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Multifunctional Little Frog

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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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Convertible Rocking Cradle

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As your little babies grow up day by day, their cradles are no more needed but simply left in a garage full of dirt. To solve that problem, designer Martin Price has come up with this Convertible Rocking Cradle that can be divided into two rocking chairs for average-sized adults to use. It’s really a clever concept, right? We wish it would soon come into production.

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“Watpack” Pet Shelter

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“Watpack” is a pet shelter concept that can be molded into various desired shapes to offer your pets a personalized house. It’s stylish in looks and easy to use, and thus offers us a simplest way to build the pets a unique home, one that is different from others on the market.

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Transformable Tube Chandelier

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Chemistry and art are two separate words that seemingly would never have any connections, but designer Pani Jurek’s “Maria S.C. Lamp” has now brought them together. Looking like a crystal chandelier, the lamp is actually made from chemistry test tubes placed into circular plywood bands. It seems completely nice when without anything in the tubes, but the result becomes more amazing when each tube is filled with colored liquid or inserted with flowers.

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Dubbel Duffel Travel Bag

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Dubbel Duffel is a travel bag that can unzip to double its carrying capacity. It greatly meets the real need of people who’re travelling around: on their way to the destination when they don’t have too many things too take, they can just leave the duffel zipped-together so that they could keep items separately with the dual-compartment interior storage; while on their way back home when they’ve bought some souvenirs, they may then open the zipper to expand the bag. As only 30 in each color in each size is available, the Dubbel Duffel is actually limited in its quantity: if you love it, you must get it!

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Transformable Stand Sleeve for iPad

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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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Sensei Chair/Table Set

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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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Transformer Furniture

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Anything full of connotation is always appreciated. Just as a man with rich connotation attracts us much more, a cabinet with unique connotation is highly welcomed to our home too. Put forward by Uruguayan designer Claudio Sibille, the “Ludovico” chest is made from eucalyptus wood, featuring one table on the surface and one or two chairs inside it. So simply move and pull, you can transform one single piece of furniture into a complete set immediately, really fabulous!

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Transformable “Twist”

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Somebody cares quite much about the environment, so they are trying hard to avoid using too many bowls or bags in order to save water and other resources; others, like me, are just too lazy to do the housework so we try to use as few bowls as we can too. Yaps, we may have different motives, but we’re all forwarding in the same direction and we all need the “Twist” by Nick Burrows. It’s transformable, capable of shifting between a bag, a microwave oven proof container and an ordinary bowl. Just twist to change it, and then you can do something beneficial to both you and the environment.

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Vest Scarf

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It’s a vest, and also a scarf, to keep you warm in the winter in two different ways.

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WHILL Wheelchair Transformer

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Wheelchair users, although with the aid of others, may usually get bothered by the difficulty of getting on and off a car when they need to go on a travel. So why not just change their wheelchairs into an electrical vehicle so as to solve the problem? With that in mind, some designers have created the WHILL, a device that can clamp onto the wheels of an existing manual wheelchair and to power it with electricity. Each circular “hub” contains a 24-volt motor, powered by a lithium-ion battery pack. The battery reportedly takes two hours to charge, offering a range of approximately 30 kilometers with a speed that may get up to 20 km/h. When needing to change the directions or adjust the speed, the users can easily accomplish those tasks via an operation of the curved control section that connects two “hubs”.

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Trolley Bike

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Quite frequently shopping is a real sweat, as you’ll need to push a trolley to walk all through the market or mall. So why not let the Trolley Bike designed by Fang-Chun Tsai to save us from that horrible shopping time? It takes only three steps to convert from a traditional trolley into a bike, thus you could ride on it to some shopping. Well, just imagine how easy it would become when you’re hurry for your favorite things on the upcoming Black Friday!

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World’s First Supercomputer Tablet

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ASUS is well-prepared to launch the world’s first-ever NVIDIA tegra 3 quad-core tablet, the “Prime”, that can transform into a laptop with easy operation. Featuring a 10.1-inch display, an 8.3mm-thick body while merely 586g of weight, the soon-coming tablet also comes with a hydro-oleophobic coating that makes it more fingerprint-resistant.

