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Toshiba’s latest development is a portable video camera that provides real-time visualizations of radiation hotspots. It is built with a radiation sensor and a signal processing device, indicating the amount of radiation in different colors: red for high amounts of radiation and yellow, green, blue for lower levels. The device is not only functional, but also saves large quantity of time usually spent on radiation detection, thus claimed to be quite ideal for detection work. The company will have a field test of the camera in collaboration with Fukushima City within this month and plan to promote its use to the central bureaucracy and local governments in Japan in early 2012.

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Aha, iPhone accessories again. This time it is a sturdy clip that can attach onto your iPhones so as to allow you to hang your mobiles on bags or necks. Certainly it’s much stronger than a cellphone clipping cord, because the gadget is screwed directly into your phone instead of being fastened onto it. Never worry about that the clip may result in some inconvenience, as the gadget can let you charge phones without removing it.

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Speed up, speed up, when using these Japanese Bullet Train Chopsticks to enjoy your lunch, you may feel that the food is “flying” into your mouth with a higher speed… Wow, so cool! But in fact these chopsticks are common ones as others, although they feature a unique shape of bullet trains, they’ll never threaten your life as real trains do.

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The augmented reality technology has been widely used in various industries, to add more fun into virtual games, to allow for a more convenient operation remotely, and even endow us with the ability to see through clothes. So you’re now exciting, right? Let’s welcome the X-Ray augmented reality app by clothing retailer Moosejaw then. The app uses your mobile device’s camera and some augmented reality trickery to help you see totally different images as you scan the models’ bodies in the catalog. It’s really superb and become quite popular on-line, which has been downloaded for seventy-five thousand downloads in five weeks. Also, the app has brought the retailer with more profit, as a 37 percent boost in sales has been created compared with the same period a year earlier.

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LEGO, LEGO, LEGO, with repeatedly appearing in my vision, that word (and that toy) has already annoyed me so much that I really don’t want to see anything relevant to that. But except for this LEGO Brick iPhone Case. It’s something better than a LEGO toy, featuring removable block sections for us to neatly organize the headphone wires, and that’s in my mind the best part about the case. Of course the gadget comes with other features too, such as personalized combinations and camera lens protection.

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Better food with lemon juice, while better lemon juice with Stem Food Sprayer. The Stem is designed to save us out of boring work of cutting a lemon and squeezing it. Instead, it can spray juice directly onto food as you insert it into a citrus fruit and press the button. Just easy as that, but pity it’s merely a concept till now. Well, good news is Quirky is looking to manufacture it in the very near future, and it is collecting advices on the Stem’s price. So if you want to save money, go and leave your suggestions!

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What will the next-generation fluorescent lights be like? “D’Light” from H_Design can offer us a possible answer. Made of heat resistant tempered silicone material and LEDs, the D’Light is expandable and durable, saves both your efforts to install the light tube and your money spent on electricity bills. It can fit into different sizes of lights too, and all you need to do is to hook it to one end and expand the length to the other side. Easy and practical as that!

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Stockings can tell your attitudes, demure, discreet, subtle, playful, sensual, impulsive, seductive, provocative, daring, passionate, cheeky, dangerous or femme fatal, by the length of skirts you choose to wear.

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Apparently the 2011 Red Dot Design Concept has brought us with many innovative designs, except for those we’ve introduced before, the Adjustable Radiation Flashlight is another one we’d like to show you. It could shift between concentrated spot-light and wide flood-light modes, based on its flexible plastic plate which contains about 40 individual lights. Hence even though it is designed as one light, the gadget is actually something serving as several different types of lights.

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2D or 3D, currently almost all designs are seemingly to face that question. But actually it’s not that difficult to make a decision, because one could become both 2D and 3D at the same time. The Keyboard Wall is rightly a good example. It’s constructed with thousands of keys collected from old computer keyboards, creating a 2D image when you view them from the front while offering 3D pleasure as well since you can feel their unique shapes.

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Not only designers, but also the scientists are pursuing things claimed to the “world’s first”, “world’s largest” or “world’s smallest”. However, the researchers are doing that not to set a new Guinness World Record but to make technology serve people better. Put forward by German physicists from University of Stuttgart and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, the world’s smallest heat engine is only a few micrometers wide, almost the same size of a human hair! That’s really incredible, but you can check out the link below for details if you’re interested in the engine.

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Foldable, portable and practical, the ‘Radler Trail Camp’ by Timberland is a lightweight and water-repellent shoe quite suitable for outdoor activities. It is especially excellent for the foldable design, featuring a zipper along its sole so that the shoe can fold along its center when not in use. With that unique feature, even with simply one bag you can take almost ten pairs of shoes at one time, as they take up really small space indeed.

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It’s a vest, and also a scarf, to keep you warm in the winter in two different ways.

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So, you’re preparing for the up-coming Christmas and busy with choosing gifts and wrapping papers? Let’s show you something wonderful: the QR Code Christmas Wrapping Paper. Designed by UK-based studio, these creative wrapping papers are available in three patterns, each one printed with many various QR codes that embody unique meanings. If you’d like to check them out, simply scan the codes!

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The cold winter makes you suffer but you don’t know why? Well, according to scientific researches, the reason that people feel lack of energy in winter is because they lack enough bright white daylight. So in order to help people get fully energized in winter, the SEQINETIC “sun” glasses are created, offering bright light to beat the winter blues. But will that really work? Let those who have tried the glasses to tell us the answer then.

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