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Postcarden: Postcard that hides a mini Garden

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Postcarden—pronounced “post(card) garden”—is a stereoscopic card that turns into a mini-sized garden when filled with seeds and watered. Of course sunlight and a little fertilizer are also needed. Created by A Studio for Design, the Postcarden is available in three types: Allotment, City or Botanical. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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A Black Hole in The Table

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How could the cup stay on the table, when there’s so big a black hole beneath it? Just come in… [Read the rest of this entry...]

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3D Stiletto Police Heels

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Just imagine how cool a woman would be if she is wearing a pair of high heels like these. Named as “Stiletto Police”, the high heels have the same outer decals of a famous Italian patrol car, and comes with a bumper in the front and two back mirrors on both sides. Moreover, there’s still a LED light that shines blue and red lights to warn those bad boys not to interrupt you. Want to take the center stage of a theme party? You should try these wonderful shoes. Believe me, girls. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Contemporary Rugs

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Fed up with the 2D rugs and want something different? Then you must have a look at these three dimensional rugs from Top Floor. They come in different colors and patterns, but each of them is surely to make your room more attractive.

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3D Curtain

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A spacious room or an overcrowded one? The 3D Curtain means never having to choose merely one. Just put on the 3D Curtain, you will find a great change inside your room. Yes, your crowded room suddenly turns spacious, not just a little. Since most of us still couldn’t afford a large house, why not enlarge the limited space with a cheap curtain? That sounds like a good deal. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Ice Age in Ireland

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Citizens in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland must have been baffled by the appearance of the mysterious Ice Age: the ground cracked open and shards of rocks are falling down…Do not panic, it is believed to be a 250-square meter 3D Pavement Art accomplished by a German artist Edgar Müller. But as a painting masterpiece, that has shaken everyone ever saw it. Bravo!

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Epson allows you to create 3D Greeting Cards.

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There are many traditions in Spring Festival, and most Chinese people are still used to sending greeting cards to their friends to wish them a happy new year. But as computer and internet are widely used, most people now prefer to sending cards via the internet, and some even create 3D greeting cards with the help of an Epson Colorio printer and a webcam. Though I haven’t received such a card yet, I bet it must be amazing to see your friend smiling at you on the screen. Check out the website below for details and right here is the Club Tuzki which teaches you to create 3D cards, too. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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3D-Printed Branding Iron

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NY for New York City, DEL for New Delhi, YYZ for Toronto, and ATH for Athens, almost every city has a unique symbol that makes we think of them. But what about us humankind, do we also need a logo, say, to let others think of us whenever they see it? This 3D-Printed Branding Iron is intended for your need. It could put a logo on anything that can be burned after 30 seconds of heating. If you want one, please contact the company and get a tailor-made branding icon via the web site below. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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ProFORMA makes 3D rendering easy.

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Qi Pan, a PhD student at the Cambridge University Engineering Department, has designed a ProFORMA (Probabilistic Feature-based On-line Rapid Model Acquisition) program to simplify the 3D modeling. With the help of ProFORMA, users only have to film a detailed paper building with a web camera, and a 3D model will be done. More amazingly, if you shake or move the real model, the CG image will correspondingly do the same thing. Let’s learn more from the video!

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‘Off the Wall’ by Kicki Edgren Nyborg

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“Put on these coats and you’ll feel part of the wall.” In saying this, I’m not aiming at you, but your house furnishings. ‘Off the Wall’ is an amazing wallpaper design with a 3D terrain, bringing a nice change to your interiors. Reminded thing is that the objects are fixed on the wall before being covered. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Brodmann Blades Ping-Pong Set

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What interesting table tennis set, it looks just like a glove! Brodmann Blades Ping-Pong Set has been proved to perform perfectly in improving your response ability and the 3D hand-eye coordination, which therefore making you rather competitive. Even if you’re a beginner, you’ll experience no problem with using the bat, because you can handle it easily as if you’re using your own hands.

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Creative Blueprint Art Installation

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This is a piece of collective works by Ou Studio from Taiwan. Based on blueprint technical, the installation assembles different furniture elements from an old house on a blue wall and complements the body with white lines, which finally projects a three-dimensional aesthetic perception.

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Cell Phones for the Blind

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Specially designed for the blind, the cell phone is unique for its high plasticity, which could change and adjust the 3-D keys on the touch screen automatically. Whenever its function interface changes, the touch-keys on the handset will be adjusted consequently. As a result, it’s convenient for blind people to identify the content shown on their mobile phone through a touch on the screen.

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3D Mirror

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Due to the different refraction angles of several mirror faces, the 3-D mirror appears to be quite preternatural in the light of fancy lanterns. With a strong feeling for the space, the 3-D mirror may lead you to a future world.

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3D chessboard

This is a unique chessboard which comes with 3D terrain. Thanks to this different design, it will make you have a better chess experience, just like in the real battlefield, maybe.

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