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Xovel Shovel

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Shoveling is tiring, until this Xovel Shovel makes the task easy. It comes with a double-grip handle at the neck, which promises to let your force distributed in a balanced way so that the users can feel more labor-saving. Besides, there’s also an integrated torchlight in the arm that allows you to work in the night.

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HALO Heating Spoon

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Busy office time. About 50 minutes ago you made a hot cup of coffee, but what happened then? You’re chained to your work and the coffee went cold.  Never mind, coz you now have the HALO to keep your coffee hot. Just put it in the cup, switch on, let it heat your coffee steaming, and you’ll always find hot coffee ready at hand. So fabulous!

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45 Degree Bottle Neck

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You know, design is sometimes so simple. The innovation of this water bottle merely lies in the neck that has been shifted from the top to a 45-degree angle. But the result turns out to be amazing: firstly, it’s more convenient to refill your bottle from a water cooler; secondly, it allows the users to drink in a more comfortable pose, no longer requiring them to have their faces pointed skyward. So how do you like it? The idea is really fantastic, in my opinion.

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Innovative Design of Public Drains

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I’ve already felt that I’m breathing in some fresh air once I see His Filter Sewer designed by InHo Lee. The new public drain system can segregate trash from wet waste, keeping the drains clog-free. It can be placed with odor, therefore always purifying the air.

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Water Climb Weighing Scale

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Simpler is better. This Water Climb is constructed with merely a watertight bag and a cylindrical marked glass tube, but it still indicates your weight with accurate figures. The only drawback I need to point out is that the weighing scale may not work well with those who’re too fat, because I can see the item turning into a water fountain if it is added with too much weight. Just for kidding.

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Floating Pot

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You’ve ever seen a flower pot that can move up and down automatically? Meet your surprise with this Floating Pot. It comprises of two containers that fit inside one another: the inner one holds the soil and the plant while the outer one is usually filled with water. When water is added, the inner container then becomes lighter than water and thus moves up. But as the water gets used up, the inner container will move down to remind of the owner that the plant needs some water.

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Tail Stool

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Cute designs are always popular. This stool, put forward by Y Zin Chang, is rightly something we would shout out “so cute”. It looks quite like a dragon tail, especially when there’s someone sitting on its flat surface. Would you like to have a try?

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Push Plug

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Amazing… I mean, these plugs come with really cute look that can make us smile. Additionally, they also feature a good function to help us unplug them from the sockets easily and conveniently. Simply push the knob on its back, and then you’ll see your plugs out of the sockets slowly. Just think of the practicality!

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VV-Talker Talking Device for Deaf Children

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Children with listening disabilities usually have big difficulty learning to speak, but fortunately this VV-Talker Talking Device can help them to overcome their problem of listening. It is an electronic device that impersonates the actions of the speech, allowing deaf children to feel its vibration and then learn to speak via the vibration of body parts while we are talking.

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Modular Bathtub

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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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Sling Shot Camera

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Sling Shot Camera is an interesting concept put forward by Sung Young Um and Jung Eun Yim, which aims to capture the real of you. No smile, no pose, this camera gives you no time to prepare for the photo and always surprises you when it is taking your photos. If you love natural photography, you’ll definitely love the Sling Shot Camera.

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Ear MIKI Earphone Concept

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If you’re looking for something smart to help you manage your earbuds, the Ear MIKI Earphone is rightly the one you need. Though merely a concept at the time, the gadget seems as cute as the cartoon Mickey, and neatly holds the line of your earphone or other devices. When not in use, you can simply wear it around your finger, just like a cool ring.

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CUUM Electronic Wastebasket

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Ever felt it bothered to bend down to pick up those dust particles on the floor? Calm down and have a look at this CUUM Electronic Wastebasket. It is a clever combination of an electric appliance with a vacuum cleaner, which would suck all the dust in when you sweep it to the bottom of the device and turn it on. So how do you like it? Everything gonna to become easy.

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Charging Tap

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You may get bit of promiscuous, because the concept hub designed by Qi Weijia looks really the same as taps you commonly see. Actually, however, it merely supplies electricity to charge your computers or cellphones.  Simply connect your tablets to the hub via a USB charger, turn the tap, and then you’ll see your items reenergized.

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Flower DSLR Camera Cap with Hood

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The Flower Hoodcap is an amazing design concept that combines lens cap with lens hood for a DSLR camera. Thus it would let in enough light when you’re taking photos, and still protects your camera when used as a lens cap. So next time you’re going to any places, remember that this Flower Hoodcap would go with you!

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Player & Tape Concept

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What a bundle of contradictions is a man! Surely we’re all pursuing modern products with high technology, but on the other hand we’re looking back for old things that ever amazed us. Until the Player & Tape Concept comes to us.

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“Bendch” Design

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“Bendch” is a creative combination of a billboard screen with bench. Used as advertisement platform in public places like bus stops or culture squares, the “Bendch” can display videos, graphics and other kinds of ads, but at the same time it would act as a bench for passers-by to rest.

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Bana Bender

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Anywhere you want to clean, get the “Bana Bender” close to that. Anytime you need to exercise, do some fitness with the “Bana Bender”. Collaborated by Hong Ruei-Hong with Lin Pin-I, the conceptual product subtly integrates exercise with a shower machine, making it the best choice for gym bunnies.

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See What You Print

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See What You Print (SWYP) is a sleek concept by Artefact, which is designed to give the printers a new great change. The SWYP combines with a simple stylish appearance and a fantastic user interface, which have made us think of products from Apple. Once wirelessly connected to your cameras or computers, the printer will then allow you to choose and edit your photos with its multi-touch screen. The image on the screen is exactly the photo you will finally get, and that’s also why the printer is named “See What You Print”.

