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Hair Brush For Bald Men

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Even though it is usually thought of as impossible to sell any combs to bald men, somebody still comes up with this piece that can polish their bald heads. So it’s not a comb, but instead a head polisher! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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The Devil’s Pet Candles

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What we see here simply approximates to the real facts. Presented as cute cats now, these candles designed by Thorunn Arnadottir will turn into something awful-let’s say the devil- as they gradually burn. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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UNICEF Landmine Stickers

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When will you truly care about people who may go into the danger of landmines as they walk in their countries? Probably it is the time you tread on a “dangerous ground”. That’s the main concept behind these UNICEF Landmine Stickers. They will stick into people’s shoes and shows them a landmine picture to inform them of the terrible situation in other countries when the passers-by remove them. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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OCD Chef Cutting Board

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If all vegetables are prepared with strictly regulated size—let’s say, carrots chopped into small pieces of 4.5cm length, green pepper no shorter than 3.1cm while no longer than 3.2 cm—will dishes taste better? I don’t know, but I do know precise slicing with such OCD Chef Cutting Boards will undoubtedly take us much time. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Lickety Spoon

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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...]

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Banana Art

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Surprises always come to us when we view common things from a different point, and quite often new types of art may be resulted at the same time. Recently when Riss, a Canada-based designer thought of the idea to draw on bananas, he has started the time of banana art. Even though we have seen paintings on apples or oranges before, these delicately-made banana paintings still deserve our praise. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Walking Table

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Quite often we see new tables coming in unique shapes or featuring distinctive functions, but we seldom imagine a table would have the ability to walk, just as we humans do! A walking table does seem amazing. It mimics an innate walking motion when pushed because it is built with mechanical linkages. A walking table is also valuable, as it is crafted from selected materials and available in only 8 pieces. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Sandwich Holder

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Your hands are too busy to pick up sandwiches or to shove them into your mouth? That’s all right, because you can still have enough sandwiches with the aids of this Sandwich Holder. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Explosive Portraits

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I am ready to bet these would be the most magnificent and wonderful explosions you can ever meet. Almost after every explosion, a large, impressive portrait will then appear on the walls. Created by Alexandre Farto, such amazing portraits were even used to make a stunning music video shown after the break. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Weird Cat’s Eyes For Your Ears

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Just have a look at these studs resembling cat’s eyes, they’re obviously another products meant for the most weird on your lists. Although they gotta make the wearers the most eye-catching ones on the road, I still dare not put them on my ears. It seems so weird!

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War Destroys Everything.

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Yes, war destroys everything, including us. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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3D Athletics Track

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Running on an athletic track is really boring, as you have to repeat monotonous tasks of turning around a curve and following along straight. Again and again. Fortunately we now have something different: the 3D Athletics Track. It is an alternative track for a conventional one, and it features a raised and three-dimensional shape. So running on athletic tracks will be different now? [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Delicious Toothpaste

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Bacon, cupcake, pickle… all those things are usually found on a dinner table, but this time you’ll find them in toothpastes. Different with common toothpastes, these ones will leave users a lasting and pleasant taste of fine food while still ensures them good teeth. Hmmm, they will be my favorite toothpastes! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Sinking Boat?!

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Please do not search for any on-line news about recent shipwrecks before you finish with the article, because you’ll soon find this seemingly sunken ship is actually a leisure boat specially designed by Julien Berthier. It is made up of a 21-inch sailboat while looks much cooler than that. Dubbed “Love Love”, the Sinking Boat is “the permanent and mobile image of a wrecked ship that has become a functional and safe leisure object”, just as Julien Berthier has ever described. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Bullet Hole Painting

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We never welcome bullets or guns as they usually represent war and violence, but the case will change when we come up with these Bullet Hole Paintings. With a 0.22-caliber rifle, American artist Walton Creel has created these unique paintings on Aluminum boards and therefore ensures them better contrast and more accurate color rendition. So do you like them? [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Creative Helmets

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With design and art pacing towards sleek and slim look, some designers are heading in the opposite direction and they’ve come up with these creative helmets. They seem bit of complicated, weird and we even couldn’t regard them as helmets if without a second look. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Lip Paint

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What have you seen, lively crabs, smart foxes, cute pandas, and other kinds of animals? Not exactly, because what is shown here is merely one thing: lips, and of course coming with various patterns. Isn’t that incredible, our lips now can create impressive paintings too?! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Evoluent VerticalMouse

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“Weird” and “huge” is mentioned frequently when we talk about the Evoluent VerticalMouse. It seems not that smart on the pictures, however one will find it comfort and convenient to use the mouse after they’ve tried it personally. Moreover, the big mouse can even relieve your wrist pain, according to many users. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Face Mug

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Everybody is familiar with this scene: you step into the office, holding a cup of coffee in one hand and with some circuits in your mouth. Just the same as what this Face Mug does. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Interesting Public Seat

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An Israel-based designer wishes to add more fun to our daily life and brings about these interesting public seats that are built in a unique way: some look like spiral staircases, circling around the street light poles; some become part of walls, seemingly Suspending in the air. But no matter which of them you choose, you’ll have a different view of the city you live in. That sounds really appealing. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Melting Clock

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In the famous painting “Eternal Memory”, Salvador Dali has demonstrated us a weird world with melting clocks hanging on branches and the edge of desks. And now those Melting Clocks have gone out that virtual world and ready to enter your daily life. So will you take them home? [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Who Is Looking At You?

