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Surrounded by dull concrete every day, people nowadays are always looking for something special, bright, smart or weird to give their common life a sparkling shine of light. Fortunately, the lighting unit designed by Asobi deserves our attention: made from lightweight carbon fiber, the lights can be ordered in 4, 6, and 12 LED configurations that spread out in all directions just like a spider’s web. It’s nothing to do with elegance or entertainment, but the light itself is really unique in pattern and function.

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Especially designed for people who may need to row a boat in the dark, the RO Lighting set is a handy tool that features a two-part light fixture so as to fit and work with almost all kinds of oar. Powered by both solar power and the kinetic energy that is generated during the rowing process, the RO Lighting can help a lot to illuminate the area along the sides of the boats and thus to ensure the rowers a better navigation in dark.

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Easy to assemble and easy to adjust its height, the SCRW Stool designed by Manuel Welsky is a clever combination of a solid cork stool and a steel base and it can change the heights via simple turning, just as its name implies.

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Daddy Long Legs in the famous novel is obviously different from this table lamp put forward by Produkt of Design, but they all feature really long legs that impress us quite much. The lamp here, which is both adjustable and functional, can change its legs into various shapes, either providing a unique appearance or serving as a simple bookshelf.

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Redesigned from a modern Volkswagen T5 Transporter van by a UK company, the Doubleback camper van is both appearance-attractive and function-impressive. Simply by pressing a button, you will then see the Doubleback extend to offer an extra room that adds six and a half feet of living space inside. The interior of the extended pod is equipped with a large bed too, which can fold down to provide space for other activities.

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Although LED technology has already been widely used in our daily life, there’re still some LED related products we seldom know or use, and one on that list is rightly the LED Light Strips. It is thin and waterproof, ideal for both indoors and outdoors use, capable of serving as night lights or decorative lights. According to your needs, you may cut the strips into various sizes as well.

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Innvo Labs’ Self-adjusting Robot Pillow is a product that can ensure you a good night’s sleep by automatically adjusting its shapes and heights according to your body’s position. The pillow is filled with a set of inflatable air chambers inside, with a pressure-sensitive thin mat connected outside. When use the pillow, you simply need to turn on the mat, place your shoulders on it, and then your head will be cradled in the most comfortable way during your sleep. The continual inflating and deflating of the air chambers is done so slowly that you wouldn’t feel it at all – thus you needn’t worry that the pillow may affect your sleep.

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To have or not to have a tattoo is no more a bothersome problem, as you can now freely change its shapes or relocate the tattoo with the “moodINQ” Programmable Tattoo System. It utilizes a skin-safe proprietary E ink encapsulated pigment system, which not only lasts a lifetime but can be configured to display any design (or none!) That’s undeniably good news to tattoo fanciers, who could conveniently change their tattoos to suit their moods, while without any pain!

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Flaca, which is Spanish for skinny, is an ultra-thin foldable lamp completely laser-cut from a piece of stainless steel. It’s easy to assemble in just five steps, requiring no other tools but only your bare hands. The lamp is adjustable too, offering various heights to meet your different needs.

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Work smarter, not merely harder. FLEXiT is an ultra-flexible light that can be wrapped around tubes, bent into tight corners or magnetically fastened onto metal objects to serve as different types of lights: table light, camping light, work light, directional light and so on. Except for it adjustable shapes, the FLEXiT’s light functions can be changed too, offering low, medium and high light according to your various needs.

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One, two or even ten different shapes of baking pans are not enough to people in deep love of baking cakes, so what they really need may be this Ribbon Adjustable Baking Pan. It’s made of silicon and magnets, attaching onto steel baking sheets in various shapes and sizes, so as to create beautifully-crafted delicious cakes.

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With an adjustable design, the brass pencil sharpener can produce three kinds of points: a sharp one for fine and precise lines, a medium one for letter-writing, and a rounded one for sketching and shading. One tool that meets your three different kinds of needs, isn’t that a great deal?

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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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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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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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Time again it proves not everything useful should be high-tech, because quite often we see practical gadgets of low-fi tech, just like the Macro Lens Rubber Band made for cellphones. It’s a stretchable band capable of expanding to a diameter of up to 16-inches, thus to convert any mobile phones into a macro lens.

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Within quite a few days we’ll step in a new year, so at the same time we should get some new keyboards. Designed by Russia-based Art lebedev, the Optimus Populyaris & Optimus Mini Six are compact keyboards and control panels that configure with many options, which can be adjusted according to the user’s needs. If you haven’t gotten used to the standard keyboards on market, you now have a chance to customize your own special ones.

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Pull and fix to provide your electrical appliances with enough electricity, to use an outlet is just as simple as that. Composed of 5 pods along a 15 foot-long cable, the Pod Power is an extension cord that brings the outlets to you, and in the meanwhile keeps your cables tidy and organized. With adhesive stripes included, the Pod Power can be stuck onto walls or tables once you’ve already adjusted the distance between the pods.

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Undoubtedly it’s not the first time we introduce some lens accessories for iPhones, but an iPhone Lens Dial that combines three different types of lens? Oh, it’s still the first. On that dial you’ll find a wide-angle, a fisheye and telephoto lens, which can be easily shifted between each other via a rotation. Thus when you’re on a trip, you could take various kinds of photos and share them on Tweet with your friends instantly with your iPhone and such a functional lens dial.

