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Chalk Ping Pong Table for Puma

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What is the distinction between your Ping-Pong Table and Puma’s? Let Aruliden Studio tell us the answer. First of all, the Puma’s Ping-Pong Table features a chalkboard surface, allowing the players to communicate with written messages; and also, the table comes with a compartment underneath for the players to place their bats and other items. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Sushi Baby Booties

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Obviously the pleasant taste and especially delicate appearance have made Sushi rather popular with designers, and they have created a number of rings, pillows, USB disks, erasers that resembled the well-known Japanese food. And now the Sushi has been made into baby booties! Handmade from the softest fleece with a soft elastic ankle cuff hidden inside, these cute booties are available in four styles- Yellow Tail, Tamago, Ebi and Spicy Tuna. Size 0-4 months, priced at $22. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Icon Letter and Envelope

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Geeky snail mails from Brigada Creativa. Pity they’re not real products, but still concepts at the moment. So you may have to wait for days to find them inside your snail mailboxes. O(∩_∩)O [Read the rest of this entry...]

Weird Car-shaped House

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There’re various ways to show your love for cars, for example, you can frequently have them cleaned and waxed, or adorn the cars with interesting stickers. But have you ever seen somebody build a house that strikingly resembles his car? That’s just what architect Markus Voglreiter has done recently. Apart from the unique appearance, it is also a green building, using “a ‘3 liter’ energy-efficient heating and insulation technique that optimizes all current building technologies, drastically reducing energy consumption.” [Read the rest of this entry...]

Decorative Leaves For Trees

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You think I might be mistaken, right? Because the trees do not need any decorative leaves at all, they have an inborn ability to grow leaves. But for the dark nights when trees seem to be leafless, they may need these ‘etree’ lighting design by Coen Hoogstraten. These decorative leaves are made from electroluminescent materials, which will produce light when connected to electric current. The wires that power the leaves are strengthened, enabling the users to bend them into different shapes.

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Toshiba LCD Panel Zooms In and Out of Images

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Toshiba could hardly wait to show you what the LCD displays would be like in the future, and they exhibited a LCD panel that can zoom in and out of an aerial photograph of Google Earth at the SID 2010. The display, featuring a curvature radius of 50mm when bent, is made of a thin edge-lighting LED backlight unit and stuffed with software that can zoom in and out of images. So in the near future, you may change the size of a displayed image simply by bending the LCD. Or you can experience that in advance via the video below. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Three-wheeled Peugeot Velocite

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Developed by Juan Carlos for the year 2020, the “Peugeot Velocite” has borrowed a cool shape of the sports cars but actually runs on three wheels, making the electric vehicle different from all others. It is also eco-friendly, powered by low-resistance electric motor and offers zero emission. When running downhill, the Velocite will recharge its onboard batteries automatically. Plus, the concept still features a motorcycle-like suspension setup with a single swing-arm for easy controls. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Creative Bottle Openers

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Guess what, the bottle openers can add more fun to your life, if they’re improved with small changes. You don’t think so? Well, check out the 11 creative bottle openers after the break. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Sexy Touchless Faucet

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The magic faucet is completely controlled by gestures, a wave of the hand will change its temperature and flow rate. And the videos of the working prototype convince me that this is a neat idea! [Read the rest of this entry...]

“Chin Up” Storage

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Well almost nothing special, except for the imbalanced look. The main goal of the furniture is to offer its contents directly to the users without asking them to bend down. Apart from its unique appearance, the “leaning” motion of the storage is also intended to signify gestural movements of people such as looking up at the others to show their respect when they’re at the talks. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Real Pets, Not Real Celebrities.

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You love animals? You also love Michael Jackson, Audrey Hepburn, Charlie Chaplin and the Simpsons? If you nodded at both the two questions, we bet you must love these special Pet Presents launched by the British-based company Takkoda.

Continue reading to meet them all… [Read the rest of this entry...]

Creative Custom Sneakers

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See what happens when Daniel Reese combines web, video games, comics and movies with Nike shoes… The results are really impressive. The 21 years old designer have changed plain Nike shoes into distinctive and innovative ones, making them more attractive than those you’ve seen at stores. If you’d also like one of these unusual sneakers, click the website below to order one pair, which would cost Daniel 4-6weeks and cost you about $260. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Re-Knife Pencil Knife

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At first glance, the Re-Knife Pencil Knife seems like a terrible idea, featuring something that we seldom use. But you may still need it in certain conditions. The idea is that, with the stone on the pencil, you’d easily have a knife sharpened to make it serve longer. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Yo-Yo Single Seat Transportation

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When automakers are trying to tackle the problem of personal urban mobility, designer James Yarger also puts forward an innovative concept, the “Yo-Yo”. Inspired by the Velib, a public bicycle rental program in Paris, the “Yo-Yo” is a single seat transportation device for urban mobility but also has new characteristics. For example, the “Yo-Yo” makes a use of “Google Earth”, allowing the users to track the transportation system via internet; the new transportation device can be used either individually or connected to other devices, according to your different needs. So in one word, the “Yo-Yo” will no doubt lead public transportation system to a new level in the future. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Waxy Tower Motion Lamps

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Welcome to the creative Waxy Tower Motion Lamps. It’s black, it’s pink, and it’s a decorative lamp that shows how the lava flows when heated with the heat produced by an incandescent bulb. Priced at $67.77, the lamp is currently sold on Amazon. [Read the rest of this entry...]