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Desk Convertible to Bed

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Offices will soon become a place that you can both work at and live in, with this convertible piece of furniture serving as a desk and a bed as well. If there’s one in my office, wow, I’ll definitely love my boss more!

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QuickSmart Back Pack Stroller

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Nowadays parents especially the young ones love to go travelling with their small babies, but before that they need to get an ideal stroller – one that never becomes a burden to their trip. My suggestion is the QuickSmart Back Pack Stroller. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Wall Chair

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Things will be totally different if without Fabian Bernhard and Thomas Burkard: before the item is merely a stretcher but soon after it becomes a chair leaning against the wall to keep its steadibility. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Chain-shaped Coffee Table

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Probably one of the happiest things we commonly think of is to find something new everyday- a new friend, a new job, a new design or basically a new piece of furniture for our stylish rooms. Then on my way to find a new surprise, I met this Chain-shaped Coffee Table. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Senza Bike Lock System

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Jaryn Miller aims to have thieves away from your bikes with this innovative Senza Bike Lock System. It transforms the bike’s handlebars into a bike lock, so a thief will find it unable to ride the bike after he has broken the lock and then bike-theft is expected to be reduced. But will that really work? Not necessarily, if a thief simply wants to get a bike rather than rides a bike. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Rubix Transformer Furniture Set

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Anything that can change to meet our different needs is undoubtedly always welcome, and right here we’d like to introduce this Rubix Transformer Furniture Set created by Dosunodesign. It consists of three chairs and one table: the chairs can be adjusted to a proper height according to the users’ various needs, and the table would work as a tea table or a dinning table in different situations. So great! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Free Cutter

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You must be dreaming of such incredible scissors as shown here. They’re completely smart-looking and their convenience is beyond any words. Used as scissors, they can cut out curve lines easily and when used as knives, they’ll make straight lines. But more importantly, the device can conveniently shift between the scissor mode and the knife mode, as its unique structure allows for an easy change. CLEVER! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Creo Shoe Concept

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Jennifer Rieker has innovatively redefined “shoes” by allowing the wearers to participate in the production process. Every Creo Shoe is sent to the consumers in four separate parts, including footbeds, shoelaces, outer soles, and a leather envelope that doubles as the inner part. Besides, a sewing pattern is also available to instruct you. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Switchable Footwear Soles

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Apparently these Urshuz by Grant Delgatty will soon rank TOP 1 on your list of shoes. They feature detachable soles and upper parts, allowing the wearers to freely redesign and reassemble them according to their different needs. Just as its slogan goes, “Urshuz, changes everything”. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Foldable Mini Motorcycle

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Exhibited at the Consumer Electronics Show 2011, the foldable motorcar surprised every visitor because it can balance on merely two wheels. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Smoking Reversible Tie

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The funny tie comes with two sides: one is a work appropriate pattern while the other is a leisure appropriate pattern. In any places where smoking is forbidden, you may have a try with the smoking tie. Just for kidding. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Alex Bottle With Separated Bodies

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Three separated halves have made the Alex Bottle quite unique among the same kind products on market. Its caps and halves are all changeable, which not only allows the users to wash their bottle more easily but helps them change the bottle types according to their different needs. More importantly, you can pile the two main halves up for an easy transportation. Just click the following links to get your Alex! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Balanced Shelf

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Balanced Shelf from Christian Kim is a shelf unit that can move to form different shapes. According to your different needs you can arrange them in a horizontal row or set them on the diagonal. But whatever you choose, the new shelf would always achieve equilibrium within the furniture itself and in the room “through an imbalance of the shelf”. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Sunny and Rainy, Different Modes With Same Shoes.

