) colored strings tied together and the other that is actually a huge knot—’phat knit’ would spice up your kids’ bedrooms… as long as their rooms are big enough. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Mini Mix: A ‘Power Tool’ for Kids

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Mini Mix- just as the name implies- is an electric hand mixer especially designed for kids. “By watching kids use a hand mixer”, the designer Carly Hagins said, “I realized that they always use two hands, while the mixer is actually designed to be one-handed.”And therefore the Mini Mix is a handy little tool, allowing children to operate with both their hands. Also featuring two buttons on both handles to activate the device, Mini Mix will protect your kids from hurting their fingers by working beaters. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Light-up Balloons

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Though balloons cannot do much for you, they at least can ensure you a free chatting time with your friends by amusing the annoying kids. Just give your kids a balloon, they will feel satisfied and have a good time with it. And next time going out for a walk in the night, you can easily amuse your kids by giving them a ‘Light-up Balloon’, an innovative kind of balloon that illuminates in the dark. Available in yellow, red, blue, green, white and other colors, each of the ‘Light-up Balloons’ could be blown up to an amazingly big size with a diameter up to 27 cm and keep that size for 15 hours. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Party Rats Finger Lights

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Certainly most people would like to take the center stage of parties, and you’re one of them? If so, you may need these Party Rats, which are actually finger lights in the same shape of small rats. Just wear these colorful lights on your fingers, waving them in the air and then all the other people will definitely notice your hands and you. These lights could also be used in a more practical way, and that is to act as nightlights when you have to use your computer in the dark. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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LED Sketch Art

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We’’already covered some attractive LED designs in the blog, but the ‘LED Sketch Art’ is totally different from all those. It is a toy which allows you to ‘draw’ a glowing picture by sticking LEDs into the board. Powered by batteries, USB cable, AC wall adapter, or car adapter, the LED toy could be easily taken along with you, and therefore to ensure you a ‘drawing’ time (also ‘enjoying’ time) whenever you want. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Dinosaur Chopsticks

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Parosaurolophus, T-Rex, Ankylosaurus, Stegosaurus, etc, these cute dinosaurs have come to help you deal with boring noodles, kids! Do look carefully, these dinosaurs are not merely decorations—they’ve held the two chopsticks together and that’s why kids can easily handle them.

So no longer need to learn using chopsticks any more, what you need is merely the Dinosaur Chopsticks. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Flickin’ Chicken

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Whenever we play a game, no matter it is new or old, we could always find an instruction of the game and everyone has to keep to the rules. But the objective of Flickin’ Chicken is to encourage you to lay down some rules. And usually, people would love to play the game in a way like this: they toss the chicken, hit the target pad with them and then check out how many times they’ve hit the goal.

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Lollipop Thermometer

20091224801

The delicious lollipops just remind me of my lovely niece, who loves everything that tastes sweet, even including the granular infusion for influenza and fever. So every time she catches a cold, she would be quite happily to take medicine. Obviously, the Lollipop Thermometer works in a same way. Shaped and tastes like lollipops, these thermometers will be rather popular among kids so that you can easily make sure whether or not your child is have a fever.

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‘Big Foot’ is here to keep your kids away from kitchen.

20091224401

Even inside your own house, certain places like the kitchen, is believed to be dangerous to your kids. You cannot always keep an eye on them especially when you’re preparing a dinner, and as those little guys are too naughty to run around, they may carelessly get hurt or even get burned. Designed for indoor use, the dubbed ‘Big Foot’ will ‘stand’ stably and freely outside your kitchen, therefore keeping your children away. As it is endowed with large feet, you needn’t have to affix the multiple panels to the walls. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Quote/Unquote Bookends

20091217701

“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” What the well-known dramatist and author George Bernard Shaw said long ago has made us realize the importance of intercommunion and communication. And reading is just an important type of exchanging the ideas. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Itazura Bank

200912161001

Remember the Choken Bako Bank, an electric piggy bank that is shaped like a dog? This time, it is a lovely kitty that will impress you a lot. It is so cute!

It works in a way like this: when you place a coin onto the fish bone-shaped button, the naughty kitty will then open the lid with her head and grab the coin into the box with her paw. Cute! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Design a Jurassic Park Themed Bedroom for kids.

20091216801

If you’re planning to decorate your boy’s bedroom, you should have a look at the Jurassic Park Themed Bedroom presented here. A mural that reflects the Dinosaur Days, and a dinosaur’s bottom jaw as the bed, will any boy resist a room like this? You know, they love adventures and they love dinosaurs. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Wooden Building Blocks With Magnets

20091215201

A little boy is piling up his building blocks, and the moment he finished his work, the building collapsed. Bad luck. But you no more have to feel bad about the traditional building blocks that easily collapse. I New Idea here present the Tegu sets, improved wooden building blocks that are built with magnets. Therefore the blocks will stick firmly to one another, allowing the kids to build anything they’d like. Simple but really genius idea!

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DIY a Pencil Crossbow

20091214401

Everybody loves to DIY. No matter it is a cake, a book, or merely a toy, we’re all intended to DIY one. And today, I New Idea will show you how to DIY a pencil crossbow, with 4 pencils, a ball pen, tape, wooden skew (used as an ammo), as well as seven rubber bands. All right, you ready? Let’s follow the pictures below to build one then. Come on! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Famicom Guitar

20091214101

The thought never flash through the gamers’ mind that he or she could do something special for the game and other gamers. And the Famicom Guitar is rightly made to celebrate a gaming gathering. Coming with striking red and white, it is really a cute guitar, and especially perfect for kids.

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Biscuit Puzzle

200912101001

To most parents, trying to make the children eat is one big headache. Then what shall we do to develop kids’ interest in meals? Perhaps, we should firstly make the meals interesting and attracting, just like the Biscuit Puzzle presented here. Will any kids resist a cute meal like this? [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Control the ball with your brain.

2009120910001

Control a ball with brain? Oh, man, only if I had a super power, or that will never happen. However, in fact, every one wearing a special apparatus presented here is enabled to keep a ball floating in the air.

It has been on the market since October 1st, 2009. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Sound Track: An educational music toy for kids

2009113033

Many parents believe that music benefits to the intellectual development of kids, and they’ve been buying home music boxes, electronic organs, etc, ever since their children are still little babies. And here is another educational music toy they may want, Sound Track by Ricard Seola. As the track is embedded with small bumps to pluck the metal keys on the train, when the train runs on it, songs will then turn on. Moreover, the toy also features track sections so that children could rearrange them to produce different songs. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Lego& Muji Toy Collaboration

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The paper toy is a latest series launched by the Japanese retailer Muji and the famous toy-maker Lego. It includes a collection of bricks, paper and hole punching tools, therefore allowing the kids to combine them together with their own imagination. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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