To some extent we all want some cute little appliances at home, so as we always enjoy a cup of coffee, cute coffee machine is something we don’t want to miss. Cute and practical, makes our coffee more enjoyable! Well, let’s see this new Podi coffee machine.

Red, very shinny, and keeps our appetite. A new coffee machine to be released in Europe in the next coming months, Podi is a single serve coffee machine engineered for use with rigid Italian made capsules which are available in 6 different aromas. Looking like something out of a sci-fi film, it is designed by Vinod Gangotra for Selec Line (Asia). The one push button operating coffee machine makes it easy and practical to use. Key features include 1.0 litre water tank, 17 bar pressure and automatic capsule ejecting system.

I really its round shape, looks very cute, and so I believe it makes the cutest coffee in the world. Also comes in a black and a white version, I love the red one though.

Drinking tea is very good to our health, and it’s really enjoyable having a nice cup of tea while reading an interesting book. But a hot teapot might unexpectedly ruin your pleasure, so here comes the little teapot frame, cute and funny and keeps you away from the hot teapot, therefore makes tea drinking even more interesting and enjoyable!

As you can see from the picture above, this is a very cute teapot frame, which is designed to bring much more convenience to the uses through the fabulously cunning combination of an ordinary teapot and a common stand. Though seems rarely needed on the paper, you’ll urgently want one when burned by the hot pot.

More than useful, this teapot frame is actually cute, like a sweet little swing for your tea! Doesn’t that sound great?

As the Earth Day is just around the corner, we should really get to know some more eco-friendly products, and if possible try to use them instead of conventional ones. So, here, today, a canister vacuum cleaner with auto floor detection-Miele Earth for you. Let’s see this cute little guy’s suppose to save energy and help solve these ecology problems!

Miele Earth is the new canister vacuum cleaner from Miele S5 Series. Powerful 1,200 Watt electronically controlled S 5481 Earth, which is already in stores, is an Eco-friendly canister vacuum cleaner with 33-foot operating range, boasting some of the most energy-saving advancements the industry has to offer. Featuring an AutoEco setting that automatically detects flooring type, be it carpet or smooth floor, the Miele vacuum adjusts power for optimal cleaning performance and energy efficiency. While homeowners tend to think that the highest power setting is best for cleaning all surfaces, this is only true for smooth floors. Upholstery, drapes and carpets require specific settings for optimal cleaning and using AutoEco saves tremendously in energy consumption, and provides better performance and long term care for home furnishings.

Other green features of this canister vacuum from Miele include a 20-year life design model, use of easily recyclable virgin polymers, cadmium and lead-free coatings, water-based paints and low energy consumption. As with other Miele canister type vacuums, the Earth is ideal for indoor air with all fine dust and allergens being trapped in its unique Sealed System featuring a certified HEPA filter and advanced filtering dust bag. Miele revolutionary Filter-Bag consist of multiply, random-spun filter material and protective netting to reinforce the outer layer in order to ensure that dust and debris safely stays in the bag. Inside a Filter-Bag, air guides distribute dust evenly throughout the bag, achieving a 25% longer life cycle without any loss in performance. A downstream HEPA filter then captures even the tiniest of particles, retaining lung damaging particles inside the vacuum. Price for this vacuum is around $970.

Well, pricey yet interesting! Maybe with that money in our pocket we should get this little thing instead of a fancy dress, really! The world is our home, look after it.

We all enjoy an occasional casual drink sometimes, and wine is basically our best choice, well we do usually love beer especially in summer, but nevertheless wine is always the best. Red, or white, all have different tastes and wine can actually do good to our health! That’s something beer can never do.

Also, we all know that wine is something you can really store as to make it more valuable, so store wine is actually many people’s hobby, whether to make it more valuable or just save them for special (or non-special) occasions.

Store wine is a part of our life, so find a nice wine rack is quite important to us. If you have quite small living space, or if you just love compact design, the good news here: I’m going to introduce you this very compact wine rack right here right now, The Iron Design Wine Rack!

As you can probably see from the picture on the left, this is really very compact design, quite simple but elegant and beautiful! So not much to say: Holding up to a half case, the fluid shape of this wine rack appears to be molded by the wine bottles themselves. And it comes as a whole package with cleats and screws include.

So this is it, quite beautiful and wonderful, and also expandable! I really love, hopefully you’ll feel the same.

With the Earth Day driving closer and closer, the voice of “saving the world” becomes louder and clearer, I guess this is the time we should really be more enthusiastic over these eco-friendly projects as a consumer or a manufacturer alike! On the other hand, cars, the transportation we use almost everyday, is mainly responsible the the global warming problem. As we all aware of that, we’re really glad to see the eco-friendly project in the car industry gradually taking progress. The little “Bug” here looks really nice!

As the cities get more crowded and polluted, numerous automakers and designers are trying to tackle the problem of moving people around efficiently while not using materials that are harmful to the environment. And so is the Brazilian designer Ricardo Fedrizzi, who has recently sent in the images of his “Bug” concept mini car. It is a two-seater auto that is designed to go on a charge, making it a zero emission car for the city. Another point worth noting is the recyclable and renewable materials used to make the body of the car, which greatly reduces the vehicle’s weight. Besides, Fedrizzi’s concept also features an aerodynamic shape to maximize its performance.

Pity that it is only a concept at present and we may have to wait for days (if luckily, you know sometimes it takes months, even years)to see the practical car hit the market. But still this is a big progress, I’m really looking forward to the real one.

