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We all have our own purposes: some drinks tea for fun, some drinks for leisure and some merely drinks for convenience. If you’re rightly somebody pursuing convenience, the Blooming Cuppa Tea is surely the first one on your list. The design combines a disposable cup and a teabag package, ensuring both easy transportation and easy usage. The only drawback I see is that the disposable tea cup may leave some “footprints” to our environment. Hopefully they will be finally produced with eco-friendly materials.

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Totally beyond imagination… With subtle design and delicate carving, Wim Delvoye has transformed unused tires into amazing sculptures. In his series “Pneu” (French for tire), each piece comes with a unique pattern and they all look so great.

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Possibly no one will appreciate the design of PowerWheel, except for road cyclists who want to make their training harder. Once it is fitted, the wheel would then slow your bike down and therefore make it much harder to move the vehicle forward. It comes with seven difficulty levels, and the users can adjust the mystery-meat resistance mechanism inside the hub to set their needed level. However, the PowerWheel won’t work until your speed hits 10mph while below 45mph.

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Sleepbox is a mini building that allows you to sleep comfortably and conveniently. It was originally a conceptualized design put forward in 2009 and now has been installed at Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow, for travelers to rent and sleep for hours during their transfers at airports. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Quite often a simple but subtle change makes the world with big difference, and the Easy-to-Find Tape is rightly a good example. It features a wavy look, which thus allows the users to find the end of a tape more quickly and easily. For guys ever bothered by hard-to-find-end tapes, this one is definitely their next choice. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Hansub Lee’s Reading Finger is a clever design that would bring visually impaired people with a much simpler shopping experience. It is a combination of a finger device and a Bluetooth headset. As the finger pointer scans products, information like description, price, ingredients, nutrition etc will then be transformed into audio instructions for the users. [Read the rest of this entry...]

No doubt we all need a chair. But which is your ideal one, a chair with interesting shape or one that features a full function? Whatever, you would like these creative chairs shown here. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Elegant and functional, the Tropism Well is an outdoor water-supply that can pour water into your cups automatically. Once it has seen you, the device then bows down and offers water, which seems like that a friend is just greeting you warmly. [Read the rest of this entry...]

With the development of the living standard of people, to set a simple and luxury bathtub for their modern house is becoming a new popular trend. Here is rightly a fantastic Carbon Fiber Tub that may be everybody’s choice. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Wanna to experience any modern but comfortable ways of cooking? Have a look at this 3D Food Printer. It utilizes an electronic blueprint system called “FabApps” that not only allows people to print out their food but also to design something with their imagination. All the “ink” this printer uses is edible, including melted chocolate, cheese or cookie dough. Once the users draw up the food’s design on a computer, the blueprint will then show the printer what goes where, and finally builds up your food with prepared materials. It is said that the 3D printer would soon be launched to market, helping both families and restaurants to customize interesting and healthier dishes. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Designers spent large amounts of time adding something humor into tights, and finally come up with these weird Polly Tights. They separately have an unequal pattern-one big smiling eye on the left and an eye with tear on the right, making the tights quite attractive. If paired with bright-colored high-heels, these tights would seem to be more eye-catching, and therefore add some more fun to this fall. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Almost all things change to create their own beauty, and so does the waterfall. In Osaka City Station, there’s a unique waterfall designed by Koei Industry that performs various patterns as the water falls down. The system is based on a printer that emits illuminated water droplets, which are controlled with a computer. To learn more about the fantastic beauty, let’s check out the video below. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Housewives must have long been annoyed by cooking, as they need to screw off and screw on the caps of season food  bottles from time to time… Well, forget that and start a day with this revolutionary Salt Savor. Its silicone top can pop up and fold down with the flick of a finger, saving the users’ much trouble. Moreover, there’s also a measuring spoon stored in the back, ensuring it’s handy enough for a convenient use. [Read the rest of this entry...]

