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Painted Animal Skulls: Manly Décor Can be Pretty, Too

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Putting up roadkill skulls as trophy head displays doesn’t seem like the most appropriate way to dress up your urban chic apartment. There’s just something very 90s industrial metal about it — not the kind of thing a sophisticated man of the 21st century will use for decor. Unless, of course, they get finished in bright colors like these Painted Animal Skulls. Made by Stephan Alexandr, these are real skulls retrieved from animals who passed on. Some are partial, some [...]

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Philips HomeCooker Is A Multi-Layer, Multi-Purpose Cooking Robot

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Multi-purpose kitchen machines are the way of the future. Why flood your kitchen counter with a load of single-purpose cookers when you can free up some of that space with a single appliance that can do a whole load of things? The Philips HomeCooker will do exactly that. Designed in conjunction with renowned chef Jamie Oliver, the lone contraption uses a vertical multi-layer design that allows it to perform multiple cooking tasks at the same time. And it’s not just [...]

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BBQ Bruce Is A Hanging Grill For The Balcony

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Urban living can be nice, but it usually means missing out on small pleasures like weekend barbecues. If you’ve got a balcony and the next-window neighbors won’t mind the smoke, the BBQ Bruce Handrail Grill should make for a suitable outdoor cooker. Designed by Henrick Decker, it’s a small rectangular grill that hangs onto the handrails of a balcony. Yep, much like those small hanging flowerpots for small urban spaces. Instead of holding soil and plants, though, it comes with [...]

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IMAX Private Theatre: You Can Now Have A Real IMAX Setup At Home

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That Prima Cinema you got a few months ago is plenty awesome. When you’re rich, though, there’s no point in settling for just an awesome home cinema setup. Make it super awesome with the IMAX Private Theater. Yep, an IMAX setup in your home, one they bill as “the world’s most immersive and luxurious entertainment experience.” This isn’t some downgraded IMAX experience either — it’s as equipped as the private IMAX screening rooms (modeled, specifically, after the one in Santa [...]

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Kids Rule Is The Giant Wooden Ruler Of My Childhood Fantasies

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Want a giant ruler? Of course you do. Who doesn’t want a giant ruler? If you have little kids, you can use that as the perfect excuse to get the Kids Rule. Made by Lovestruck Interiors, it’s a growth chart for measuring how tall your young ones are getting, just like those cardboard, canvas and plastic charts you can get from children’s supplies stores. Instead of sporting cute kiddie graphics, it’s done up like a giant vintage wooden ruler — [...]

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Mono Hanging Bowls Make For Unique Home Displays

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Glass bowls make for great display containers, whether you’re housing a little goldfish, cute bonsai sculptures, or colorful marbles inside them. Want to make them more eyecatching, though? Skip placing your bowls in a shelf and use one of these Mono Hanging Bowls instead. Instead of holding your bowls in a shelf or a tabletop, these fixtures suspend your bowls in a hanging shelf of sorts, making for an extremely unique display piece. That way, you can admire your fishbowls, [...]

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Bike All Hangs Your Bicycle By The Saddle

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We’re no strangers to bicycle racks around these parts and we’re loving the creativity that’s going into a lot of them, from the carved-in style of the Bike Shelf to the freestanding talents of the Michelangelo Gravity Stand. The Bike All, though, doesn’t just intend to be a rack for hanging your bike, it’s meant as an all-in-one spot for holding your daily bicycle accessories, too. Created by Colorado-based Board by Design, it’s a wall-mounted storage unit with a bottom panel [...]

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Fanboy Furniture: Marvel Comic Book Covers Room Divider

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You’re a comic book fiend and you’ve learned to embrace it. So much so, in fact, that a giant comic art collage now adorns the wall in your living room, hanging proudly. If you suddenly realize the need for a divider anywhere in the house, we know exactly which one you’ll want to get: the Marvel Comic Book Covers Room Divider. Styled like a regular room divider, the furniture features six different panels that you can expand and collapse to [...]

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Fun At Home: The Alligator Manhole Cover Doormat

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Sometimes, you want doormats that look classy to make your guests feel invited when they walk up to the door. Other times, you just want them to leave without bothering to knock. The Alligator Manhole Cover Doormat should accomplish that latter goal. That’s right, it’s a doormat done up to look like a manhole cover with an alligator trying to get out under it. That way, you don’t just freak out guests by having a manhole in your front door, [...]