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Eraser Pencil Concept

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Pencils constructed with easers… They look good and feel good. Moreover, you needn’t take any easers along with you, because your pencils are erasers too.

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Easy-to-Find Tape

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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...]

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Reading Finger

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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...]

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Beyond Silence Digital Piano for Hearing Impaired People

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For people with hearing problems, the Beyond Silence digital piano is the best thing they may get to help them listen to music. Put forward merely as a concept now, the music instrument is built with a diaphragm that creates stronger vibrations and music waves, and therefore the piano would let hearing-impaired people listen to music by feeling the wave and vibration of each tune from the resonance board. I’m quite looking forward to see this piano commercialized and hopefully people with hearing problems will soon be brought to the world of music. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Proteus Foldable Helmet

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Proteus helmet is a design from Jessica Dunn, a student from Sydney, Australia. Created to be foldable, the Proteus helmet also features three main layers, including polycarbonate material to protect against abrasion and impact, polystyrene foam to absorb impact and a layer of flexible material to absorb sweat. Due to that three-layer design, Dunn’s helmet can protect the users’ heads with higher safety while never making them uncomfortable. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Ian Gilley’s Bike Seat

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Ian Gilley’s Bike Seat seems just like an insect’s head but it indeed performs quite well to effectively reduce cyclists’ discomfort and tiredness. Still, its spilt-type design also allows air to go through easily so that it can ensure the riders a more comfortable using in summer. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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iPad for The Blind

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Honestly both we I New Idea and guys from Apple wish the blind people, though they cannot share every same thing with us, could get the opportunity to enjoy their time with iPad. All for sharing! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Camera Futura: A Concept for the Future

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The future of cameras now sees its possible prints with Artefact Group’s Camera Futura. It is a wireless viewfinder with an interchangeable lens, so that the users can place the lens of the camera in a needed location before they take some pictures from a distance far away. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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“iPad 2 Window”: Virtual Window Design

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Lately launched iPad 2 has made everyone to be concerned with tablet computers again, and most people are wondering if this new product can continue the sage of iPad 1. Or how could iPad 2 start another new era? John Leung put forward his concept of the iPad 2 Window- a virtual window design. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Braille Punch Sticker

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Shopping malls, though announcing to be consumer-friendly, seldom stick Braille labels onto their products. Because they don’t have a Braille label maker? Well, they now can have the choice of this Braille Punch Sticker. It is compact and convenient for use, allowing the users to punch Braille directly onto stickers and then to affix them on shelves or items. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Japan Develops Mobile Phone with Human Touch.

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Japan often brings us with new telecom products and concepts and this time some designers from this eastern country have come up with a prototype that resembles a human body. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Plug and Player

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Well, MP3 devices do need some change, and we’re quite happy to see Giha Woo and his “Plug and Player”. The new product is designed with an electrical plug so that it could be charged by directly plugging it to electricity. Although it’s merely a concept at present, I bet we’ll soon find it on the market. Believe me. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Floor Plan Light Switch

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Ever had any difficulty to find out which switch is controlling which light? Never mind, as you can easily solve that problem with Taewon Hwang’s Floor Plan Light Switch. It features several switches installed on one same panel so that you could control the lights in different rooms from one location. As long as you know where each room is located, you’ll always find the right button to illustrate that room. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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IQ Alarm Clock

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Alarm clocks are wonderful devices, and among them Oliver Sha’s IQ Alarm Clock is obviously the best. It has no snooze button, but instead you have two choices to make the clock stop ringing: one is to answer 1 to 3 questions, and the other is to press and hold the power button for 30 seconds. So what will your choose, the former method or the latter one? [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Seesaw Battery Design

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We always need AA batteries, for our mice, game players, MP3s, remote controllers and many other electronic apparatus. But after years of using, we still find it difficult to get batteries out of the devices… Maybe it is time to change AA batteries, and the recommend alternative is the Seesaw Battery by Young Suk Kim. It features two tapered edges, one of which will easily eject if you push down the other side. Convenient! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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ORBO Watches, Cute Fat Watches.

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A series of watches designed by Zach Weiss to indicate time, temperature, weather and other information with eye-catching round hours hand and seconds hand. Plus, these watches also feature maximum simplicity and functionality, making them more attractive than other kinds of timepieces. Pity that the ORBO series is merely a concept at present and we’ve no information when they’ll hit the market. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Intelligent Library Bookmark

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This Intelligent Bookmark is designed as a reminder that indicates the date by which your books must be returned so that you can always remember to bring them back to libraries. Meanwhile, it also comes with a guidance function, leading the users to conveniently put books back onto the expected position. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Glider Camera Concept

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Develop different and unique photos with the Glider Camera and you can view your world from a new angle. It is a smart gadget that flies in the air, slides around people, and takes photos effectively. Moreover, people will seldom find it is a camera so that you can use it freely. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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1ℓimit Faucet Saves Water.

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Many of my friends have frequently complained that they couldn’t mange to save water simply because they cannot control the flow of water freely. If that’s really the truth, they may need this 1ℓimit Faucet, something that offers only one liter of water for using at one time. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Transparent TV Concept

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Transparency is obviously a main trend of modern designs and we’ve come up with transparent cellphones, transparent shoes and transparent sculptures in the past few months. And soon we’ll see a transparent television. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Soft Screwdriver

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We’ve seen many types of portable screwdrivers, but this one from Arthur Xin is a much smarter device that can even be hidden in wallets. Its ten shafts are made of plastic and rubber, and they can roll to form a driver-head when you need a screwdriver. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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