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Never stop your imagination about the augmented reality world: after a series of inventions and designs based on the augmented reality technology, artist Andrew Tanner now brings us with his Augmented Reality Ceramics. Normally it’s a delicately-painted plate, but it will turn into something else when you view it with your smartphone downloaded with a unique application- birds, field mice and butterflies will appear in an animated world, moving here and there to add some fun to the ceramic plate.

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MegaPhone by Ene&is is an amplifier made of ceramic for iPhone. Except for the ceramic piece that helps to accomplish the best sound, there’s also a thin wooden frame on bottom to let the object float off the table. With those two parts working together, the MegaPhone features really strong vibrations to create a nice sound.

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Possibly next time you mail a postcard, you’d better have some tasty food along with it, coz these postcards here are actually ceramic plates designed for your cakes and fruits. Well, they look just the same as real postcards, right? But that’s just all right to surprise and amuse your guests! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Called Funnel Vase, the ceramic vase designed by Roger Arquer features a simple but meaningful change: a funnel on the side allows the users to change water without having to remove the flowers. Also deemed as an art piece, the Funnel Vase will be on show at the ‘Translations’ exhibition during London Design Festival later this month.

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Apart from the young beauties, the ceramic molded cup designed by Israeli student Sharona Merlin also wants to have a good figure, and it does look slim! Hailed “Slim Cup”, the new coffee cup appears like a typical coffee cup from one side, but almost disappears when turned 90 degrees. Except the ceramic cup, Sharona Merlin is also working on designing other slim ceramics tableware so as to help the consumers see “the way things get slimmer as technology moves forward”. [Read the rest of this entry...]

What would happen if we combine the plates and dinning table together? Having that question in mind, Elad Kashi has spent much time designing an innovative table and finally come up with the Table Set. It is a round table built with several ceramic plates on the top so that the users can directly put the dishes onto them without having to serve extra plates. Those plates are also removable, allowing for easy cleaning and installing. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Wanna a big meal? Well, these creative pots designed by Thelermont Hupton would like to join you, too. Each of them comes with an expressive and animated face, simulating people’s various facial expressions of eating, growling or yawning, and that’s really interesting! [Read the rest of this entry...]

I just love the look of these vases. All hand-sculptured from white stoneware clay, the Narwhal Vase, Snail Vase, White Rabbit Vase and the Angel Kitty Vase have been fired twice up to 2232 degrees before they were brought to us. Though each piece functions as a vase, these cute gadgets still doubles as an eye-pleasing sculpture when not filled with flowers. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Neat, clean, convenient, as I would describe it, the ‘Happy Basin’ is an instant water purifier which is embedded with a nano ceramic filter at the bottom. Simple as it is, the basin allows you to purify polluted water simply by pushing it into the water body. As a final word, well, this is really exciting news to people living with polluted water. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Have you ever imagined of textile-like porcelain dishware? Whatever, we’ll introduce you a suit of porcelain dishware designed in that way. Not that real textile, in fact, it is the special lines and pattern that makes the porcelain dishware look as graceful as textiles.

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What do you think the article is? Is it merely a vase? Not really. To most people’s surprise, the ceramic product from Israeli could be used as a kitchen timer as well. When not in use, it’s undoubtedly the most eye-catching appliance in your kitchen.

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Inspired by the form of a classical Vietnamese dish that is called Pho, Omid Sadri has designed the Pho tableware set for people around the world to enjoy a Vietnamese beef noodle soup in a simpler way. The whole set includes a main bowl, a dish for garden sauce and an entremets dish, placed layer by layer. Additionally, a more unique design lies in the breach for chopsticks and spoons. A clever creation, isn’t it?

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“White Rhinoceros”, the nickname for an awesome ceramic tile with a hook, is a latest try to solute the common problem in any bathroom that hooks often break off from ceramic tiles. Designed with a built-on ceramic hook, such tiles now provide us a choice to decorate our bathrooms.

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As it is designed in the form of a vase, the vase computer is a perfect adornment which can completely integrate with the bedchamber surroundings. It’s also an outstanding computer, which stuffs a 1GB RAM, a 2.5″ hard drive and a blue-ray optical drive into the vase. At the bottom of the vase, there’re also several interfaces to common devices.

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Summer,seaside,sand, shell，who says that technology can’t go with romance? Bury the shell in sand on your desk, and you can gain a sense of romance even when using the computer.