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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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Creo Shoe Concept

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Jennifer Rieker has innovatively redefined “shoes” by allowing the wearers to participate in the production process. Every Creo Shoe is sent to the consumers in four separate parts, including footbeds, shoelaces, outer soles, and a leather envelope that doubles as the inner part. Besides, a sewing pattern is also available to instruct you. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Birdhouse Roofing Tiles

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When most designers are busy creating comfortable and stylish apartments for humans to live in, Klaas Kuiken has funneled his energy into making a new house for birds. And now you can see the interesting work here, which is built like a roofing tile on your houses’ tiles. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Transformable Relax Furniture

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Constructed from five square and triangular pillows, the sofa bed from designer Zuzana Šišovská can easily transform into a couch, a bed and a sofa to offer you different ways for relaxing. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Breaksoap by Dave Hakkens

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Though everybody knows clearly that hand pump is more hygienic and easier to use than hand soap, they seldom realize there’re lots of chemicals contained in the soap pump which may hurt your skin. Providing a clever solution to that, Dave Hakkens has created the Breaksoap, a new kind of soap that is divided into small pieces for personal use. Do you need it? [Read the rest of this entry...]

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What’s this?

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Seemingly like a cool helmet for young boys, have you gotten what the gadget actually is? Leave you comments if you’re sure (or not sure) with your guess. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Inflatable Bandeau Belt

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How could you let the bulky and ugly life jacket ruin your perfect vacation at the sea? You need to see what Kathleen Westerhout and Dana Ramler have prepared for you. It is the Bandeau-Belt, a stylish alternative to the life jackets. The personal flotation device features a hidden life preserver, which can be easily taken out and inflated for use when in an emergency. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Rotary Dial Style Faucet

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It seems like almost every time you use the faucet, there’s seldom a person advising you to conserve the water- but it doesn’t mean you needn’t do that. The good news is that you’ll never feel guilty of wasting the water coz you won’t have the chance any more. Designed by Eun ji Byeon, the Rotary Dial Style Faucet asks you to set the duration for the flow, therefore offering you enough water while not wasting too much. So 5 seconds for washing one hand, and another 5 for the other, is that enough? [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Plant Perf shows us a new way to keep fruits and vegetables fresh.

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What would you do to keep fruits and vegetables fresh? Put them into the refrigerators? Well, that’s really a clever method, but not clever enough. The innovative plant perf concept, not only keeps the fruits and vegetables fresh, but eliminates the harmful chemicals left on their surfaces. The device employs corn starch plastic as its main material, consisting of three parts: the main body, bottle top and nutritious liquid. What the users need to do is to insert the stems of the harvested vegetables into the bottle and lock the top end by pulling it upward. After that, the nutritious liquid will be delivered to the plants to keep them fresh for quite a long period. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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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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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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Table ‘1915’

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Teruhiro Yanagihara is a space designer from Japan and his greatest passion is to design interior products that go well with the environment. And the table “1915” aims to reveal a specific balance of randomly-placed bars. But why Teruhiro Yanagihara named the table as “1915”? Possibly you can find the answer in the video below. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Silicon Switch

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What is the common impression the traditional switches give us? Tough, old and rigid, right? But these Silicon Switches with will dissipate that negative effect. It comes with a new look, seemingly like soft round balls, due to a cover of raised silicon on its surface.

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Extendable Lulatsch Table

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Believe it or not, my table here will always satisfy you, wherever you’re living, a spacious apartment or a limited one. Because it is an Extendable Lulatsch Table! The adjustable table could be extended from 1.60 meters to 2.80 meters in length, and it is actually the table surface that facilitates the extension. If you wish, you may even keep most part of the surface extend to the floor and use it as a cushion. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Rotary Commodity Shelf

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A good design always makes for a good life, just like the Rotary Commodity Shelf that is based on a rotary plate. As a result, the new shelf makes it convenient for us get those articles perched on a high shelf, and takes a full advantage of the upper space as well. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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