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Mood Bottle Openers

Mood bottle openers

It's hot in Shanghai. Really hot. Open a cool beer with an opener to suit your mood. Always happy. From Poketo.

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Fix Outlook

Fix Outlook

Used to be that Lotus Notes was the bane of developers producing HTML email, for example newsletters. Lotus Notes 8 is better but still a large number of people are using the wretched Notes 6. At least IBM improved the product with the version 8 update. However, a new worst case email client appeared a few years ago and we've been banging our heads ever since. It's Microsoft Outlook 2007. Versions before 2007 (2003, etc.) were OK at rendering HTML but in the 2007 "upgrade" Microsoft switched in the Word HTML renderer which is appalling. This matters because lots of email (50% from our figures) is received in Outlook. So Notes got better but Outlook got worse. Two steps forward…

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iRing

iRing concept

iRing concept from Victor Soto. More pics at Behance.

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For The Girl With Too Many Pencils: Shoes

Pencil shoes

A girl can never have too many shoes but she can have too many pencils. Put those pencils to good use by making shoes! From Lauren Milroy.

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Is That A Light In Your Pocket?

Pocket Light by Harc Lee

A handy light you can keep in your wallet. Cool idea from Harc Lee.

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