For people who have too many business cards to handle, this Mini Business Card Scanner is the best gift they can ever get. It’s portable and easy-to-use, allowing the users to scan business cards in seconds and store the information with an organized list. After that, the users can then import, export, and synchronize their personal data on computers. So what are you waiting for? Get the smart gadget and manage your business cards. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Creativity makes magazine ads great, or more exactly greater than the words and pictures printed in magazines. Let’s go through some top magazine advertising campaigns and enjoy the great fun they bring to us. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Even though the Apple Inc. has issued no keyboards for iPad or iPad 2, there’re actually many companies designing and launching wireless keyboards for iPad users. The Levitatr Keyboard is just one among them. It is merely 12mm high, with a smooth black surface when not in use. But once you switch it on, its keys then raise out and the backlighting turns on. Currently it’s a Kickstarter project, so we can only check out the video now to see how it works.

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Made of hand-blown glass in Turkey, this Fishscape Fishbowl features a unique interior that evoks the feel of a mountain range. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Monthly Measure Calendar is a simple but practical hand-operated calendar, which uses a seven-angle star and a ruler with one serrated side to indicate thе day οf thе month аnd thе date. To change the date and week, you’ll need to move the star along thе ruler. As the dates аrе placed еνеrу centimeter, the calendar can be used as a ruler too. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Welcome to the world’s first moving building. The three storey apartment is 40-foot high, weighs 220 tons and measures 9,300 square foot in total. Although the apartment is built with patented steel panels that give the structure the same sturdiness of a cement building, it is actually much lighter than ordinary buildings. It is earthquake resistant too, so the apartment can be used in any places all around the world. At present the owners have installed it in Turku, and the apartment will be moved to a new location when the renting period finishes. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The Moon Bowls, which are cleverly designed with a small crescent-shaped shelf inside, can indicate changing shapes of the moon with your favorite green, jasmine or oolong tea. Usually, the bowl will start with a full moon but gradually wane down to a crescent as you sip up the beverage. But never be too sad, as you can get your full moon back after you refill the bowl with some liquid. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Native Union’s Electronic Post-it Note is something that allows you to leave a message personally and politely. With its built-in 256MB memory and a camera, the device can record a video message up to 3 minutes in length. It is built with a magnet too, thus the gadget would be easily adhered to fridges, cabinets or other places. Available in green, pink, blue, purple, red, white and black, the device will be on market within a month’s time for £49.99. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Japanese designer Hiroyuki Miyake has put forward this Measure Calendar that features one centimeter for each day of the year. Moreover, the calendar can serve as a retractable tape measure as well so that you can make a really full use of it. [Read the rest of this entry...]

In the movie “Back to the Future Part II”, a pair of Nike shoes that came from 2015 had successfully drawn many shoe collectors’ interest. It was Nike Air Mag, intelligent shoes that can glow and tie the shoelace automatically. But in 1989, there were merely 20 pairs of shoes made as properties in movie, thus many people feel quite pity about that. Fortunately they now have another chance to get the shoes, as Nike company has decided to sell 1500 “Back to the Future” shoes all around the world. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Angry Birds are here again. This time they come with a new function, and that’s to work as portable speakers. Still, they are designed to be cute and nice, especially good for people who love angry birds. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Safety and reliability have long been the focus of knife holder designers, but there’re also somebody that go rightly the other way. Thus this dangerous holder was created. Without any wood or metal built around, the holder simply leaves sharp knives held by an embedded-in magnet. [Read the rest of this entry...]

A pencil case that resembles fish won’t be amazing. But if it is made to be too authentic that may confuse people, it is really worthy of recommendation. This Hokke Mackerel Pencil Case looks just like a real grilled fish, showing vivid meat and bones when you open it up. [Read the rest of this entry...]

