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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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Speed up, speed up, when using these Japanese Bullet Train Chopsticks to enjoy your lunch, you may feel that the food is “flying” into your mouth with a higher speed… Wow, so cool! But in fact these chopsticks are common ones as others, although they feature a unique shape of bullet trains, they’ll never threaten your life as real trains do.

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Babies are just naughty, and they never seem to obey what you tell them while still act in their own way: taking anything they get as toys and frequently throwing them away…… That’s enough, as here now comes some innovative tableware especially created for babies and kids. With a strong suction cup at the end, these bowls, spoons or forks can easily stick onto the tables so that your babies can never drop them on the floor. But as these gadgets may help parents a lot, they’re actually destroying your babies’ happiness of throwing their things anywhere, so really sorry to babies.

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Another design that we would say “why nobody has come up with it earlier”… It is the 30-degree Slope Bowl by HO Chang Da, who creates the gadget especially for people with trembling hands. With a 30 degree slope at one end, the bowl can still stand on table steadily even when your hands suddenly tremble.  Also, its wooden handle makes taking up hot bowl no longer a difficult thing. That’s so sweet!

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Busy office time. About 50 minutes ago you made a hot cup of coffee, but what happened then? You’re chained to your work and the coffee went cold.  Never mind, coz you now have the HALO to keep your coffee hot. Just put it in the cup, switch on, let it heat your coffee steaming, and you’ll always find hot coffee ready at hand. So fabulous!

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Would like to try anything special each morning? Start your unique life with these stunning ceramic bowls by Geraldine De Beco for Bernardaud. They all come with a twist on the bottom, which seems like a flaw usually, but display the shape of a cat, wolf or bird when filled with milk. Surprise? Oh, wait, the price is more astonishing, as each piece will cost you 240€!

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In China, the bride and groom are expected to drink “cross-cupped wine” from one another’s glasses on their wedding parties, and that indicates they’ll then remain a devoted couple to the end of their lives. Possibly inspired by that tradition from the East, designer Camilla Fucili has come up with this Cin Cin Glasses that allows two people to drink from different directions. But as the two glasses are connected to each other, people who are using them will therefore be brought closer to each other too.

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After meals, fold these table placements into cute animals and hold an animal-themed party with your kids.

Alcohol and tobacco are both highly addictive substances to many people and they will feel it really hard to choose between the two things from time to time. And so it is, if they’re using these Ashtray Coffee Mugs. [Read the rest of this entry...]

They’re not ordinary glasses as they look. With detailed calibration on their bodies, these glasses can be used to play music when they’re filled with expected amounts of liquid. So interesting.

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Spoons for kids are far more important than serving tools, because a unique and attractive spoon may become an impetus for them to have meals. Lickety Spoon is one of the best spoons we can think of for kids. It is made of stainless steel with a soft, food-safe silicone handle and it looks just like a long tongue when sticking into your mouths. Isn’t that cute? [Read the rest of this entry...]

Do you prefer vegetable salad, just as a rabbit may do? Whatever, having some vegetables is really helpful to keep our health. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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...]

Have to think to myself, what a simple but effective design! A bowl that has a wavelike base to ensure enough space for your fingers so that they’ll never get burned… and also, the special base allows the passage of air and maybe our soup will then get cool sooner. Essentially you’re using a bowl that can stand steadily on tables and there’s no need worrying about it turning over. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Imagine that, we now have a more interesting way to decorate our tables! When table knife, fork and spoon are joined together, they’ll definitely attract everyone’s attention and leave them a deep impression! So cool. [Read the rest of this entry...]