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At TOY Forum 2010, Sony’s bio-battery has drawn many people’s attention. It shows how batteries generate electricity from carbohydrates. Experiments indicate that grape juice is the most efficient drink for the bio-battery to run on and 3ml of Coke could have an electrical propeller keep working for about 1 hour. Named as ‘ENE’ (Entertainment New Energy), the technology will firstly be adopted to power electronic toys. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Citrus juicers, salad bowls, can openers, and potato ricers, all these conventional kitchen gadgets have been redesigned by Jonah Griffith and finally come with a new look and a more powerful function. For example, the ‘Fresh Force Citrus Juicer’ employs a gear and lever system to make juicing fruit more easily, and the ‘Arta Salad Bowl and Serveware’ also comes with two handles on both sides to hold the spoons. [Read the rest of this entry...]

‘Juice’ charger by Hiroaki Tanaka allows you to charge different size of batteries with the energy supported by either the computers via the USB outlet or a traditional power supply. This time, you needn’t wait long for real productions, as it will soon appear in Japan and Taiwan. [Read the rest of this entry...]

In China, chafing dish is the most popular food in winter. If you notice more, you’ll also find that people prefer iced beverage while eating the hot-pot. So this time, we’ll show you a quick and easy way to cool down the beverage, without affecting the strength of the tea, juice or beer. We use iced stones— clean ordinary stones that have been kept in the refrigerators for a long while. Try and tell us if you like our idea. [Read the rest of this entry...]

It’s an orange/citrus squeezer, but not a fruit juicer that accepts any fruit. Yes, merely for orange and citrus. Why, you may ask, the squeezer is not suitable to other kinds of fruit like mango, watermelon or apple? Its unique constructer may be the main reason. As you can see from the pictures, the Orangin Citrus Squeezer works in more or less the same way as a hand-crank pencil sharpener, and the machine produces juice by constantly squeezing the fruit. But only orange juice is enough for me, I love it! [Read the rest of this entry...]

This kind of Breakfast-making machine costs 88 job hours of designers and about 900 pounds in total. It seems a bit complex but it can cook the omelette, toast and coffee for you automatically. For those who also enjoy juice, it can also be used to squeeze the oranges freshly.

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Whether you believe it or not, I’m still indulged in the manually operated type, especially when I intend to prepare fresh juice for my sincere friends with my love. Just forget those electrical juicers, and you’ll be in love with the simple squeezer! With a cup at the base to catch leavings, the hand-held juice extractor supplies pure juice to you in an easy way.

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Woo, the hero Ultraman has come to make juice for you! Put fresh oranges into the vivd Intergalactic juicer, what you need to do is to wait to enjoy delicious juice. Your sweet bubs must like it!

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In order to distinguish different kinds of juice, you have to check out the words on the label, though most of them are printed with corresponding colors. However, this innovative design can tell you which kind of juice is in the package with a simple glance, because all of them are printed with corresponding fruits pattern on them.

While hi-tech is eventually used in many areas, some old manners start to be very popular in other areas. The Industrial-Strength Lemon Squeezer by Edward Horsford uses traditional way to get juice. Just put half the lemon into it, and then hammer at the top of the lemon, juice is ready.

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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?

This series of kitchenware comes with several measuring cups, mixing bowls and even a juicer with different colors. Thanks to the careful design, the kitchenware like a rainbow circle can save space and be a good decoration as well. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This is a brilliant idea, not only for its unique wireless headphone shape which provides patients more autonomy, but also the battery-free structure. As a matter of fact, it is driven by our body heat and plus, with the help of solar panels, to get some extra juice from ambient light. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This radiator-shaped thing is made of ceramic, and so it is surely not a radiator. You what is it used for?

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Actully NEC has shown the Flask concept phone in CeBit 2006 which is powered by liquid fuel. But this time they claims that this unique phone gonna be released into market in 2008. Hey, it means that you could know the juice just by checking out the how much liquid is remained. [Read the rest of this entry...]