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Boox: A Display Frame For Your Favorite Books

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Those shirts you’ve outgrown but can’t bear to throw away now hang on T-Frames up on your wall. Now, if only you can find a way to do the same to those half-dozen books you’ve hung on to all these years because they changed your life in such meaningful ways. Well, turns out that’s what the Boox is for. An acrylic glass frame, it’s sized and shaped to hold magazines and books, allowing you to show them off mounted up [...]

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Sasquatch Cocktail Shaker Can Serve Ten In One Go

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Sometimes, you happily mix cocktail after cocktail for your party guests. Other times, you wish they’ll just take a vodka bottle each and drink straight from the bottle. Maybe you just need a way to make ten servings worth of a cocktail in one fell swoop. Well, that’s exactly what you can do with the Sasquatch Cocktail Shaker. It’s built, shaped and otherwise equipped like a regular cocktail shaker. Except, of course, it’s way larger, allowing it to hold 110 [...]

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Galaxy Chair Mats Put The Universe At Your Feet

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Chair mats are plenty useful if you want to protect your flooring or carpet from being ravaged by your favorite Steelcase Gesture Office Chair. Most of what you can get at Office Depot, though, are just plain boring. Bring a little out of this world inspiration into your workspace with Underfoot Media’s Galaxy Chair Mats. Printed with images from the NASA Hubble Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope, the chair mats let you enjoy stunning snapshots of majestic scenes from [...]

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Invisiplug Power Strips Blend In With Your Hardwood Floor

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Power strips are basically ugly. Even when pushed up against the wall, they make for a noticeable eyesore, whether they’re laid across the floor of your media center, bedroom or workstation. The Invisiplug offers to make them just a tad more presentable. Granted, I’m disappointed that it’s not actually invisible. Wonder Woman won’t have any part of that. Done up in colors designed to match wood flooring, however, the novel power strip solution makes erstwhile indispensable eyesores look like a [...]

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Arzum Firrin Reinvents The Toaster With A Tunnel Design

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The classic pop-up toaster is arguably one of the most efficient kitchen appliance designs. That’s why it’s still the dominant toaster design we use today. While the Arzum Firrin probably doesn’t beat it on all fronts, the unique tunnel-like slide-out form should give it some advantages as well. Sporting a unique tunnel shape, the toaster features a slide-out tray sized to hold two pieces of bread. To use, simply put your breads on the tray, push it into the tunnel, [...]

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Rinse & Chop Plus Combines Cutting Board And Colander

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We’ve seen a lot of awesome chopping board designs, from an OCD Chef Board to one with multiple compartments. And we don’t mind finding a few more. This Rinse & Chop Plus Cutting Board definitely belongs in our list of favorites. Made by Joseph Joseph, it’s a chopping board that folds into a curved colander with a perforated end for rinsing and subsequently draining all the meat and vegetables you chop in it. That way, you go from chopping your [...]

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Wonderbag Slow Cooker Uses No Gas Or Electricity

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Slow cookers are awesome — just drop a bunch of ingredients on a pot, go to work, and come home with a cooked meal waiting for you. However, consuming power an entire day just doesn’t seem like all that great if there’s another option. Well, there is and it’s called the Wonderbag. Instead of relying on a power source for heating your food, the pillow-like sack takes on a more passive approach. Just heat your pot of food on a [...]

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Stone Drink Dispenser Lets You Squeeze Booze From A Stone

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Your watermelon keg is fun and all, but you have to admit: it’s a lot of hard work to hollow that thing out to turn it into a proper drink dispenser. Save yourself the hard work without giving up the awesome with the Stone Drink Dispenser instead. Designed by Jeff Henderson, it’s a big lump of stone that’s been handcrafted to serve as a tap system for bottled beverages. Kind of like the kegs we imagine they used in the [...]

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Breville All-In-One Does Blending, Slicing, Mixing and Pulverizing

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You can buy individual tools and appliances for separately blending, slicing, mixing, chopping, mashing, pulverizing and erstwhile turning your food into tinier bits. But why subject your kitchen counter-top to all that crowded mess when you can just pick up a Breville All-in-One to do all of it? A multi-purpose food preparation appliance, it’s, basically, a food processor with a selection of attachments that let you change up what function the device performs. That way, you can slice, dice, shred, mash and [...]

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Godfather and Godmother Clocks: When Grandfather Clocks Just Won’t Work

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Grandfather clocks are cool. Except they’re a pain to move when you want to rearrange a room, not to mention they’ll look off in your very contemporary living space. Maybe you can make do with these Godfather and Godmother Clocks instead. Just like grandfather clocks, these are tall standing time machines that should draw serious attention in a room rather than fly under the radar. Unlike them, though, these should be as easy to move around as a standing lampshade, [...]

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