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Guessing time again, so what do you think this Teddy Bear is used for? Don’t tell me that’s merely a toy, please…

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You know that the Short Message Service has been there for 20 years? Well, time passes away so fast that we can hardly feel the changes…But that doesn’t matter at all, as the “Shooting Message System” notebook can successfully remind us of it. With a built-in elastic band on the cover, the notebook can launch your notes in a manual but special way. So interesting!

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Hello my ladies, you now can play a trick with others while enjoying wine from your Lip Stick! That’s not for kidding, because the Lipstick Flask is exactly a sneaky accessory that hides a flask inside a normal lip stick. Anytime there’s a Cosmo, anytime there’s a drink, isn’t that fancy?

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Well, however cool and attractive it is to wear American map shaped sunglasses, we still need to reject such an appealing offer as one pair of sunglasses may cost you $208! But for those who can afford that amount of money, you surely should make the Map Sunglasses top on your shopping list.

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Pixilated crayons, usable rainbows close at your fingers… Combining seven different colors in one, these colored pencils can either draw out a technicolor rainbow on paper or create amazing color images with other patterns.

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Produced by Monkey Business, the pencil sharpener here comes with two big ears, which allow the users to easily hold the pencil and twist the cast-metal key nearly without effort.

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Wanna to make your glasses look completely different from others? Then you’d better change them into Superheroes! The unique cape here can suck into any glasses, to make your items more attractive.

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What can prevent water splattering out and making a mess when you’re making a stew? The Lid Sid! What adds some new fun to your boring cooking time? The Lid Sid! But what is the Lid Sid, indeed? It’s just a little dude bent over the edge to let the steam out whenever you’re making a stew.

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Unbelievable, the pocket-sized metal box here is actually a gadget for both storing and lighting matches!? But how? The secret lies in its unique strike material-coated barrel, which allows you to light a match as you’re removing it.

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Designed by Japan-based artists, these Flower Matches give us another reason why we always love creative designs: each of them is made with branches instead of regular wood pieces, thus to resemble the shape of trees or flowers. It’s indeed a simple concept, but it’s really amazing.

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Power lines, when placed in different places and endowed with different functions, seem to have brought us with completely different feelings as a result. These power lines here, designed by Daniel Ballou, are “miniaturized version in bent, chromed wire works well for the desk”. Thus when you place several of them on your table, get the lines of cellphones along them, you may then create a California desert landscape all by yourself.

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On the list of those who love wines, there must be a portable and functional bottle storage bag ranking on the top. Fitting the list is this hexagonal ZEBag, which can pack 6 bottles of wine at one time and carry them conveniently.

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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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Shoe sole or something else, can you figure out what the item may be?

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Bite, bite, and bite, these amazingly cute erasers here want to remove every word from your paper with their sharp white teeth… Isn’t it interesting? Available in four different kinds, these erasers are priced at 128 Yen.

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Whenever talking about something white and pure, both the clouds and erasers will come into my mind. Hence it’s really good to see those items combined together to create these Cloud Erasers. They not only feature quite outstanding appearances that are the same as clouds, but perform still well to clean your paper. The only question that bothers me now is that “will these Cloud Erasers feel as soft as the clouds?” I really want to know the answer, so I’ll just get one and try it soon.

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Undoubtedly reading is something intentional or planned: with these colorful Indice Bookends to organize your books, you can not only keep your tables tidy, but make it more convenient to look for your needed books.

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These notepads are especially impressive because, more often than not, we may just feel sleepy rather than hungry when seeing or using some notepads… Not everybody loves to study hard, but they do all prefer to play hard. So if you want something unique on your desktop, you should never miss these “Delicious” Notepads!

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Quite commonly we say that there’s valuable knowledge in books, but sometime there’s a comfortable soft pillow inside it too. It is disguised in the same appearance as a dictionary, allowing you to trick others for fun and to enjoy a sleep anytime and anywhere you may want. So how do you like it? Just work hard, and sleep better!

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“Moon river, wider than a mile”, and there’s a boat candle floating on the water… Designed by Slovak designer Roman Ficek, these candles are inspired by folded paper boat and each comes with a cute bright color. All handcrafted, the candle can burn up to approximately two hours.

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Tardis, used to be the Doctor Who time machine police box made famous by the British television show, is now a smart safe that can only get unlocked by your smartphones. The Tardis Safe is easy to operate: simply insert your cellphone into the dock and type the password, and then it will open with a sound of the Tardis revving up to time travel. Apart from Tardis, the cellphone-opened safe is also available in an R2D2 version, which will come later this year.

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You drive a car in the front, with another same (but smaller) car following behind… Do you love that experience? You should, honestly. Priced at $3,695 (so much!!), each trailer made by ACT looks likes small replicas of real cars, while they won’t cost you any fuel at all, but simply draw more attention to you…and your cars and trailers.

