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Never stop your imagination about the augmented reality world: after a series of inventions and designs based on the augmented reality technology, artist Andrew Tanner now brings us with his Augmented Reality Ceramics. Normally it’s a delicately-painted plate, but it will turn into something else when you view it with your smartphone downloaded with a unique application- birds, field mice and butterflies will appear in an animated world, moving here and there to add some fun to the ceramic plate.

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Lazy men always need something special and this time they’ll no doubt get crazy with The Original Shirt Plate. Just like the happy man in images, anyone with such a unique T-shirt no longer needs to sit straightly in chairs or use their hands to feed themselves. Instead they can simply lie on bed to have their meals! Really ingenious. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Possibly next time you mail a postcard, you’d better have some tasty food along with it, coz these postcards here are actually ceramic plates designed for your cakes and fruits. Well, they look just the same as real postcards, right? But that’s just all right to surprise and amuse your guests! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Hey all you housewives, get out of the kitchen and see what Entresuelo1a has created for you… Something that is a guaranteed conversation starter. The three plates are all cleverly designed to provide you with much more convenience: the first plate below is tilted a bit for you to suck in the soup easily, and another plate with a small open allows you to place your spoons or forks during the dinner. As for the last one, I bet you clever readers must have found its secret, right? [Read the rest of this entry...]

We’ll all live in a different world, in a neurotic fairy-tale world full of mini-sized furniture and items as those Alice has seen in Wonderland. Because designer Robert Therrien has already created some really huge tables, chairs and dishes that are about three times as big as usual ones. So do you like them? [Read the rest of this entry...]

What would happen if we combine the plates and dinning table together? Having that question in mind, Elad Kashi has spent much time designing an innovative table and finally come up with the Table Set. It is a round table built with several ceramic plates on the top so that the users can directly put the dishes onto them without having to serve extra plates. Those plates are also removable, allowing for easy cleaning and installing. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Dishware in the same shapes of the nations? What a brilliant concept. Each standing for a certain country, these plates are quite ideal for the kids to learn geography while enjoying the nice food. But what if you’re using a plate that is shaped like the world’s smallest country “Vatican”? Oh, boy, you’ll still feel hungry… [Read the rest of this entry...]

Macedonia here is not referring to the republic in South-eastern Europe, but to an attractive fruit tray. Drawing an inspiration from soap bubbles, Janne Kyttänen has designed the Macedonia tray mainly with neat grids which allow sufficient place for every fruit. You could also use it as a piece of decoration to make your kitchen more eye-pleasing. Made from polyamide through an advanced laser sintering technique, the tray is priced at about $700. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Though it’s generally accepted that green is of most important, we cannot break with disposable plates drastically on certain occasions. But please don’t feel depressed, for Andrea Ruggiero has brought us the green disposable plates. When not in use, such plates can be thrown away like Frisbees and become the food for wildlife.

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Alexander Hulme has brought us a new design to challenge the mathematic law that one minus one equals zero. When you drop the so-called un-recklessly “Breakable” plate onto the ground, two much smaller plates will come out!

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Nutrition Pyramid is a famous theory, but would you really follow it? It is not a easy job, but a lunch-box like this will remind you, guides you to be healthier. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This plate, if you think it is, is used to hold the dessert or other tiny food. By wearing a ring like this, you don’t have to take a heavy dish just for some desserts. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This radiator-shaped thing is made of ceramic, and so it is surely not a radiator. You what is it used for?

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This design comes with several carves which are prepared for the pizza knife. It must be the easiest way to cut pizza by cutting along with these weird carves.

I don’t know whether the plate will be easier to be broken, but it is really convenient for pizza. [Read the rest of this entry...]