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Sofa is not merely furniture, because it actually has a free soul too, with which the furniture not only creates different configurations, but also offers your room a stylish look. Each piece is built with a giant zipper, which allows several modules to be connected together and then to meet your various needs.

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From John Ewans Design, the patented Active Tools 2K shoes are created for the sport of rowing. Quite specially, the shoes are adjustable from size 9 to size 14, so as to offer every sportsman a comfortable wearing. All the external parts of the shoe are moulded in EVA foam, which is same as the material used to construct Crocs, thus the Active Tools 2K shoe is both hygienic to wear and easy to be cleaned with water.

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Nest is a new thermostat put forward by Tony Fadell, who used to work in Apple Inc. and brought us with the iPod. Designed to be a smart thermostat that can learn about your schedule of changing the temperature and thus makes temperature adjustments based on that, the Nest comes with a stylish metal body, a touchscreen as well as a rolling wheel controller. It features a energy-saving modes like Auto-Away™ and Energy History too, so as to help the consumers reduce down their electricity consumption.

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The stability of wood and the elasticity of spring are seemingly two completely opposite characters, however in the “Lights Up” Nakarin Kemseela has successfully combined that two characters together by designing an adjustable wood frame lampshade. The result is quite amazing, coz the lamp not only features an interesting aesthetic, but also emphasizes big convenience for users to freely adjust the quantity of light. Fabulous!

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You’ve realized the gadget is a coat hanger? Honestly it doesn’t look like a hanger. However, the T Square Hanger actually features an amazing function, allowing the users to hang their coats with various possible angles. When not in use, simply fold it and it then becomes a compact piece.

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An ultra-practical shoe designed by Daniela Bekerman for those who love high heels but still need to wear flat shoes frequently is the Ze o Ze. It means “This or This” in Hebrew, thus the design features several modular pieces that can connect to the shoe’s sole, and therefore allowing the users to adjust her shoes according to their needs.

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Everybody loves Apple. We love iPhone, iPad, iPod, and maybe many other things that the Apple Inc. will launch in the future. The “Polyply” is just a stand that can hold your Apple products. Made of acrylate polymer and birch plywood, the gadget comes with enough room to hold an iPad, iPod, iPhone and a stylus, allowing the users to manage their devices at the same time.

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Bathe is a modern and multifunctional bathtub that features several attachments for the users to place their accessories. The attachments can be used and combined in any way you want, so that you can freely fit them into the bathtub in any ways you want. For example, you can create a seating at the end of bathtub, make a storage shelf in the middle, or simply get a support for the shower.

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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...]

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...]

Do you often ride a bicycle? If so, you would feel glad to know this Pump Tire, a new kind of tire that self-inflates. It is the first self-pressurizing bicycle tire, and it can let in some air or stop inflating if the tire is with too little air or too much air. To change your tire pressure, you simply need to adjust the bike’s handlebars. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Ever embarrassed to hold around a rider’s waist when you’re on a fast-moving motorcycle? Go with this Moto-Grip next time. Especially designed for the extra passengers on a motorcycle, the device is a polyester webbing harness that features padded handgrips on the front and back for people to hold tightly during their move. As a result, the stability and comfort of both riders is cleverly maximized. With a strength of 2,000 pounds (907 kg), the Moto-Grip can hold any people up to 300 pounds (136 kg). [Read the rest of this entry...]

Things will be totally different if without Fabian Bernhard and Thomas Burkard: before the item is merely a stretcher but soon after it becomes a chair leaning against the wall to keep its steadibility. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The Elliptical Machine Office Desk is one of the most-complicated desks we’ve ever met. It is built with a semi-recumbent elliptical trainer that lets the users to exercise when busy with work. [Read the rest of this entry...]

What’s Maggie? It is an LCD electronic magnifier that can magnify print 11 times its original size. The handheld magnifier not only offers 4x, 6x, 8x and 11x magnification levels but also allows the users to adjust its light conditions and color combinations. Also, it features a ‘freeze’ function to capture images for closer examination. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Valentin Ruhry’s new display is a huge board built with many illuminated rocker switches to show messages. Whenever you’d like to send some information with it, you’ll need to turn certain switches on while still keep others off. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Sasan Magic Carpet is a clever design that offers practical sleeping and seating solutions with its adjustable constructions. Its base is composed of 4 different sections, and you can conveniently change them into various shapes according to your needs. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Aptly dubbed “Catalyst”, Jiyoung Seo’s shelf triggers user to feel, touch and react with the unit so as to build a closer relationship between people and furniture. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Goci’s Foldable Kitchen is one of the best-organized kitchens you can ever find. It mainly consists of four parts, including ice hot-fridge/deepfreeze/oven, dishmaster-dishwasher, slidecooker-a cooktop, and panneli-screens. Based on a modular design, however, the foldable kitchen allows for an easy and convenient change of its appearance and the users can even add new elements if they need to do so. Bravo! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Italian furniture brand Campeggi’ Casual Bench invites you to experience a stylish and truly relaxing sitting, lying or swinging. Designed by Emanuele Magini, the Siesta bench utilizes a hammock-style seat to take the place of ordinary wooden or metal structure so as to ensure users a comfortable relaxation. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Finally the Hive by Jake Waitzman comes to make your iPhone4 more awesome than you’ve ever imagined. It can amplify iPhone’s onboard speaker in landscape or portrait orientation, requiring no electronics or other power resources. It also provides a clear 2X magnification of display when its Fresnel lens stands parallel to iPhone’s screen at a distance of 4 inches. [Read the rest of this entry...]