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Combining two separate tools rightly in one, the Tape Scissor is a brilliant scissor with a built-in tape dispenser, which can not only save your space on table but saves your money in wallet.

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Here and there, this Folio Shaped Tissue Box could be placed anywhere, serving as a book stand or storage box as well.

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A mug for the iPhone? Not really, but instead the mug here is a multifunctional case that acts as a stand and a cable holder too since it is completely self-standing.

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Made with earth-friendly wood materials, these little frogs can serve in three different ways, acting as an arm chair, a rocking chair or a table. This 3-in-1 design is highly praised by many people, who believe that the Little Frog not only saves their space in room, but saves their money in pocket.

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Called CampFire, the sleeping bag case for iPad2 can work as both a protector and a stand, offering your devices a perfect protect all the time.

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Guess what this is: it’s a ring, it’s a telescope, and it’s a magnifying glass too. The answer is: Telescope Ring (you must have thought of that)! It’s made of lightweight aluminum with an aged bronze finish, making it both stylish and multifunctional. Whenever you need some aid, slide the top and done!

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Love playing with your iPad, but never mind what kind of sleeve or stand it is using? No, I couldn’t stand my iPad wearing something ugly, so I decide to buy it this smart Stand Sleeve (if the gadget will finally come into the market). It features a fashionable appearance, with a combination of bright white and red. Besides, the design utilizes an ingenious folding technique & magnets too, to conveniently shift it between a sleeve and a stand.

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Made from powder-coated, bent steel, the X Hanger designed by Kfir Schwalb is merely a single piece while can function to hang your hats, coats, scarves and other items. When not in use, the X Hanger can serve as a unique decoration on the wall too, refreshing your room with a new look.

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Coming from Genius, the Ring Presenter is a sleek version of the company’s Ring Mouse that adds PowerPoint functionality, making it extremely ideal for corporate meetings. Built with a touch-sensitive cursor pad surrounded by four buttons, the Ring Presenter gives the users a better control of both their remote PCs and the slide shows. When not in presentation mode, the device can serve as a miniature mouse too, with touch sensitive scrolling and right, middle, and left buttons.

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For small-apartment owners, the space-saving and multifunctional furniture sets are always welcomed, and on their lists there’s Claudio Sibille’s Sensei. The furniture set includes two chairs that could be used separately; but when you flip the chairs on their sides and piece them together, they would then serve as a table.

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One, two or even ten different shapes of baking pans are not enough to people in deep love of baking cakes, so what they really need may be this Ribbon Adjustable Baking Pan. It’s made of silicon and magnets, attaching onto steel baking sheets in various shapes and sizes, so as to create beautifully-crafted delicious cakes.

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Honestly we seldom see laptop bags redesigned with many new functions, not to mention a bag that actually serves as a charger as well. This amazing design comes from Brad Ascalon, which utilizes wireless charging technology to convert a laptop bag into a charging machine. Now have a look at the bag: its inner tray is in fact the charger and its carrying strap actually contains USB male connector at one end and a plug on the other. So once connect the strap end to another computer or an electrical outlet, and then you can get your laptop recharged wirelessly. That’s not all! The same USB port allows the laptop bag to work as a thumb drive on its own too.

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Quite frequently we see common things endowed with new functions or totally changed into other devices when designers try to use them in a different way, and these smart phone stands are rightly the result of innovative redesigns. As the lenses are replaced with transparent cups, these glasses then performs well to keep electronic other devices in place. They’re still foldable too, thus ensuring an easy transportation.

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Several years we were trying to make everything as simple as possible, endowing every device with only one function. But now, the trend is completely changed, since people are in great need of multi-functional machines and gadgets. Yves Behar’s ‘Local Bike’ is rightly created to meet your various needs. It is a three-wheeler built with a small truck, thus allowing for great convenience for people to transport their items within short distances.

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Your iPhone certainly promises a good quality of photography, but you couldn’t always hold it by hands especially when you want to take a photo of yourselves. Well now, you can shot with iPhone in a stylish and convenient way – introducing the iPhone Tripod Mount and Stand. It allows you to your iPhone to any standard tripod and also doubles as an adjustable stand as well. Quite an ideal gift for iPhone fanciers.

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The Halloween 2011 is coming, so have you gotten something special to surprise your guests? If not, see what Tyler Card has made and maybe you’ll soon get a good inspiration.

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Apparently the Terrafugia Transition Flying Car is an advanced vehicle we’ll use in the future. It is literally a car with folding wings, thus it can both run on roads and flies in the air.

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Can you believe that the “Chopp” is claimed to be the last chopping board you need to buy?! Although I have no liking for exaggeration, I must admit that the ergonomic chopping board does deserve the praise. It’s a board with interchangeable functionality, including a hollow base to hold the chopped food, a cheese grater, a preparation aid for fruit, an egg holder and so on. Made of high density Polyethylene and ABS PC, as well as fused with Antimicrobial material, the Chopp is both durable and healthy for use. Hey, Alastair Crompton, reserve me a Chopp please.

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We need handles almost everywhere and “Your Magnet” is rightly a multiuse u-magnet for almost everything. It features two suction cup feet, which can stick onto cups, tablets, cellphones or other things to serve as a handle or stand. Thus you don’t need to get everything with handles, but simply remember to get this u-magnet for your things.

