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I don’t think it’s a nice idea to combine the knife and fork into one eating utensil, because you’ll still have to use the other hand to hold the food while one of the hands is busy with the Knork. So why not just leave those two utensils in different hands? But for people who love double-duty items, the Knork is indeed attractive. It contains no sharp edges, so you needn’t worry that you’ll accidentally cut your mouth open. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Time to get up—somebody smiles, somebody knits his/her brows, and there’re also someone too sleepy to open their eyes. Indeed, the same morning begins with different facial expressions, and each one has a distinctive way to enjoy their first cup of coffee. All handmade, these porcelain mugs not only come with a cute facial expression to reflect your mood, but feature a double wall insulation to keep the drink warm inside while your hands cool outside. So which do you like best, Happy as Larry, Monstrously Moody or Seriously Sleepy? [Read the rest of this entry...]

Stunning ceramic stacking cups inspired by the traditional Native American Totem Pole have been quite popular on the internet recently. Not merely for containing water, but also for decorating your stylish home! Also available in gold and silver. Each set includes four cups. [Read the rest of this entry...]

With no handle, the new coffee cup designed by Emi Schenkelbach asks you to hold it in hands so as to give you warmth during the cold winter. Or you can just leave it float over the plate that comes along, and hold the plates’ handles instead. Finished in ceramics and walnut shell, the coffee cup looks so elegant and smart that you may even mistaken it as an art piece, but it’s actually practical for frequent use. You don’t think so? Try it! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Clean and hygienic cups may be good for your health, but the large amount of electricity used to power the dish driers has become a matter of wrong for the nature and the nations worldwide. So why not just leave the cups upside down on the tables to have the water drain out? If you’re still worried about the wet cups sticking to each other when you are airing them, Seung Jun Jeong and Seo Young Moon would like to recommend the Stackable Cups. As you can see from the pictures, the cute cup features some toothlike projections, which allow the air to pass through the cups to have them dried up quickly while preventing them to stick together. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Note that the tele lens from Canon is not designed for cameras, but for holding water…Though everyone believes the cup fits photographers quite well, just imagine what would happen if they carelessly take it as real lens…

Imagine a table cover that also functions as a luminaire…Unbelievable? But technology has made that come true. Just have a look at the LED Table Cover. Made from fiber optics, the cloth could create a soft and warm glow when its elven-foot power cord is plugged into an electric outlet. Moreover, the cloth is completely waterproof so that you could easily wash it under running water. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Dishware in the same shapes of the nations? What a brilliant concept. Each standing for a certain country, these plates are quite ideal for the kids to learn geography while enjoying the nice food. But what if you’re using a plate that is shaped like the world’s smallest country “Vatican”? Oh, boy, you’ll still feel hungry… [Read the rest of this entry...]

You think it’s a delicate set of tableware? You won’t think so after checking out the pictures below. Beyond most people’s expectation, the item is actually an innovative packaging box for fast food. And nothing is really special about the design except that, the dishes and cutlery painted on it will make you feel as if you’re having lunch with your family, even if you’re just having the fast food. That’s quite a good point. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Sharks…well, how do sharks taste? Possibly you should have a bowl of shark soup. But don’t be too afraid, as the soup actually didn’t use sharks as its material but adopted a shark-shaped bowl to contain it. Though the bowl only has a tiny extra part than usual ones, its price is surprisingly high, and such a bowl costs 54Euro! OH MY GOD! I’d like to receive it as a gift from my buddies. [Read the rest of this entry...]

One day, you went into the rest room, picked up a cup from the table, filled it with coffee, raised the cup to your mouth, and then you heard laughter all around…Why, you asked your workmates and they all pointed to the cup you were using. As the cup’s bottom is shaped like a snout, it just looks as if you have a snout too when you use the cup. Have fun!

A person who loves perfection and simpleness will surely appreciate the ‘Napkin Twist’ designed by Tim Baute a lot. Really a simple design. Anyhow, the new twist will make the napkins look more elegant on the table. And that’s my favorite point. [Read the rest of this entry...]

What is the first thing you thought of when seeing these gadgets? Agricultural implements, right? Shaped like shovels and forks, the innovative collection of gadgets by Vladimir Rachev is actually a series of cutlery that aims to remind us of the cultivation origins. Not only the kids, but also we adults should always remember that soil is the origins of our food, and we’re not supposed to waste even a grain of rice. [Read the rest of this entry...]

As a practical usage of bamboo, the ‘Bamboo Slips For Picnic’ presents the collective wisdom of students from JiangNan University. It is a green collection of spoons, knives and forks, which all come inside a thin sheet. Exactly the type of thing you may need whenever go on a picnic.

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Pick up one’s nose seems like a strange idea but if you think of the side views when others take up the cup to their mouths…things start to make sense, right? And these Pick Your Noses Party Cups are just designed to make you laughing, quite ideal for activating the atmosphere on parties! Every package contains 12 different noses, each coming in various ethnicities, sexes and combinations of facial hair. [Read the rest of this entry...]

A cup made from coffee beans, what would be more suitable for coffee than this? Love coffee, love the coffee cup.