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You love your camera lens so much that you even want to eat it? Well, of course nobody will do crazy things like that, but there’s indeed somebody who warps their camera lens like a burrito… with this unique protective sleeve. Look, the lens now looks really delicious!

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Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, all those eight planets of our solar system have been “transformed” into sweet chocolate shown here, and each of them features a unique flavor, so which planet do you think will taste the best?

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I’ve known of many people, especially those in love, getting used to making a copy of their SMS and IM messages as the commemorative. But that really costs them too much time, unless they’ve gotten the “BlackBox”. It provides a convenient and easy solution for people to keep their valuable messages on hand, printing SMS and IM messages out via a standard, noncarbon receipt printing system. It can even print a message twice so that the user can share that conversation with others.

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Hello, my friends in front of the screen, have you noticed my cute bun hair? Aren’t they lovely? So you love them too? Well, you can easily get them by attaching two 6-inch buns covers onto your headphones (also ok with your ears or your hair)… Just simple as that!

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Who can tell me where the end of human’s laziness is? After years of benefitting from dish-washers, clothes washing machines and other devices, this time we want to own an Extendable Sock Aid that allows us to put on socks without bending… So you like this?

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Speed up, speed up, when using these Japanese Bullet Train Chopsticks to enjoy your lunch, you may feel that the food is “flying” into your mouth with a higher speed… Wow, so cool! But in fact these chopsticks are common ones as others, although they feature a unique shape of bullet trains, they’ll never threaten your life as real trains do.

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Stockings can tell your attitudes, demure, discreet, subtle, playful, sensual, impulsive, seductive, provocative, daring, passionate, cheeky, dangerous or femme fatal, by the length of skirts you choose to wear.

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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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Watch out, a shark is nearby to attack you… in a special way of disguising itself as a safety helmet. Especially designed for kids to increase their safety of cycling, the crazy helmet features a vivid 3D effect, providing both a cool expression and full function as well.

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While professional archaeologists are concerned about finding fossil dinosaurs, we unprofessional people are just enjoying the fun of playing with fossil soap. With a unique two-layer structure, these soaps will finally demonstrate the “dinosaur fossils” after you use them for more than eight days. Available in three different types, guess which dinosaur will you find first, tyrannosaurus, triceraptos or pterosaurs?

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Why are designers so innovative? Almost every time I met some new designs I would ask myself that question. So you know, that question emerged again, after I accidentally saw the AudioBulb, Wireless Speaker Light Bulbs that bring both light and music to your home. It’s easy to use: simply replace ordinary bulbs with the AudioBulb, insert you iPod into the included dock, and then you’ll hear beautiful music coming from any places of your house. With warm light filled with your rooms, the AudioBulb is certainly the best thing related to the word “romantic”.

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The beautiful scenery is not the only reason that encourages us to go picnic in the open air, sometimes an intriguing tent plays a bigger role too. Created by British designers, these Exclusive Tourist Tents are rightly something individual and unmissable, printed with interesting patterns on exterior surfaces and thus make them completely eye-catching when used in the nature.

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Your Little Printer, unveiled by the Berg, is a smart portable printer that helps you to print out simple content. It can get connected to your cellphones, gathering the information sent out from your mobile and printing the pictures, puzzles, coupons and other stuff out. Well, I’ve already seen the happy days of printing out coupons and using them anytime and anywhere, but pity that the tiny printer won’t be available until sometime in 2012.

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Magic time… By combining two round plates, one thread and several simple patterns together, D-BROS from Japan has cleverly created some interesting but impressive scenes including the “a horse drawing the cart”, “a cycling man” and “a weightlifter”.

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These glasses are not unnecessary toys as you may have thought, as they can help to focus your eyes without lenses due to the 1mm holes. Hence when your real glasses suddenly get broken, you can use these paper ones for an emergency.

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Anything better than these skull helmets for you bad boys? Especially designed for motorcycle riders, these helmets are not only lightweight, comfortable to wear but also provide breathing space, just so unique. Pity that it comes bit of later, or I may have gotten a more attractive costume for the Halloween…Any way, it’s still a good Christmas gift.

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There’re at least two (or more) Leaning Towers in the world, one is the famous building away in Italy and the other is this ceramic Leaning Tower Tea Set here on my table. It is composed of a teapot, a lid, two cups and a metal basket infuser, making it the greatest tea set for both household using and a gift to others.

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Too luxury… Even though we know what is burning in front of us is simply cash-shaped candle instead of real money, we still cannot bear that. If I’ve gotten such a unique money candle, I’ll just place it on my table, see it every day to encourage myself to work hard while never burn it… So what about you?

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