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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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