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Flexicords are cables you can play with.

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Aimed at offices and hotels where quite a lot of electrical appliances are needed, the Flexicords Cable could be easily bent into various shapes so as to solve the common problem of messy wires on tables and floors. The Flexicords set includes both short sizes and super long sizes. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Paint on your ceiling with color LEDs

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Perhaps next time you’re to furnish your living room, you’d prefer the Lighting Design by Seo Dong-Hun. It consists of two parts, some color LEDs installed on the ceiling and a “light brush” to control them. Just as shown in the pictures, you can easily complete a shinning painting on the ceiling by turning on or off certain LEDs. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Hydrofloors Create a Swimming Pool inside the room.

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The first time I looked at the Hydrofloors, I thought the thing shouldn’t exist, coz more and more people including me would go crazy! Compared with luxury swimming pools, the hidden pool created by Hydrofloors is more attractive, magnificent and of course more expensive. Whenever you’d like to swim, you can easily make the floors sink into the ground to a needed depth, using a control panel. Cool as that!

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Oblique Clock is a kinetic decoration for modern houses.

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Before you all leave comments about the “quite ordinary clock”, I’ve just had a question for you: how could the Oblique Clock indicate the exact time since it has no essential components like the gears? (Hints: the clock is made of laminated maple, custom mechanism and digital driver.)

You don’t know the exact answer? Well, neither do I, and that’s also a riddle for the visitors who saw it during the Toronto Design Week.

Returning to the clock itself, the cool timepiece is really cool for modern spaces. Even though its structure looks quite simple, the limited edition (20 pieces) wall clock is sold at $4000 (CAD)…So pricey… [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Grass Lamp

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Grass Lamp is Marko Vuckovic’s creative design which comes with a container for soil, water, and of course grass. Made from light PVC plastic material, the huge lamp could be easily mounted on the wall to give your room a refreshing look. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Decorative Tiles

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In order to create a stylish home, for years we have been enhancing the lamps on walls, but now these smart tiles is making headway in hiding the light inside the walls while still ensuring a perfect visual effect. It works as the lampshades, giving out soft light through the patterns when you switch on the hidden bulbs. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Multifunctional Tiles

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Taking the tiles to a new altitude, Johanna Opalska has designed an innovative series of tiles that go functionally smart. You may have noticed that, apart from its regular task of decorating your home, these tiles could also serve as a vase, a lamp, a container, etc. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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‘Harvest’ by Asif Khan

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Showcased at the Design Museum London, ‘Harvest’ is an installation of chairs and tables made of Gypsophila plant, which has a natural ability to interlock. All the flowers have been put into moulds and freeze-dried for weeks before they’re used to make up the furniture. It will remain on show in The Tank outside the museum until 15 March. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Less Lamp by Jordi Canudas

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Designed by Jordi Canudas, Less Lamp is quite unique: firstly, what you buy home is actually a sealed lampshade; secondly, no light will be released until you crack it with a specially designed hammer. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Antlers hold your cellphones while charging.

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These electrical outlets integrated with three types of antlers on top would be your best choices if you need to charge your cellphones, digital cameras, PSP and other items from time to time. Made from tough urethane rubber, the antlers are also solid enough to hold things.

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Linea Rouge Thermometer

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You’re totally wrong if you thought the thermometer merely features a round shape. More than that, the dubbed ‘Linea Rouge’ thermometer uses red wine rather than the traditional mercury to indicate the temperature. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Decorative Panels: Innovative Alternative for Wallpapers

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Available in various patterns, these innovative panels shown here will spice up both your offices and your living rooms. Announced to have the quality of being durable, these wallpapers have no formaldehyde, totally meeting the LEED standard. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Enjoy a colorful day!

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‘Change it’— just as its name implies— is an innovative wall decoration that allows you to change its colors every minute. Each of the triangles used to make up the item has three different colors on their sides, including white, black and rainbow shade. Therefore, you can turn these triangles to form different pictures on the wall.

That’s not enough! As in the future, the designers will also use light, typography and other unique materials to take the place of colors, in order to give you more choices. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Hanging Book Cases

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Nothing would suit you better to exhibit your favorite books than the Slim Book Case. These transparent book cases are available in two versions: the Slim Version (8 slots) could hold 10-12books and the Demi Slim (4 slots) enables you to place 4-6 books. So next time decorating your office or living room, you can have a try with these Slim Book Cases and books. I bet you’ll find great pleasure with them. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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‘Hua’ Vase Inspired by Chinese Character

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Ancient Chinese poems were always endowed with profound meaning or thought. In one famous poem, the poet told us that any beautiful flowers will finally turn into nutrition to support the next generation to bloom. And that’s just where Mike Mak has drawn the inspiration of the innovative vase-’Hua’. When filled with fresh flowers, the vase just indicates the process of blossom. But when the flowers die off, the vase then signifies that they’ve transformed into nutrition for the next blossom season. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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