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Foldable bicycle which turns into a cart : CarryBike

Traveling where transportation is limited makes you boring with little scope of activity. This foldable bicycle-cart is very convenient since it can be used as a cart while on board a train or a bus and as a bicycle on your journey. You can enjoy your journey with this bicycle-cart to your heart's content.

(LUTZ/ MYA: $380.00)

The Treadmill Bike

2-in-1 Ladder/Hand Truck

Canned Four-Leaf Clover : A Can that brings good luck

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Globe providing infomation on social issues : Green Globe

A globe showing information on social issues such as global warming, starvation, armed conflicts and others. Various kinds of social issues visualized on one globe may let us realize a fundamental cause of those issues with a microscopic view.

(blue-terra.jp/ assiston.co.jp: $168.00)

Whiteboard globe

Earth Globe Lamp

Learning Globe

Alarm clock turned off by photosensor

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Switch-shaped alarm clock

On-Off LCD alarm clock by Nina Tolstrup for Lexon of France. Once the alarm is set in the "On" position, simply tilt it back to turn it off.

(Nina Tolstrup/ via engadget.com/ greenergrassdesign.com: $36.50)

Alarm clock changes sounds by the positions

Take your light with a punch

Vehicle that rotate within their own footprint

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Vehicle that travel in any direction : SideWinder

An Omni-Directional vehicle is capable of traveling in any direction. The motion of the vehicle is based on the operator's joystick inputs, and is controlled by coordinating the speed and direction of all four wheels, through the use of a specially programmed microprocessor referred to as the Vehicle Master Controller. [movie]

(airtrax.com/ via bookofjoe.com)

Parallel Parking Device

A tire able to be operated even in the case of a puncture

Projected key board : VKey

Drink Camera : NORIKA v3

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Enlarged to be a closeup map : Nobite-Kakudaizu

This unique map is introduced in web site "My Design" which materializes "I wish there were such things." The map, printed on a stretchable material, is enlarged by drawing out. Scaling up and down which conventional folding maps cannot do can be done seamlessly. This is just like Google Map!

(sf/ via my-d.jp)

Drive with your dog

3D topographical ski map

Aluminum Lightweight Extension Ladder

Just thinking switches on

Melody Playing Road : Melody Road

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Robot Chair That Reassembles Itself

The chair can disassemble itself instantly, and then proceed to slowly put itself back together again. [movie]

(mae.cornell.edu/ via gizmodo.com)

Fishing case turns into a chair

A Chair as a speaker

Repair Scratches on car surfaces

Canned Four-Leaf Clover : A Can that brings good luck

Canned Four-Leaf Clover : A Can that brings good luck

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Turntable

A table that turns to "store" your desktop's contents and then turns again to restore the desktop.

(berlin-milano.de/ via mocoloco.com)

Tidy table

Car-shaped desk

Just thinking switches on

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Wedding dress for use in space

Space Couture Design Contest supported by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is now being held. Prior to the contest, Eri Matsui, chairperson of the contest committee, designed a wedding dress which looks beatiful both under gravity and zero-gravity (picture on the left: under gravity, right: under zero-gravity). Her design stimulates our dream that we may get married in space soon.

(erimatsui.com/ via mitsubishielectric.co.jp)

Inflatable Breasts Dress

Vending Machine Skirt

Spray-On Dress

Tags to locate the earth

Melody Playing Road : Melody Road

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Rolling clock : About Time

This clock reveals the time by rolling around your desk, and tells you the time by reading the part of the circle that touches the table top.

(burovormkrijgers.nl: €99.00/ via mocoloco.com)

Cube-shaped Clock

Camcorder Clock

Crawling Kitchen Timer

Peeling machine for hardboiled eggs

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Banana Splitter

Simply place the Banana Splitter ring over the the top of the banana, and use the prongs to pierce the skin. Then all you need to do is flip the handle up and peeling is started.

(?/ via bookofjoe.com/ dynamic-living.com: $3.99)

Case for banana

Electronic fortune-teller

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Roulette Jet Flame Lighter

This fun lighter is crafted like a roulette wheel, and when you flip open it's top, alternate blue and red circular lights are activated, giving it the look of a spinning roulette wheel.

(?/ paramountzone.com: £4.95)

Flintlock Lighter

Lighter in wall

A card case telling your fortune at ticket gates

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Petal Swim Cap

Be on the cutting edge of fashion with these old fashioned, retro swim caps! Featuring a colorful rainbow of flowers.

(?/ headcovers.com: $15.99)

Ski Mask

Bikini lifejackets

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Digital scale built-in Luggage : Solutions

The Solutions Luggage features a digital scale built-in luggage. Solutions was developed in response to a growing problem facing travelers - airline overweight luggage penalties. the built-in digital scale uses state-of-the-arttechnology and is designed, built and tested to withstand the rigors of everyday travel.

(ricardobeverlyhills.com: $200.00-/ via ohgizmo.com)

Bag-shaped Toilet

Radar for glove

Water screen as fire shutter

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Burglar Alarm System : Cyber-kun

Cyber-kun will call 6 designated numbers (phone, mobile, pager) automatically as soon as it detects an intrusion or the early stages of fire. In addition, you can monitor the surrounding area of a Cyber-kun device by activating the microphone by a phone call. If you are certain that there is an intrusion, you can scare the burglar away with your own voice, through the speaker on the device.

(?/ jin.ne.jp: $260.40)

The Spy Video Car

Antitheft slippers

Subbuteo Giant Inflatable Pitch

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Virtual soccer goal : Goal Watcher

The Goal Watcher is an extra ordinary portable goal designed with inspiration from a measure tape. Along the tape is sensors placed every 20 centimetre that measures distance upwards. When something passes within 2.4 meters above the tape, Goal Watchers shines up and makes a classic goal sound.

(hagerling.se/ via uberreview.com)

Soccer toilet

Soccer hat

Soccer ball shaped digital camera

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Canned Four-Leaf Clover : A Can that brings good luck

Capture 130,000 Keystrokes

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TrackStick GPS Data Logger

The Track Stick records its own location, time, date, speed, heading and altitude at preset intervals. The recorded information can then be downloaded to your computer through the USB port and optionally integrated with Google Earth or Mapquest. This feature allows you to "playback" the location points of the TrackStick and see a visual mapped history of its travels.

(saelig.com/ thinkgeek.com: $249.99)

GPS-installed Bicycle

Canned Four-Leaf Clover : A Can that brings good luck

Plug'n Play TV Game Keychains

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AirZooka Keychain : Mini Airzooka

The Mini Me version of the mighty Airzooka blows out little pockets of air over distances of, well several centimetres.

(?/ iwantoneofthose.com: £1.95)

Blast off an air ball

Keyring Kite

Canned Four-Leaf Clover : A Can that brings good luck

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Instant Labeling Tape

By "blacking out" elements of a 14-segment display font on the tape, all you need is a black permanent pen to create your own temporary signs, labels and installations.

(squarespace.com/ via smartstuff.se)

Magnet Tape

Letters on button

Remodeled USB electric toothbrush

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USB Desktop Tanning Center

The USB Desktop Tanning center is USB powered and two base units attach to either side of your monitor.

(?/ via popgadget.net/ thinkgeek.com: $24.99)

A device to deliver sunlight to indoors

Canned Four-Leaf Clover : A Can that brings good luck

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Graphics Output Device : Hektor

Hektor is a Graphics Output Device. Hektor is controlled directly from within Adobe Illustrator, the spray-can follows vector graphic paths and sprays them onto the wall.

(hektor.ch/ via digg)

Finger Brushe

Spray-On Dress