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Please use the lights YOU NEED—Well, we’re required to save power energy from time to time, but how? I mean, we truly can control how often we use the lights, but we couldn’t decide how much energy we’re using since every bulb is designed to illuminate the whole room with certain light intensity. Except the ‘EcoBulb’ designed by Seokjae Rhee!!! It is an adjustable bulb that comes with six distinct sections, each of which could be remotely controlled to change their brightness and lighting directions. As a result, ‘EcoBulb’ will merely illuminate those needed parts of the room with required light. That’s really an amazingly clever idea to save energy and I love it! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Check this out. It’s a luggage locator, coming with a remote control, which ensures you pick out your luggage from many suitcases, even if they look like the same as yours. So after a long flight, the most beautiful voice will come to you, “Hey, I’m over here!” even if your bag is 45 feet away. Of course, you may prerecord other messages as you like. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Maybe the ‘Tread Way Mobility’ comes in a way like this. One day, when the designer went to his workplace which was not far away enough for him to take a taxi while really cost certain minutes, he had a flash of intuition —— to create a winglet. Equipped with an engine and a speeder, the ‘Tread Way Mobility’ is controlled by a remote. As it covers 10 miles an hour, such a device would be a nice choice to people who work nearby their houses.

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Want to be a Hollywood star, like Robert Downey Jr., Eva Longoria, Angelina Jolie, or even Marlon Brando? No longer need to wait, and your dream will come true only if you own this machine. It consists of a remote controller, a camera, and a green screen.

How to use it:

• Connect the camera to a PC and place the green screen directly ahead of the camera.
• Download a favorite movie and choose a role you want to play.
• Perform in front of the camera and start to shoot your movie.
• All that recorded by the camera will appear in the movie you’ve chosen. [Read the rest of this entry...]

For our gathering, cheers! But wait, what’s wrong with my beer? OMG, it’s actually a beer can-shaped USB humidifier…Wow, still cool! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Computer, firstly invented for military application, now has become an indispensable article to almost everyone like you and me. But, we gradually find notebooks not that convenient as we couldn’t use it freely with the embedded mouse after years of using a mobile mouse. So what about a detachable mouse? That’s just the main concept of the so-called free mouse. Wirelessly and effectively, the new product can be used as either a mobile mouse or an embedded one, all depending on your choice. Besides, when you turn on the shortcut key on side, the mouse then works as a remote controller that allows you to check emails or open the browsers. No extra charger, the free mouse could be charged automatically when you put it onto the computer.

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While it probably won’t be attracting to kids, the popcorn player looks just like the thing to make an afternoon game seem quite fun! The six-quart bowl, featuring holders for beverages and napkins, can contain as much popcorn as you need. Also, the basket and spoon on both sides allow you to play with popcorn through a remote control.

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Measuring 1.96 feet long and weighing 8.2 pounds, the remote control chum-dumping boat is not a toy but a new creation designed to dump about 4.5 pounds chum into narrow places through a remote control of 984 feet or so. Equipped with a sonar sensor, the boat can be used to search for fish under water and transmit the information back through the LCD display. But those are not enough, because the boat also allows you to get more fish in the night with a LED light.

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Good news for paraplegic people! To ensure you an easy reach to anything you want on the shelf, Dana Yichye Shwachman has created the adjustable shelf that comprises a remote control. With this shelf, you could not only make full use of your wall, but also avoid sudden hurts by too many items on the floor.

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If the spectacular total eclipse on July 22nd hasn’t satisfied your curiosity to astronomy, then you must need the eclipse LED light. Remotely controlled, the LED light offers five different modes, depending on your mood.

I’m just what I am! The electronic devices called “Used as Read” now allow us to figure out each of them, because these devices are made in the same shapes of the English words that they are named. For example, the radio spells out its name “radio”, the remote controllers spell out the word “remote”, “light” stands for lamps, and “music” shows us music players, etc.

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It is the Swiss Army knife in the CD player field. Except to play Discs, cassettes, CDs, the all-in-one player, from Japan, is also a CD/cassette recorder and a synthesized stereo tuner. Woo, though it’s a complicated device, you can easily handle it just with a remote controller, so convenient! But we have to wait for it until July 30 (price: $750), be patient!

When you can live without the remote controller, it always comes out somewhere, but when you actually need it, you cannot really find it. The world is so magic.

This product has the standing structure which makes it easy to be found. When you want it, it will stand there waiting for your commands.

TV seems to have more functionalities than ever before, and so there are more and more buttons on the remote controller. Nevertheless, most of them are never used. Therefore, a simple remote might be an alternative for most people.

This remote is in the shape of a knob, which only comes with such basic functions as channel, volume and the control board. So you can interactive with your TV easier.

Designer: Jason Kline

Although you can control your TV without touching the remote, it is not very convenient. Are there any other alternatives?

Sung-kyu Nam told us, use your feet!

Designer: Sung-kyu Nam