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Bookmarks and dictionaries are two necessary tools for bookworms, and obviously the item shown here has cleverly combined them together. Named as Electronic Dictionary Bookmark, the gadget comes with a quite simple look but extremely powerful functions.

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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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No doubt we all need a chair. But which is your ideal one, a chair with interesting shape or one that features a full function? Whatever, you would like these creative chairs shown here. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Cideko’s Air Keyboard would bring us a new experience with wireless keyboards. It is embedded with a 3D motion sensing mouse, which will detect the keyboard’s motion to control the cursor on computer screen. Thus the users merely need to move the keyboard up and down/left and right in the air, they can then use the device as a wireless mouse too. It is also integrated with an earphone and a microphone, allowing the users to enjoy music or chat online from a long distance. The wireless keyboard is rechargeable, and compatible with both PCs, Macs and Linux computers. [Read the rest of this entry...]

It is a matter of peculiar interest to purify rain water in places where are short of clean water, and the rain coat collaborated by Hyeona Yang and Joshua Noble is rightly a device that would help many people around the world. It seems like cape, with tall collars to collect rain water and built-in charcoal filters and a chemical purification system to make the water safe for drinking. After the water is purified, it will be stored around the shoulders and pockets of the coat. The coat also has some tubes so that people would conveniently drink the collected water at any time and any where. [Read the rest of this entry...]

German LCD maker HANNspree recently launched its Lounge TV 70 on International Funkausstellung Berlin 2011, which is announced as both a windows PC and a white board except for acting as a HDTV. Even though the device is just a prototype at the time, it would no doubt bring the TV designs to a new age. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Undoubtedlly hand-washing is always the best way to make your clothes clean, and we believe more people will get interested in that traditional washing method again after they met the Pond-washing Aid collaborated by Zhong-Fa Lie and Yoori Koo. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Sasan Magic Carpet is a clever design that offers practical sleeping and seating solutions with its adjustable constructions. Its base is composed of 4 different sections, and you can conveniently change them into various shapes according to your needs. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Aptly dubbed “Catalyst”, Jiyoung Seo’s shelf triggers user to feel, touch and react with the unit so as to build a closer relationship between people and furniture. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This luxurious Bugatti Grand Prix Car Inspired Desk isn’t merely on paper, as you can actually see it in real life. Designed by Luzzo Bespoke, this furniture incorporates a retractable monitor, a height adjustment and self closing lockable drawers. It also looks fashionable, featuring an elegant smart shape, shinny metal gloss and a bright blue color. It is claimed that designing and making such a desk may take up to 3000 hours in total and hence it comes with a quite surprising price: £150,000. OMG! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Tomm Velthius has successfully blurred the line between furniture and toys. He built many railway lines in a wooden table, let small electric trains run through them and therefore changed tables into toys. Great work! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Welcome to a new time with your personal robots Luna. It is the world’s first personal robot, which is announced to have the ability to handle almost all kinds of works and even comes with its own app store where additional functionalities such as face recognition would be sold. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Roll & Mix is a multifunctional utensil designed by Marcial Ahsayane. It includes two parts, one is an oil bottle and the other is a pestle. Each of the two parts can be used separately and they’ll double as a rolling pin when fit together. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Even though we’ve already had cellphones with built-in alarms, we seldom have a watch that doubles an alarm. Except for the “An Alarm”. What makes the watch special is that it gives a vibration on the wrist instead of sound. Isn’t that cool? You’ll never miss any dates. [Read the rest of this entry...]

A really clever gadget for the elders… The Flashlight Cane is designed to offer the old with needed support, to illuminate their way in the dark and more importantly to protect them from certain danger with electric shock generated at the bottom. [Read the rest of this entry...]

There’re various ways leading us to a better life and actually you could easily have your life improved by using ordinary gadgets in other ways. And to give you a demonstration, the projection screen here is used as a sunshade. Do you like the idea? [Read the rest of this entry...]

Belts are always used as an ornament, and we don’t see them function in the other ways if they’re not there to keep up the trousers. But for $55 you can then be a cool guy using a belt in many different ways, such as removing a screw or opening the beer. So to sum up, the Tool Belt is really a smart toolbox you can easily take everywhere. [Read the rest of this entry...]

See what these Fiskars’ Cuts+More Scissors can do, the results are really amazing: they could cut paper into pieces, cut out wires and ropes, and even open beer bottles… But what’s more important is that all those functions are cleverly combined in one scissor so you can simply have one such scissor to meet your various needs. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Almost no words are needed, and just look at the pictures you’ll know clearly what the Rhapsody Children’s Beds can offer: a comfortable bed for resting, a slider for entertainment, cute toys and delicate decorations… All those have built a fantastic dream world for your kids! [Read the rest of this entry...]

What would you want to have if your apartment can accommodate merely one piece of furniture? You’ll need something stylish, multifunctional and also environmentally friendly at the same time, right? Then what you’re looking for is rightly the Curv. Getting an inspiration from the 1960’s era, the furniture set features a simple shape but can be used in many different ways: a set of table and a chair, a dinning table, a workstation and also a relaxing cocoon. So whatever you may need, change the furniture and done. Easy as that! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Everyone would need a multifunctional scissor like this. Ergonomically designed, the innovative scissor can be used both left and right handed, allowing the users to easily cut paper, open bottles and crack nuts. [Read the rest of this entry...]