Life is colorful and DIY is playful, and this time I’m going to tell you about how to craft beautiful shoe racks using drain pipes. You know we never have enough shoes and shoe cases are always too big and ugly, so maybe nice looking shoe racks can have your shoes stay organized and make a nice view of your house.

Creative shoe racks may give an eye-pleasing look to your living spaces, but they usually cost you too much money. However, the rack designed by Jost Litzen is an innovative storage system that eliminates the need of purchasing expensive shoe racks. The best part is that, what the rack finally looks like is all up to you! It is quite easy to create: simply prepare several tubes, form them into certain shapes using ropes and then done!

And if you are not so sure about the ropes, you can use glues at the same time to help organizing these pipes. The best part, you can always enlarge it for more shoes. So, enjoy the DIY fun!

Cook is a tiring job, and using beautiful cook equipments is a good way to help us find pleasure in cooking, so we always want to choose the beautiful ones, but still they have to be practical, for they’re for cooking after all. And as for cooktops, we love cooktops, for they’re thin, easy to use, easy to control, and they’re elegant. And the New induction cooktops from Miele is more than that!

Miele offers new range of its famous induction cooktops, EasyControl Plus, DirectControl and DirectControl Plus. Several configurations are offered with the sole purpose to have an induction cooktop that fits your kitchen layout and adds performance, power and flexibility, induction cooking is known for. The new cooktops come with TwinBooster, timer for each zone, Stop & Go functions and automatic simmer direct access system. An excellent choice for the most contemporary kitchens, Miele also introduced new high-frame design, an opaque glass ceramic surface and a stainless steel frame.

Taking pleasure in devising solutions for results worthy of the most demanding home chefs, Miele reengineered its control concepts, making cooking as easy as pressing few buttons,
- EasyControl Plus are centralized +/- touch controls for power selection that let you select a particular zone with the separate timer
- DirectControl are linear touch controls located at the front of the hob that allow intuitive selection of power and direct access to timer functions, simmer automatic and Stop & Go
- DirectControl Plus are linear touch controls for each cooking zone, located at the front of the hob with 2 levels of backlit illumination

And it comes in four different versions (different size, but the same design) to meet your different needs, just pick the right one!

Water, the most important element in our life, we literally can’t live without it. Although we all desire clear, we sometimes just can’t get the real clear one. Do we have to live with it, bear that not so clear water? No, we definitely don’t want that, so now I’m here, talking to you about this amazing bottle. Each bottle is a water purifier, clear water’s truly reachable.

321 — pronounced “three to one” — is a reusable water bottle, or more exactly a portable water purifier designed to provide clean water to travelers. The concept behind the simple name is quite impressive: three liters of water is required to manufacture merely one liter of bottled water, but you could save more water using the 321 Water. Besides, the product also helps to reduce the need of plastic bottles.

Designed by Gretha Oost, Paul Charlwood and Andrew Howley, the innovative water purification system is easy to use, all you have to do is to fill the bottle with tap water through a drip system and slot in the filter.

One filter can last 100 uses (about 50 liters) and it could be purchased separately, and the selling price is around $44.6 (Limited Edition Bottle, with one filter included).

Just 45 dollars for clearer water, and for your better health, totally worth it!

In modern society, living space indeed is a problem that everyone faces, and how to live comfortably in a small apartment becomes the question everyone want to ask, so today I’m going to introduce a nice piece of compact furniture, which can partly solve your space trouble, therefore, to some extent, help you live a comfortable life in a small apartment!

Dubbed “Unite of Furniture”, the sleek kitchen unit also doubles as a workstation, allowing you to enjoy an easy and comfortable life though still living in a small apartment. Just as shown in the pictures, the compact unit consists of a sink, a cooktop, a storage system, a stool, a table, and a desk, acting as either cooking equipment or working equipment. It not only presents the luxury of two furniture units in the space of one, but can be easily adjusted to fit in any residence, thanks to its rotary design.

This is really great and beautiful, and practical too, really love it!

OK, this is not a usual household appliance, this is an exquisite auction piece, a gold-inlaid Colt handgun which auctioned for $259K! Since we’ve talked a lot about household appliances, and this pistol is really extremely elegant, let’s just spend some time to check out this super elegant handgun!

Here’s the story: This gold-inlaid handgun, which once belonged to Robert D Meldrum (also known as a classic “Bad Good Guy”), managed to fetch a cool $258,750 at an auction held by James D Julia. The classic Colt pistol was the star attraction at the auctioneer’s sale of antique firearms and militaria. As I was told, Robert D Meldrum got this pistol while he was working for the Tomboy Mine Company. They had presented him with two engraved pistols, with one in-laid with gold. If factory records are to be believed, there were only two gold-inlaid first-run Colt SAA’s ever made. These pistols were adorned with presentations and to add to the beauty, these pistols carried the distinctive patterns by master engraver Cuno Helfricht. Lately, a 1907 Luger by Greg Martin Auctions went for $494,000, making the Meldrum’s handgun to be the second handgun from a century back to fetch a six-figure amount this month. The extraordinary pistol carried a pre-sale estimate of between $200,000 and $400,000.

What a handgun! Please just view this as a compliment to this elegant art piece, not a weapon. I think this exquisite gold-plaid handgun is really beautiful as a art work, but does it really worth the money, not so sure!