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Well, it is really weird and even awful to clip “a pair of eyes” ono hair… Nobody would be willing to see another face on the back of the others’ heads, even though they come with quite charming eyes. Probably such unique hair clips are merely suitable for Halloween parties. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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The Simplest Way to Have A Good Figure.

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Invisible Clothes, a jacket that comes with an attractive appearance, not for women, but only for men! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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‘Knokkers’ Giant Pool Game

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Our creativity never goes to the end, and this time we’d like to introduce the giant pool game designed by Steve Wienecke. It’s similar to pool, but features a really large “table” that is four times larger than regular ones. And to play the game? You need to throw some balls to hit the others. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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“Fire With Fire” Video Project In Canada

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“Fire With Fire”, short for the common phrase “fighting fire with fire”, is a site-specific video project in Vancouver, Canada. It is created by Isabelle Hayeur and the Montreal-based artist wishes to give the public some warnings against fire in such a unique but aesthetic way. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Huge Slide

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We couldn’t think of any situation in which a student may use a slide simply because he needs to go downstairs as soon as possible, but we do have noticed that the huge slide has provided the students an interesting way to look for convenience and more importantly the joy. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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What’s this?

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Seemingly like an apparition, what do you think these items are used for? [Read the rest of this entry...]

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FlooW Bike

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It’s really hard for us to associate a carbon fiber body, an optional roof and four wheels with an ordinary bike. But the FlooW Bike here is not ordinary at all, and all those three elements have ensured it an extraordinarily fantastic appearance and functionality. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Swords Ice Tray

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Swords Ice Tray that is popular on the internet, claims I New Idea here, is not fit to grace your dinner tables. However it does offer us a new way to lower the temperature, and that is to use these ice trays as ice chunks. So cool! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Fluid Dress

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Obviously Charlie Bucket is a designer full of imagination and innovation because he has brought us a unique dress that is made from 600 feet of knitted tubes with liquid running through. By shooting different colored materials through the tubes, the dress also changes its color to make it more attractive. So it seems really nice on paper but we may feel a little weird to imagine that we’ll need to wear a pump as a backpack when we’d like to showcase the Fluid Dress. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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What’s this?

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So almost nothing SPECIAL appears in the picture? Then continue to check out more pics below… [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Crunch Bags

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Everybody views the same thing from different angles and product designer Ilvy Jacobs has used unique materials such as crumpled paper and tyvek to create several bags that she believed the most perfect. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Your Face, Or Realistic Mask?

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Will it be good news that you can have your faces “transplanted” just as easily as you change your shirts? And to have a new look, you need no surgical operation but simply a wearable mask sold by ThatsMyFace.com. Check out more pictures below and you’ll see how cool but also weird these masks are. Let’s go! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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7 Skulls For Halloween Party Decoration

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If you’re still looking for something unique for the upcoming Halloween party, then you must have a look at these seven skulls: they’re obviously the weirdest products on your Halloween party decoration lists. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Bloody Red Water Fountain

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Well, all my friends have told me that they love fountains very much and wish to see more on this blog. And right here is a unique fountain we found in Unirii Boulevard, Bucharest, Romania, which features an impressive red color to call for more Hemophilia awareness. So do you love the Bloody Red Water Fountain too, my friends? [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Balancing Barn

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When coming near the village of Thorington in Suffolk, England, you’ll feel quite surprised to see a large barn with half side suspending above the ground. Collaborated by Mole Architects and Studio Makkink Bey, the Balancing Barn is the first of five in Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture projects, and it will be opened to the visitors from 22 October to help them view the nature from a different but amazing way. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Top 7 best Halloween Cookies

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Welcome to the Halloween party, and we’d like to solemnly introduce Mr. Dracula, Mr. Frankenstein, Mr. Devil and the Mummy. Oh, that’s not all and you’ll also see Shortbread Finger Cookies, Paper Orchid Spider Web Cupcake, Eyeball Truffles and many other weird cookies made for this Halloween! So do you love them? [Read the rest of this entry...]

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I TIE YOU

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Hey you naughty kids in front of the screen, it’s another time for bed! And hopefully you would always enjoy a sweet dream as those you ever had when you were merely a small baby. Just sleep like a baby, who usually put their hands beside the heads~ [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Weird High Heels, Not For Your Feet

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You know, these high heels are on earth not designed for use. They may just look all right in the pictures or on the shoe racks, but never on my feet… Anyhow,  thank Kobilevi for sharing these weird and impressive high heels with us. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Circular Tennis Table By JAM

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We seem to have seen that Ping Pang is not merely a game for two or four people, but also an activity for three people after UK-based branding company JAM developed the circular tennis table. Dubbed “T2 Table”, the new design allows three players to play tactically against or with each other, helping them find more fun in the traditional game. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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