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Cool factor: A bicycle with polygonal and triangular wheels.

It’s good to know that they are not just busy cloning phones. The Chinese are good at other things too. The whole idea of re-inventing the bicycle wheel seems a bit weird to me, but…

With the Vat19’s Waboba Ball, you can have the pleasure of tossing a ball on the water. This ball can easily bounce five to six feet in the air when tossed on water. Waboba Ball has a 2.25″ diameter and Lycra coating with polyurethane inside that…

Cool factor: Backrest for the beach

Designer: Hector Galvan, omlette studio (Mexico)

My take: Though, there is always room for improvement, I still feel the ‘el compadre’ chair makes an ideal backrest for the beach. Adding a cushion to the..

Keeping kids calm and engaged in school is possibly one of the most difficult tasks for a teacher, as we often see kids fighting over a toy, game or plaything. Landing a helping hand to the childish nuisance, designers Groovy Danit & Yinnon Simhi…

Talk about fad for beer – these folks in the video (after the jump) used hundreds of beer/spirit bottles, clinking into each other, to execute this fine show of beer bottle dominoes. At last, they managed to spill one down the funnel into his…

Cool factor: Chair made of ‘chair’

Artist: Eric Ku

My take: Well, this chair is made by assembling these alphabets, i.e. CHAIR. ‘A’ for the backrest, ‘H’ and ‘R’ are the legs, ‘C’ makes a seat and ‘I’ for a support. What.

Check out the skillsets of this two year old pool shark! Keith O’Dell Jr, who is still in his nappies, is also the youngest member of the American Pool Association (APA). He also plays billiards, but presently pool is teaching him colors and how to…