A unique poster especially designed for and by Munich tattoo studio “the chaos crew” was recently showcased in a window, displaying both the historical events happened last year and the artist’s fantastic techniques. Finished on calfskin, the huge tattoo poster is the most impressive tattoo we’ve ever seen and the best posters we ever found for tattoo studios.

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Either far away or close, these portraits finished by Seung Mo Park all seem so delicate and fantastic that you even couldn’t believe they’re made of metal wires… Of course merely one or several metal wires cannot make up such impressive artworks, as the designer has utilized several different layers to create the portraits’ amazing details.

Designer: Seung Mo Park

Working hard and shopping hard, ladies today must have been used to those heavy shopping bags and the horrible work of transferring their bags from the car to the kitchen in several multiple trips. However, no one can refuse a good change: this hopping bag holding hook, named as “One Trip Grip”, is just a portable gadget that can upload many bags at one time. With a 50lb capacity, the hook is available in several colors.

Selling Price: $5

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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…

Have you got it, the Teddy Bear is actually a “postcard”, which can bring your best regards to your friends in a unique but interesting way.

Selling Price: $18.5

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Can you sit to play football? I can, as long as I have this “Lazy Football” chair designed by Emanuele Magini for Italian furniture manufacturer campeggi. Combining a football net with a chair frame, the designer cleverly turned common furniture into an interesting entertainment piece: users can leisurely participate in a football game simply by sitting there and moving their feet…Neither boring nor tiring at all!

Designer: Emanuele Magini

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Distinctive and interactive, this lamp from Co.Design is completely different from regular pedant lamps, as it comes with no switch, but instead features a string that lets you turn on/off or change the emitting light via a simple motion of pulling.

Designer: Co.Design

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Nothing could know better of your face than your hands, and thus designer Marco van Leeuwen has come up with an electric shaver that rightly resembles the shape of your hand: it enhances pressure sensitivity, improves users’ safety and maximizes your convenience as well.

Designer: Marco van Leeuwen

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Wherever you go, wherever you stay, this SkyDeck designed by Japanese firm Torafu Architects can always support you, allowing you to place your cellphone, cups, wallets or other items on it. That means, no matter there’s a table or not, you would easily build one with this portable design.

Designer: Torafu Architects

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An interesting bowl for fish, which wanna to help them go around the world, with the help of a world map!

Designer: Takuro Yamamoto Architects

Coming from Daikin Industries, the innovative coating developed for cellphone circuit boards is resistant to water and moisture so as to endow the mobile phones an outstanding ability of water-prevent. Though sounds really high-tech, the coating is surprisingly easy to use: simply dip the circuit boards in the fluorinated solvent and then a thin film will appear after it is dried for one minute.

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Easy to push in but difficult to pull out, that’s obviously the common problem of ordinary pushpins. However, Tackits’ corkscrew design is completely uncommon, as it not only can easily twist into almost any surface but also allows the users to cleanly remove it with another flick of the wrist.

Is this a sliding iPhone 5 (or maybe 6)?! Not exactly, since the Apple Inc. hasn’t released any information about their new products recently. In fact, what appeared in the image is an iPhone 4s, which “wears” a CELLMACS Sliding and Standing Bluetooth Keyboard Case. Designed to provide much more convenience and fun to iPhone users, the case has a handy built-in keyboard that slides out when needed as well as a stand that angles your iPhone.

Selling Price: $39.99

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It is definitely not the first time we see fingerprint scanners used in product designs, but the Grabit door handle is still worthy of our recommendation, as it places the scanner in a most ergonomically viable place, thus to make the act of opening a door completely convenient.

Designer: Donguk Seo

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In Frankfurt, Germany, AD agency BBDO held a publicity stunt for the Smart Fortwo Electric Drive, to demonstrate that the little car has an excellent performance of driving. The giant game was called “Smart eBall”, which let the participants to control two digital cars on a giant screen to keep the ball bouncing back and forth by driving a real one forward and backward.

Rainy days, romantic days, many couples are fond of hanging out on a wet day to experience something romantic…But their good mood may disappear almost in one second as they find their shoes, clothes turned wet due to the wet umbrella. Fortunately we have the Inverted Umbrella now. Currently a concept, the umbrella can fold inside (which is always dry) out after use so as to prevent water splashes, while without changing its fundamental functions.

Designer: Ahn Il-Mo, Kim Tae-Han and Seo Dong-Han

This is mine, and that is yours, with the aid of these Drink Notes, we’ll never pick up a wrong glass of wine during the parties. Really clever!

Selling Price: $7.5

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Hey, chairs, have you successfully held the tables? … To make cleaning floor an easy work, Malaysia-based designer Poh Liang Hock has come up with this Hold Chair concept, which is a winner of the prestigious Red Dot Design Award. It features a sliding design, meaning that the chair can slide onto the table.

Designer: Poh Liang Hock

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!