In iPhone apps there’s a “shake to undo” function that lets users to undo the last action. And now that app is right here for Macbooks. With the “Shake-to-Undo” app, computer users can easily get something undone by moving their MacBooks around. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Seemingly every manufacture is busy with launching new 3D devices, and LG has recently issued its Clip-on 3D Glasses. They’re designed for people that wear glasses and they can function with your regular glasses. All you need to do is to clip them on to your regular glasses and then you can enjoy the 3D movies. No more bothered by “double glasses” thing. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Everybody knows what common vending machines can offer, but they seldom recognize that these machines can also provide some surprising things except for drinks and snacks. Actually, with weird vending machines collected from the world, people would easily get Marijuana, panty, gold, or even alive lobsters too. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Cideko’s Air Keyboard would bring us a new experience with wireless keyboards. It is embedded with a 3D motion sensing mouse, which will detect the keyboard’s motion to control the cursor on computer screen. Thus the users merely need to move the keyboard up and down/left and right in the air, they can then use the device as a wireless mouse too. It is also integrated with an earphone and a microphone, allowing the users to enjoy music or chat online from a long distance. The wireless keyboard is rechargeable, and compatible with both PCs, Macs and Linux computers. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Especially designed for people who ride a bicycle all the year, this new Heated Ergo Tri grip features micro process technology and internal sensors to offer warmth to riders in cold days. The gadget comes with six temperature settings, which can be easily adjusted with a push of a button. Except for keeping your hands warm, the grips can reduce fatigue and maintain finger dexterity as well. [Read the rest of this entry...]

A research group from Tokyo Institute of Technology have recently developed artificial bone using fish scales. In early experiment, the researchers found that “the collagen that makes up fish scales, has a similar structure to the thickest layer of the human cornea, the corneal stroma”. After that they tried to turn the scientific discovery into real products, artificial bones made of fish scales. [Read the rest of this entry...]

These two Big Big Cursors are touchscreen-friendly stylus especially designed for your tablets. Seemingly bit of different from your typical stylus, they’re not that comfortable to use but will add some new fun to your time with tablets. Moreover, they’re even magnetic so you can store it on the metal covers of your iPad2 for an easy transportation. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Till now, the International Funkausstellung Berlin 2011 has brought us many surprising designs and products, and today we’d like to add a new one to the list of innovative electronics. It is Sony’s “Lenticular Sheet”, a thin film that can be places in front of any laptop screens to turn them into glass-free 3D displays. With such a product, 3D fanciers would then enjoy 3D films without needing to wear glasses any more. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The Airsketcher, which looks the same as ordinary fans, actually has an astonishing function that it can automatically “follow” the users and bring them with cool air. How? Because there’s a small-sized webcam built inside the fan, which can track a specially-made flag so as to locate the users. Besides, the fan can also recognize different symbols and act accordingly. Therefore the users can easily switch on/off or adjust the speed by showing certain symbols to the fan. [Read the rest of this entry...]

It is everybody’s duty to keep away from a drunken driving so we may need some special gadgets to accomplish that task. Men should have a try with this Breathalyzer Jacket. It is embedded with an alcohol sensor located in the collar and a simple LED display on the cuff. Thus when you blow into the alcohol sensor, the LEDs will then light up to indicate your blood alcohol levels: the more alcohol you have, the more lights turn on. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Bags to pack, bags to ship and bags to advertise. Nowadays, just as you may have ever noticed, almost everything in daily life has been a medium for advertising. Bags are included too. Some of the bags emphasize the product’s features, some seem to be really magic and some just make the jokes. So which would be your No.1? Rank them out then. [Read the rest of this entry...]

It is a matter of peculiar interest to purify rain water in places where are short of clean water, and the rain coat collaborated by Hyeona Yang and Joshua Noble is rightly a device that would help many people around the world. It seems like cape, with tall collars to collect rain water and built-in charcoal filters and a chemical purification system to make the water safe for drinking. After the water is purified, it will be stored around the shoulders and pockets of the coat. The coat also has some tubes so that people would conveniently drink the collected water at any time and any where. [Read the rest of this entry...]

German LCD maker HANNspree recently launched its Lounge TV 70 on International Funkausstellung Berlin 2011, which is announced as both a windows PC and a white board except for acting as a HDTV. Even though the device is just a prototype at the time, it would no doubt bring the TV designs to a new age. [Read the rest of this entry...]

On International Funkausstellung Berlin 2011, Chinese electronics manufacture Haier exhibited a prototype which would change the way we use a remote controller. Its name is the “Brain Wave” (definitely not a final product name) and it seems just like a headset which has two “arms” separately resting on the user’s forehead and earlobe. Once get well prepared, the users would then change channels, adjust volume sand choose movie titles simply via their brainwave. [Read the rest of this entry...]