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As nobody could get something without offering anything, we humans are expected to care about our cats much more when we’re enjoying the happy time accompanied by them. So the eSleeper is rightly what both you and the cat need. An infra-red beam is built inside the cat basket, sending data to an Ethernet Arduino to accomplish certain tasks. Thus when a cat walks into the eSleeper, the infra-red beam will be broken and then the Arduino turns on the RGB LED and a light to offer your cat with a comfortable resting location; as the infra-red beam is broken again, the Arduino would turn off the LED and tweet the cat’s sleeping information to people.

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Watch out, a shark is nearby to attack you… in a special way of disguising itself as a safety helmet. Especially designed for kids to increase their safety of cycling, the crazy helmet features a vivid 3D effect, providing both a cool expression and full function as well.

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While professional archaeologists are concerned about finding fossil dinosaurs, we unprofessional people are just enjoying the fun of playing with fossil soap. With a unique two-layer structure, these soaps will finally demonstrate the “dinosaur fossils” after you use them for more than eight days. Available in three different types, guess which dinosaur will you find first, tyrannosaurus, triceraptos or pterosaurs?

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Good news for photography fans: the Camera Table Dolly is here to make sure your videos don’t come with a side effect of nausea. Simply twist your camera onto the device, and you can then create videos with smooth and professional look, just easy as that! Its friction arm is adjustable so that you can change the angle to shoot straight up, straight down, or anywhere in between.

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Use as you read, these Alphabet Furniture sets all come with several individual modules but can combine to create a chair, a lamp and a table as well, just as the words you’ve already seen.  So what do you think? Isn’t it funny to surprise your guests with the Alphabet Furniture?

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Can Ferris wheel become invisible, lifting people up and down while never showing its original structure? Said “yes”, Spanish-based artist Maider López showed us an amazing video in which the Ferris wheel is really invisible… But how? [Read the rest of this entry...]

Sponsored by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), AeroVironment has created a tiny mechanical flying robot that can fly as real birds. The mini robot is shaped like a hummingbird, remotely-controlled without an external power source to fly, hover, mover forward and backward in the air.

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With the Christmas Day coming nearer, what’s now popular on the internet isn’t this year’s Christmas tree however, but next year’s Eiffel Tower Tree instead. From June, 2012, about 6,00,000 plants will cover the Eiffel Tower, costing an astonishing £65 million. If the plan goes smoothly, quite soon we’ll see the world’s tallest tree in Paris, which is also expected to absorb more greenhouse gases at that time.

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“Ministar” is a portable electric guitar featuring both a smart body and a full function. It’s only nineteen inches long, composed of a neck and head while lacking a guitar body. Even so, the guitar can still perform well in creating beautiful music, just as you can see in the video below.

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How could we bring a new life into our house? According to Philip Watts Design, we should firstly install the house with a spine, or more exactly a spin-shaped staircase… So what do you think?

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No doubt the nature is always offering good inspirations to designers, and Donghee Suh’s new earphone is just inspired by the suction cups on an octopus’ tentacles. Its two earbuds are each fitted with a silicon flap, which will retract to stick onto your iPods or iPhones to help you wrap up the earphone cord in a neater way.

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Honestly there are no USB storage devices making me feel safe enough as my data seems completely open to those who get a good control of computers no matter which kinds of lock I use. But Crypteks’ USB storage is announced to be an exception. It is double locked, with both durable solid-aluminum housing offering mechanical security and a built-in 256-bit AES Hardware Encryption. Its aluminum housing features five twisting rings displaying 26 letters of alphabets, thus to improve the safety level. If that’s not enough, the 256-bit AES Hardware Encryption will provide you with another lock that is claimed to have seldom been broken before.

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What do you usually do during the boring time caused by traffic jam, to play your iPad, have a chat with beautiful ladies or just sit there without thinking anything? Maybe you should get some better alternatives, such as the Car Bluetooth Rearview Mirror Kit. It includes a 4.3 inch touchscreen, a built-in GPS navigation, multimedia on-the-go, DVR capabilities, and a wireless parking camera, once installed to replace your normal rearview mirror, the device would then allow you to play games in car. Isn’t that great? It offers you great pleasure while never taking up you too much space or costing you too much money.

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After quite a long time without introducing any innovative packaging designs, it’s really exciting to share with you 9 interesting packages at one time. They’re created for different products including milk, toys, pizza or shoes, but they’re all functional to attract the customers and therefore to promote the sales.

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Why are designers so innovative? Almost every time I met some new designs I would ask myself that question. So you know, that question emerged again, after I accidentally saw the AudioBulb, Wireless Speaker Light Bulbs that bring both light and music to your home. It’s easy to use: simply replace ordinary bulbs with the AudioBulb, insert you iPod into the included dock, and then you’ll hear beautiful music coming from any places of your house. With warm light filled with your rooms, the AudioBulb is certainly the best thing related to the word “romantic”.

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