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Honestly I’ve completely forgotten the invention of matches after the day there is cigar lighter on the world, but quite surprisingly I still wanted to have a try of these Stormproof Matches once I saw several keywords about them: windproof, waterproof and stormproof, burning for up to 15 seconds… That’s really attractive, and all those features make the matches especially useful for camping, fishing, boating and emergency conditions.

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iStrike Stylus changes your drawing jobs into striking progresses. Suitable for any capacitive touch-screen devices such as Apple iPad or iPhone, the “match” moves smoothly on screens to effectively finish your work when keeps your screen away from fingerprints. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Two reasons make these sculptures special: they’re all constructed with colorful matches that we seldom saw before; and all the matches are arranged by hands. But the designer’s hard work is really worthy, because each sculpture here seems fantastic, looking just like the real animals and humans. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Apparently this is the simplest happy birthday box we’ve ever seen, and still it is applicable to a widest range of users that age from 1 to 99. But on the contrary it’s not the most popular gifts though it really cuts down the expenditure. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Inspired by matchboxes, the so-called ‘Phillu’ mobile storage device not only shapes like a matchbox but functions in almost the same way as the matchbox and its matches. And inside the box, there’re 9 removable match-shaped sticks, which separately could carry 5GB of data. That’s not enough, as ‘Phillu’ also allows you to transfer date from the sticks to another ‘Phillu’ easily by striking the heads of the sticks along the striker. So even without the help of a computer, we could always share the data with others if we’re using the ‘Phillu’ Mobile Storage Device. [Read the rest of this entry...]

What can you do with 956,000 matchsticks? In the opinion of Michael Arndt, it is a F1car!

He takes over six years, using 956,000 matchsticks, 1686 tubes of blue to built this full-scale replica of a McLaren 4/14 F1 car. [Read the rest of this entry...]

It seems that everything in daily life could be made in the shape of flowers. Similar to the natural soap we mentioned last year, this design uses the same design.

But there’s another problem: do you have the heart to damage a beautiful flower like this? [Read the rest of this entry...]

Just paint some cute picture, these match gonna be cuter. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Coming in the shape of a large bullet, while you want a fire, all you need to do is overturn the Lucifer and gently shake it so that the end part of the matches will make its way out partially from the hole on top just like how traditional toothpick holders work.

When you pull the entire match out, its head will go through the gratter, hence causing the match to light up automatically. It’s cool to use this kind of matches! [Read the rest of this entry...]