Selling Price: 12Euro

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Turn on a bulb, to display the interesting process of a bubble getting bigger and then disappearing… Really cool lamp designs from Italy!

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Keeping mountain bikes always in a good condition is a hard work, especially when you need to face many different types of surfaces. Trying to find some tough and durable tires for your bikes may be a possible solution, but we still need other better options, such as the ADAPTRAC system. It is composed of special patent pending hubs, a dual control valve and a C02 power pack/regulator, thus can help the users to raise or lower their tire pressure while riding with the bike.

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Combining two separate tools rightly in one, the Tape Scissor is a brilliant scissor with a built-in tape dispenser, which can not only save your space on table but saves your money in wallet.

Selling Price: $9.95

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Instead of organizing earphone cords around your ears, we now strongly suggest you wear them as bracelets, with the aid of these amazing CordCrunchers. It’s actually a set of earphone with an elastic sleeve for cables, which allows the users to wear it on necks or wrists. But when you need to use them, the earphones then collapses back to their original length… So cool!

Here’s a smart solution for lifting and transferring patients in a better way: Named as ITRI MediRobot, the conceptual device put forward by Pilotfish is servo-controlled, which can display information including weight, blood pressure and so on via a sensor on the sling while transferring the patients to other places.  The whole process finished by ITRI MediRobot is slow and safe, without causing any physical strain or discomfort to the patients. Also, it can serve as an infotainment terminal.

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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.

Selling Price: 25Euro

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Surrounded by dull concrete every day, people nowadays are always looking for something special, bright, smart or weird to give their common life a sparkling shine of light. Fortunately, the lighting unit designed by Asobi deserves our attention: made from lightweight carbon fiber, the lights can be ordered in 4, 6, and 12 LED configurations that spread out in all directions just like a spider’s web. It’s nothing to do with elegance or entertainment, but the light itself is really unique in pattern and function.

Designer: Asobi

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“You jump, I jump”, when the 3D movie “Titanic” is on, many people in the cinema get their glasses off and put them on from time to time, simply trying to make sure their 3D glasses stand well against their ordinary glasses… What a hard time you’re going through! Throw those 3D glasses away and have a try with these innovative stickers. Cut out of a shape bigger than average glasses, these stickers are especially good to those who need to wear glasses, allowing them to view 3D movies more comfortably and conveniently.

Designer: Lucy Jung & Daejin Ahn

Only one key in the pocket, usually we do that when outside for a walk or jog just because we try to keep the most important thing safe. However, is your key safe enough, in your pocket? Not really, as it may slide out of the pocket and fall somewhere else. It’s time to try the Gokey silicon wrist band now. It’s a clever gadget that can conceal your key safely and then lets you wear it on your wrist. Available in several colors, the Gokey is currently a Kickstarter project and you can donate $15 to receive one.

Undoubtedly wearing light on hand is much better than holding light in hand: it not only offers bright luminescent light just as common light tools do, but also allows you to spare your hand to do something else. Easy to wear and convenient to use, the H9 Portable Lighting unit by Luisa Baldassari is both an ordinary glove and portable flashlight as well, offering two different choices that serve you. Except for daily use, you can even wear the H9 to a party to amaze your friends.

Designer: Luisa Baldassari

By adding boron to carbon while growing nanotubes, researchers from Rice University and Penn State University have developed a Nanosponge that is capable of absorbing oil in water, effectively and repeatedly. Additionally, the material is superhydrophobic and oleophilic, meaning that it has an outstanding ability of floating on the surface of water.

Does the elevator’s wall of an office building located in Great Portland Street, London taste good? Possibly, as it is world’s first lick-able wall that comprises of 1,325 Jaffa Cakes! Completely unbelievable and surprising, the “delicious” wallpaper just wants to offer the passengers a pleasing taste during their boring trip with an elevator. Although bit of unacceptable, this Lick-able Wall Paper is still expected to appear in many other places in the future.

Nothing to do with magic tricks, the Standing Broom is designed to stand up by itself merely with a folding action. The benefits of such a standing broom are obviously undeniable: you never need to bend down to pick up a broom, and the broom can last a longer time since its bristles are kept from becoming bent or damage.

Designer: Poh Liang Hock

Hello my ladies, you now can play a trick with others while enjoying wine from your Lip Stick! That’s not for kidding, because the Lipstick Flask is exactly a sneaky accessory that hides a flask inside a normal lip stick. Anytime there’s a Cosmo, anytime there’s a drink, isn’t that fancy?

Selling Price: $12.95

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Not quite long after her Coffee Stain Portrait of Chinese musician Jay Chou, Shanghai-based artist Hong Yi now shows us another artwork that uses 750 pairs of socks to portrait the famous Chinese film director Yimou Zhang. Hong Yi said her idea of the Sock Portrait firstly came from clotheslines made of bamboo sticks hanging various articles of clothing above narrow paths in Shanghai, and then she noticed that Yimou Zhang once incorporated bamboo sticks into his period films too, thus she decided to make a portrait of Zhang merely using socks and bamboo sticks.

