February 2009
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Bird Feeder
Save your bread crumbs and feed your bird at the same time…
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SanDisk ImageMate® Card Readers
SanDisk’s new card readers. Sporting a stylish glossy black and metallic silver design, each reader’s tripod base is detachable, creating instant portability.
“The new SanDisk ImageMate readers are two of the fastest and most reliable USB readers, capable of transferring 1-gigabyte of data in less than 35 seconds, the ImageMate readers’ space-saving vertical design makes them [...] -
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Tufty
Functional Sculpture… an art piece which you can sit on… but will you?
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Renaissance Pavilion
Renaissance Pavilion features an inflatable structural skin that is precision-cut by computer-controlled machines. It fully inflates in a little more than an hour, and the entire skin is 100% recyclable through a process called Texyloop.
Wind turbines will help generate the power needed to maintain the inflatable structure and any lighting systems deployed during the evening. [...]
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Paper Clip Lamp
Paper Clip Lamp, handmade from over 4,000 little clips, casts a prism-like pattern onto ceiling and walls when illuminated by its half-silvered bulb.
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Construction Eating Kit
Construction Eating Kit comes a bulldozer pusher, fork lift fork, and front loader spoon. Designed with function and play value in mind, these “tools” have textured, easy grip handles and detailing that allows little hands to hold on tight.
Maybe it’s a transition from eating out of an aeroplane…
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Forest-table
“…With the “Forest-table” we incorporate the contrast between the prehistoric and the modern, the contrast between the wild and the artificial and play with it in an ironic way. We bring the prehistoric situation, the forest, into the dining room. The dinnerware “disappears” into the “wild” and the user has to “hunt” for the utensils [...]
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Invisible Streetlight
Invisible streetlight by Jongoh Lee has been designed to depict the processes of photosynthesis conducted by plants using solar energy.
By saving energy from sunlight during the day like actual trees, it emits light at night. the Lights’ flexible body can be directly wrapped around a tree branch with no support required, blending into the surrounding [...]
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Solar Cells
An idea so simple. It get rid of the additional charging holder, cables, sockets, broken finger nails…
But… does batteries explode when it is exposed to too much heat?
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Canon D10
Canon D10 with a body size 103.6 x 66.9 x 48.8mm is waterproof to 33ft, freezeproof, and shockproof. It has a selection of strange looking accessories and interchangeable faceplates
Its got 12.1 megapixels resolution, 1/2.3-inch CCD, 3x Optical Zoom lens with Optical Image Stabilizer, Blink Detection and Digic 4 processor with Face Detection Technology that tracks the faces [...]
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Vondel Verses
Vondel Verses, a set of designs for a kiosk, a park bench and a lamp post, won a competition to design new lighting and furniture for the Vondelpark in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Each design contains a different organic motif such as birds in the frame of the bench. The furniture is made from cast iron and [...]
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Key Pete
Key Pete is superstrong. Attach magnetic Pete to any metalic surface and he will hold your keys for you.
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Piggy Sheet
A Piggy bank made of fabric, fills out as you save. Once it’s full, just cut it instead of smashing it like the traditional Piggy. Now you won’t feel bad robbing your Piggy for some gambling money…
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Kitchen Insects
“As part of her Little Wonders series, Sayaka Yamamoto’s Kitchen Insects collection was inspired by memories of growing up in the countryside surrounded by a wondrous variety of insects that “scared and sometimes fascinated” her.”
More beautiful “insects” after the jump.
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Happy Roses
A Netherlands Company has perfected a unique technique for changing each petal of a single rose. Now the guy can buy roses for the girl he likes without having to worry about choosing colours…
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