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  Tumbleweed Houses Let You Ditch The Trailer, Buy An Elegant Home And Stay On The Road

  HOME, WHEELS

  Why haul a trailer home when you can hit the road with a real house on wheels. Yep, the Tumbleweed Tiny Houses are real, traditional-style homes that come complete with angled roofs, a patio and the works. Save for the fact that they occupy about the same space as a boxy trailer, of course. Proprietor Jay Shafer built his first small house back in 1997, as a way to make a living space without putting him neck deep in mortgage. [...]

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  Secret Knock Detector Automatically Identifies Correct Banging On The Door, Unlocks The Bolt

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  The problem with secret knocks is that you’ll actually have to listen to the knock.  Now, why would I spend my time listening to the banging on the door when I could be watching TV or playing online multiplayer with the volumes cranked up?  With today’s bevy of distractions, let’s just say that secret knocks are no longer the useful identity system that they used to be.  Until somebody came up with this improvised door lock that detects secret knocks. [...]

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  Bulldang Configurable Sofa Mimics Intestines, Snakes Into A Variety Of Shapes

  FURNITURE, HOME

  If you told me that intestines would make a great couch design, I would have laughed in your face. With the Bulldang, though, it all makes sense. Created by Japanese designer Hirihiko Kamiya, the configurable armchair sofa uses a segmented tube that can be tied and bended in any form you fancy. Using one, you get plenty of options in your seating implements, allowing you to deck out your living room in a traditional, creative or downright insane manner. The [...]

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  Samsung Tango, An Autonomous Vacuum That Cute Chicks Like To Play With In Bed

  GADGETS, HOME

  Yep, it’s a vacuum cleaner.  On a bed.  With a hot Korean chick wearing a very short skirt.  Questions arise. Why is it in bed?  I have no idea.  But I get the feeling I’ve seen a similar scene in certain type of movie before.  Except the gadget is not a vacuum, but something else. What does it suck in? Excellent question. From what we can tell, dirt – just like every vacuum cleaner known to man.  The look in [...]

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  Fender Blackface Hotseat: Amp-Like Stool For Guitarists, Both Real And Fake

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  Need a place to store your effects boxes, pedals, cords, strings and other guitar accessories?  Throw it in the amp.  Huh? I mean, that footrest-cum-stool Fender Blackface Hotseat that looks like an actual amp but really isn’t.  Instead, the combination storage bench and equipment case was merely decked out to play a fitting part to your musical inclinations. Sorry, it’s not a functional amp either.  It’s really just furniture.  Except Fender made it, so they recycled their own design and [...]

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  Pocket Wall Adds Storage Units To Your Wallpaper

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  When I was in high school, I taped up numerous envelopes to my wall and used them to hold various documents, including term papers, college applications and such.  The Pocket Wall, a decorative wallpaper that integrates storage units, does something similar, adding plenty of holes and slots for fitting a whole bunch of your stuff in. Designed by Maja Ganszyniec, it doesn’t look half-bad as a wall wrapping.  The extra storage capabilities makes it a lot more useful than regular [...]

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  Never Lose The Remote Again

  HOME, SIMPLY COOL

  Hey, honey, throw me the remote. Oh wait. Nooooooo. Don’t worry, your wife probably won’t be able lift this cool remote control hack overhead, much less dump it your way.  You’re safe…as long as your wife isn’t Chynna from the WWE. From the hilarious pages of “There I Fixed It” comes one of the coolest solutions for always-missing remotes:  chain it to a large, dense block of metal.  I’m not sure what the heck that slab of steel is (a [...]

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  Toilet Paper Holder Makes You Solve A Puzzle Before You Can Wipe

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  What could be worse than running out of toilet paper?  Having toilet paper and not being able to use it, of course.  That could well be the case with the Don’t P Me Off Toilet Paper Holder, which requires you to solve a puzzle before being able to wipe off. The rule is simple: if you can’t solve the integrated puzzle, you can’t use any.  Can you imagine the torture?  Put the only roll of toilet paper in the entire [...]

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  Make Any Room Look Like Your Garage With Surface View’s Haynes Manual Prints

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  Gearheads who are into interior decorating, rejoice!  Wow, that sounded awful.  Regardless, you can now get huge size prints of Haynes Manual graphics for putting up over your walls from Surface View. Like the rest of Surface View’s portfolio, the new collection will be available in all of their various formats, which include canvases, dry mounts and adhesive prints.  Been wondering what to decorate the walls of your room or office with?  You can drop the indecision, now.  From this [...]