Designer: Hong Yi

Exercise to power, the ‘Citylight’ Concept is an innovative design that attaches exercise equipment to streetlights and thus utilizes the kinetic energy people create to energize LED lamps in the light system.

Turn your iPhone into a chameleon – that’s rightly what the self-adhesive laser cut backing is trying to do. It is heat sensitive, capable of changing color in the range 90 to 95 degrees F, and thus allows the users to print their hands or fingers on phones for a while.

Selling Price: $8

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You want a Coke while Coke may want a hug, that’s what Coca-Cola’s hug vending machine aims to tell the public. As part of Coca-Cola’s ‘Open Happiness’ campaign, the unique vending machine located somewhere in Singapore will dispense a free Coke to anyone who gives it a hug…Will you have a try?

Since iPhone is never called or described as a smart portable camera, it must have certain limitations that need to be solved by other accessories like the iPhone Shutter Grip. It can help you get a DSLR feel and allow for a better picture-taking experience while you’re using your iPhone, once it is attached onto your phone. The grip is adjustable too, so that you can still use it even if your phone has a case on it.

Selling Price: $40

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Well, however cool and attractive it is to wear American map shaped sunglasses, we still need to reject such an appealing offer as one pair of sunglasses may cost you $208! But for those who can afford that amount of money, you surely should make the Map Sunglasses top on your shopping list.

Selling Price: $208

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“Double-Bubble”, a futuristic aircraft developed by MIT, is announced to be a super-efficient passenger travel that may guide aircraft designs to a new trend. The airplane utilizes a variety of technologies and ideas to slash fuel consumption, and Double-Bubble is proved capable of saving on fuel by about 70% under certain experiment conditions. Even though it’s a revolutionized commercial aircraft that can benefit both the companies and the customers, the Double-Bubble won’t get launched to the market until 2035 or so.

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Traditional camera bags, which utilizes Velcro to create removable and adjustable padded sections, sounds quite practical in theory but  not that much in real use. That’s why we need some innovative ideas such as the user-configurable gear protection system. Designed by a Denver-based startup called TrekPak, the protective bag is velcro-free but instead uses U-shaped pins and exposed sidewalls as connection points. As a result, it can not only help the users to organize their items more freely and conveniently, but also compatible with almost any existing bags.

Exhibited on “Macao International Environmental Co-operation Forum and Exhibition (2012 MIECF)” held at Macao, China, the “LAUNDRY PURE” is a revolutionary washing system that can laundry without detergent. Once installed on washing machines, the “LAUNDRY PURE” then offers water that includes hydrogen peroxide, oxygen and ozone, which can make your clothes clean even without the aid of detergent.

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Here and there, this Folio Shaped Tissue Box could be placed anywhere, serving as a book stand or storage box as well.

Selling Price: $40

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Cute and smart, these new rings developed by Keio University from Japan are robotic, capable of moving automatically when they sense the motions of their wearers. That means, these rings are actually interactive, and they will bring us much more fun than ordinary rings do.

Made of food grade titanium, these straws are tasteless and odorless, completely safe to your health. But the most attractive feature of them, however, is that they’re tough enough so that they could easily insert into objects that plastic straws couldn’t.

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Five meters high from the ground, the dinning pod built on top of a tree is located in Soneva Kiri, a luxury holiday destination off the south-east coast of the Gulf of Siam. Except for the surrounding beautiful sceneries you can view from the restaurant, you can even get served by a “flying” waiter in the pod too, which is really unique and exciting.

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Famous for their advanced designs and technologies in the field of robotic objects, a research group from Keio University has recently demonstrated their interactive plants that can display emotions and communicate with people. These plants are moved by pulling cords from two stepping motors.  Besides, there’re also two sensors attached to the plants, in order to time the movements. Currently the researchers have developed a wide range of movements, which can make the live plants more alive than they could.

Dinosaur in your house! What a cool and outstanding concept… Shaped in the form of a t-rex skeleton, the radiator allows you to warm up and get dry almost all kinds of your stuffs: cats, scarves, coats, socks or even your cushions. Definitely functional!

Designer: Art Lebedev Studios

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There’s always one reason you love the lunar craters: to the scientists, they’re mysterious part of the Moon that may bring them new findings; while to Shiro Studio, they’re rightly the source that inspire them to design these Mare Tranqullitatis. The diversity of depths carved in them allows you to steadily place different objects, and at the same time they can create a changing height and art too.

Designer: Shiro Studio

3D printing technology is undoubtedly quite popular all over the world, as scientists at University of Exeter have even created a chocolate printer that can make unique chocolate animals or patterns using melt chocolate.

Pixilated crayons, usable rainbows close at your fingers… Combining seven different colors in one, these colored pencils can either draw out a technicolor rainbow on paper or create amazing color images with other patterns.

Selling Price: 1260Yen

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