Someday, I went to visit one of my friends, who works as a traffic policeman. We sat down, noticing that a road sign is placed on the table. And when we were talking about his high dedication to his job, he went to the table and took up the sign to serve us some coffee…Unexpectedly, the road sign is actually a set of cups!!! Excellent work, Pierre Lescop! [Read the rest of this entry...]

It is a pair of chopsticks. It is also a fork. Named as Chopork-Chopstick Fork, this product may make life and situations much easier for people who still don’t know how to use chopsticks. What a clever and attractive idea, and hopefully you’ll love it!

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It is the most delicious coffee cup you’ve ever met, huh? I really couldn’t help imaging the wonderful time with it! As a master piece of both green and edible container, the Cookie Cup is sure to sweep the world in the near future. Hopefully you’ll enjoy it!

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What do you think these flattened glass bottles are used for? Obviously they couldn’t serve to pack beverage, huh? In fact, they’re pieces of tableware that can be used as either cup pads or small dishes. How clever it is to reuse the discarded glass bottles and I really love them!

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Coming from French, the “Chopsticks plus One and Two” is designed with a special slot. It combines spoon, chopsticks and toothpicks all in one, which brings us much convenience. How do you like it? Try it yourself.

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Well, the bone china dinner set by Chinese architect Yungho Chang is right here to arouse my deep love to Chinese Porcelains, elegant and delicate. More than that, the dinner set also simulates gourd, which was commonly used as container in the old days, to achieve a popular style. The set includes several ones in different sizes and they could be arranged into a complete “gourd”.

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Have you ever imagined of textile-like porcelain dishware? Whatever, we’ll introduce you a suit of porcelain dishware designed in that way. Not that real textile, in fact, it is the special lines and pattern that makes the porcelain dishware look as graceful as textiles.

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Concision and practicality are the basic characters of “Aperitivo Table”, which is designed to provide you with a simple and stylish method to hold beverage. The bald branches seem very beautiful when decorated with colorful drinks and food, ensuring you good appetite.

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No pollution and pure natural, the Biodegradable Bowls from Dutch are paper-thin bowls made from carrots, peppers, beet root, leeks, tomatoes and other vegetables. After a proprietary drying and forming process, all vegetables change their original shapes into absolutely different paper-thin layers.

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Inspired by the form of a classical Vietnamese dish that is called Pho, Omid Sadri has designed the Pho tableware set for people around the world to enjoy a Vietnamese beef noodle soup in a simpler way. The whole set includes a main bowl, a dish for garden sauce and an entremets dish, placed layer by layer. Additionally, a more unique design lies in the breach for chopsticks and spoons. A clever creation, isn’t it?

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It’s a “cloudy” cup？Not really, pour into it some hot water, and now it’s a “sunny” one.

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It’s common to find unconscious people use other’s cups without permission. Then, are there any possible methods to prevent this unpleasant behavior? Have a plug-in cup right now. Generally, you can keep it in a safety and hygienic place with the plug pulled out until you need it. As a result, there is no need to worry about your cup used by others. After all, no one will get a cup with a hole.

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The tablecloth includes a border lined with the standard design of piano of keys,which may increase some pleasure to boring meal times.

It seems that this is merely a normal spoon for stir. But it has an additional function and it is pretty utilitarian. Thanks to the built-in container system, you do not need pouring water while stir. It will automatically add water for you.

Eating too much salt can damage your health but how could us know the salinity of the food? This Salintest spoon has a built-in salt detector and so it can tell you the how salt is your food with different colors.

Yellow indicates a salt content of 0.1%–0.8%. Orange indicates a salt content of 0.8%–1.2%. Red indicates a salt content of more than 1.2%. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Feeding a baby is a tough task for mom. This pushing spoon is a good design for kids. There is a smaller spoon in the ordinary spoon and so moms can easily push the food into her baby’s mouth. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Without a tray, I cannot take 8 cups of water or tea or coffee or whatever for one time, can you? Probably not. But this Pick-Cups gives you this ability. It comes with uniquely designed handles that make them easy to hold 4 in each hand.So, if you have two hands, you can take 8 cups. [Read the rest of this entry...]

I guess you will be confused after seeing a cup like this. Why is it shaped like this? You’d better have a look at it from the top.

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Nutrition Pyramid is a famous theory, but would you really follow it? It is not a easy job, but a lunch-box like this will remind you, guides you to be healthier. [Read the rest of this entry...]

It is hard to hold both drink and food with a single hand. Maybe you are a professional waiter, but most of us are not. The Go Plate is a good solution, for any container you’re holding, bottle, cup, can, or something else. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Because usually used for washing vegetables, kitchen sink should be cleaned frequently, especially for those without a disposal.

Unlike normal strainer, this product is made from flexible material and also comes with a handle. Pulling the handle will make the cleaning process more convenient. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Juice is sure popular, but if you get a cup with the pattern like this, I mean, it seems like a cup of pee. You still like this cup of juice?

Most of us cannot have the same skill as bar tender, but this chugalug drinks factory can provide delicious drinks and happiness as well. Just pour the drinks with the flavor you want into the this so-called factory and then you can get the mixed drink from the output at the bottom. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This dishware is actually a combination of a spoon, a fork and a knife, each of which is pretty unique. But the point is that every individual dishware comes with several slot which allows you to assemble them into a single one. [Read the rest of this entry...]