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You need different shoes when the weather varies and the new shoes designed by REN Fangying meets all your needs. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Configure Your Picnic Mat

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M.A.T. is a picnic mat especially designed for your outdoors entertainment. Constructed from several individual air pockets, the mat can inflate in different areas to make a pillow, a table or a stool so that you can enjoy a comfortable seating in the nature. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Jackets And Bags

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Jackets and bags seemingly irrelevant to each other, but they do have some relations when Rotem Lewinsohn puts forward a new design that easily shifts between a jacket and a handbag. So you wear it to a shopping mall but come out with a bag full of snacks, isn’t that interesting? [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Bookmark Pen Design

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Although bookmarks are created for us to mark a book, we in fact often use a pen instead so that we can always make some notes on the book. Steve Yang Che-Hsiao must have the same experience as that we have and the designer has created a new pen dubbed “Bookmarkpen”. While in bookmark mode, the gadget is so compact that you can easily put it between the pages without any thickness to the book. And if you need a pen, simply fold the bookmark and then a pen is instantly transformed. Nice concept. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Curv Transformable Furniture

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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...]

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Fossa Sofa by Aurélien Barbry for COR

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You’d like to create a new image of sofas? Then have a look at what Aurélien Barbry has made for COR. It is the Fossa Sofa that comes with several cushions and slots, and therefore it will change roles whenever you add the cushions into or simply move them inside the slots. To sum up, Aurélien Barbry creates the changes, Fossa Sofa makes the changes and you guys will enjoy the changes. Cool! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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WOW Transformable Sofa

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Ideal for compact city apartments, the WOW sofa from Campeggi features a smart button and presents a plain design. But the most innovative point behind the furniture lies in the fact that it can open into a bed when you give the button a slight press. You see, that’s really cool and fantastic! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Rotating Squares Table

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Just look at the Rotating Squares Table, it’s obviously another piece of furniture meant for the “must-have” of your grocery lists. Constructed from 16 small squares, the table can open up to 1.4 times of its original size when these small squares are moved. Maybe also due to that magic rotating squares method, the table wears a surprising price of more than £2000 though it is simply made from oiled birch plywood. So the price must have made the table “one of the most expensive pieces” in your furniture collection, too. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Urchin Softlight

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Urchin Softlight, just as its name implies, is a soft and stylish light that be transformed into different shapes. It can even be folded into booklet when not in use. Made of white textile that has 5-15% recycled content, the lamp is recyclable and thus leaves fewer footprints to the environment. It also uses LED lighting sources and hence your electricity consumption will be reduced. So whatever you may need—an eco light, a stylish light, a changeable light or a low-energy-consumption light, the Urchin Softlight always seems to be your best choice. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Foldable Electronic Tricycle

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Stylish and compact, this electronic vehicle can easily shift between a bike and a tricycle via simple folding, so as to ensure you much more convenience. As a result, you can not only guide your vehicle through the crowded streets with ease but create enough space for your items whenever you go on a huge shopping spree. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Transformable Relax Furniture

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Constructed from five square and triangular pillows, the sofa bed from designer Zuzana Šišovská can easily transform into a couch, a bed and a sofa to offer you different ways for relaxing. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Transformable Lamp That Modulates Light Intensity.

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Soft and semi-transparent, the lamp designed by Martin Bahrij can give quite warm light in the night to create you a peaceful atmosphere. And it is also designed with the ability to modulate light intensity: it can be used as a night light when closed but offer large amount of light when its bottom is open. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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MIA Electric Flashlight Lamp

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With the technology and design placing towards energy-saving and multiuse, Jia Dai makes the flashlight a new one in the league. The flashlight not only can split open to work as a ceiling lamp, and more importantly, its solar cells can still recharge when in the open lamp status. So whenever you use the MIA Electric Flashlight Lamp, you’re always saving both the energy and your money. Sounds like a good deal. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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“Somnys” Multiuse Furniture

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Despite that we cannot dedicate a pretty serious amount of space to large furniture like beds and tables so as to accommodate our guests, we can still create them a comfortable “living room” with the “Somnys” transformer furniture. Designed by Fabien Rolland, the modular coffee table can pack flat for easy storage when not in use while transform into a guest bed when needed. It’s also easy to assemble and collapse, allowing the users to convert it from a table into a bed in quite a short time. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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