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  The Future Of Home Security – Emergency Zombie Defense Station

  ART, HOME

  Sure, it’s a craft project and won’t really work in the event of a zombie attack.  Regardless, the Emergency Zombie Defense Station is an excellent prototype for what should be sitting right next to your Fire Emergency Kit.  After all, with so many movies pointing towards an imminent infestation of the undead, I have a feeling it’s only a matter of time until it becomes a reality. Intended to be mounted up an easily accessible wall, the one-stop self-defense kit [...]

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  Murakami Chair Comes With Its Own Light, Kinetic Charger

  FURNITURE, HOME

  Some dual-function furniture items make sense.  The Murakami Chair, a unique piece that features a rocking chair with an attached lamp, could make a good argument on that end.  Even better, though, it sports an integrated kinetic charging facility, powering up the light source using energy created from rocking back and forth. Created by Rochus Jacob, the plain-but-elegant piece managed to snag top honors at the Design Boom Green Life Competition.  It’s a pretty nifty idea, after all.  Why waste [...]

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  Homework Table Lets You Customize Your Work Desk, Looks Awesome

  FURNITURE, HOME

  We all personalize our work tables somewhat.  But what if we can actually customize the damn thing?  That’s the idea behind Homework, a nifty work desk that you can lay out in a wide variety of ways. The basic table consists of two three-legged trestles made from breech, with steel braces.  Each trestle has a felt sling hanging, which you can later use to store magazines, documents and other items.  A functional drawer with a felt bottom is set between [...]

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  Sculpture Showerhead Puts Tentacles On Your Shower, Turns Out Brilliant

  FEATURED, HOME

  Can you imagine looking up while you’re still half-asleep and seeing that thing?  Ack! It’s a tentacled beast in the shower!  Run for your lives! Of course, it really isn’t.  It’s just Vado’s new Sculpture Showerhead, an ominous-looking fixture that features six elongated necks with one head each.  For what reason?  To scare you into a fully awake state, of course. Well, not really.  All six tentacles sport one showerhead apiece, allowing you to customize the way the water is [...]

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  Re-vive Legs Clamps Onto Flat Materials, Turns Them Into Tables

  FURNITURE, HOME

  Need a dining table, don’t want to pay for one?  Turn any large slab of flat material into a functional desk with the Re-vive Legs, a set of clamp-on stands that let you build your own tables for a truly unique home fixture. Like many folks, you probably have plenty of things around the house that you can turn into a tabletop.  That door you replaced last summer can be the body  for an odd-looking dining table; those unused encyclopedia [...]

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  Dyson Air Multiplier Fan Blows Air, Will Blow Your Mind

  GADGETS, HOME

  To put it bluntly, the Dyson Air Multiplier Fan should not work.  It’s a ring around a gaping hole.  Yet, every publication that reviewed it says it performs as advertised and they have no idea how it does either. What the heck is the Dyson Fan?  It’s James Dyson’s (yes, the guy who updated the vacuum cleaner and the hand dryer in the same awesome manner) take on the electric fan, removing the blade and leaving nothing but a ring [...]

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  Finger Hinge Eliminates Crushed Fingers At The Door

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  If you’re stupid and regularly get your fingers stuck between the door and the jamb (ouch), then you need either one of two things: better common sense or the Finger Hinge.  That’s right, you can stay as dumb as a rock and never suffer from crushed fingers again! A full-length hinge that removes the accident zone between the door and the jamb, it seals the entire gap of space where countless people have found their fingers unceremoniously trapped.  Mostly kids, [...]

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  Configurable Screen Can Act As Divider, Clothes Rack And 80s-Style Phone Booth

  FURNITURE, HOME

  Dividers, for the most part, serve a single specific function, allowing you to add some amount of separation to a wide open space. This prototype Screen from designers Livia Lauber and Loris Jaccard, on the other hand, adds a number of potential configurations to run-of-the-mill room dividers, turning it into a versatile and good-looking home fixture. Presented as part of an exhibit called Assemblage from last year, the Screen features an “assembly” of functions. At its base form, it can [...]

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  Bottle Your Own Perfume With The Missisippi Distiller

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  With a name like the Missisippi Distiller (yep, they misspelled Mississippi), there’s little room to suspect this thing does anything but produce cheap alcohol in some obscure garage in the middle of nowhere.  As it turns out, that’s not what it does at all.  Instead, the distilling machine is designed to extract scented oils from plant leaves, so you can concoct your own perfumes and fragrances (and, perhaps, your own moonshine, too). Looking like an apparatus out of a mad [...]

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  Solé Power Tile Makes Your Solar Roof Look Good

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  Installing solar panels on your roof is not only eco-friendly, it’s also economical and smart.  But they sure make your house look ugly, with those slabs of black plates killing any curb appeal.  Until now. The Solé Power Tile not only draws energy from the sun like regular solar panels, it’s been fashioned to look like regular clay tiles.  That means you get the same energy benefits with none of the eyesore – great news for many homeowners. Designed to [...]

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