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When I was a kid, my classmates and I usually drink water from the faucets in our school after running around during recess and breaks.  Although there are available drinking fountains around, it's more convenient to drink from the faucets since there are more of them than the former.  And so, when I saw this product, I instantly like it.  It turns your ordinary faucets into drinking fountains by changing the flow of water from a downward flow to an upward flow instantly.

It's always fun to see new ideas and new designs for some of the simple objects we see everyday.  One fun idea I found was from Yeongkeun, from South Korea.  His idea was to repackage small packets of butter with a disposable butter knife for its lid.

This amazing shadow art is the work of Belgian artist Fred Eerdekens.  It's what they call a shadow sculpture.  His artwork involves sculpting and forming objects like plants, wires, cottons, boxes and other ordinary things that when lit from an angle, creates shadows which reveals words that are almost poetic.

Now who would've thought that a safety device, much like what they use for cars, will someday be available for bicycle riders.  Yep, the Swedish company Hovding have developed a head protection gear that shoots out an airbag when you are about to crash.

Here's another video I really like.  It's a video of some of the transforming furniture at Resource Furniture, a company specializing in space saving furniture.

These furniture are made from Italy and they were designed to transform from one single functional furniture to another, replacing two or more furniture and in the process, saving more space.

Their furniture are really well made that any man or woman can easily shift, lift or rotate one of their transforming furniture from one form to another.

If you can't see the video below press this link - Transforming Furniture



These are really amazing furniture!  I would really love to have one of these at home.

This is an old video I found last year while surfing the net.  I found it again while surfing and I thought of sharing it with you.  It's sort of an "Art Attack" kind of snip where one man creates eight designs from simple objects in less than one minute each. 

I really love the one in the second project where he made a bottle paper holder sort of thing.  Really amazing!

If you can't see the video, try clicking this link - Speed Design Projects



Watching this really gets my creative juices flowing.  It reminds me when I was younger and doing all sorts of arty things.

Here's something that really caught my attention, and I'm sure it will also catch yours. This bookcase seems to defy the natural laws of physics by doing what seems to be a balancing act.

If you've tried any kind of carpentry work then you know the hassle of carrying your supply of nails while you're hammering.  Like any average carpenter, you might be carrying the nails with your lips or maybe inside your clenched fist or inside your pockets.  Dropping the nails or being jabbed by it while you hammer is a very big possibility, and not only is this dangerous, it can become really inefficient to work with. 

Designers Jinsoo Cho & Ahjin Choi have made a simple yet effective modification to the hammer which will make carpentry works not only safe but effecient.

Being paralyzed from the waist down, paraplegics often rely on wheelchairs to get them where they want to go.  Without a cure for their legs, their movements often is limited by their wheelchair's design.  While some designers have modified and reinvented the wheelchair's design to facilitate more flexibility in the user's movements, the company Berkley Bionics have done a more advanced and technological approach by producing an exoskeleton that paraplegics can wear, helping them to stand and to walk again.

We're living in a time were the fantasies and science fictions of our grandfathers' time or even their grandfathers' time are slowly becoming a reality.  The technology of today have become so advanced that even fairy tale stories seem to come alive.  A mirror was recently developed to do more than what other mirrors normally do.  Like a commemorative honoring the mirror from snow white's fairy tale story, this mirror will show you a lot more than just a reflection of your face.