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Office furniture inspired by Aston Martin
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Scale Scale, the versatile and interactive weighing scale
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iPoo Toilet snugly fits the shape of your butt
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Desk Rail helps organize your stationary and desktop gadgets
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Bikoff concept enables you to carry your bicycle to work!
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Mike Mak’s watch integrates fully functional calculator
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Ring alarm clock uses vibrations to greet you to a new day!
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Rubik’s Cube for the blind shows up at MOMA
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Swiss army-knife-inspired sofa by Diablo Design
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The watch with no face, hoLED watch uses holes to tell the time instead
Have you noticed how the old is coming back to life? The nostalgic essences of our bygone, stress-free, environment loving days of the early 90s seem to suddenly be sprouting in some modernistic manner or the other? Well, this is an addition to all that jazz. This is a book called Streamlined Irons published by steam iron collector Jay Raymond
who put in around 300 color photos of irons from the streamlined 1930s and ’40s. It also includes 30 of the very earliest electric irons made in North America with dates going back to 1890 and 1915.
The book also contains four essays including a concise history of electric irons in the US, two essays on the subject of streamlining and a history of the first entrepreneur to produce an electric iron in the US, Charles E. Carpenter. For a book collector, this is quite interesting.
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